Leontiev Mikhail on today's television is one of the brightest and most clearly following his principles of journalists. Under his editorship, the magazine "However", he is the permanent host of the program of the same name on Channel One. Through the prism of his perception, he seeks to convey to viewers and readers information about the most important and relevant political events and does this with his inherent openness and sarcasm. Opponents call the journalist a "bearded ulcer".
Mikhail Leontiev. Biography
He was born on 10/12/1958 in a family of Moscow intellectuals. From childhood, Mikhail Leontiev differed from his peers in education and not the simplest character. In 1979 he completed his studies at the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov, where he studied with a degree in Labor Economics. During his studies, he was fond of reading forbidden anti-Soviet literature, in particular the magazine Posev, where many dissidents of that time were published.
Immediately after graduating from the university, Mikhail Leontiev began working at the Institute of Economic Problems, moonlighting as a tutor. However, he soon decided to drastically change his life and, unexpectedly for everyone, radically changed his profession. In 1985, having a higher education, Mikhail Leontiev graduated from a vocational school, where he studied the skill of a cabinetmaker.
Professional activity
Mikhail Leontiev came to journalism at the same time. The first milestone on this path is the political section of the Kommersant newspaper. A year later, in 1990, Mikhail headed the economics department at Nezavisimaya Gazeta. In the early 90s, he made a great contribution to the creation of the Segodnya publication and became the first deputy editor-in-chief. But the ongoing changes in the editorial policy of the newspaper a little later became the reason for the departure of the journalist, who categorically disagreed with them.
Popularity came to Mikhail Leontiev after he ran in 1995 for the State Duma. Then he lost the election. Big was caused by his statements about the introduction of troops into Chechnya.
Mikhail Leontiev - TV presenter
In 1997, the journalist became the founder of the Delo magazine. The sponsor was M. Khodorkovsky, but the publication never went to press.
In the same year, M. Leontiev came to television, where he became the host of the program "Actually", which went on the air under his leadership at TVC. Later he was the host of the analytical program "The Seventh Day". Leontiev combined his profession with work in print media. Known for his column "FAS!" in company". In the same 1997, the journalist was nominated for TEFI, and in 1998 he won the Golden Pen award.
2000s
In 1999, Mikhail Leontiev came to the ORT channel, where he began to host the author's program "However". He remains its permanent leader to this day. In 2002, the journalist joins the United Russia party, however, according to Mikhail Leontiev himself, he is simply “listed” there. In 2007, Leontiev was appointed editor-in-chief of the Profile magazine, but two years later he left the editorial office of the magazine. In 2009, the journalist became a co-founder of the Odnako magazine together with Channel One. Since 2014, a new vice president has been appointed at Rosneft - Mikhail Leontiev. Photos of him scattered across the web and pages of business publications in the country. Later he will head the department of information and advertising.
Leontiev is married for the second time. He has two adult children from his first marriage. The ex-wife immigrated to America, and the children have now returned to Russia. In the second marriage with M. Kozlovskaya, a daughter, Daria, was born. The journalist does not advertise his personal life.
The press often discusses such an odious personality as Mikhail Leontiev, the nationality of a journalist. The TV presenter himself considers himself a Russian Orthodox Christian, but at the same time, according to L. Nevzlin, he repeatedly had conversations with Mikhail about his Jewish roots.
In America, they remembered the end of the Cold War. The affairs of the past and the dangerous games of modern politicians, this is the author's commentary by Mikhail Leontiev.
However, hello!
Three American political mastodons, who in the 1980s were behind the political turning point in relations with the USSR, announced the likelihood of a nuclear war and called for a reconsideration of policy towards Russia.
Former US Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense William Perry and Senate Defense Committee Chairman Samuel Nunn write in The Wall Street Journal: , to a military confrontation and possibly to the use of nuclear weapons for the first time in nearly 74 years." "A bold political shift is needed," the authors argue, "to get away from this precarious position." Specifically, the authors refer to the experience of the 1980s, in particular, the creation of a non-partisan Congressional commission on the defense modernization program and negotiations with Russia and the joint declaration of Trump and Putin, along the lines of the Reagan and Gorbachev statement of 1985, “which will reaffirm that a nuclear war cannot be won."
