Name: Dmitrii Kiselev
Surname: Konstantinovich
Place of Birth: Moscow
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 80 kg
Zodiac sign: Calf
Eastern horoscope: Horse
Activity: journalist, TV presenter
Childhood and family of Dmitry Kiselev
The ambitious journalist was born into a family of hereditary intellectuals in the capital on April 26, 1954. The family was especially enthusiastic about the uncle of the future celebrity - he was a relative of the composer Yuri Shaporin, conductor of the famous "Alexandrinka", author of numerous symphonic works, music teacher and the head of the Union of Composers of the USSR. Both mom and dad planned only a musical future for their son, hoping that he would surpass his famous relative in popularity and importance in creativity. The boy was sent to a special school with in-depth study of French and enrolled in classes to learn to play the guitar.
As it turned out later, neither the desire nor the ability to perform works famous composers Dmitry didn't have it. But the guy learned languages with amazing ease, which became the main point in determining his profession in the future.
Disagreements in this regard led to the young man getting a job as a simple worker in a nearby printing house. Apparently there is a desire to decide your own future fate independently forced Kiselev to look for a way to earn his own livelihood. A little later, he entered medical school, which he graduated without much success. Having received a diploma as a nurse, Kiselev went to the northern capital - there the faculty of Scandinavian languages at the university attracted his attention. With a diploma in philology and a rare specialization, Dmitry returned to Moscow in 1978.
A television
The professional biography of Dmitry Kiselyov began immediately after graduating from university. First workplace Kiselev was at the USSR State Television and Radio. Here the journalist worked for more than ten years in one of the most prestigious and important sectors responsible for covering the life of the country abroad. High responsibility, control over every word, intonation - the young journalist Dmitry Kiselyov coped with these requirements perfectly.
In 1988, Dmitry Kiselyov moved to the news department of the Vremya program, where he became a presenter and conducted political reviews.
During the period of disruption and radical changes in the USSR, Dmitry Kiselev was fired from the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He refused to read the official government statement about events in one of the republics. Soon Kiselyov was accepted into the Vesti program, and he became one of the creators of a new format for television and radio, actively collaborating with foreign colleagues.
In 1992, Dmitry Kiselev began hosting the Panorama information program. Later, as his own correspondent, he was sent to Helsinki, where he worked for the Ostankino agency.
After the murder of Vladislav Listyev in 1995, an experienced TV presenter was appointed in his place. Now he hosts the Rush Hour program on Channel One. At the same time, Dmitry Kiselev hosts another program called “Window to Europe,” but a year later he leaves the program.
In 1997, the journalist became talk show host called "National Interest". At first, the program was broadcast only on the RTR TV channel, and then on the Ukrainian ICTV. A short time Dmitry Kiselyov hosted the nightly edition of the “Events” program. In November 2003, Ukrainian colleagues expressed no confidence in Kiselyov, accusing him of distorting information. Soon the journalist was suspended from work.
From 2003 to 2004, Dmitry Kiselev worked on new programs called “Morning Conversation” and “Authority”. And from 2005 to 2006, he hosted the daily information and analytical program “Vesti +” and “Vesti. Details" on the Rossiya TV channel.
In 2006, the famous journalist appeared as the host of the socio-political talk show “National Interest”, which he hosted until 2012.
In addition, in the summer of 2008, Dmitry Kiselev was appointed deputy general director of the VGTRK holding, after which he left the Vesti program. But in September 2012, he again returned to hosting the popular news program, which is now called “News of the Week.” It airs on the central channel “Russia”, which since January 2010 has been called “Russia-1”.
In December 2013, the International News Agency “Russia Today” was founded on the basis of RIA Novosti. general director whom Dmitry Kiselev was appointed.
Appointment as head of the Rossiya Segodnya agency
In connection with the appointment of Kiselyov as head of the new news agency "Russia Today", created by Vladimir Putin in December 2013 on the basis of RIA Novosti, a number of leading Western media materials were published in which Kiselyov was called a “pro-Kremlin homophobic TV presenter”, and the creation of a new news agency was an attempt by Putin to strengthen control over the media. Yes, on the website The Guardian material was published under the headline “Putin appointed a homophobic TV presenter as head of the state news agency" The publication described Kiselyov as a “conservative news anchor” and “a loyal supporter of Putin who occasionally makes provocative statements.” The article also stated that "Kiselyov is often accused of being a mouthpiece for [Kremlin] propaganda" and that he has become known for his "openly anti-gay, anti-American and anti-opposition views." Agence France-Presse called the appointment of an “anti-gay TV presenter” to head the new news agency an attempt by the Kremlin to “consolidate state media during a period of increased online criticism of Putin’s 13-year rule.”
