Roman Babayan release of a new program. Positive reviews

The RIGHT TO VOTE program on TVC is a video of a political talk show in which well-known political scientists, journalists and public figures discuss current world news, events in Ukraine and the situation in the Donbass, the situation in Syria and the entire Middle East, the confrontation between Russia and the United States, Russia's relations with the European Union and other powers.

Watch your own truth with Roman Babayan on NTV.

Roman Babayan's program Own Truth on NTV (video) today 09-09-2019 Exchange with Ukraine

The first issue of Roman Babayan's program on the NTV channel is dedicated to the relations between Russia and Ukraine. The results of the exchange of prisoners and the policy of Vladimir Zelensky are discussed by political scientists of the two countries.

The program includes: Kirill Vyshinsky, Maxim Yali, Sergei Stankevich, Konstantin Kosachev and others.

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The right to vote on TVC (video) 11-07-2019 Georgia: checkmate?!

The latest events in Georgia became the topic of today's program of Roman Babayan on the TVC channel. How the Russian president reacted to the insults and how Russia should respond at the state level are discussed by experts in the studio.

The program includes: Vitaly Tretyakov, Boris Nadezhdin, Nikolai Topornin, Alexander Sosnovsky, Timofey Sergeytsev and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 10-07-2019 Politics instead of history?!

The world community will soon be celebrating the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The West is trying to rewrite history in which there will be no place for the victorious Red Army. Who benefits from manipulating public opinion and for what purpose it is used in politics.

The program includes: Vladimir Kornilov, Evgeny Spitsyn, Vladimir Mamontov, Alexander Sosnovsky, Maria Steinman, Alexander Sytin and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 09-07-2019 Ukraine on the verge?!

Events in Ukraine are discussed by well-known political scientists of Roman Babayan's program. Vladimir Zelensky's statements to Russia and Vladimir Putin do not inspire hope for quick talks on Donbass.

The program includes: Vadim Karasev, Gordey Belov, Alexander Okhrimenko, Vasily Vakarov, Vladimir Oleinik, Araik Stepanyan, Vladimir Kornilov, Spiridon Kilinkarov and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 08-07-2019 Who blocked the world?!

Participants of Roman Babayan's program discuss Vladimir Putin's interview with an Italian newspaper. The number of problem areas on the planet is growing and security issues are coming to the fore. How will the world order develop in the event of the disappearance of the NATO bloc.

Participants of the program: Andrey Sidorov, Araik Stepanyan, Sergey Oznobishchev, Michael Bom, Andrey Nikulin, Igor Korotchenko, Nikita Isaev and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 03-07-2019 The end of the liberal idea?!

In today's program of Roman Babayan, political scientists discuss the theory of liberalism within Russia and in the West. Why liberal values ​​are raised to the flag and who benefits from promoting such an idea inside the country.

The program includes: Timofey Sergeytsev, Vitaly Tretyakov, Oleg Barabanov, Vladimir Mamontov, Afanasios Afgerinos, Boris Nadezhdin and others.

Voting rights on TVC (video) 28-06-2019 G-20: between politics and economics?!

The meeting of the leaders of the G20 is discussed by political scientists and experts of the Roman Babayan program. Vladimir Putin's meeting with Donald Trump and other leaders of the major powers aroused worldwide interest.

The program includes: Vitaly Tretyakov, Alexander Gurnov, Sergei Stankevich, Andrey Sidorov, Alexander Sosnovsky, Michael Bohm and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 25-06-2019 Ukrainian fantasies?!

Ukraine threatens to leave PACE if Russia returns there. Who benefits from aggravating relations between the two countries and what to expect from President Zelensky on this issue.

The program includes: Vasily Vakarov, Evgeny Kopatko, Yuri Kot, Vladimir Kornilov, Sergey Markov, Andrey Okara, Spiridon Kilinkarov, Alexander Okhrimenko and others.

The right to vote on the TVC channel 24-06-2019 Georgian chair?!

The Georgian scandal is being discussed by the experts of Roman Babayan's program on the TVC channel. Who put the Russian representative in the chair of the head of the Georgian parliament and who benefits from destabilization in the center of Tbilisi.