Well, finally, it would seem. This is the voice of common sense. And the call to precede negotiations with the modernization of American defense and NATO's policy of containing Russia could be considered politeness on duty. However, this reference to the 80s is alarming, because no one knows better than these comrades what actually happened in the 80s.
“I was dismayed at how ignorant and misinformed Gorbachev and Shevardnadze were,” recalls George Shultz. In his memoirs, he recounts how Gorbachev shared a confidential conversation with Reagan with him: “Reagan suddenly told me what would you do if the US was attacked by aliens from deep space? Can you help us? Without a doubt. So are we, Reagan replied.
It was then that the accursed distrust collapsed, and "perestroika and new thinking" reigned. Then in the 80s, the Americans had an advantage - and not in missiles and tanks, but in the deep adequacy of leaders, in understanding their goals and means to achieve them.
“For three - Russia, China, and we make weapons, including nuclear weapons, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. It doesn't really make sense that we're all doing this. I think that we are a leader, we always had to be a leader, we need to be a leader. I think it would be much better if we all got together and decided not to make these weapons, ”said Donald Trump.
We are the leader and always will be, but you relax. Our partners seem to have lost their advantage in adequacy, but retained their advantage in arrogance. They, for example, are still confident that they won the Cold War. But it is impossible to win the same war twice. There's something wrong here. And it seems that the lessons of the 80s have been learned by us much better than by them. And for this, special thanks to the veterans-winners of the 80s.
“If the shadow of power does not fall on the negotiating table, negotiations become a euphemism for capitulation,” said George Shultz, US Secretary of State in 1982-1989.
Thank you, we are aware.
However, goodbye!
Mikhail Leontiev is a Russian journalist and publicist, the permanent host of the Odnako television program. Today he hosts the author's program "The Main Theme" on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda", holds the position of press secretary and vice president of the Rosneft corporation. Known for his harsh remarks towards colleagues, as well as politicians, including other states.
Childhood and youth
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev was born into an intelligent family on October 12, 1958. Mira Moiseevna, the mother of the future journalist, worked as a teacher at the Moscow Institute. Plekhanov, father Vladimir Yakovlevich was an aircraft designer. By nationality, the newborn turned out to be half Jewish, half Russian.
Since childhood, Mikhail Leontiev had a passion for literature - the boy read "drunkenly", he especially liked historical stories and novels. At the age of 5, the parents wanted to enroll the child in figure skating, but he refused. As a teenager, the boy passionately argued with his grandmother, proving to her, an inveterate communist, the shortcomings of the USSR's policy. In high school, Mikhail secretly read magazines banned in those years from his parents.
Journalist Mikhail Leontiev at the presentation of the book "Time to betray" / Dmitry Rozhkov, Wikipedia
After school, the guy entered the economics department of the Plekhanov Institute and successfully defended his diploma in 1979. In his youth, the future journalist had to earn extra money as a loader.
After high school, Mikhail Leontiev got a job at a research institute, tried to realize himself in the economy. Patience lasted for several years. In 1985, Mikhail retired from the research institute, from that moment life became brighter. The young scientist mastered carpentry, was an ordinary worker at the Literary Institute and a watchman at the dacha. Leontiev also earned a living by tutoring.
Journalism
The biography of Mikhail Vladimirovich is closely connected with journalism. In 1987, Leontiev became seriously interested in sociology - Mikhail's first analytical articles were devoted to this topic. After another 2 years, the man devoted himself entirely to journalism. At first he worked as a political correspondent in the Kommersant publication, then he headed the department in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev. Born October 12, 1958 in Moscow. Russian journalist and publicist, TV presenter.
Father - Vladimir Yakovlevich Leontiev, aircraft designer.
Mother - Mira Moiseevna Leontyeva (born 1926), teacher of statistics at the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov, co-author of the textbook Trade Statistics.
