Leontiev Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev, Mikhail Vladimirovich Mikhail Leontiev Rosneft Press Secretary
Bibliography of Mikhail Leontiev
However, hello! - M., 2005.
However, goodbye! - M., 2005.
Fortress Russia: farewell to liberalism, "Yauza", 2005. - 189 p. (co-authored)
Is Russia in danger of an “orange revolution”? - M., 2005.
Internal enemy: The defeatist "elite" is destroying Russia - M., 2005.
Leontiev M.V., Zhukov D.A. “Independent” Georgia: A bandit in a tiger skin. - M.: Yauza, 2008. - 352 p.
Big Game: British Empire vs. Russia and the USSR. - M.: AST, 2008. - 319 p.
ideology of sovereignty. From imitation to authenticity. - M.: Izborsky club, Book world, 2014. - 320 pages.
11.10.2018
Leontiev Mikhail Vladimirovich
Russian journalist
JSC Rosneft
Mikhail Leontiev was born on October 12, 1958 in Moscow. The mother of the future journalist Mira Moiseevna worked as a teacher at the Plekhanov Moscow Institute, father Vladimir Yakovlevich was an aircraft designer.
Since childhood, Mikhail Leontiev had a passion for literature - the boy read "drunkenly", he especially liked historical stories and novels. At the age of five, his parents wanted to enroll him in figure skating, but he refused. After school, the guy entered the economic department of the Plekhanov Institute and successfully defended his diploma in 1979. In his student years, he had to earn extra money as a loader.
After high school, Mikhail Leontiev got a job at a research institute and tried his best to deal with the economy. His patience lasted for several years. In 1985, he retired from the research institute, from that moment his life became brighter. The young scientist mastered carpentry, was an ordinary worker at the Literary Institute and a watchman at the dacha of Boris Pasternak.
In 1987, Leontiev became seriously interested in sociology - his first analytical articles were devoted to this topic. Two years later, Mikhail 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.
In 1993, Mikhail Leontiev enthusiastically participated in the development of the concept of the newspaper "Segodnya", later became the deputy editor-in-chief of this publication. But the editorial policy of transformation did not suit him, so he quit the newspaper.
In 1995, Leontiev ran for the Russian State Duma, but lost. During that period, fame came to him. Two years later, he founded the magazine Delo, sponsored the publication by Mikhail Khodorkovsky: however, the pilot issue of the magazine never reached the press.
At the same time, Mikhail Leontiev came to work on television as the host of the daily program “Actually”. Then there was the analytical program "Actually" and cooperation with print media. In 1998, the journalist received the Golden Pen Award.
In early 1999, Leontiev went to work for ORT. He became the permanent host of the Odnako program, and in 2009 the journalist, together with Channel 1, founded the Odnako magazine.
In 2000, during the presidential elections, Mikhail announced his support for the acting head of state, Vladimir Putin. 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, 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 O2 TV channel.
In October 2007, Channel One aired his project "The Great 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 of the following year, Leontiev's book with the same title was published.
In May 2007, Mikhail 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, Leontiev collaborated with the Moulin Rouge magazine.
Since June 2009, together with Channel One, Mikhail 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, he starred in a small role in Stas Mareev's film True Love.
Mikhail Leontiev is a member of the journalistic Serafimov Club. He taught at the non-state Higher School of Management, where the "commissars" of the Nashi movement studied.
In January 2014, Mikhail Leontiev was invited to work at Rosneft, where he was offered to head the information and advertising department.
In May 2016, Rosneft allocated 170 million rubles for the publication of the Odnako magazine with the wording “Providing a sponsorship contribution for the publication of the magazine and the provision of information and advertising services.” At the same time, it was reported that in 2016 only one issue of the magazine was published.
Leontiev is also a co-owner of two technology companies. One of them is a resident of Skolkovo, the alleged main owner of the second is a former official of the Federal Agency for Fishery, accused of fraud in the amount of several hundred million rubles; the business of both is closely connected with government orders. Meduza special correspondents Ivan Golunov and Ilya Zhegulev figured out what these companies are and what Leontiev is doing there.
Leontiev and wing aerodynamics
In the spring of 2013, publicist Mikhail Leontiev made a harsh statement. He defended Skolkovo from attacks by the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Accounts Chamber, which accused the innovation center of inefficiency. In the TV show "However" on Channel One and an article in the magazine of the same name, of which he is the editor-in-chief, Leontiev explained that Skolkovo is the only venture capital fund in the world that does not "take away the project from the developer."Leontiev is well acquainted with the principles of work of Skolkovo. He is a co-owner of one of the fund's residents, the company "Optimenga-777", which is engaged in the aerodynamic design of aircraft wings.
