The famous Russian TV presenter and journalist was born in Moscow in 1954 into a musical family. During my school years I studied guitar at a music school. After graduating from school, he entered medical school. Next educational institution Kiselev became Leningradsky State University, where he studied Scandinavian philology at the Faculty of Philology.

Carier start

The TV presenter's career began at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, where he worked for 10 years and covered life in foreign countries. In 1988, the journalist became a correspondent for the Vremya program. Subsequently, he was the host of various projects such as “Vesti”, “Panorama”, “Window to Europe”, “Rush Hour”, “National Interest”, “Event” and others. Currently, Kiselev heads the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.

Dmitry's wives

Today Dmitry is married and happy in his family life, but before that he was married seven times. He met his first wife Alena at medical school, they were 17 years old. Family life It didn’t work out and they soon broke up. He married a second time while studying in Leningrad, to a student Natalya. A year later, the couple decided to divorce. A year later, Dmitry led his next chosen one, Tatyana, down the aisle, but this marriage also came to a quick end. While working at Gosteleradio, Dmitry married his colleague Alena for the fourth time.

Very soon the couple's son Gleb is born. When the child was one year old, the presenter left the family for his new lover Natalya, who became his fifth wife. Dmitry did not stop communicating with his son, and now they support him a good relationship. In 1998, Kelly Richdale became the TV presenter’s sixth wife, and a few months later they divorced. Dmitry's seventh wife's name was Olga.

Meeting with destiny

Being married, the presenter built his own mansion in Crimea and very often spent time there. He was even able to found a jazz festival in 2003 called “Jazz Koktebel”. In Koktebel, Dmitry loved to ride on his own boat, and on one of these walks he met his real wife Masha.

Dmitry Kiselev with his wife

At that time she was a student at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Masha already had a son, Fyodor, from a previous relationship. A year after their first meeting, the lovers had a magnificent wedding. In 2007, the world saw their common son Kostya, and three years later they became the happy parents of their daughter Varvara. Masha has three higher education and gets the fourth. In the future she wants to work as a psychotherapist.

Now Dmitry Kiselev has a wife who fully supports him, is successful in his career and happy in his personal life.

Practice last decades convincingly shows that people come to journalism in different ways. There is no reason to call the route that Dmitry Kiselev chose unique, but there are interesting stories in the biography. The child was born into a family where established musical traditions reigned. And it is not surprising that Dima attended a music school where he studied classical guitar. Music education, like knowledge of foreign languages, gives ambitious young men additional opportunities to build a successful career in independent life.

After graduating from high school with in-depth study of the French language, Dmitry entered medical school. Having received the appropriate diploma, he realized that working as an ambulance paramedic was not for him. Already consciously, with a cool head and calculation for the future, the failed medical worker begins to study at the department of Scandinavian philology at Leningrad University. In 1978, a twenty-four-year-old certified specialist who speaks Norwegian began working at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Soviet Union.

Philological education allows him to short time become a leading employee in the editorial office of programs in Polish and Norwegian. It is here that Dmitry gains practical experience and develops a taste for working as a journalist. At the end of the eighties, when the notorious “perestroika” was already in full swing, he was invited to Moscow as a correspondent for the “Time” program. In his materials, Kiselev unobtrusively shows how the Soviet people live on the eve of the long-awaited changes.

Under the radar of criticism

Over many years of work on television, Dmitry Kiselev has formed his own style of presenting information. Not to say that he discovered anything new in presenting news or covering events. But his individuality is noted by everyone, even his ardent ideological opponents. With the maximum workload of preparing the weekly analytical program “News of the Week,” he manages to shoot several documentaries. It is not difficult to guess that the director raises topical issues and shows how they behaved or behave iconic figures– Gorbachev, Sakharov, Yeltsin.

If we abstract from political topics, we can see that Kiselyov’s professionalism is not in doubt. A clear confirmation of this can be seen in programs with the participation of the President of the country. Any rough edges or blunders in such broadcasts are simply unacceptable. In light of the fact that the situation in the information field is gradually heating up, it makes no sense to predict any changes in existing trends.