He studied at the general economic faculty of the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov, who graduated in 1979 with a degree in Labor Economics.
In his student years, he worked as a security guard at the Moscow Planetarium, from where he was fired for a brawl arranged by his friends. After graduating, Leontiev worked at the Moscow Institute of Economic Problems, where, in his own words, he tried to "deal with the real Soviet economy."
In addition to working at the research institute, Leontiev worked as a tutor in history and became interested in applied art.
In 1985 he graduated from vocational school No. 86 with a degree in cabinetmaking, but did not find a permanent job in his specialty. During this period, Leontiev worked as a laborer in the Literary Museum, guarded the dacha-museum of Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino and continued to tutor.
In 1987, Leontiev began to write analytical articles on sociological topics.
In 1989, at the invitation of a friend, he came to the Experimental Creative Center, headed by Sergei Kurginyan, who was engaged in political science. At the same time, he worked as a freelance correspondent for the Socialist Industry newspaper, but his notes were not published in the newspaper.
Leontiev's first journalistic publication appeared without his knowledge in the Riga newspaper Atmoda, after which Leontiev collaborated with it in 1989-1990.
In 1989, Leontiev was invited to the political department of the Kommersant newspaper, even before it began to be published on paper, where he went through, by his own admission, "a very useful school."
In 1990, Leontiev moved to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, where he headed the economics department.
In 1993 he became the first deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly "Business MN". In the same year, he co-founded the newspaper Segodnya, which was financed by Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Gusinsky and Alexander Smolensky. Leontiev was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper, a political observer and first deputy editor-in-chief. He left Segodnya, disagreeing with the reform that had begun in the publication. L. Nevzlin claims that Leontiev was "expelled" from the newspaper.
In December 1995, M. V. Leontiev, as an independent candidate, ran for the State Duma of the 2nd convocation from the 203rd Cheryomushkinsky constituency in Moscow, but lost the election to Pavel Medvedev. During the first Chechen war, he was among those who supported the entry of troops into the territory of Chechnya, declared that he was "a staunch supporter of the forceful solution of problems in Chechnya." Later, during the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, he called for the bombing of Chechnya.
In 1997, Leontiev became the founder of the Delo magazine, which was funded but did not go to print. In April of the same year, he began working on television, becoming the head and presenter of the daily program “Actually”, which aired on the TV Center channel (TVC).
In 1997-1998, he headed the Social and Political Programs Service of the TVC and hosted the information and analytical program "The Seventh Day". At the same time, he continued to work in the print press - in 1998 he became the author of the column "Face!" in the business weekly magazine "Company".
In 1997, Leontiev was nominated for the TEFI Prize, and the following year he won the Golden Pen Prize.
In February 1999, he resigned from the TVC and, together with the team of the “Actually” program, moved to the staff of the ORT Socio-Political Programs Service, where his program began to appear in March of the same year. "However". Leontiev explained his departure from TVC by saying that he does not share "the views of those people who own the TVCenter."
Later, Leontiev hosted Odnako, along with Maxim Sokolov and Alexander Privalov.
In the summer of 1999, he became the editor of the satirical “political hunting magazine” FAS. The project was closed in 2000 for financial reasons.
In 2000, during the presidential elections, he declared his support for the acting head of state. In 2001, he became a member of the political council of the socio-political movement "Eurasia" headed by Alexander Dugin. In 2002 he became a member of the United Russia party. From November 2001 to December 2002, Leontiev's analytical program "Another Time" was aired on Channel One, and from May 2003 to January 2004 - the author's program "Puppet Theatre".
In 2005, M. Leontiev was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Main Topic" that was being published at that time.
From January 2006 to November 2007, he hosted the Master Class with Mikhail Leontiev program on the O2TV channel.
In October 2007, his project was released on Channel One "Big game"- a series of programs dedicated to the history of the confrontation between Russia and Great Britain for dominance in Central Asia in the 19th-20th centuries. In November 2008, Leontiev's book with the same title was released.