By presidential decree, the new agency was entrusted with a very responsible mission: to cover Russian politics abroad. The journalist himself claims that he sees his task as restoring the attitude towards Russia as a country with good intentions.
In 2017, Dmitry Kiselev continues to work as the presenter of Vesti Nedeli and remains the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.
Scandals
In the summer of 2014, the Security Service of Ukraine initiated criminal proceedings against Dmitry Kiselyov under the article “financing terrorism, facilitating terrorist activities.” The Russian TV presenter and the International Press Institute, which he heads, are suspected of financing separatist organizations in Ukraine. In response to this, Dmitry Kiselev described the accusation as “a continuation of the fantasies in which the Nazis in power in Kyiv live.”
In the spring of 2016, hackers announced that they had managed to hack the contents of two mailboxes and Dmitry Kiselev’s WhatsApp correspondence. They allegedly managed to steal a volume of information of 11 gigabytes, which covered the period from 2009 to 2016. The stolen information, according to the hackers, contains a lot of compromising information, including about the finances and assets of a journalist, the purchase of an elite apartment on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, challenging the personal sanctions imposed by the EU, as well as the purchase of a ready-made thesis for the wife. But the fact of the “theft” was never confirmed.
In May 2016, an unpleasant incident occurred between Kiselyov and the editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev. The latter, like Dmitry Kiselyov, was included in the so-called “Petro Poroshenko’s sanctions list” and expressed his surprise at this circumstance, calling himself a friend of Ukraine. To this, Dmitry Kiselev, in the issue of Vesti Nedeli dated May 29, 2016, ironically noted that of all those on the list, “only Pavel Gusev was indignant, saying, how can this be, I’m one of my own, a bourgeois!” After the broadcast, Gusev called his colleague “a sexist and a scoundrel” and advised him to refrain from meeting him.
Criticism
According to the magazine The Economist, « a new style propaganda, represented by Kiselyov, is aimed at exciting and mobilizing the audience, inciting hatred and fear.<…>This style is reminiscent of Orwell’s two minutes of hate, lasting half an hour.”
The President of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Yasen Zasursky, characterizing the work of Dmitry Kiselev in 2015, said that “he simply repeats some theses, and journalists do not do this; a journalist should help to understand, should give not only information, but also knowledge... he is probably a good propagandist.”
On March 16, 2014, in the “News of the Week” program, Kiselev, based on an article in “ Rossiyskaya newspaper" on January 22, stated that Russia has a complex of automatic control of massive response nuclear strike"Perimeter", "guaranteeing the defeat of the United States of America in the event of armed conflict”, used the expression “Russia is the only country in the world that is really capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash.” The expression caused a wide response in the world.
Sanctions
Dmitry Kiselev is listed in the second part of the European Union (EU) list, inspired by the Crimean crisis, among Russian political and statesmen, subject to visa and financial restrictions. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the TV presenter was planned to be included in the first part of the EU “black” list, but Finland opposed this.
General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev said that “it’s amazing how quickly the European Union adopted the skills of repression against objectionable journalists from its Ukrainian puppets.” In his opinion, persecution of journalists is a sign of weakness and inferiority. Journalists and TV presenters of the Rossiya-1 TV channel came out in support of their colleague, publishing open letter to the Russian journalistic community.
According to Dmitry Kiselyov, the EU sanctions lists were Russian journalist Sergei Parkhomenko and political and public figure Alexey Navalny.
In August 2014, he was included in the sanctions list by Ukraine for his position on the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea to Russia. Also included in the sanctions lists of Switzerland and Canada, he is persona non grata in Moldova. In September 2015, he was included in the Ukrainian sanctions list, which includes 400 individuals and 90 legal entities.