You can write a comedy and a thriller about Dmitry’s personal life with equal effect. Suffice it to say that the journalist, like the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, was married seven times. The joint farming with his last wife, Maria, has been going on for more than ten years. Maybe this is already love? The husband and wife are serious. They already have two children together. And further prospects in this direction are quite real.

Name:
Dmitry Kiselev

Zodiac sign:
Taurus

Place of Birth:
Moscow

Activity:
journalist, TV presenter

Weight:
80 kg

Height:
177 cm

Biography of Dmitry Kiselev

Childhood and family of Dmitry Kiselev

Born in Moscow, into a musical family, the future TV presenter received a good education. As a child, he graduated from music school and played the guitar. First, Dmitry entered medical school. The next educational institution was the university in Leningrad, where the young man studied Scandinavian philology. He graduated from the university in 1978.

The beginning of the career of journalist Dmitry Kiselev

Dmitry's first workplace was the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He worked there for ten years, holding a position in one of the most prestigious sectors - the foreign sector. He was responsible for what was heard abroad about the USSR. In this work it was impossible to do without such qualities as responsibility and extreme organization; it was important to control every word, intonation also mattered.
How people change under Putin. Dmitry Kiselev (1999-2012)
In 1988, Dmitry Konstantinovich moved to another department. At Gosteleradio he became a news presenter, the Vremya program, and conducted political reviews.

Kiselev's dismissal from Gosteleradio

With the beginning of fundamental changes in the Union and the beginning of the struggle of the former republics for independence, the TV presenter was fired from the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. The year was 1991. Dmitry refused to read the government’s statement on the events in the Baltics on air. The management of the radio channel was on the side of the Government.
In the same year, Kiselyov began working for the Vesti program. He was among those who participated in the creation of a new format on television and radio, collaborating with foreign television and radio programs.
A year later, at the Ostankino company, he began hosting Panorama. Later, Kiselyov went to Helsinki as a correspondent for the Ostankino agency.
“Rush Hour” is a program hosted by Vlad Listyev. After Listyev’s murder, Kiselev became the presenter.

The program Vesti Nedeli with Dmitry Kiselev is rated on Russian television
On the REN TV channel, which began operating in 1996, Dmitry hosted a program called “National Interest”. He himself calls it not political, but ideological. After a while, this program began to air every day on the Rossiya channel.
“Promising Television Formats” is a new television company, in the organization of which Dmitry Konstantinovich took part.
Since 1999, the TV presenter appeared in the program “Window to Europe”, both the author and presenter was Kiselyov. Viewers watched it on the TV-6 Moscow channel.

Dmitry Kiselev today

Since 2012, Dmitry Konstantinovich has been hosting the “Historical Process” program, and is also the host of the author’s “Authority” program. In the summer of 2012, he began hosting Vesti Nedeli.
The TV presenter is known for his harsh statements about homosexuality, about Americans, and about radicals in Ukraine.
Dmitry Kiselev - 2 minutes of hatred
Dmitry Konstantinovich is the creator of a number of documentaries about Yeltsin, Sakharov, Gorbachev, the collapse of the USSR, etc.
At the end of 2013, Kiselyov headed the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, founded by Vladimir Putin.

Personal life of Dmitry Kiselev

Kiselyov’s personal life can be called stormy. His first marriage was a student's. At seventeen, the young man studied at medical school. His wife was a classmate named Alena. They broke up less than a year later. Interestingly, the spouses had the same day and year of birth.
Having entered the university in Leningrad, Dmitry married again. The chosen one's name was Natalya. A year later, the student was already married for the third time. His wife's name is Tatyana.

Personal life: Dmitry Kiselev had many wives
Kiselyov married for the fourth time after university, when he began working at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. A year later, the wife, whose name is Elena, gave birth to a son named Gleb. When the child was one year old, Dmitry Konstantinovich left the family. His fifth wife was Natalya.
Kiselev’s sixth wife appeared in 1998. She became Kelly Richdale.
He married for the seventh time a year later. This time the chosen one was called Olga. At that time, the TV presenter built own house in Crimea. Being a fan of jazz music, he held a jazz festival there, which he founded in 2003 and was called “Jazz Koktebel”. This festival has become an annual event.
While in Koktebel, riding there on his rubber boat, Dmitry
Konstantinovich saw a girl standing on the shore. She turned out to be student Masha from Moscow. At that time she was studying at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Masha already had a son, Fyodor. A year after they met, their wedding took place. Maria gave birth to a son, Kostya, in 2007, and three years later, a daughter, Varvara, was born. Kiselyov’s wife graduated from three universities with honors and is currently receiving her fourth education. She plans to work as a psychotherapist.