In May 2007, M. Leontiev was appointed editor-in-chief of the business analytical magazine Profile. He left Profile in March 2009. The magazine's publisher, Sergei Rodionov, claimed that Leontiev's departure led to an increase in the circulation of the publication. During the same period, he collaborated with Moulin Rouge magazine.
Since June 2009, together with Channel One, he became the founder of the Odnako magazine, in which, in addition to Leontiev, Evgeny Dodolev and Alexander Nevzorov and other journalists and columnists who previously worked in Profile are published.
In 2009 starred in a small role in Stas Mareev's film "True Love".
In the preface to E. Dodolev's book "The Look", published in 2011, the Beatles of perestroika defined their attitude to the profession: “I consider journalism a vile profession chosen by flawed people. Journalists are professional amateurs. This is not literature, not art, not science, but a little bit of everything..
He is a member of the journalistic "Serafimov Club", taught at the non-state Higher School of Management, where the "commissars" of the Nashi movement studied.
On January 8, 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reported that from January 13, Mikhail Leontiev, who will have to oversee the activities of the information and advertising department, will become an adviser to the president of Rosneft Igor Sechin in the rank of vice president for PR. Sources of the publication indicated that between Sechin and Leontiev there are long-standing "friendly relations." At the same time, Mikhail Leontiev will remain the host of the Odnako program on Channel One. On January 14, Rosneft issued a press release, according to which Mikhail Leontiev works in the company as a press secretary - director of the information and advertising department with the rank of vice president.
Mikhail Leontiev and Ukraine
In 2002, for statements addressed to the wife of ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, Ekaterina Yushchenko (she previously had the surname Chumachenko, changing it to Yushchenko only in 2005), the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv ordered Leontyev to reimburse 2,500 hryvnias in favor of Ekaterina Yushchenko and within 30 days to refute the false information that he voiced in his program "However" on April 10, 2001.
In his program, Leontiev called the prime minister an "adventurer" and "henpecked", and his wife - "analyst of the State Department and the US National Security Council." Leontiev rudely announced his refusal to comply with the court decision.
After the journalist became “persona non grata” in Latvia, he was banned from entering (July 14, 2006) Ukraine as well.
The ban was later lifted, and in September 2007, Mikhail, together with his colleague Yevgeny Dodolev (acting as publisher), launched the Russian-language version of the German weekly Der Spiegel (“Der Spiegel-Profil”) in Ukraine, which became a notable event in the media market of this country .
The magazine was launched under the presumption that "the quality of content in Ukraine lags far behind Russian requirements", and it was stated that in concept it was more of a political weekly, closer to Newsweek than to the "Profile" to which the Russian reader is accustomed.
The magazine in Russian was published weekly with a circulation of 30,000 copies in Kyiv, the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, while the editorial office was based in Moscow, and a correspondent network was formed in Ukraine. The project was suspended in May 2008, there is an online version of the publication.
In August 2014, Ukraine included it in the sanctions list.
In his own words, he was a "dissident". Calls himself a right-wing conservative.
At the beginning of his publicistic and journalistic career, he adhered to radically liberal views, primarily in the field of economics, which predetermined his opposition to the communists in the 1996 elections and the government headed by E. M. Primakov in the late 1990s.
Criticized the left ideology: “The pathetic attempts to build communism from the sandbox is disgusting. And their economic consequences are global. Nobody believes in anything anymore. In general, no one and nothing at all. It is obvious that market reforms in Russia have failed. The market is not suitable for Russia. Russia is a miserable, terrible country, separate from the entire population of homo sapiens, which can exist only in some kind of senile, isolationist - necessarily in a zoo - conditions. All these senseless and insane compromises, all these handouts to socialism and populism, extremely expensive for a sick economy - all this must be discarded. The way out is in normal liberal development”.
In February 1998, Leontiev won the Adam Smith Prize, established by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Problems in Transition, "for his critique of liberal politics from the standpoint of liberalism." Leontiev himself called Gaidar's reform a shock therapy under anesthesia.