Program participants: Sergei Stankevich, Nadana Friedrichson, Gevorg Mirzayan, Alexander Sosnovsky, Andrey Sidorov, Araik Stepanyan, Boris Nadezhdin and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 21-06-2019 How to destroy a superpower?!

The confrontation between Russia and the West is being discussed by well-known political scientists and experts. What is the Western world ready to do to bring down the standard of living of Russians and arrange a new Maidan in Russia.

The program includes: Evgeny Tarlo, Timofey Sergeytsev, Vladimir Kornilov, Pavel Gusev, Ilya Shablinsky, Andris Lielais and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 19-06-2019 European spring?!

According to media reports, Britain and Russia are exploring the possibility of rapprochement. At the same time, European politicians continue the policy of sanctions and support Ukraine in the confrontation with the Donbass. Should we expect significant negotiations at the upcoming summit in Japan.

The program includes: Igor Korotchenko, Alexander Gushchin, Boris Nadezhdin, Yakub Koreyba, Nikolai Topornin, Sergey Markov and others.

The right to vote on TVC (video) 18-06-2019 Honeymoon Ze?!

Zelensky's visit to Europe has become the main topic of today's program of Roman Babayan. Following the meeting, Macron expressed hope for a settlement of the situation in Donbass.

The program includes: Yuri Kot, Andrey Suzdaltsev, Vasily Vakarov, Vladimir Kornilov, Spiridon Kilinkarov, Vladimir Skachko and others.

The right to vote on TVC from 17-06-2019 The world is in suspense?!

US Secretary Mike Pompeo accused Iran of attacking oil tankers. The incomprehensible footage provided by the Americans resembles a test tube with Colin Powell's white powder. What are the Americans ready to do and what kind of reaction to expect from Russia.

The program includes: Veniamin Popov, Sergey Oznobishchev, Andrey Sidorov, Sergey Stankevich, Araik Stepanyan, Yakub Koreyba, Nikita Danyuk, Andrey Nikulin and others.

Voting rights today 01-02-2018. Morality War

Today's issue of Voting Rights discusses the struggle for morality in contemporary Russia. Recently, the Ministry of Culture has revoked the rental license of a film about Stalin. Thus, the scandal caused a stir and forced the curious viewer to search for the film on the Internet. At the same time, live does not look shocking.

Whether it is worth introducing censorship in Russia and what such bans will lead to are discussed by well-known politicians and analysts. The program includes: Vladimir Mamontov, Boris Nadezhdin, Natalia Pochinok, Maria Steinman, Marina Kudimova, Dina Kirnarskaya and others. Watch in youtube.

1. New US military budget
2. Confrontation between Russia and the West
3. Events in Ukraine

Roman Babayan's program "Right to Vote" June 26, 2017 - Ukraine on its knees?!

On June 26, in the Right to Vote program, well-known political scientists and journalists discuss the political situation in Ukraine, where the impeachment of the president and the military situation in Donbas are being prepared. How will Petro Poroshenko's voyage to the US and EU countries affect the country's economy and what will happen to the Nord Stream 2 gas project.

The program includes: Andrey Okara, Elena Bondarenko, Tatyana Voronina, Vyacheslav Kovtun, Spiridon Kilinkarov, Sergey Markov, Ruslan Rygovanov, Vladimir Kornilov, Vladimir Zharikhin, Andrey Suzdaltsev and others.

On June 6, 2017, the “Right to Vote” program was called “Ukraine: Games of the Radicals” and discusses the latest developments in the neighboring country, where the radicals are trying to lead the administration. Will it be possible to resume the Normandy format and what is happening in the Donbass today.

12:38 — REGNUM The program “Right to vote”, the main topic of which was supposed to be the situation in Ukraine, will not be aired. The brawl of the participants, which followed an emotional discussion, interrupted the shooting, according to TVC. A fragment of the program is published on the channel's website.

During the filming, Polish journalist Tomasz Maciejczuk said that "Ukrainians want to live like normal people" and not in sewage, like the inhabitants of Russia. In response, the host of the program, Roman Babayan, threw a folder of papers at the Polish nationalist.

Then the young man began to be persuaded to leave the hall, the skirmish ended with the fact that the Odessa politician Igor Markov hit Matseychuk in the face. Earlier, a post by Matseychuk was published on the Internet, where he briefly described his impressions of visiting Russia in terms of “dirt, stink, poverty, Islamization.”

