Political talk shows on Russian television. YouTube channels: politics, geopolitics. What attracts viewers to these programs

Roof 05.07.2020

In recent years, the format of political talk shows has become incredibly popular in Russia. The key to success is a bright discussion and heated debate. To ensure the intensity of passions, the authors and presenters invite experts to the programs who defend the American, European or Ukrainian position. The same people "from the other side of the ideological front" go from broadcast to broadcast. Sometimes the participants in the disputes cause such strong emotions with their statements that they leave the studio with bruises. Ruposters recalls TV's most notable whipping boys.

Vyacheslav Kovtun

Vyacheslav Kovtun

One of the most recognizable "artists of the expert genre" is Vyacheslav Kovtun, director of the Kiev Center for the Study of Social Processes "Expert" and a member of the presidium of the Liberal Party of Ukraine. Perhaps he was more likely than others to get hit because of his statements. The political scientist considers himself brave, almost every time he emphasizes that he is in a hostile atmosphere, nevertheless he does not stop going to the show.

Perhaps the most famous case of an attack on a Ukrainian occurred in the spring of 2016 on the “Process” program on the Zvezda TV channel. Then a member of the organization "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine" Yuriy Kot took the remark "We will find out what kind of son you have" as a threat to the child and hit the political scientist several times on the head.

Before that, Kovtun had already been beaten because of the mention of children. An expert from Ukraine, ex-deputy Vladimir Oleinik attacked his opponent in Solovyov's "Sunday Evening". He did not like the facial expression with which the political scientist commented on the death of a seven-month-old child in Mariupol from starvation.

Another high-profile case of an attack on Kovtun was a cake in the parking lot of the Ostankino television center. The victim claimed that his ill-wishers had the flag of Novorossiya with them. Journalist Vladimir Solovyov called the attack an abomination and called for the attackers to be punished. The SERB movement later assumed responsibility.

The last time Kovtun was beaten was in December. Then, in the dressing room of the program "Time Will Show" during a break for him, none other than one of the creators of the DPR, Alexander Boroday. The host of the program, Artem Sheinin, eventually apologized to Kovtun for the incident, but there is no video of the fight itself on the network.

Yakub Koreyba

Yakub Koreyba

Another frequenter of the programs is a Polish publicist, known for his sharp statements on federal TV, former employee Center for Post-Soviet Studies MGIMO Yakub Koreiba. His viewers call him an ardent Russophobe. He often accuses Russia of all sins, speaks confidently and emotionally, but does not provide evidence.

Fragment of a typical speech

A notable episode in his television career was a conflict with political scientist Sergei Kurginyan. The latter defiantly left the studio after Koreiba's words that in Russia they hold on to the past so much, because "in the present everything is bad", and in the future, perhaps, it will be even worse.

It is curious that for regular publications in Russian media(and, in particular, for the article "Sabotage against Ukraine: the Polish trace") Koreyba was fired from the Polish Newsweek.

Sergey Zaporizhsky (Kutsenko)

Sergey Zaporozhsky

Zaporizhzhya, who calls himself a businessman-political scientist, has citizenship Russian Federation. At the same time, in Ukraine, he is primarily known as the author of the popular political microblog on Twitter "Bandera football". In it, a participant in a television show many times allowed himself harsh criticism of Russia and rejoiced at the success of a neighboring country.

The speaker, who has listed “President of Ukraine 2024-2034” as his profession on Facebook, does not visit Russian TV shows very often and does not speak very brightly in them. He became famous because of the conflict with TV presenter Norkin. During the live broadcast, he led Zaporizhsky out of the studio of the "Meeting Place" program with the words "Every other sheep will teach me."

The guest of the TV show said that Norkin should be treated, as he is deceiving. The Twitter troll managed to piss off a journalist and TV presenter with 26 years of experience. Later, Norkin publicly said that he did not "break" his opponent.

Alexey Goncharenko

Alexey Goncharenko

Goncharenko is the son of the former mayor of Odessa and a member of the Verkhovna Rada. In the past, he was a member of the Party of Regions, but after the events on the Maidan, he left it. Since 2014, he has been the deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction. He became notorious after the tragedy at the House of Trade Unions. "We cleared the Kulikovo field of the separatists," Goncharenko said in Shuster's program. He happens on Russian TV not so often. But almost every appearance of him in the TV studio causes a storm of emotions and an angry reaction in social networks.

Fragment of a typical speech

Once Goncharenko almost caused a diplomatic scandal. He decided to participate in the Moscow march, his metropolitan police. Soon, however, the holder of diplomatic immunity was released. Goncharenko is also known for trying to present a symbolic order for a Russian plane shot down by the Turks, and also staged his own abduction.

Vadim Karasev

Vadim Karasev

A frequent guest of Russian TV programs is Vadim Karasev, director of the private enterprise "Institute for Global Strategies". He is remembered by the viewer in the first place by his face, abundantly dotted with warts.