In earlier writings, Leontiev also called for the abandonment of the "imperial burden": “And God forbid trying to restore the empire, to which we are persuaded not only by our domestic madmen, but also selfishly interested in all sorts of (like the former) unions of the governments of the newly formed states, which, for all their loudly declared independence, without the usual Russian gratuitous life not in joy. If, contrary to common sense, such a reunification can still be carried out without bloodshed (which, of course, is unlikely), then Russia will inevitably perish, cease to exist as an independent cultural and geopolitical organism. And not just for a long time - forever”.
Leontiev also repeatedly spoke out in support of Augusto Pinochet: “He did what Lavr Georgievich Kornilov could not do in his time. And he did it, in general, very cruelly, I would say, but with the minimum possible losses, with the minimum possible ".
Leontiev believes that Pinochet carried out an exemplary economic reform in Chile: “The main thing is that the general created an effectively functioning social system, built on a truly liberal principle. The government did not redistribute anything to anyone, it, providing citizens with equal opportunities, stimulated them to solve their problems on their own. The population must work for the country - this is the essence of the Chilean model".
In connection with the global economic crisis, he stated that “The only way out of the current crisis is a global war. Who will untie it and how is a purely technical question. I am not going to guess what the reason for this war will be - the complication of relations between Russia and Ukraine/Georgia, the Iranian issue or Pakistan.”.
In 2006, presenting Stanislav Zhiznin's book "Russian Energy Diplomacy: Economics, Politics, Practice", Mikhail Leontiev remarked: “Russia is trying to enter the global world, using energy as the main argument for us. That is, to use it both in the global economy and in global politics".
He outlined his political creed in 2007 in his article for the Moulin Rouge almanac: “Politics is inseparable from cultural roots. Our culture is based on Christianity with its basic idea of compassion. There is no other world religion where the only almighty God would give himself to torment for the sake of people. In its ideal form, Christianity is embodied precisely in Christian culture. It would have to be embodied in Christian politics. But it is embodied in culture. Politics is pragmatic. But culture is not. In this sense, the highest form of Christian spiritual culture is the Middle Ages.
What does the modern postmodern, the so-called avant-garde, do? Destruction of the idea of compassion. It's good when it is expressed in the form of a grotesque, such a "skit", as Tarantino does, for example. The banter over the removal of barriers implies their presence. The banter over the removal of Christian cultural taboos is human to some extent. And it means the recognition of the existence of these same taboos. It is worse when no one sees these taboos. When they are no longer in the minds of those who create. And there are no living beings in the minds who do not think about anything at all. Then it's the end of culture. And the end of humanity as a population.
True politics, like culture, can exist only within the framework of taboos. That is why in all known novels about politics the theme "How power destroys a person" is eternal..
The growth of Mikhail Leontiev: 162 centimeters.
Personal life of Mikhail Leontiev:
Was married twice. First wife - Natalia Azarova, philologist by education, poetess, headed the Center for the Study of World Poetry. In this marriage, the couple raised two children - daughter Elena and son Dmitry. After the divorce, Natalia married a foreigner and emigrated to the United States. His children lived and studied there. After living abroad for several years, they returned to Russia.
Second wife - Maria Kozlovskaya, child psychologist.
In 1999, the couple had a daughter, Daria.
The eldest daughter Elena also became interested in psychology, although she is a lawyer by first education. Having received a diploma in psychology, the girl got a job at Kashchenko.
Son Dmitry works on the O2TV channel.
Bibliography of Mikhail Leontiev:
2005 - However, hello!
2005 - However, goodbye!
2005 - Fortress Russia: farewell to liberalism
2005 - Is Russia in danger of an "orange revolution"?
2005 - Internal enemy: The defeatist "elite" is destroying Russia
2008 - "Independent" Georgia: A bandit in a tiger skin (co-authored with D.A. Zhukov)
2008 - The Great Game: The British Empire vs. Russia and the USSR
2014 - The ideology of sovereignty. From imitation to authenticity
Filmography of Mikhail Leontiev:
2009 - True love
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev is one of the most politically correct journalists, who for several years has been the permanent host of the Odnako program on Channel One, as well as the editor of the magazine of the same name. Mikhail Leontiev seeks to convey to people genuine information about the most current events taking place in the political world, and he does this openly and impartially.