Hobbies of Dmitry Kiselev

Together with his family, the TV presenter lives in the Moscow region, where a Scandinavian house built according to his design is located. It should be noted that construction lasted several years. A small mill is installed on a well in the yard, complementing the overall appearance of the house. At first, Maria could not get used to country life. She went to Moscow to, as she puts it, breathe it in. Over time, the TV presenter’s wife liked village life.
Dmitry Kiselev, Shenderovich - who is he?
Unfortunately, the happy dad rarely sees his children and has virtually no days off. He usually leaves in the morning, when the children are still sleeping, and returns no earlier than nine or even eleven in the evening. The TV presenter often gets to work by motorcycle, only getting into a car in winter.
There was a time when Dmitry Konstantinovich kept four horses, but after he fell with his car from a bridge into the water and received a compression fracture of the spine, he was no longer able to engage in equestrian sports. Being keen on motocross, the TV presenter received a serious injury - a torn ligament in his knee, he underwent three operations and walked on crutches for a whole year. After that, Kiselyov gave one horse to his trainer, sold one, and donated two horses to a children's institution.
The TV presenter’s eldest son, Gleb, is already an adult; they have always maintained a relationship and traveled a lot together. The son shared his father's passion for horses. In Kiselyov’s country house, Gleb has his own room where he lives when he comes to visit.
Dmitry Konstantinovich is fluent in Norwegian, English and French, in addition, he reads Icelandic, Swedish and Danish.

Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev is a native Muscovite. He was born in April 1954 into an intelligent musical family. Kiselev - relative famous composer and conductor Yuri Shaporin. At one time, Dmitry also received a musical education in the class “ classical guitar».

After graduating from school, Dmitry Kiselev entered one of the medical schools in the capital. But after graduation, he decided not to continue his medical education, but became a student at the A. A. Zhdanov University in Leningrad, choosing the Faculty of Philology, Scandinavian Philology. Graduated from the university in 1978.

Date of birth: April 26, 1954
Age: 64 years
Place of birth: Moscow
Height: 177
Occupation: Russian journalist, TV presenter, general director of MIA "Russia Today", deputy director of VGTRK
Marital status: Married

Dmitry Kiselev’s professional biography began immediately after graduating from university. First workplace Kiselev was at the USSR State Television and Radio. Here the journalist worked for more than ten years in one of the most prestigious and important sectors responsible for covering the life of the country abroad. High responsibility, control over every word, intonation - the young journalist Dmitry Kiselyov coped with these requirements perfectly.

In 1988, Dmitry Kiselyov moved to the news department of the Vremya program, where he became a presenter and conducted political reviews.

During the period of disruption and radical changes in the USSR, Dmitry Kiselev was fired from the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He refused to read the official government statement about events in one of the republics. Soon Kiselyov was accepted into the Vesti program, and he became one of the creators of a new format for television and radio, actively collaborating with foreign colleagues.

In 1992, Dmitry Kiselev began hosting the Panorama information program. Later, as his own correspondent, he was sent to Helsinki, where he worked for the Ostankino agency.

After the death of Vladislav Listyev in 1995, an experienced TV presenter was appointed in his place. Now he hosts the Rush Hour program on Channel One. At the same time, Dmitry Kiselev hosts another program called “Window to Europe,” but a year later he leaves the program.

In 1997, the journalist became the host of a talk show called “National Interest”. At first, the program was broadcast only on the RTR TV channel, and then on the Ukrainian ICTV. For a short time, Dmitry Kiselev hosted the nightly edition of the “Events” program.

In November 2003, Ukrainian colleagues expressed no confidence in Kiselyov, accusing him of distorting information. Soon the journalist was suspended from work.

From 2003 to 2004, Dmitry Kiselev worked on new programs called “Morning Conversation” and “Authority”. And from 2005 to 2006, he hosted the daily information and analytical program “Vesti +” and “Vesti. Details" on the Rossiya TV channel.