Fragment of a typical speech

In recent months, Karasev has rather abruptly changed his rhetoric from radical Ukrainian-patriotic to compromising and conciliatory. Now, in one form or another, he declares that Ukraine is obliged to reckon with Russia.

Michael Bohm

Michael Bohm

Of all the foreign opponents on the talk show, American Michael Bohm is the most good-natured. It can even be called a favorite of viewers and presenters. In any case, it rarely comes to open flogging. Once he was scolded on the air by the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, who "didn't understand what such people do on Russian TV at all."

Known for his style of inserting (sometimes out of place) Russian proverbs and sayings, Bohm calls himself a "Russian scholar". 18 years ago, he came to Moscow to engage in the insurance business and later abandoned it in favor of journalism. Although with money in this area, according to him, not very much, he achieved professional realization. He even taught a course at the Faculty of Journalism of MGIMO. He was married to a Russian citizen (which was revealed recently in live), loves to confess his love for Russia.

While acknowledging that he is a "whipping boy" on Russian television, Bom says he is closer to being a public diplomat.

Pavel Zhovnirenko

Pavel Zhovnirenko

Political technologist, political scientist and chairman of the board of the "Center for Strategic Studies" Pavlo Zhovnirenko stands out from other Ukrainian talking heads on Russian television in that he regularly leaves the film studios himself if he thinks that the presenters pay him little attention and airtime.

He first tried such a "knight's move" in April 2016. Then the political scientist was offended by the leading NTV and left the studio, citing a lack of attention. At the same time, Zhovnirenko received the right to speak during the program, and when leaving he tried to linger and continue the dialogue again.

He applied the already tested method of attracting attention six months later in the 60 Minutes program on Russia-1. It seems that at some point he was simply tired of what was happening in the TV show, and he decided to leave without a shadow of a doubt.

Jiri Yust

Jiri Yust with "colleague" Michael Bohm

Another lover of bow ties is Czech Jiri Yust. Former MK columnist and Moscow correspondent for the Czech information portal. One of the few "whipping boys" who are aware of and publicly designate their role in this way.

"For me, "going" to these talk shows has two meanings, two incentives. The first is that before or after the program I can talk with the politicians invited there. The second - yes, of course, I understand what I'm like there whipping boy. That even with my presence, I to some extent support the propaganda of Russian television. But I go to these talk shows in order to show that there is another point of view, "he said.

Fragment of a typical speech

Just defends a pro-European position, but he is quite objective in his statements, which earns the respect of presenters and viewers, and his natural phlegm prevents him from getting into serious skirmishes.

Olesya Yakhno

Olesya Yakhno

One of the few "whipping girls" on the show is Olesya Yakhno, a native of the Vinnytsia region, a special correspondent for the official parliamentary newspaper "Voice of Ukraine" and director of the "Institute for National Strategy of Ukraine" (a branch of a similar Russian institution of her ex-husband, political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky).

Fragment of a typical speech

A loud voice, a systematic tactic of yelling at opponents, and a truly unpredictable logic of argumentation (one gets the feeling that Yakhno herself does not know where her next phrase will lead) made Olesya one of the brightest representatives of Ukraine on Russian talk shows.

Leonid Gozman

Leonid Gozman

An associate of Chubais, who was a member of many liberal parties from the Union of Right Forces to Right Cause, a member of the Russian Jewish Congress, Leonid Gozman, was initially an almost ideal candidate to participate in Russian TV shows on the "wrong" side. He began his trips to television almost before anyone else: he held his first debate on January 26, 2009 with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, discussing the now distant conflict between Russia and Georgia.

Fragment of a typical speech

Regularly falls under a flurry of criticism from opponents, forced to listen to insults (sometimes open). The politician refers to this part of his television activities with irony. In an interview, he admitted that he perfectly understands that it is impossible to convince someone. Gozman knows that he is being used only because he is "a Jew, a friend of Chubais, cross-eyed - as you know, God marks the rogue - and in general, the scum is over." He justifies his desire to participate in discussions by saying that someone should demonstrate to liberals without the Internet the presence of people with a similar point of view.

According to open data, for all the time of visits to television programs, Gozman was not beaten. However, on December 1, 2016, a case was made public when a politician, following the example of Zhovnirenko, got up and left the hall during the filming of one of the shows. Prior to that, he listened to an almost two-minute critical monologue by host Andrei Norkin.

Boris Nadezhdin

Boris Nadezhdin

Gozman's colleague in the Union of Right Forces and a former State Duma deputy, Nadezhdin is a regular participant in the TV show. He explained his frequent appearance on the air by the fact that he was very persistently called. They say that the ratings of TV channels have fallen, while disputes took place on their airs without representatives of even a conditional opposition.