In September 2015, he filed a lawsuit against the Council of the European Union, demanding to cancel the decision to include him in the EU sanctions list and to reimburse the costs incurred in connection with this. According to Dmitry Kiselyov, he came under sanctions for expressing his political position as a journalist and commentator, and therefore there is a violation of freedom of speech. He also indicated that he could not “actively support” Russian policy towards Ukraine and never expressed support for the “deployment Russian troops in Ukraine". On June 15, 2017, the European Court of General Jurisdiction in Luxembourg dismissed the claim and decided to maintain the sanctions, to which Kiselyov responded with an article on the RIA Novosti website.
Personal life
Today Dmitry is married and happy in his family life, but before that he was married seven times. He met his first wife Alena at medical school, they were 17 years old. Family life It didn’t work out and they soon broke up. He married a second time while studying in Leningrad, to a student Natalya. A year later, the couple decided to divorce. A year later, Dmitry led his next chosen one, Tatyana, down the aisle, but this marriage also came to a quick end. While working at Gosteleradio, Dmitry married his colleague Alena for the fourth time.
Very soon the couple's son Gleb is born. When the child was one year old, the leader left the family to new lover Natalia, who became his fifth wife. Dmitry did not stop communicating with his son, and now they support him a good relationship. In 1998, Kelly Richdale became the TV presenter's sixth wife, and a few months later they divorced. Dmitry's seventh wife's name was Olga.
Meeting with destiny
Being married, the presenter built his own mansion in Crimea and very often spent time there. He was even able to found a jazz festival in 2003 called “Jazz Koktebel”. In Koktebel, Dmitry loved to ride on his own boat, and on one of these walks he met his real wife Masha.
At that time she was a student at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Masha already had a son, Fyodor, from a previous relationship. A year after their first meeting, the lovers had a magnificent wedding. In 2007, the world saw their common son Kostya, and three years later they became the happy parents of their daughter Varvara. Masha has three higher education and gets the fourth. In the future she wants to work as a psychotherapist.
Now Dmitry Kiselev has a wife who fully supports him, is successful in his career and is happy in personal life.
Hobbies of Dmitry Kiselyov
Together with his family, the TV presenter lives in the Moscow region, where a Scandinavian house built according to his design is located. It should be noted that construction lasted several years. There is a small mill installed on the well in the yard, complementing the general form Houses. At first, Maria could not get used to country life. She went to Moscow to, as she puts it, breathe it in. With time country life The TV presenter's wife liked it.
The father rarely sees the children, he practically has no days off. He usually leaves in the morning, when the children are still sleeping, and returns no earlier than nine or even eleven in the evening. The TV presenter often gets to work by motorcycle, only getting into a car in winter. There was a time when Dmitry Konstantinovich kept four horses, but after he fell with his car from a bridge into the water and received a compression fracture of the spine, he was no longer able to engage in equestrian sports. Being keen on motocross, the TV presenter received a serious injury - a torn ligament in his knee, he underwent three operations and whole year walked on crutches. After that, Kiselev gave one horse to his trainer, sold one, and donated two horses to a children's institution. The TV presenter’s eldest son, Gleb, is already an adult; they have always maintained a relationship and traveled a lot together. The son shared his father's passion for horses. IN country house Kiselev, Gleb has his own room where he lives when he comes to visit. Dmitry Konstantinovich is fluent in Norwegian, English and French, in addition, he reads Icelandic, Swedish and Danish.
Famous Russian TV presenter and journalist was born in Moscow in 1954 in musical family. IN school years studied guitar at a music school. After graduating from school, he entered medical school. Next educational institution Kiselev became Leningrad State University, where he studied Scandinavian philology at the Faculty of Philology.
Carier start
The TV presenter's career began at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, where he worked for 10 years and covered life in foreign countries. In 1988, the journalist became a correspondent for the Vremya program. Subsequently, he was the host of various projects such as “Vesti”, “Panorama”, “Window to Europe”, “Rush Hour”, “National Interest”, “Event” and others. IN currently Kiselev heads the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.
Dmitry's wives
Today Dmitry is married and happy in his family life, but before that he was married seven times. He met his first wife Alena at medical school, they were 17 years old. Family life did not work out and they soon separated. He married a second time while studying in Leningrad, to a student Natalya. A year later, the couple decided to divorce. A year later, Dmitry led his next chosen one, Tatyana, down the aisle, but this marriage also came to a quick end. While working at Gosteleradio, Dmitry married his colleague Alena for the fourth time.