Background

It can be said that Ukraine has been in a state of permanent socio-economic crisis throughout the entire period of its independence, since 1991. Although in absolute terms the country's GDP has grown somewhat, comparison with other CIS countries and with all neighbors shows a different story.
The growth rate of GDP per capita in Ukraine is the lowest in the CIS. Science-intensive production, which in Soviet times accounted for a significant share of the Ukrainian economy, is degrading. For example, the share of mechanical engineering decreased from 31% in 1990 to 5-7% in 2016. The state debt of the country reaches 70 billion dollars, while in 1991 it was not at all.
The reason for the crisis state of Ukraine is that during the years of independence the elite has not formed, linking its future with the future of the country. National differences between regions, the division of power and property by oligarchic groups hinder development.
A sharp clash between power groups in 2013 led to an illegal change of power, which in Ukraine is called a “revolution”. As a result, people who were even more dangerous for the country than those who were there before got into the system of power and administration. This led to a social explosion in the Crimea and Donbass and to the aggravation of problems in the economy.
In 2013-2014, the economy was falling by about 10% per year, the dollar exchange rate and housing and communal services rates were growing at an unprecedented pace. Gold and foreign exchange reserves were sharply reduced, public debt reached 60% of GDP. All this had a negative impact on the standard of living of the population. The outflow of the able-bodied population abroad has increased. The state, making economic ties with Russia difficult for propaganda purposes, only aggravated the situation.
Recently, the fall of the Ukrainian economy has somewhat stabilized, but it is impossible to talk about the restoration of economic growth.

A fight in the studio prevented the next episode of the "Right to vote" program from being aired by TVC. Fragments of what happened during the recording that got on the Web have already caused heated discussion. However, some moments did not hit the Internet.

With a few blows, the Odessa politician Igor Markov sent the Polish nationalist Tomasz Maciejchuk, no, not knocked out, but simply out of the studio. Moreover, the fight almost escalated into a mass one. Voluntarily, the guest who provoked the conflict did not want to leave. Several other participants in the program persuaded him at once.

- Get out of here, get out of here!

- I have a right to my point of view. When you call Poles prostitutes, isn't that an insult?

— What are you yelling? We are here in our own country.

From the very beginning, the intensity of passions in the studio was not just high. Went off scale. On one hand from the host Roman Babayan are Russian political scientists and Ukrainians who consider Maidan a coup. On the other - supporters of the current Kiev authorities. The 26-year-old Polish nationalist Tomas Maciejczuk is also here. The young man himself appears as a military reporter, political scientist and public figure. He was banned from entering Ukraine for five years, he seems to be fighting Ukrainian neo-fascist movements. At the same time, he advocates the strengthening of NATO in Eastern Europe, as he is convinced that Russia can attack Poland.

The announced theme of the program is "Shatun on the Maidan". But instead of discussing what Ukraine has achieved 3 years after the coup d'état, literally from the first minutes the conversation turned first to bizarre accusations, and then to insults.

“It was you who killed the Jews. You personally. You drank the blood of children.

- I heard a lot about myself, but that I killed Jews. First time. I don’t even know how to react,” Roman Babayan was surprised at such accusations.

The host repeatedly tried to direct the discussion in a constructive direction, asking specific questions, for example, about the current state of the Ukrainian economy, Petro Poroshenko's income increased several times during his presidency, and the reaction to Oliver Stone's film Ukraine on Fire. In response: the American filmmaker needs to smoke less marijuana and point out the Kremlin as the main screenwriter, Ukraine is an independent country that lives within its means and, finally, finds itself in this world.

The Pole Tomasz Matseychuk worked on two fronts at once: he quarreled with experts from Ukraine regarding the Essessian division of Galicia, consisting of Ukrainian volunteers, and got involved in a dispute over the average salary in Russia, which this year is 32 thousand rubles. Confusing it with the minimum wage, which so far does not even reach 8 thousand, the Polish nationalist was happy for Romania, they say, they earn more there than in Russia.

"I want to congratulate Romania on the victory. And you know why, because today in Romania the average salary is higher than in Russia. In Poland, the average salary is now 70,000 a month. The minimum wage here is 7,000," said the young Pole.