It was founded in 2012 by Sergei Peigin, a graduate of the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Tomsk State University, and his Israeli partner Boris Epshtein. A year later, Mikhail Leontiev became the owner of 10% of the enterprise, and Optimenga-777 received about 80 million rubles from Skolkovo as part of a grant to create a software product that can greatly reduce the cost and time of designing an aircraft wing. The company claimed that the project was "revolutionary": their algorithm solved the wing optimization test problem in 27 hours, and Boeing's programs in 50 days.
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UAC Meduza confirmed that Optimenga performed a number of works on mathematical modeling of structures, but noted that such work is ordered from several companies at once.
“I have known these guys [from Optimeng] since childhood, they are very talented, I tried to help them, but unfortunately there is no business there,” Mikhail Leontiev told Meduza. Nobody likes innovators. It's all tears and groans, no word "business" is applicable to this story. Many people have tried to help in some way, but you cannot act against the system. The system can only produce a "Superjet".
Leontiev and the fishing fleet
Airplanes are not the only area of interest for Mikhail Leontiev. He also has businesses related to water transport. In April 2013, the journalist became a co-founder of the Agro-Marine-LNG company, which designs ships powered by liquefied natural gas. (The fact that Leontiev has shares in Optimenga and Agro-Marine-LNG was also reported by the Dozhd TV channel.)The main owner of Agro-Marina is the British company Valser Oil, which, according to the UK commercial register, belongs to two offshore companies registered in the Marshall Islands: Pintox Systems Limited and Syten Group Limited. Information about the directors and owners of these companies is not disclosed. There are 25 companies registered with the New Zealand Department of Justice alone, established by Pintox and Syten; some of them appeared in scandals related to money laundering through Moldovan banks.
In April 2017, Valser Oil published a notice to include Valery Suraev, an Austrian citizen born in Russia in 1960, on the list of persons influencing the company's activities. This is a man known in the shipbuilding market: in the 2000s, Suraev headed the fishing fleet, ports and ship repair department at the Federal Agency for Fishery. During the inspection of the department in 2010, the Accounts Chamber revealed fraud around a billion rubles, which were received in 2005 for the construction of research ships in the Far East. One of the contracts was won by the Scientific and Production Center for Industrial Fishing, Exploration and Monitoring of Marine Bioresources (NPC), registered in Yaroslavl.
“According to the documents, the scientific ship was built, Suraev signed the acceptance certificate, after which more than 283 million rubles were transferred to the accounts of the NPC,” sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Izvestia. “Then this money disappeared into the accounts of one-day firms.” During the audit of the Accounts Chamber, it turned out that the skeleton of the ship remained standing on the slipway of the plant in Khabarovsk among garbage and scrap metal. Three more unfinished vessels within the framework of the same project never left the stocks of the plant in the Kirov region.
Law enforcement agencies suspected that the real owner of the NPC - Valery Suraev. After the start of the inspection of the Federal Agency for Fishery, he resigned from the civil service and headed this Yaroslavl company. In 2011, as Rosbalt reported, Suraev received a residence permit in Estonia; a year later, a criminal case was initiated against him on suspicion of fraud, and a written undertaking not to leave was taken from the former official. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not respond to Meduza's request about the progress of the investigation.
In 2013, the NPC was declared bankrupt - this happened at the suit of the Marine-Invest company, owned by Valser Oil, which subsequently established Agro-Marine-LNG. Agro-Marine, on the other hand, bought out most of the property of the NPC for a million rubles; in addition, the company wholly owns the Khabarovsk shipbuilding plant.
Mikhail Leontiev knew Valery Suraev long before these events. In the early 2000s, he devoted an entire issue of his author's program on Channel One to the problems of the fishing fleet - and published several columns by Suraev about these problems in the Odnako magazine.
“He came to me [as a journalist] with [fishing] problems and impressed me. I had ten programs on this topic, - Leontiev recalls. “Suraev and I did a very serious thing together - if we now have some kind of fishing left in Russia and some prospects for creating Russian ships, then the country owes this to Valerka Suraev, whom I helped a little.”
Another old acquaintance of Leontiev is the general director of Agro-Marine-LNG - this is Vladimir Koloskov, the former first deputy general director of the Rodionov Publishing House, who published the Krestyanka and FHM magazines that were closed in 2015. Leontiev also worked in the same publishing house - in the late 2000s he headed the Profile magazine for two years.
