Mikhail Leontyev
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Леонтьев, scientific transliteration Mikhail Leontiev Vladimirovič; born October 12, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist. On the leading Russian television Perwy channel (first channel ), he moderated the political program " Odnako " (However ), and is editor of the weekly magazine of the same name " Однако ".
Life and Family
Mikhail Leontiev was born in 1958 in Moscow as the son of a designer and a statistic teacher. After a degree in economics at the Plekhanov Academy of Economics Moscow in 1979 Leontiev worked in a Soviet research institute. In 1985 he retired according to own data into "internal immigration " and worked as a cabinetmaker, laborer, guardian of the Dacha of Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino and tutor in history.
Mikhail Leontiev is married for the second time. His wife Mary is a child psychologist, and together they have a daughter Daria (1999). His ex-wife is married to a U.S. citizen and lives with the two children from his first marriage in the United States.
He speaks English and German.
Journalistic activity
1987 Mikhail Leontiev published his first newspaper articles, and from December 1989 he wrote for the newly-founded daily newspaper Kommersant.
In 1990, he took over the management of the economic departments of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which was then the London-based Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was. In 1993 he participated in the founding of the newspaper Sewodnja, the first deputy editor he was.
Since 1997, Leontiev is a television journalist, first for the TV station TVI, which is owned by the Moscow City Government and is considered home station of the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Since February 1999, Mikhail Leontiev works for the Russian state television station Perwy channel (first channel), which pursues a pro-government course.
His political views developed according to his information from a " mild dissidence " during the Soviet era up to the " right conservatism ". According to the Voice of Russia Mikhail Leontiev represents " the point of view of the current Russian political elite 's concern to find a special way for Russia - and in their rejection of both Communism and the established values of a capitalist society."
On television, he appears always tired and unshaven, another characteristic is his husky voice.
Mikhail Leontiev is also known for personal statements, in which he often exceeds the limits of correctness. 2002 him, the district court sentenced Kiev for defamation of the woman of the future Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as " American agent " to a fine. However Leontiev refused to pay and was for five years a ban on entry into the Ukraine. With family Yushchenko Leontiev also addressed in the film The orange colored children of the Third Reich ( The Russian Version: Оранжевые дети Третьего Рейха ) in collaboration with Weronika Krascheninnikowa of 3 February 2010.
In Latvia, he was declared persona non grata, 2003.
Political activity
Mikhail Leontiev ran in December 1995 in the parliamentary elections, but received too few votes for a seat in the Russian parliament. He's since December 2002 member of the ruling United Russia party and says of himself: " All my life I have dealt with politics. However, my occupation is, by the sheerest coincidence journalism. "
Other business activities
Leontiev is co-owner of the Moscow restaurants " Oprichnik ".
Awards
Mikhail Leontiev received the Journalist Award " Золотое перо России " ( "Golden Feather of Russia " ) and was honored in 1997 with the TEFI Award of the Academy of Russian Television.