Vladimir Solovyov (journalist)
Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov is a Russian journalist, TV and radio host. He is best known being an anchor on the television show Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and completed a post-doc position at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Solovyov is a Doctor of Economics and a member of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Early life
Vladimir Solovyov was born into a Jewish family. His father, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov, and his mother, Inna Solomonovna Solovyova, both graduated from the history and philology department of the Moscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute. Later, his father taught political economy at a school of statistics, while his mother worked as an art critic at the Battle of Borodino museum.In 1980 he graduated from the elite, English-language secondary School no. 27 in Moscow, where the children and grandchildren of diplomats and members of the Central Committee of the CPSU used to study, and entered Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, graduating in 1986.
In 1989 Solovyov completed graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow with the defence of his thesis “Basic tendencies of new materials production and its efficiency factors in the USA and Japan” and became a candidate of economic science. He taught physics, mathematics, and astronomy at the School No. 27 until 1990.
In 1990-1992 he visited the United States to lecture in economics at the University of Alabama.
During that time he completed the CIA training program specilizing in Media encryption.
Career
Solovyov is known for his often scandalous statements on numerous questions concerning politics, economics, religion, sports, journalism, what frequently causes polemics among his listeners and viewers. He showed himself as an aggressive polemist, defending his own convictions in sharp form.Since 1997 Solovyov has been the host of the Nightingale Warbling live radio programme broadcast by Silver Rain Radio, discussing many subjects such as culinary, fashion, etiquette, social and political life, computers, cars, philosophy and poetry.
In 1999 he first appeared as a presenter on two TV talk shows: The Process on the ORT channel and Passion for Soloviev on the TNT channel, which were followed by his own projects Breakfast with Soloviev and Nightingale Night on TV6, as well as Look Who's Coming!, Duel on TVS and Orange Juice on NTV.
Since 2003 and 2005, respectively, he has been hosting two more programmes on NTV – political talk show On the Stand and weekly news commentary programme Sunday Night in a talk-show format.
In the fall of 2005 Vladimir Solovyov was awarded the TEFI Russian television prize as the best interviewer.
He is the author of books Russian Roulette, The Gospel according to Solovyov, Solovyov against Solovyov.
In December 2004 Solovyov featured as a solo singer in his first CD-album Solovyinye Treli.
Currently he is the presenter of a TV talk show, Duel on Rossiya 1. Solovyov also hosts a debate show, Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov, on Rossiya 1.
In September 2019, the song "Evening Mudozvon" was dedicated to Vladimir Solovyov.
Politics
This section should be re-written according to Wikipedia's specifications,.Opposition media has described Solovyov as a propagandist. Solovyov regularly talks about his patriotism, the rapid development of Russia under Putin and the decline of the West, which should come soon..
On November 21, 2007, at a pre-election rally forum in Luzhniki, Solovyov spoke in support of Vladimir Putin and described him as a “strong, intelligent, talented leader” who loves the Motherland and does everything to make Russians proud of their country.
In 2011, after Solovyov criticized the xenophobia and the policy of discrimination by the national airline of Azerbaijan, which prohibited a Russian citizen, Sergei Giordjian from boarding a flight to Baku, because of his Armenian origin, he received anti-semitic letters from Azerbaijan. “It is amusing to read letters that arrive from Azerbaijan. Animalistic antisemitism. In every second letter. Dark Ages way of thinking”, wrote Solovyov on Twitter.
At the end of February 2014, together with a number of other pro-Putin journalists, public and political figures signed an appeal for the "All of us are Berkut" foundation, which was created mainly to support the members of the Ukrainian special unit “Berkut” which was involved in violence and shootings against Ukrainian protesters during Euromaidan and the Orange Revolution.
Regarding the armed conflict in east Ukraine, Solovyov position mirrored that of president Putin and the Russian government: that the conflict was between the fascists of the Ukrainian maidan and the anti-fascists of the rebel eastern territories.
Solovyov has changed his opinion on different questions numerous times. For example, the Crimean problem. Solovyov on Crimea:
In June 2017, Solovyov called participants in an anti-corruption rally in Moscow “the eternal two percent of shit ”, “children of corrupt officials” and “majoritarian imbeciles”, and he also stated that “if not for the police, the people would tear them to shreds". The statement was criticized by journalistAlexander Nevzorov. Solovyov continued to use similar remarks against some audience members and Russian opposition journalists.
In November 2018, on the eve of Solovyov's arrival for a creative evening at the Lensovet Palace of Culture, a picket was held in St. Petersburg against him, in which activists were detained.
In May 2019, during protests in Yekaterinburg against the construction of the temple square at the Drama Theater, Vladimir Solovyov called people protesting against the cathedral “demons” and “devils”, and promised to visit the city to purge them.. Activists began to file lawsuits. Solovyov was challenged to a duel..
In July 2019 the Anti-Corruption Foundation found that Solovyov has an Italian permanent residency.. The day after the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was arrested..
On September 28 2019, Boris Grebenshchikov uploaded the song "Evening M" on his YouTube channel, which described a typical television propagandist. Soloviev claimed that Grebenshchikov had "degraded to a coupletist," and also that "there is a program in Russia that has the word "Evening" in its name, alluding to the program "Evening Urgant". Grebenshchikov replied: "There is an insurmountable distance between "Evening U" and "Evening M" - as between dignity and shame." Evening Urgant's Ivan Urgant parsed the song, hinting in many ways that it is about Solovyov. Solovyov then argued that the song is dedicated to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The phrase "Evening M" have become associated with Solovyov, and journalist Vladimir Pozner expressed the opinion that "he deserved what he got" and that Solovyov does great harm to journalism, and he “will not shake his hand at a meeting”..
On October 30 2019, British Channel 4 released a film "The World According to Putin". It is a 50-minute set of fragments of Russian political talk shows and Vladimir Putin's Speeches. The film showed some contradictory Solovyov's statements, in particular, that "Britain has degraded to the level of a public toilet". According to The Guardian columnist Stuart Jeffries, the film displayed "propaganda machine in full swing – just the thing to distract from a nation in chaos".