Fragment of a typical speech

In addition, in this way the politician is trying to increase his awareness. This is necessary for him to continue participating in the elections. However, numerous programs did not help him get into the State Duma of the next convocation. Nadezhdin called his political position moderate and admitted that he criticized Putin only on economic issues. Recognizing Russia's right to Crimea, the politician tries to defend pro-Ukrainian theses on the TV show.

Tomas Maciejczuk

Tomas Maciejczuk

A frequenter of political talk shows, the Polish journalist Maciejczuk became widely known in the fall of 2016. On the set of one of the programs, he suggested that the Russian people "live in shit." A heated discussion with the TV presenter turned into a fight with the former Ukrainian MP Igor Markov.

Matseychuk admitted that he became a journalist thanks to Euromaidan and for a long time supplied humanitarian aid to protesters and volunteer battalions of nationalists in eastern Ukraine. Later, the journalist witnessed atrocities by Ukrainian neo-Nazis and reconsidered his views. The publication in the Polish press of materials about the presence of real Nazis among the ATO fighters quickly spoiled the Pole's relations with the Ukrainian authorities. The last straw was that Matseychuk prevented representatives of the Ukrainian authorities from hiding a photo of a neo-Nazi that accidentally got into an exhibition about "heroes of the ATO" in the European Parliament.

Fragment of a typical speech

According to some reports, the expert, who ardently defends the position of Ukraine, was banned from entering this country. He also repeatedly received threats from radicals. After consulting with subscribers on social networks about the need to participate in Russian TV shows, Matseychuk left for Russia in October 2016 and has not left television screens since.

Andrey Okara

Andrey Okara

One of Kovtun's most famous colleagues is Ukrainian political scientist Andriy Okara. Born and raised in Moscow, the ethnic Ukrainian studied the ideas of Russian conservatism of the 20th century, repeatedly criticized Ukraine in his publications and deprived it of its right to exist. On Russian TV shows, he gets the role of a Moscow Ukrainophile. According to some reports, the political scientist was deported from Ukraine in 2015. However, a small number of sources does not allow confirming or refuting this information.

Fragment of a typical speech

On Russian TV, he likes to speak in support of the actions of the Ukrainian authorities, almost always becoming the object of criticism from other guests of the TV show and its hosts. Okara did not escape the fate of being beaten. Back in 2014, on a live TV show, he got into a fight with Konstantin Dolgov, co-chairman of the Popular Front of Novorossia.

Most of the mentioned persons will surely be seen by the audience more than once. Pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian political experts like to be invited to Russian channels. They rank programs and help opponents hone their arguments.

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Many people, especially women, like to watch talk shows online or live. They discuss many important life issues and ways out of situations. Especially, the audience is attracted by talk shows of Ukraine. They really consider the problems of real people who are in different life ups and downs.

TV experts opinion

Many experts agree that talk shows in Ukraine show real life in the country, and consider important aspects. And ordinary people like to watch such programs, to empathize with the participants.

Why do online views exist?

Let's imagine that a person is at work, and there is no way to watch a live broadcast, but you really want to. There are people who do not miss a single episode of their favorite show. Especially for them, there are sites that allow you to watch talk shows online in the recording. So you can view all important points, as well as review again what was not clear. This is convenient because the live broadcast cannot be rewound. Now there are Ukrainian services that will allow you to watch talk shows online, both in Ukrainian and in Russian.

Political talk shows in Russia have become popular programs on modern television. Various channels show these programs, because a large number of viewers watch them, and this, in turn, increases the ratings of television companies and forces them to create new similar television projects. What attracts viewers to these TV shows? We will try to answer this question in this article.

Most Popular Talk Shows

  1. "Sunday Evening" (presenter Vladimir Solovyov).
  2. "Politics" with Peter Tolstoy.
  3. "Voting right".
  4. "The right to know" with E. Satanovsky.

There are a number of special politicized talk shows that also attract the attention of viewers, such as the Special Correspondent program on the Rossiya TV channel.

What attracts viewers to these programs?

Political talk shows in Russia are a popular form of television today for many reasons. Firstly, this is due to the growing contradictions between Russia and the countries of the Western world, which declared our country persona non grata after the famous Crimean referendum.

Secondly, all countries feel the accumulated contradictions in relations that are associated with global changes on the geopolitical map of the world that occurred at the end of the last century. With the collapse of the USSR, the Yalta system of the world order, which had developed at the end of World War II, collapsed. The United States, having gained global dominance in the world of the economy, decided by military means to achieve complete subjugation of countries that were not part of the halo of their deep influence. Therefore, the States, using the tactics of "soft power", seek to create hotbeds of tension around the globe, including on the territory of our country.

Thirdly, it is already becoming obvious to many that the world is on the verge of World War III, which could end in the complete annihilation of mankind, since many states have weapons for this.