Very soon the couple's son Gleb is born. When the child was one year old, the presenter left the family for his new lover Natalya, who became his fifth wife. Dmitry did not stop communicating with his son, and now maintain good relations. In 1998, Kelly Richdale became the TV presenter's sixth wife, and a few months later they divorced. Dmitry's seventh wife's name was Olga.
Meeting with destiny
Being married, the presenter built his own mansion in Crimea and very often spent time there. He was even able to found a jazz festival in 2003 called “Jazz Koktebel”. In Koktebel, Dmitry loved to ride on his own boat, and on one of these walks he met his real wife Masha.
Dmitry Kiselev with his wife
At that time she was a student at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Masha already had a son, Fyodor, from a previous relationship. A year after their first meeting, the lovers had a magnificent wedding. In 2007, the world saw their common son Kostya, and three years later they became the happy parents of their daughter Varvara. Masha has three higher education degrees and is getting her fourth. In the future she wants to work as a psychotherapist.
Now Dmitry Kiselev has a wife who fully supports him, is successful in his career and happy in his personal life.
The once Russian and now Ukrainian TV presenter Evgeniy Kiselev is widely known for his analytical programs and sharp interviews. In the Russian media space he is in last years reminds himself only through ambiguous statements and controversial assessments of events taking place in the country and the world.
Childhood
Evgeny Kiselev was born in Moscow on June 15, 1956 into a family of engineers specializing in metal science. His father was a Soviet scientist and laureate Stalin Prize. He worked on materials for aviation and rocket engineering. All that is known about my mother is that she devoted most of her time to family and raising children.
Evgeniy studied well at specialized school No. 123 with English as the core language. He was equally attracted to a wide variety of sciences, liked subjects such as history, foreign languages, literature. The boy himself could not make a choice priority direction. The father, realizing that his son was better versed in the humanities, suggested that Evgeniy, when he was in high school, study at the “School of Young Orientalists” at Moscow State University.
After school
Evgeny Kiselev became so interested in the countries of the East that after graduating from school he entered the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University, Faculty of History and Philology. During his studies he was lucky enough to travel to many Asian countries. He completed an educational internship in Iran in 1977-1978. He graduated from the institute with honors, becoming a specialist in the Persian language.
After graduating from university, Evgeniy was called up for urgent service military service V Soviet army and sent to Afghanistan. He served as a translator in a group of military advisers, where he participated in negotiations between the Soviet and Afghan military. He completed his military service with the rank of captain.
After serving in the army, Yevgeny Kiselev was offered a job at the KGB Higher School, where he began teaching Persian until 1984.
At journalistic work
Evgeniy became interested in journalism, and in 1985 he managed to get a job at the USSR State Television and Radio, in the main editorial office of the countries of the Near and Middle East. Which, probably, was not difficult, given his professional knowledge and the department in which he previously worked. His responsibilities included editing texts that were then broadcast to Middle Eastern audiences.
In 1987, he moved to work on television in the “Time” program, and soon Evgeniy became the host of the morning news program “90 Minutes”. TV presenter Evgeny Kiselev was the main actor these popular programs.
At the turn of the millennium
In 1993, he took part in the organization of the independent television company NTV, where he moved together with the Itogi program - the first political talk show on Russian television.
TV presenter Evgeny Kiselev did successful career and on the administrative line. He was vice president of the NTV television company, then became one of the shareholders and members of the board of directors. As a result, he took the highest position, becoming the general director of OJSC NTV Television Company.
Many of his programs in those years had big success for the viewer, in addition to the talk show "Itogi", he also hosted others TV shows. In the biography of Evgeny Kiselev, there are practically no outright failed information projects.
He has released about 30 copyright documentaries about outstanding figures of our time, including Margaret Thatcher, Yuri Andropov, Augusto Pinochet. A fresh look at famous politicians and good presentation of the material made these films an extraordinary phenomenon in the country's media space.
After NTV
After the change of NTV shareholders, Evgeny Kiselev, together with large group employees left the TV channel. He went to work for TV-6 and TNT, and in 2002 became editor-in-chief of Channel Six.
After long period After working on television, he was invited to the Moscow News newspaper as editor-in-chief. He worked at the weekly until 2005.