One could object to the Pole - in the European Union itself, Romania is considered one of the poorest countries, whose inhabitants massively go to work abroad, and everyone in England knows about Polish plumbers. But Matseychuk, it seems, wanted to say something else - nasty things about Russia.

Matseychuk: "Ukrainians also want to live like normal people, and not in shit like you. Not in shit like Russians."

Political scientist Sergei Mikheev: "Poles and Ukrainians sell everything for money."

Roman Babayan: "Did I hear correctly that we live in shit?"

Maceychuk: "That's right."

In such situations, the journalist must always be above the fray. But as a person, Roman Babayan simply could not restrain himself and in a sharp form demanded to leave the studio.

Mikheev: "Are you crazy or something? You, sheep, get out of here! Get out! Just try to twitch, get out of here. Roman, we need to get him out of here."

"Roman Babayan himself behaved completely correctly. Of course, it is impossible to allow such people to swagger over the people of Russia, insult them on Russian TV. And Roman did the right thing by kicking him out of the studio. This nationalist Pole provoked a conflict," he wrote on his page in

Roman G. Babayan - Russian TV journalist and correspondent, known today primarily as the host of the popular talk show "Right to vote" on the television channel "TV Center". Although he used to do much more dangerous work around the world. Roman is also a distant relative of the famous singer - Roxana Babayan. And he can compete with her in his popularity.

Roman is a unique public figure. This is confirmed by his interesting creative biography, including work as a war correspondent in hot spots, and the position of editor-in-chief, and other interesting projects in his life. And everywhere Roman did his job perfectly and was in his place.

general information

Roman Babayan was an eyewitness to many important political events of our time. During his career, he managed to visit 54 countries, made reports from North Ossetia, Ingushetia, the Chechen Republic, Tajikistan, Georgia, Transnistria, and this is not the whole list of hot spots where he managed to visit. Today, Roman is a well-known host of the analytical program “Right to Vote” on TVC. This program is very popular with viewers.

Of course, a person like Roman Babayan has a biography, personal life and work that are interesting and exciting. You can verify this by reading this article.

Curriculum vitae

The novel was born in 1967 in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, into an Armenian family. At first, he wanted to connect his life with a profession far from journalism, but fate turned out differently, and this contributed to a change in his plans. After studying for 2 years at the radio engineering faculty of the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute, Roman went to serve in the army. The service took place in Hungary in parts of the Airborne Forces.

During the time spent in the army, Roman Georgievich decided to radically change the choice of his future profession. This was influenced by both the service itself and the situation in the country. After returning home, he moved to the Moscow Institute of Communications at the Faculty of Television and Radio, after graduating from which he became an engineer in television and radio broadcasting.

Becoming a life path

In September 1991, Roman Babayan was hired by the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company as an engineer in the department for preparing and broadcasting radio programs of the Radio Russia News Service. In 1993, Roman changed this profession to the bread of a correspondent. Since that time, his whole life has completely changed and was entirely devoted to the new position.

Such work requires great sacrifice and considerable courage. To make an up-to-date documentary report, he had to constantly travel around the world, sometimes being in life-threatening places.

In the same 1993, he was summoned to the editor-in-chief of the Radio Russia News Service, Alexei Abakumov, where he met with the editor of the Vesti program, Alexander Nekhoroshev. He suggested that Roman Babayan do the work in the news on television. The biography of the TV journalist has become much more interesting with the acceptance of this important offer.

Primary activity

From 1993 to mid-2000, Roman worked in the Vesti program. And then he moved to the post of political observer of the program "Time" of the First Channel. After that, he led the information program "City" on the "Third Channel".

Roman Babayan's achievements and merits have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Order For Personal Courage, the NATO Medal For Participation in the Peacekeeping Operation in Kosovo, the Medal For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth, and the Combat Brotherhood.

While working, Roman often found himself in life-threatening situations. So, in 1999, he filmed reports right under the bombing in Belgrade. He also visited Chechnya and Baghdad.

Roman became the presenter on the TV Center channel after being invited to the position of chief editor in the final program “Conclusions” by Pyotr Tolstoy. One day, his management decided that it would be interesting if this program began to come out from them. They called it "Sunday Time" and invited many of Babayan's colleagues there. Roman began to create another program - “The Main Theme. Results".