In 2006, the famous journalist appeared as the host of the socio-political talk show “National Interest”, which he hosted until 2012.

In addition, in the summer of 2008, Dmitry Kiselev was appointed deputy general director of the VGTRK holding, after which he left the Vesti program. But in September 2012, he again returned to hosting the popular news program, which is now called “News of the Week.” It airs on the central channel “Russia”, which since January 2010 has been called “Russia-1”.




In December 2013, on the basis of RIA Novosti, the International News Agency "Russia Today" was created. general director whom Dmitry Kiselev was appointed.

By presidential decree, the new agency was entrusted with a very responsible mission: to cover Russian politics abroad. The journalist himself claims that he sees his task as restoring the attitude towards Russia as a country with good intentions.

In connection with the appointment of Dmitry Konstantinovich as head of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, a number of leading Western media outlets published articles in which Kiselev was called a “pro-Kremlin homophobic TV presenter,” and the creation of Rossiya Segodnya was an attempt by Vladimir Putin to establish control over the media. Edition The Guardian wrote that Dmitry Kiselyov gained fame due to his “anti-gay, anti-American and anti-opposition views.” The journalist was even included in the second part of the EU sanctions list, where he found himself among Russian politicians and government officials subject to visa restrictions.

Today Dmitry Kiselev is one of the most popular TV presenters in Russia and abroad. This is a man with an encyclopedic education who speaks four foreign languages, he is well versed in music, literature, and art. Giving an interview to a famous TV presenter is considered an honor by many Russian and foreign government officials. In 2016, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan gave an interview to Kiselev.

In 2017, Dmitry Kiselev continues to work as the presenter of Vesti Nedeli and remains the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.

Personal life

The personal life of Dmitry Kiselyov has always remained very eventful. There were many women, official and unofficial marriages. The TV presenter’s first wife was classmate Alena, with whom 17-year-old Dima studied at medical school. The young people officially got married, but separated before they even lived a year.

Kiselyov’s next two official marriages also happened in his early youth, when he was studying at Leningrad University. The wives' names were Natalya and Tatyana.

Dmitry Kiselyov’s fourth marriage was registered when he worked at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. The wife's name was Elena Borisova. In this marriage, Dmitry’s first-born son Gleb appeared. When the boy was one year old, the family broke up.

The fifth wife's name was Natalya, but this union turned out to be fleeting. After Natalya, English businesswoman Kelly Richdale entered Dmitry Kiselev’s personal life in 1998. And again - a quick divorce.

During the jazz festival in Koktebel, Dmitry Kiselev met his current wife Maria. Masha was already married and raised her son Fyodor on her own. Now Dmitry and Maria already have two children together - Konstantin and Varvara. The family lives in a “Scandinavian” house built according to Kiselev’s design in the Moscow region.

There is a video on the Internet where you say that a journalist should not be an agitator. Do you consider yourself a journalist now?

My position has changed. I'm different now. Some of the conclusions about what Putin did to me as a person are shocking. In fact, my evolution took place not in Russia, but in Ukraine, where I worked from 2000 to 2006 and saw this “orange revolution”. There I was the editor-in-chief of the information service on the ICTV channel, I had an original program that received the highest television award “Golden Pen”, for a couple of years I was formally even one of the hundred most influential people in Ukraine, in a word, I was a high-profile character. And I really went through an internal evolution there without the influence of Putin.

I realized that detached, distilled journalism is absolutely not in demand. The main difference between post-Soviet journalism and Western journalism is that we have to create values, not recreate. Produce values, rather than reproduce them, as is done mainly in the West.

Unfortunately, we emerged from the 20th century with a huge number of victims, and lived in periods when human life was devalued, and they got used to it. And now human life is not of great value, otherwise we would have fastened the seat belts in the car, and not put them on for the traffic police until now. In our country, children are not a common value, otherwise there would not be a million abortions a year in Russia. We have no consensus around the simplest, most basic values, let alone the complex values ​​of society, such as the appropriate models of democracy for us. Therefore, a journalist in Russia and Ukraine, naturally, must produce them. Such is his responsibility. If Western journalists were in our place, they would do the same thing, they would colonize and civilize their own country. So detached journalism, of which I was an adherent, is not that. There were calls back in the nineties, when I hosted the “National Interest” program.