Journalist Evgeny Kiselev worked for four years at the main opposition radio station Ekho Moskvy. He hosted several popular programs and programs, including “Our Everything.” Today he often acts as a political analyst on other media resources with sharp criticism of the policies of President V.V. Putin and unconditional support " orange revolution"in Ukraine. Kiselev also hosts programs on satellite television and consults for a Ukrainian TV channel.
On the other side
In 2008, he moved to Ukraine to host a program on the country's main channel, Inter. Big politics with Evgeniy Kiselyov", it was held in the format of a socio-political show. Since 2013, he headed the company that prepared information programs, including "Details". The content of the program was significantly changed, a lot of time began to be devoted to the analysis of the world and Russian politics. Kiselev, as a presenter, managed to turn a once weak program into a popular political television project.
From 2014 to 2016, Evgeny Kiselev was the creator and host of “Black Mirror,” an original political talk show on the same channel. It became the most popular and rated weekly program. IN last transmission the TV presenter announced the end of his work on the channel, as he was about to start an independent journalistic project.
During this Ukrainian period, he makes a number of harsh statements that he is ashamed to be a citizen Russian Federation due to the country's policies against other states. In collaboration with Mikhail Kasyanov, he publishes the book “Without Putin.”
In recent years
In 2016, he released another talk show on the News One channel, as usual in the format of the author’s program by Evgeny Kiselev. He has repeatedly publicly spoken out in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, which was equated to a call for terrorism and total criticism of Russia’s actions towards Ukraine.
Once again, reports emerged that he had officially asked for political asylum. The first such rumors appeared in 2013, and were refuted by him.
At the beginning of 2017, he and other colleagues created a new information channel, where he took the place of presenter of two programs.
Evgeny Kiselev writes articles for many international and Russian magazines and newspapers, including Forbes and the New York Times. He also still performs on the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Personal life
Until recently, Evgeny Kiselev spoke little about his personal life. He married in September 1973 his classmate Marina Gelievna Shakhova, the daughter of one of the leaders of the Soviet State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Marina, known on television as Masha Shakhova, hosted the educational program “Summer Residents,” for which she received the prestigious “Tefi” television award in 2002. She was also the producer of popular programs related to interior design. As a designer, she presented her collections several times.
In 1983, the couple had a son, Alexey, who now runs a business with his wife. The family has its own clothing brand, which is successfully sold in the country. Kiselev Jr. has a son who loves to visit his grandparents.
Evgeniy rarely rests; he devotes a lot of time to work. In rare hours of rest, he prefers walking and likes to play tennis. He reads a lot, preferring memoirs of outstanding people.
He loves to eat delicious food, so among his acquaintances Evgeny Kiselev is considered an expert in the cuisines of the world. He collects a collection of expensive wines, as an expert writes for the specialized magazine "Wine Mania".
Dmitry Kiselev(born April 26, 1954, Moscow, USSR) - Russian journalist, TV presenter, general director of the Russian international news agency "Russia Today", deputy general director of VGTRK.
Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev
Occupation: TV presenter
Date of birth: April 26, 1954
Place of birth: Moscow
Citizenship: USSR → Russia
Dmitry Kiselev was born on April 26, 1954 in Moscow.
Dmitry Kiselev was brought up in musical environment(Kiselyov’s uncle is composer Yuri Shaporin), graduated music school in classical guitar class.
He studied at medical school No. 6 in Moscow.
In 1978, Dmitry Kiselev also graduated from the department of Scandinavian philology of the Leningrad Faculty of Philology state university named after A. A. Zhdanov.
Dmitry Kiselev's work on radio and TV
After university Dmitry Kiselev worked in the Central Radio Broadcasting to foreign countries of the USSR State Television and Radio in the Norwegian and Polish editions.
From 1988 to 1991, Dmitry Kiselev worked for Central television USSR, where he was a correspondent for the Vremya program.
From late 1989 to January 1991 Dmitry Kiselev- presenter of the information program “Television News Service”, broadcast on the First Program of Central Television.
From 1991 to the end of 1996 Dmitry Kiselev- presenter of the nightly newscast of Channel 1, and since March 1995 - presenter of the current interview "Rush Hour".
From 2003 to 2006, Dmitry Kiselev was the host of the daily information and analytical program “Vesti +” of the Rossiya television company, the host of the current interview “In detail with Dmitry Kiselev”, the host of the socio-political talk show “National Interest”.