Political TV shows on Channel Two

And yet, the rating of political talk shows in Russia shows that the biggest responses in the hearts and minds of viewers are television programs on the second federal channel. These are programs hosted by journalist Vladimir Solovyov.

The success of the program is made up of invited people, as a rule, of completely different political views and smart, deep-thinking hosts.

Political talk shows in Russia - propagandists for peace or war

Events in the world are developing rapidly. There are a large number of threats to our country that it has to deal with in the face of Western sanctions and terrorist attacks, as well as the subordination of the Russian economy to the dollar system.

Specialists invited to political talk shows, as a rule, represent polar points of view on the current situation. There are among them the so-called statesmen who stand up for recreating the image of Great Russia, there are liberals who are ready to bow to the Western world for the sake of friendship with it, there are also those who make their own political career. There are even representatives of an obvious enemy camp: American journalists who are trying to convey to our viewers the point of view of the leaders of Western countries, according to which Russia is embarking on the path of totalitarianism and is a threat to the whole world.

It is difficult to say what the hosts of such shows are calling for: they are calling for peace or for war. Serious passions are running high, but we should not forget that such programs are a propaganda tool and entertainment, which is why they frighten the audience and form public opinion, and even deliver pleasant viewing moments.

So political talk show on the Russia channel is a program that is unlikely to lose its high popularity in the coming years.

On video hosting YouTube there are more and more analytical shows and programs that discuss issues of geopolitics and world politics, regional conflicts, political confrontations between major players in the international arena.
The specificity of analytical shows and programs on YouTube dedicated to politics is that each channel has its own “ideological” connotation.

The channel can be pro-government (pro-government), opposition, neutral (the latter is rare) to certain political interests.

GlavTema | GlavRadioOnline

1 . “GlavTopic”(the old name is GlavRadioOnline”) is an analytical program, the format and participants of which have often changed in recent years. On average, the program lasts 1-1.5 hours, the host of the program is Ilya Savelyev, who replaced Anatoly Kuzichev at this post. Recently, GlavTema has been aired on Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Permanent participants of GlavTema are a publicist, journalist, press secretary of the Rosneft corporation Mikhail Leontiev and businessman, politician Mikhail Yuryev.

TV Day

2 . “TV Day” is an analytical Internet channel. The channel discusses a wide range of topics - political, economic, cultural and other issues.

Polit Russia

3 . One of the largest socio-political channels, where various public figures express their opinions. There are also materials from journalists of the editorial office of the channel “ Polit Russia” on various topics (mostly political), analyzing certain events from a certain point of view.

Dmitry Puchkov

4 . Popular youtube platform, which is single-handedly ruled by Dmitry Puchkov(“Goblin”) is a writer, publicist, author of parody translations for films. Dmitry Puchkov invites bloggers, writers, economists, historians to his studio to discuss interesting topics.

UKRLIFE.TV

5 . A well-known discussion platform organized by Ukrainian journalists, in which economists, journalists, public figures discuss the socio-economic and political environment in Russia, Ukraine, the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

Dawn.TV

6 . “Dawn. TV”posts interviews with political scientists, historians, and economists on his channel.

Educational TV

7 . Frequent guests of the channel studio " Educational TV” politician Yevgeny Fedorov, writer Nikolai Starikov, economist Valentin Katasonov, historian Andrey Fursov and other experts sharing their opinions during the interview.

ROY TV

8 . “Roy TV” positions itself as a channel for thinking and patriotic people. A large number of reviews and interviews are published on political and economic issues.

Radio Liberty

9 . “Radio Liberty” declares the spread of democratic values ​​in those regions of the world where, according to the experts of this radio, not everything is going smoothly with democracy as the main goal of its activity. Among the guests of the studio are Garry Kasparov, Georgy Satarov, Stanislav Belkovsky and others.

ARTPODGOTOVKA

10 . Discussion of news, analysis of events in the country of the world together with a public figure and politician Vyacheslav Maltsev. In 2017, according to a Wikipedia article, Maltsev left Russia. The Russian government recognized the Artpodgotovka project as extremist.

The YouTube channel is currently unavailable.

Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda

11 . Newspaper channel " TVNZ“. Interviews are regularly published on topics that are painful for society with economists, politicians, scientists, etc. invited to the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio studio.

Sasha Sotnik

12 . Journalist's channel Alexander Sotnik, who chose the line of criticism of the modern Russian government. His interviews with political scientists and economists, polls of people on the street are interesting.

Open Russia

13 . Project " Open Russia” was created with the participation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The objective of this project is to unite people who are critical of modern political power, with the aim of creating "a state of law with fair elections, regularly replaced power and respect for human rights." (Site openrussia.org.)

Echo of Moscow

16 . Recordings of the programs “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov”, “Duel”, interviews Vladimir Solovyov with famous politicians.

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