I once made a program about vodka in line with Russia’s national interests. Vodka as national pride and national curse. I was riding horseback then, I came to the stable, and the groom said to me: “ Good program did". Me: “Yes? You watched?" I am reserved about compliments and criticism. He continues: “But he didn’t say the most important thing.” But in my studio there were a bunch of historians, Alcoholics Anonymous, the Kristall plant, and so on. "What?" - I ask the groom. And he: “Which one should I take?” That is, which one should I buy? Like, if you are sitting there on TV, then please tell me which one to take. So I believe that journalism should certainly have a position. There is also a place for campaigning here.

Do I understand correctly that in your analytical program you broadcast your own opinion?

Certainly.

Dmitry Kiselev and Oles Buzina

Name: Dmitrii Kiselev

Surname: Konstantinovich

Place of Birth: Moscow

Height: 177 cm

Weight: 80 kg

Zodiac sign: Calf

Eastern horoscope: Horse

Activity: journalist, TV presenter

Childhood and family of Dmitry Kiselev

The ambitious journalist was born into a family of hereditary intellectuals in the capital on April 26, 1954. The family was especially enthusiastic about the uncle of the future celebrity - he was a relative of the composer Yuri Shaporin, conductor of the famous Alexandrinka, author of numerous symphonic works, music teacher and head of the USSR Union of Composers. Both mom and dad planned only a musical future for their son, hoping that he would surpass his famous relative in popularity and importance in creativity. The boy was sent to a special school with in-depth study of French and enrolled in classes to learn to play the guitar.

As it turned out later, Dmitry had neither the desire nor the ability to perform works by famous composers. But the guy learned languages ​​with amazing ease, which became the main point in determining his profession in the future.

Disagreements in this regard led to the young man getting a job as a simple worker in a nearby printing house. Apparently there is a desire to decide your own future fate independently forced Kiselev to look for a way to earn his own livelihood. A little later, he entered medical school, which he graduated without much success. Having received a diploma as a nurse, Kiselev went to the northern capital - there the department of Scandinavian languages ​​at the university attracted his attention. With a diploma in philology and a rare specialization, Dmitry returned to Moscow in 1978.

A television

Dmitry Kiselev’s professional biography began immediately after graduating from university. Kiselyov’s first job was at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Here the journalist worked for more than ten years in one of the most prestigious and important sectors responsible for covering the life of the country abroad. High responsibility, control over every word, intonation - the young journalist Dmitry Kiselyov coped with these requirements perfectly.

In 1988, Dmitry Kiselyov moved to the news department of the Vremya program, where he became a presenter and conducted political reviews.

During the period of disruption and radical changes in the USSR, Dmitry Kiselev was fired from the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He refused to read the official government statement about events in one of the republics. Soon Kiselyov was accepted into the Vesti program, and he became one of the creators of a new format for television and radio, actively collaborating with foreign colleagues.

In 1992, Dmitry Kiselev began hosting the Panorama information program. Later, as his own correspondent, he was sent to Helsinki, where he worked for the Ostankino agency.

After the murder of Vladislav Listyev in 1995, an experienced TV presenter was appointed in his place. Now he hosts the Rush Hour program on Channel One. At the same time, Dmitry Kiselev hosts another program called “Window to Europe,” but a year later he leaves the program.

In 1997, the journalist became the host of a talk show called “National Interest”. At first, the program was broadcast only on the RTR TV channel, and then on the Ukrainian ICTV. For a short time, Dmitry Kiselev hosted the nightly edition of the “Events” program. In November 2003, Ukrainian colleagues expressed no confidence in Kiselyov, accusing him of distorting information. Soon the journalist was suspended from work.

From 2003 to 2004, Dmitry Kiselev worked on new programs called “Morning Conversation” and “Authority”. And from 2005 to 2006, he hosted the daily information and analytical program “Vesti +” and “Vesti. Details" on the Rossiya TV channel.

In 2006, the famous journalist appeared as the host of the socio-political talk show “National Interest”, which he hosted until 2012.

