Victor Shenderovich
Viktor Shenderovich Anatoljevich (Russian Виктор Анатольевич Шендерович; born August 15, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian satirist, journalist and screenwriter.
Career
Shenderovich in 1980 to study at the National Institute of Culture from Moscow and then served his two-year military service. From 1982, he led a theater circles in a Moscow Pioneer Palace and taught at the Theatre Institute Gitis.
Fame he achieved as a scriptwriter of popular political puppet show Kukly ( dolls), which aired from 1994 to 2001 by the Russian broadcaster NTV. From 1997 he also designed with NTW a satirical show called " iToGo " which he also moderated itself. After the change of ownership at NTV in 2001 Shenderovich left the station and joined with other colleagues from the transmitter TW - 6, which was closed at the beginning of 2002. From 2002 he worked at the station TWS, but this also stopped operating in the following year. Since November 2003, directs Viktor Shenderovich its own weekly radio program called cheese spread ( Плавленный сырок ) at station Ekho Moskvy, as well as a program called Wse Svobodny at Radio Swoboda. In the meantime he also produced for the station RTVi a TV version of his radio show cheese spread bore the title Novye wremena ( German for New Times ). The name of this mission was referring to the film Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin and has already drawn attention to the concept of mission: Between Schenderowitschs comments on current political events matching, musical highlighted excerpts from Chaplin films were thematically shown.
Political commitment
Viktor Shenderovich is one of the most famous critic of Vladimir Putin in the Russian media landscape. In his show on Ekho Moskvy, he comments on the Russian government policy every week in critical- ironic way, he also appeared regularly as a speaker on anti-government demonstrations.
On December 4, 2005 Shenderovich candidate in the by-election for a seat in the Duma. Originally in the corresponding constituency had the entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky want to run, who was then in custody. Due to its rapid condemnation but his candidacy was no longer legally possible. Viktor Shenderovich then took some extent his place. He received in the election 17% of the vote and defeated his opponent Stanislav Govorukhin, who was elected with 38 % of votes. Govorukhin, a famous film director, was taken up for the pro-government United Russia party. During the election campaign Shenderovich had filed against his opinion, unfair practices Goworuchins action. His application was rejected as unfounded. 2006 Shenderovich published the book Nedodumez, in which he summarized his experience as a State Duma candidate.
Shenderovich is a member of the company founded by ex - world chess champion Garry Kasparov oppositional Committee 2008.
On 10 March 2010, he signed a manifesto of the Russian opposition to the among others Sachar Prilepin belonged, under the title "Putin must go".
In February 2014 Shenderovich caused a major scandal when he was in his article on the website of Ekho Moskvy the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany and the victory of the young figure skater Yulia Lipnizkaja with the victory of the later war criminal Hans Woellke compared.