A case from one's life

Roman Babayan told about an incident that happened to him during a business trip in Israel. Then he, along with the operator, went to breakfast every morning at the same pizzeria. On one of those days, when Roman and a friend were only 50 meters from this cafe, literally in front of their eyes the pizzeria took off into the air along with the visitors. Roman Babayan and his cameraman miraculously survived.

At times like this, you think about a lot. As Roman Babayan says: "Parents, children, wife and your life is all that you have, everything that needs to be protected." And agree, he is right!

"Right to vote" on TVC

Roman coped well with new projects. Later, the program "Right to Vote" appeared. Today this program has become one of the highest rated political talk shows. When the program was just beginning its existence, there was not a single program on television like it. The broadcast of this program was daily, and the guests were real experts and experts in their field.

After three months of the existence of the show, a whole line of high-ranking officials was formed who wanted to participate in the project. By this indicator, one can easily judge how popular and interesting this program is.

Personal life

Such an eventful life of the correspondent did not prevent him from creating a wonderful family and having three children. All the main and personal time of Babayan passed in the professional field. Even with his future wife, Marina Chernova, Roman met at work. Together at the same time they got a job at the VGTRK company, and already in 1995 they got married. The couple have three joint sons. According to Roman Babayan: “Children are our future. The whole world depends on them." Today, this person can spend much more time with his family and friends than in the old days, but work still occupies a large place in his life. Roman Babayan's wife understands him in everything, because she also works in this area.

We must not forget the importance of native roots. After all, only with the help of a wonderful family can such a strong, highly moral and courageous person as Roman Babayan grow up. His parents at first had some difficulties due to the fact that his mother was Russian and his father was Armenian. But as a rule, all the difficulties are only beneficial.

Among interesting additional skills, Babayan also has good language skills. The journalist and presenter is fluent in English and Turkish. Roman Babayan, whose biography, personal life and work we have reviewed in this review, achieved his success at the cost of great work.

Conclusion

Roman Babayan has worked on thousands of reports of world importance and many documentaries. This man was able to combine hard work and at the same time maintain family happiness. The most important thing in our life, as Roman Babayan notes, is family and peace. Nothing more expensive exists. Roman Babayan's wife is a truly happy woman, because her husband is a responsible and loving person who always remembers his family and friends. Roman is a unique public person, he is distinguished by his excellent knowledge of his business, courage and excellent communication skills.

Today, few people have not heard of such a person as Roman Babayan. The biography, personal life and professional successes of the journalist are of interest to many fans of his talent. But whoever you are, you should always remember that family and love are the basis of our being.

The icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker has repeatedly saved the host of the talk show "Right to vote" from certain death

The icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker has repeatedly saved the host of the talk show "Right to vote" from certain death

In one of the recent episodes of Vladimir SOLOVIEV's Sunday Evening program, the political debate between Russophobe director Iosif RAIKHELGAUSE and patriotic political scientist Dmitry KULIKOV almost went hand-to-hand. For viewers of the talk show "Right to vote", hosted by 48-year-old Roman BABAYAN, a high degree of discussion is a familiar thing. And the point here is not that the participants in the controversy are sometimes ready to grab each other by the throat. It is in Babayan's studio that such interesting personalities first appear that they are soon "taken away" by Roman's colleagues in their programs. However, the indefatigable journalist finds more and more bright interlocutors and invites them to argue on such unbanal topics that the ratings of "Right to vote" are close to those of Solovyov's programs. Although the audience of the channel "Russia-1" is much higher than that of the TVC, where Babayan "rules the ball".

- Roman, at one time you worked as a war correspondent. They must have been in dangerous trouble.

It happened. Filmed reports under the bombings in Belgrade in 1999. I visited the Tajik civil war, Chechnya, Baghdad ... I remember that during a business trip to Israel, every morning we went with the operator to have breakfast at a pizzeria. And then one day, 50 meters did not reach her, as before our eyes she flew into the air along with visitors. We ran to the hotel, grabbed the camera and were at the scene of the explosion before the police. They removed the whole nightmare, but decided not to stop there. When a suicide bomber commits his bloody act, on the evening of that day, the Israeli army in his native village conducts a retaliatory operation. We found out that this time the militant came from a village bordering Egypt. And we decided to go there. Passed through a checkpoint into Palestinian territory, took a taxi driver. We drove a little, they stop us at an Arab checkpoint. We show passports, accreditation cards of journalists, where all the information is in Hebrew. The people with machine guns obviously don't like something, and they take us to the police station in the Gaza Strip. They bring us to the chief's office, keep them there for four hours, finding out who we are and why we have come. The longer the wait, the more I worry: at any cost, I need to film a report and send it to Moscow for the evening news release.

