Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Solowjow

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Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Solowjow (2018)
Russian President Vladimir Putin awards the Order of Honor to Vladimir Solovyov (December 25, 2013)

Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Solowjow ( Russian Влади́мир Рудо́льфович Соловьёв ; born October 20, 1963 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist, television and radio presenter, publicist, singer and social activist. He is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress .

Life path

Born into a devout Jewish family, Vladimir Solovyov grew up in Moscow. There he attended a prestigious school attended by numerous sons and grandchildren of high- ranking CPSU officials . During his school days he was engaged in soccer and karate .

In 1980 Solovyov graduated from school and began studying at the Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloy , which he graduated in 1986 with top marks (the so-called “red diploma”). He then completed at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations his postgraduate .

In 1990 Solovyov moved to the United States , where he lectured at Alabama State University . After working for two years, he returned to Russia in 1992.

From 1992 to 1998 Vladimir Solovyov was commercially active. He ran a company that manufactured equipment for discos .

With his entry into the show business in 1998, Solovyov became known to the Russian audience and that of the CIS countries . From 1998 to 2010 he hosted several programs on the Russian state radio station Westi FM .

Solovyov achieved widespread fame from 2002 when he began to moderate the television program "Zweikampf". The program is about controversial discussions between two public figures (mostly politicians). The program is still very well known among the Russian population. As a result of a heated debate on this program, it even happened that Solovyov insulted a politician. It was about Viktor Tarchow , the then mayor of Samara . Solovyov had 70,000 rubles Tarchow damages paid, which corresponds to about 1700 EUR.

Since 2012, Wladimir Solowjow has hosted the weekly, political late-night talk show Der Sonntagabend with Wladimir Solowjow (Russian Воскресный вечер с Владимиром Соловьёвым ) on Rossija 1 .

As recently as 2013, he was of the opinion "God forbids that Crimea return to Russia" - because of the radical change in this opinion after the Euromaidan , Novaya Gazeta called him a wiggle and continued: "Journalism is different from propaganda, like a violin from one Hoe. Once you have moved from one category to another, the feeling of shame is lost. " When people no longer wanted to watch the same predictable reports on Ukraine on television, according to Jelle Brandt Corstius , Solovyov's talk show was designed in such a way that a dubious Ukrainian was panned by three clever Russians.

Despite occasional critical questions, Solovyov and his provocations are regarded as a manipulator and always as a "whip" of the Kremlin and thus part of Russian propaganda . The writer Dmitri Bykow accused Solovyov of becoming the murderer of the Russian nation with his hate propaganda and the associated "unleashing of the ugliest instincts".

Private

Vladimir Solovyov was married three times. From the three marriages there were seven children.

His current wife is Helga Sepp, with whom he has four children (Daniil, Sofia-Betina, Emma-Ester and Wladimir). Sepp has Russian-German and Estonian roots on his mother's side and has taken her mother's family name; the father Viktor Koklyushkin was a Russian satirist.

Vladimir Solovyov sees himself as a devout Jew, and he is always committed to interreligious dialogue.

Solovyov supports the policies of the incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin . He appeared in 2014 as a sharp critic of the Euromaidan in Ukraine . In 2015 he conducted a “big interview” with Putin for the documentary The President , which was broadcast in Russia and Serbia during prime time on Sundays. This interview was also shown with subtitles in the local language in Montenegro , Macedonia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Romania , Bulgaria , Hungary and the Czech Republic .

Corruption and real estate scandals

In June 2017, Solovyov was at the center of a corruption scandal, after which, as the owner of the company "SB Consulting" from the largest state financial institution in Russia "Sberbank", with the help of his son-in-law, between 2014 and 2016 he received a sum of 316.5 million rubles (5, 4 million dollars) is said to have accepted. Solowjow always describes the bank debtors in his TV appearances and radio programs as "thieves".

According to studies by the opposition politician Alexei Navalny , Solovyov owns three apartments in Moscow alone with a total area of ​​450 square meters, a dacha near the capital and a villa on Lake Como in Lombardy . Navalny estimates Solovyov's minimum fortune at one billion rubles (more than 17 million dollars). The moderator then dubbed the opposition activist a "crook" and a "fraudster", at the same time making no secret of his wealth: "Yes, the properties are registered in my name. But I pay taxes for that. I have never concealed the fact that I am rich am. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. All evening in chocolate , Novaya Gazeta, October 23, 2018
  2. Grensland: Onder het oppervlak (4/8) , vpro , 2015, minute 11:50
  3. a b The propagandists and their lust for lies , FAZ, May 5, 2015
  4. Wladimir Solowjow on dekoder.org, as of September 13, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2019; In summary: "Above all, he distinguishes himself as an agitator who rumbles against the West and defames liberals." / "Solovyov is one of the journalists who always support the Kremlin's policies"
  5. The Great Putin Show , Die Welt, September 6, 2018; "Even for Russian viewers who are used to Putin propaganda, the program is likely to be too praiseworthy and, above all, too boring."
  6. Владимир Соловьев: биография, личная жизнь, семья, жена, дети - фото - GlobalSib . In: GlobalSib . May 18, 2017 ( globalsib.com [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  7. Жена Владимира Соловьева, фото / Жены телеведущих, блоггеров / Его-Жена. Жены знаменитостей. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (Russian).
  8. Владимир Соловьев и Эльга Сэпп: "Я сделал ей предложение на третьем свидании…" Retrieved November 13, 2018 (Russian).
  9. http://radiovesti.ru/articles/2012-04-02/fm/39919
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNcbVuDJyA
  11. Телеведущий Владимир Соловьев заключает многомиллионные контракты со Сбербанком благодаря |. Своемм | КОМПРОМАТ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (ru-RU). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / compromat.ws
  12. Соловьев назвал себя " богатым человеком " в ответ на обвинения Навального . In: РБК . ( rbc.ru [accessed November 3, 2017]).