Childhood and youth of Mikhail Leontiev
Mikhail Leontiev was born on October 12, 1958. His father, Vladimir Yakovlevich Leontyev, worked as an aircraft designer, and his mother, Mira Moiseevna Leontyev, taught statistics at the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov, and also co-authored the textbook Trade Statistics.Since Mikhail's family was very intelligent and educated, the boy loved to read from childhood and literally "swallowed" any books that came to him. He was especially interested in historical works that described significant events from different eras and countries.
The tendency to dissent manifested itself in the future journalist already in childhood. So, at the age of five, he flatly refused to attend the figure skating section, despite all the exhortations and threats from his parents. When Mikhail grew up a little, he arranged serious battles, arguing to the point of hoarseness with his grandmother, a communist of the old school. The grandson tried to explain to the stern woman that the political system of the Soviet Union was far from ideal and had many shortcomings. While studying in high school, Leontiev first read the magazine Posev, which was banned at that time.
After graduating from school, Mikhail, quite expectedly, entered the Plekhanov Institute, where his mother taught, at the general economics department. In 1979, he successfully received a diploma of higher education in the specialty "Labor Economics". The young man also distinguished himself in his student years, when, together with his friends, he made a brawl at the Moscow Planetarium, where he worked as a laborer.
Mikhail Leontiev's career
After the institute, Mikhail got a job at a research institute, where, according to his confession, he honestly tried to deal with the real economy. In 1985, he quit his boring job, and the brightest and most diverse period in his activity began. Leontiev graduated from vocational school, where he received the profession of a cabinetmaker, worked part-time as a worker at the Literary Museum, and even guarded Boris Pasternak's dacha, located in Peredelkino. Mikhail really liked teaching history lessons privately.In 1987, Mikhail Leontiev became seriously interested in sociology. He began to write competent and detailed analytical articles and soon devoted himself entirely to this science, which requires an analytical mindset and flexible thinking.
Mikhail Leontiev about Ukraine
Two years later, Leontiev came to journalism. He became a correspondent for the political section of the Kommersant newspaper, where he gained invaluable knowledge and amazing experience, which later became very useful to the journalist. Also in 1989, an acquaintance invited him to the "Experimental Creative Center", which specialized in political science. A year later, Mikhail became the head of the economics department at Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
In 1993, he took an active part in the creation of the Segodnya newspaper, and later became the first deputy editor-in-chief of this publication. Later, Leontiev left his job in this newspaper, as he categorically disagreed with the transformations carried out in it. According to some associates of the journalist, he was simply “survived” from the newspaper.
Leontiev gained popularity and fame in political circles when he ran in December 1995 as an independent deputy to the State Duma of the second convocation, but lost to Pavel Medvedev. Many people had an ambiguous opinion about Mikhail Leontiev when, during the first Chechen war, he ardently supported the entry of troops into the territory of the Chechen Republic and spoke in favor of the bombing of Chechnya.
In 1997, Leontiev established the Delo magazine which was sponsored by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but never went to press. In the same year, the journalist came to television, where he became the host and head of the program "Actually", which aired daily on the TVC channel. Over the next year, he hosted the analytical program "Seventh Day", while simultaneously working in print media. So, Mikhail Leontiev led the column "FAS!" in the business magazine "Company". In 1997, he became a nominee for the TEFI Prize, and a year later he became the winner of the Golden Pen Prize.
Mikhail Leontiev today
In February 1999, the journalist left the TVC channel, as he did not agree with the leadership's views on political events taking place in the world, and got a job on the ORT channel, where he hosted and continues to host the Odnako program to this day.On January 13, 2014, Leontiev took the place of press secretary - director of the information and advertising department with the rank of vice president at Rosneft.