- Did you succeed?

The tension grew. My excitement was transferred to people in uniform, and they began to shout at me, they say, sit silently and wait. Suddenly a man comes in and starts talking in Arabic with the colonel, the owner of the office. I understand that we are talking about. And suddenly this guest turns around and in pure Russian tells me that he is the head of the special services responsible for the security of the Gaza Strip. Say, he studied in the USSR and knows perfectly well what the Vremya program is, for which we are filming a story. We were immediately given tea and released. At parting, the serviceman advised not to go anywhere. Like, the Israeli army, conducting a retaliation operation, indiscriminately shoots at everything that moves.

But of course that didn't stop you, did it?

Of course. We got into our taxi, drove 100 meters from the police headquarters, when suddenly it exploded! It turned out that an Israeli helicopter crossed the border and destroyed it with a missile attack. We jumped out of the car with a camera and began to shoot this horror: the flames are raging, corpses are lying around. I turn around, our new acquaintance is standing nearby, who, it turns out, saved our lives ... The next day in Jerusalem, colleagues from other channels patted me on the shoulder: “Don’t you think that with each such case, the supply of luck is getting smaller?” Yes, I nearly died twice in one day. But I was sure that everything would be fine with us: on all business trips I take with me the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

13 points of view

- How did it happen that you ended up on TV?

Matter of chance. If they had told me in my youth that I would be a TV journalist, I would not have believed it. After school in his native Baku, he entered the Polytechnic Institute. Two years later, I was drafted into the army, and when I returned and recovered at the university, the Karabakh conflict began. I remember how our headman ran into the audience with the words: "There will be no classes, we are all going to the rally." We stood on the square, and a column appeared from the side of the university, which went to the city center with slogans: "Death to the Armenians." I then realized that I, a person with an Armenian surname, were definitely not on my way with these people. He left for Moscow, where in 1991 he graduated from the Institute of Communications. He got a job as an engineer in the technical directorate of Radio Russia.

I watched with interest how correspondents and presenters work. And suddenly I realized that this is very attractive to me. For a long time he could not muster up the courage, but one day he nevertheless came to the editor-in-chief of the information service Alexey Abakumov. He was surprised, but gave me the opportunity to prove myself. Moreover, it was summer in the yard and many reporters went on vacation. Six months later, I already had my own weekly Neighbors program. Having returned from another business trip, I found out that they were taking me to the Vesti TV program as a correspondent. Later he became a political observer on the "second button", and then switched to Channel One (then it was still called ORT) in the program "Time".

With sons in Munich (2013). Photo: Ok.ru

- And how did you become the presenter on TVC?

I was invited as chief editor to the final program "Conclusions" by Pyotr Tolstoy. But one day the leadership of the "first button" decided that it would be nice if this program would come out from them. They called it "Sunday Time" and called all my correspondents and administrators there. I began to make another program - “The main topic. Results" with Andrey Dobrov. Well, then came the "Right to Vote", which has now become one of the highest rated political talk shows. When it started seven years ago, there was not a single program on TV like ours. Moreover, we decided to go on the air every day. Imagine: every evening you need to find eight guests and four experts, and from the first "echelon". We did this, and three months later there was a queue of high-ranking officials who wanted to participate in the project.

You often have Ukrainian Nazis in your program - Karasev, Kovtun, Yakhno, Voronina. Who pays for their travel from Kyiv to Moscow and travel expenses?

I don't know, but definitely not us. We have no financial relationship with them. Yes, and it would be strange to pay fees to people who pour mud on Russia ... This quartet - Karasev, Kovtun, Yakhno And Voronin- it was my editors who discovered it at the time. And now there is such a system: they come to Moscow and go to all kinds of political talk shows on different channels. Their mood is changing, and I can feel it. We communicate with them both before and after the broadcast. But, of course, these people will not say anything else in front of the cameras, they also need to return home. It seems to me that mainly those Ukrainian political scientists who work in various funds and institutions that exist on foreign grants come to us. And those who are financed by purely Ukrainian structures categorically refuse to visit Moscow.