In addition, in the summer of 2008, Dmitry Kiselev was appointed deputy general director of the VGTRK holding, after which he left the Vesti program. But in September 2012, he again returned to hosting the popular news program, which is now called “News of the Week.” It airs on the central channel “Russia”, which since January 2010 has been called “Russia-1”.

In December 2013, on the basis of RIA Novosti, the International News Agency Rossiya Segodnya emerged, with Dmitry Kiselyov appointed general director.

Appointment as head of the Rossiya Segodnya agency

In connection with the appointment of Kiselyov as head of the new news agency “Russia Today”, created by Vladimir Putin in December 2013 on the basis of RIA Novosti, a number of leading Western media published materials in which Kiselyov was called a “pro-Kremlin homophobic TV presenter”, and the creation of a new news agency – Putin’s attempt to tighten control over the media. Yes, on the website The Guardian a material was published under the headline “Putin appointed a homophobic TV presenter as head of the state news agency.” The publication described Kiselyov as a “conservative news anchor” and “a loyal supporter of Putin who occasionally makes provocative statements.” The article also stated that "Kiselyov is often accused of being a mouthpiece for [Kremlin] propaganda" and that he has become known for his "openly anti-gay, anti-American and anti-opposition views." Agence France-Presse called the appointment of an “anti-gay TV presenter” to head the new news agency an attempt by the Kremlin to “consolidate state media during a period of increased online criticism of Putin’s 13-year rule.”

By presidential decree, the new agency was entrusted with a very responsible mission: to cover Russian politics abroad. The journalist himself claims that he sees his task as restoring the attitude towards Russia as a country with good intentions.

In 2017, Dmitry Kiselev continues to work as the presenter of Vesti Nedeli and remains the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.

Scandals

In the summer of 2014, the Security Service of Ukraine initiated criminal proceedings against Dmitry Kiselyov under the article “financing terrorism, facilitating terrorist activities.” The Russian TV presenter and the International Press Institute, which he heads, are suspected of financing separatist organizations in Ukraine. In response to this, Dmitry Kiselev described the accusation as “a continuation of the fantasies in which the Nazis in power in Kyiv live.”

In the spring of 2016, hackers announced that they had managed to hack the contents of two mailboxes and Dmitry Kiselev’s WhatsApp correspondence. They allegedly managed to steal a volume of information of 11 gigabytes, which covered the period from 2009 to 2016. The stolen information, according to the hackers, contains a lot of compromising information, including about the finances and assets of a journalist, the purchase of an elite apartment on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, challenging the personal sanctions imposed by the EU, as well as the purchase of a ready-made thesis for the wife. But the fact of the “theft” was never confirmed.

In May 2016, an unpleasant incident occurred between Kiselyov and the editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev. The latter, like Dmitry Kiselyov, was included in the so-called “Petro Poroshenko’s sanctions list” and expressed his surprise at this circumstance, calling himself a friend of Ukraine. To this, Dmitry Kiselev, in the issue of Vesti Nedeli dated May 29, 2016, ironically noted that of all those on the list, “only Pavel Gusev was indignant, saying, how can this be, I’m one of my own, a bourgeois!” After the broadcast, Gusev called his colleague “a sexist and a scoundrel” and advised him to refrain from meeting him.

Criticism

According to the magazine The Economist, « a new style propaganda, represented by Kiselyov, is aimed at exciting and mobilizing the audience, inciting hatred and fear.<…>This style is reminiscent of Orwell’s two minutes of hate, lasting half an hour.”

The President of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Yasen Zasursky, characterizing the work of Dmitry Kiselev in 2015, said that “he simply repeats some theses, and journalists do not do this; a journalist should help to understand, should give not only information, but also knowledge... he is probably a good propagandist.”

On March 16, 2014, in the “News of the Week” program, Kiselyov, based on an article in the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” dated January 22, stated that Russia has an automatic control system for a massive retaliatory nuclear strike “Perimeter”, “guaranteeing the defeat of the United States of America in the event of the outbreak of armed conflict,” used the expression “Russia is the only country in the world that is really capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash.” The expression caused a wide response in the world.

Sanctions

Dmitry Kiselev is listed in the second part of the list European Union(EU), inspired by the Crimean crisis, among Russian political and government figures, in respect of whom visa and financial restrictions were introduced. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the TV presenter was planned to be included in the first part of the EU “black” list, but Finland opposed this.