In 2006-2008, Dmitry Kiselev, co-host of the evening news broadcast (he co-hosted it with Maria Sittel, while the news time was increased from 30 to 50 minutes), continued to host the “National Interest” program.
He also collaborated with ARD, RTL, and the Japanese television company NHK.
Dmitry Kiselev - Host of the program “Rush Hour”
On March 3, 1995, after the murder of Vladislav Listyev, Dmitry Kiselev was appointed host of the Rush Hour program, which was broadcast on Ostankino Channel One, and from April 3 on the newly created ORT channel. Initially, he hosted the program alternately with Sergei Shatunov, but after his departure, from April 25 to September 28, 1995, he hosted the program alone. At the same time, he was the host of the “Window to Europe” program. Since the beginning of October 1995, he hosted the program alternately with Andrei Razbash. He finally left the program on September 25, 1996.
Dmitry Kiselev From 1997 to 2003
From 1997 to 2003 he hosted the talk show “National Interest”, which aired first on REN TV, then on the RTR channel from September 1997 to May 1998, then on TVC (as “National Interest-2000”), and then on the Ukrainian channel ICTV. From 1999 to 2000, he was the host of the nightly news program of the TVC television company “Events,” the current interview “In the Center of Events,” and the socio-political talk show “National Interest.”
From 2000 to 2003 - presenter of a current interview with the ICTV television company “In detail with Dmitry Kiselyov", host of the socio-political talk show "National Interest", editor-in-chief of the information service of the ICTV television company. On November 26, journalists at a meeting with ICTV General Director Alexander Bogutsky expressed no confidence in Dmitry Kiselev, saying that he was distorting news releases. 3 days later, the general director announced the removal of Kiselev from the leadership of the television company’s news releases.
In 2003 he founded the Jazz Koktebel festival.
Work on the TV channel "Russia"
Then he worked on the programs “Morning Talk”, “Authority” and with documentary programs. Since 2005 - host of the Vesti+ program. Since 2006 - host of the Vesti program together with Maria Sittel. He was also the author and host of the talk show “National Interest” on the Rossiya channel.
Since July 2008, he has been Deputy General Director of the VGTRK holding; After his appointment, he left the Vesti program. In March 2012, he replaced Sergei Kurginyan in the program “ Historical process"; also hosts the author’s program “Authority”. Since August 2012, he has been the host of the “News of the Week” program.
Author of a documentary series about the collapse of the USSR called “USSR: Collapse”, as well as several documentaries: “Sakharov”, “100 days of Gorbachev”, “100 days of Yeltsin”, “1/6 of the land” and others.
International news agency "Russia Today"
On December 9, 2013, it was announced that a new structure would be created on the basis of the liquidated RIA Novosti - the International News Agency Rossiya Segodnya. Its general director was appointed Dmitry Kiselev. According to the presidential decree, the main task of the new agency will be “coverage abroad of the state policy of the Russian Federation and Russian public life", and according to Kiselyov, the mission of his organization is "restoration fair treatment to Russia as an important country in the world with good intentions"
Views - Putin and the opposition
October 7, 2012 (on Putin’s 60th birthday) during the “News of the Week” program Dmitry Kiselev dedicated a comment lasting 12 minutes 41 seconds to this event:
In terms of the scale of his activities, Putin the politician is comparable only to Stalin among his predecessors in the 20th century. The methods are fundamentally different. The price of Stalin's breakthrough is unacceptable, but the scale of the tasks for the development of the country is such. After Stalin, each successive Kremlin leader lowered the bar of ambition, and Russia approached the turn of the millennium bloodless, demoralized and torn.
... As a result, let's bend our fingers: the combat capability of the army has been restored, the nuclear balance has been confirmed, territorial integrity has been preserved, the salaries of Russians in rubles have increased by 13 times, pensions by 10. At the same time, Russia is free as never before in its history.
This comment drew criticism from some members of the journalistic community, who considered its author a hypocrite and a conformist.
The Vesti Nedeli presenter was especially interested in the elections to the Opposition Coordination Council. On October 28, in the program’s story, he published anonymous statements allegedly on behalf of representatives of the protest movement, who described the event as an “adventure,” “a factory of stars,” “a movement without a goal,” and “a banal scam organized by opposition thimblemakers.”