- Many people think that your program is the sharpest on TV.

Not for me to judge, but for viewers. There are certain events, we discuss them. My task is to inform any person who watches us, and let people draw their own conclusions. The audience listens to at least 12 points of view, and including mine - 13. In all my time on TV, I never received any instructions from the management what to say and how. And when he began to lead the program, he began to adhere to the principle: you need to operate only with facts! Of course, sometimes emotions overwhelm, but I try to control them. The point of any argument is to find something constructive.

Meetings and partings

- Are you familiar with the powers that be?

Yes, with many. FROM Vladimir Putin, for example, had a chance to meet. I had very interesting feelings from communicating with him. After five minutes of talking with the president, you start to feel like you've known him for years. We met in Belgrade in 2000. Vladimir Vladimirovich then went to the first meeting with the new US President George Bush Jr. who was appointed in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. But first, Putin flew to Belgrade to talk to Slobodan Milosevic. And I had just arrived there from Kosovo, where I was filming reports for a month.

I come to the hotel, I’m going to take a shower, when suddenly they report from the editorial office: “Now the press secretary of the president will talk to you Alexey Gromov". From him, I learned that in 15 minutes a car would come for me and I would go to President Putin at the Milosevic Palace. As soon as Vladimir Vladimirovich appeared, they began to talk. On one side of the table were he and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivanov, on the other - Gromov and I. Putin asked in detail what was going on in Kosovo. For three hours I talked about how Orthodox churches are being blown up, what they are doing with the Serbs. After that, Vladimir Vladimirovich decided to fly to Pristina. And I, instead of returning to Moscow, as planned, went with him to do a report.

- What happened next?

After the talks, Putin returned to Belgrade, but I stayed because I needed to urgently send material to Moscow. And I didn't even have my passport with me. I had to cross the Kosovo-Macedonian border at night. The Macedonian driver met us with the operator, put us in the car and transported us without documents. Then in Belgrade, I again talked with Vladimir Vladimirovich. It turned out that when he began to explain everything in detail to his American colleague, Bush was very surprised how he knew all this. I asked Putin what impression the American made on him. “On some issues, he just doesn’t know!” - answered the president.

- When you were filming in hot spots, of course, your family was worried about you in Moscow ...

With wife Marina Chernova We met 25 years ago at work. Together at the same time they came to VGTRK. In 1995 they played a wedding. Marina got on the radio after the theater and technical school. I was the sound engineer on my shift. Then she became a sound engineer. Then she worked at REN TV as a television director. We have three sons. After the birth of the youngest, the wife has not yet returned to duty. But I think it will be back to work soon. He really wants to work on the channel "Culture".

Are your sons going to follow in your footsteps?

I do not know yet. The eldest - George, I named him in honor of my father - will soon be 21 years old. He studies at the Academy of National Economy at the Faculty of International Regional Studies. The middle one, Herman, is 15, he is a schoolboy. Well, the youngest, Robert, is four years old. When the elders were growing up, I was practically not at home. Lived on planes. Two days in Moscow, and then several weeks in a row - business trips. But the boys have my example. I often talk with them about their attitude to the motherland, about the history of the country.

- Your parents did not swear that your wife is Russian?

So my mother is Russian, and my father is Armenian. That's when they themselves got married, then there really were problems.

- They say you are still not allowed into your native Baku.

Unfortunately they are not allowed. Tried to get in there several times. Vladimir Shumeiko,Pavel Grachev, Lyudmila Putina. Did not work out. Even at the stage of preparing documents, the Azerbaijani embassy sent a letter to the editor every time that they did not guarantee my safety. Once returned from a business trip from Afghanistan to Moscow. The plane landed for refueling in Azerbaijan. If I had been told about this in advance, I would have thought about whether I should get into it. And probably wouldn't risk it. And then it happened. I went out onto the ladder, looked towards the city, breathed in my native air, saturated with the smell of oil, wormwood and the sea, and returned to my chair with an aching heart.