General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev said that “it’s amazing how quickly the European Union adopted the skills of repression against objectionable journalists from its Ukrainian puppets.” In his opinion, persecution of journalists is a sign of weakness and inferiority. Journalists and TV presenters of the Russia-1 TV channel came out in support of their colleague, publishing open letter to the Russian journalistic community.

According to Dmitry Kiselyov, the EU sanctions lists were compiled by Russian journalist Sergei Parkhomenko and political and public figure Alexey Navalny.

In August 2014, he was included in the sanctions list by Ukraine for his position on the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea to Russia. Also included in the sanctions lists of Switzerland and Canada, he is persona non grata in Moldova. In September 2015, he was included in the Ukrainian sanctions list, which includes 400 individuals and 90 legal entities.

In September 2015 filed lawsuit against the Council of the European Union, demanding the cancellation of the decision to include him in the EU sanctions list and compensation for the costs incurred in connection with this. According to Dmitry Kiselyov, he came under sanctions for expressing his political position as a journalist and commentator, and therefore there is a violation of freedom of speech. He also indicated that he could not “actively support” Russian policy towards Ukraine and never expressed support for the “deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine.” On June 15, 2017, the European Court of General Jurisdiction in Luxembourg dismissed the claim and decided to maintain the sanctions, to which Kiselyov responded with an article on the RIA Novosti website.

Personal life

Today Dmitry is married and happy in his family life, but before that he was married seven times. He met his first wife Alena at medical school, they were 17 years old. Family life did not work out and they soon separated. He married a second time while studying in Leningrad, to a student Natalya. A year later, the couple decided to divorce. A year later, Dmitry led his next chosen one, Tatyana, down the aisle, but this marriage also came to a quick end. While working at Gosteleradio, Dmitry married his colleague Alena for the fourth time.

Very soon the couple's son Gleb is born. When the child was one year old, the presenter left the family for his new lover Natalya, who became his fifth wife. Dmitry did not stop communicating with his son, and now maintain good relations. In 1998, Kelly Richdale became the TV presenter’s sixth wife, and a few months later they divorced. Dmitry's seventh wife's name was Olga.

Meeting with destiny

Being married, the presenter built his own mansion in Crimea and very often spent time there. He was even able to found a jazz festival in 2003 called “Jazz Koktebel”. In Koktebel, Dmitry loved to ride on his own boat, and on one of these walks he met his real wife Masha.

At that time she was a student at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Masha already had a son, Fyodor, from a previous relationship. A year after their first meeting, the lovers had a magnificent wedding. In 2007, the world saw their common son Kostya, and three years later they became the happy parents of their daughter Varvara. Masha has three higher education degrees and is getting her fourth. In the future she wants to work as a psychotherapist.

Now Dmitry Kiselev has a wife who fully supports him, is successful in his career and happy in his personal life.

Hobbies of Dmitry Kiselyov

Together with his family, the TV presenter lives in the Moscow region, where a Scandinavian house built according to his design is located. It should be noted that construction lasted several years. A small mill is installed on a well in the yard, complementing the overall appearance of the house. At first, Maria could not get used to country life. She went to Moscow to, as she puts it, breathe it in. Over time, the TV presenter’s wife liked village life.

The father rarely sees the children, he practically has no days off. He usually leaves in the morning, when the children are still sleeping, and returns no earlier than nine or even eleven in the evening. The TV presenter often gets to work by motorcycle, only getting into a car in winter. There was a time when Dmitry Konstantinovich kept four horses, but after he fell with his car from a bridge into the water and received a compression fracture of the spine, he was no longer able to engage in equestrian sports. Being keen on motocross, the TV presenter received a serious injury - a torn ligament in his knee, he underwent three operations and walked on crutches for a whole year. After that, Kiselyov gave one horse to his trainer, sold one, and donated two horses to a children's institution. The TV presenter’s eldest son, Gleb, is already an adult; they have always maintained a relationship and traveled a lot together. The son shared his father's passion for horses. In Kiselyov’s country house, Gleb has his own room where he lives when he comes to visit. Dmitry Konstantinovich is fluent in Norwegian, English and French languages In addition, he reads Icelandic, Swedish and Danish.