Ukraine and the EU
December 1, 2013 Dmitry Kiselev dedicated part of his program to protests against the suspension of association with the EU in Ukraine, where he stated that the coalition of EU members Sweden-Poland-Lithuania was allegedly using Ukraine to incite a war with Russia. According to Kiselyov, the ultimate goal of the countries that made up this anti-Russian “coalition” is revenge for the Battle of Poltava, won by Peter I in 1709. Also, according to Kiselyov, in Sweden due to early start sexual life there is a “radical increase in child abortions” and impotence at 12 years of age. Besides Kiselyov stated that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was a CIA agent in his youth. Buzzfeed columnist Max Seddon described the entire broadcast as “the most esoteric interpretation” of events in Ukraine.
Homosexual propaganda and homophobia
In August 2013, a fragment of the recording of the television program “Historical Process No. 19 “State and private life“” dated April 4, 2012 on the channel “Russia-1”, in which Dmitry Kiselev called for “burying or burning” the hearts of gays killed in road accidents. The statement received a negative reaction in the blogosphere. A group of bloggers sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to bring the TV presenter to criminal liability under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extremism), the maximum penalty for which is 5 years in prison.
In an interview with Ekho Moskvy, Kiselev explained his words:
This is simply global practice. This is what they do in the United States of America, the European Union, Japan, Arab countries, almost all over the world, except Russia. Because homosexuals are prohibited from donating blood, organs, etc., that is, they are not considered as donors. And I believe that laws need to be adopted that are in line with world practice. That's all... if, for example, a homosexual dies in America, then they don't touch him, they don't take his organs.
He stated about murders motivated by homophobia:
Our problem with homosexuals is that they behave provocatively, they behave victimarily, yes, that is, deliberately calling, provoking situations for them to become victims. No one is stopping them from loving each other the way they want. They aggressively impose the values of the minority on the majority. Probably society will oppose this. Naturally, right? In a variety of forms, including brutal ones.
Criticism of Dmitry Kiselev
Dmitry Kiselev's coverage of the Razvozzhaev case
Covering the case of Leonid Razvozzhaev, Kiselev cited the “memoirs” published by the oppositionist, the basis of which was fictional story Razvozzhaev “How I Played the Executioner”, published in the literary supplement to Nezavisimaya Gazeta in 2003. Having cited the most cruel moment - the execution of a cat, the TV presenter did not add the ending of the story, which radically changes the feeling of the story, which is in fact directed against cruelty to animals. In addition, as Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted, Kiselev did not provide evidence that this fact took place in real life Leonida.
Dmitry Kiselev's coverage of events related to Euromaidan
The UNIAN news agency accused Dmitry Kiselyov of lies and distortions in his description of events related to Euromaidan (story about latest events in Ukraine, in which clashes under the administration of the President of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Podii bilya Administration of the President of Ukraine 1 April 2013) preceded the dispersal of the Euromaidan, which contradicts the chronology of events).
On December 8, 2013, Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Sedyuk, known for his provocative and shocking actions, burst into the live broadcast of the Rossiya-24 news on the Maidan in Kyiv and shouted: “Give the Oscar to the Rossiya TV channel and Dmitry Kiselev for lies and nonsense in relation to the Euromaidan! » Appointment as head of the Rossiya Segodnya agency
In connection with the appointment of Kiselev as head of the new news agency “Russia Today”, created by Vladimir Putin in December 2013 on the basis of RIA Novosti, a number of leading Western media published materials in which Kiselev was called a “pro-Kremlin homophobic TV presenter”, and the creation of a new news agency - Putin's attempt to strengthen control over the media. Thus, The Guardian website published an article entitled “Putin appointed homophobic TV presenter as head of state news agency.” The publication described Kiselyov as a “conservative news anchor” and “a loyal supporter of Putin who occasionally makes provocative statements.” The article also stated that "Kiselyov is often accused of being a mouthpiece for [Kremlin] propaganda" and that he has gained notoriety for his "openly anti-gay, anti-American and anti-opposition views." Agence France-Presse called the appointment of an “anti-gay TV presenter” to head the new news agency an attempt by the Kremlin to “consolidate state media during a period of increased online criticism of Putin’s 13-year rule.”
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