For the first three years after the creation of Agro-Marine-LNG, it did not show itself in any way. At the end of 2016, the company won two tenders from the Krylov State Research Center for the development and modernization of fishing vessels powered by liquefied natural gas. Both contracts were concluded under the "Purchase from a single supplier" procedure - since their conclusion, according to the documentation, was necessary to prevent accidents and other "force majeure" emergencies.
It took Agro-Marine-LNG just a week to develop projects for two ships - having concluded a state contract on November 25, the company handed over the finished project to the customer on December 2. Kommersant explained that such a rush was explained simply: the work was financed under the federal target program “Development of civil marine equipment for 2009-2016” and officials could not postpone the deadlines for accepting finished work to the next year. As it turned out a little later, the vessels under the Agro-Marina project will be built on the basis of the hulls of those ships that Valery Suraev's companies had not completed.
According to a source familiar with the company's activities, Agro-Marine-LNG planned to take part in the construction of ice-class gas tankers - they are needed to transport liquefied gas along the Northern Sea Route, which Novatek produces in Yamal at the expense of received from the National Welfare Fund.
Gas carriers need about a dozen. The first of them (he was named "Christophe de Margerie" in honor of the head of the Total company who died in a plane crash in Vnukovo) arrived in Yamal at the end of March 2017 from South Korea - however, it is planned that further gas carriers will be built in Russia, at the Far Eastern shipyard Zvezda ". This shipyard is owned by Gazprombank and the Rosneft company, whose press secretary is Mikhail Leontiev. Leontiev himself told Meduza that “there was a project with gas carriers, but I’m not in the know.”
Leontiev claims that he "never received even one penny from these [companies] in his life." “If someone signed me up as a founder for some reason, God will be their judge. I roughly remember what it is about, but I don’t even remember the names of these companies,” he said. - Did I try to help someone? I've tried to help a friend make a movie. Every person in life has attempts to help someone if he is not a complete bastard.
[IA RBC, 05/10/2017, "Mikhail Leontiev turned out to be the owner of a stake in technology companies" : In an interview with RBC, a spokesman for Rosneft called Meduza's publication "about nothing." “There is nothing there, there was nothing and, unfortunately, nothing came of it. Zero rubles, zero kopecks, zero results. Zero everything. And this is very unfortunate. I wish there was something there,” he said.
According to Leontiev, "all stupid allusions" to his financial interests in the companies mentioned in the article are unfounded. “Yes, everything that I got from this, I would personally hand over to Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky. Because it is a lot of hemorrhoids,” he said.
He noted that the activity of the company "Optimenga-777" continues. “People are working, doing something. Serezha Peigin (owns 27.5% of the company - RBC) - he is an applied mathematician of a very high world level. He did it in different countries, he really wanted to do it here. They really do it very well,” he said.
“As for fish, you can see how much I wrote about keel quotas. Some time has been wasted. Now, by the way, we can say that there is a result, because there are keel quotas. What does this have to do with a particular business? None,” added Leontiev. - Inset K.ru] The original of this material
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Mikhail Leontiev owes 233.5 million rubles to Investbank depositors
Sponsorship of 170 million rubles of Rosneft did not correct the situation with the debt of the magazine "However"
Anastasia GorshkovaAs it became known to the Center for Investigation Management (TsUR), the publishing group Press Code, which published the Odnako magazine by Mikhail Leontiev, owes 233.5 million rubles to the depositors of the bankrupt Investbank. There are no signs that this money has been returned: the bailiffs cannot find the publishing house even to collect the tax debt. Earlier, the SDG learned that in May 2015, Rosneft allocated 170 million rubles to support its vice president's troubled publication, after which the magazine closed.
Leontiev's media startup investor was Converse Group father and son Antonov. The expenses for the first year of the project, according to Leontiev, should have been up to $4 million. “We want to turn this project into a commercially successful publication, and we have the opportunity to ride out difficult times,” Leontiev said at a press conference dedicated to the launch of the weekly “ However” in the crisis year of 2009. He also stressed that the investor "insisted on financing the project", despite Leontiev's warnings about the difficulties with advertising and return on investment.
The money was allocated by credit lines of Investbank Antonov Jr. from October 2009 to November 2010. Since December, funding for the journal has ceased, and in early 2011 Vladimir Antonov sold his shares in the bank to its top managers. Apparently, the new shareholders were embarrassed by the media asset, but they managed to agree: the bank received 15% of the publishing house (the share of Channel One), and Snoras-Nedvizhimost LLC was responsible for the loans, 50% of which at that time belonged to Antonov’s business partner, deputy chairman of the board of Academkhimbank Viktor Yampolsky. By 2013, the magazine was published every two months.
According to SPARK, the shareholders of Press Code Publishing Group LLC are Mikhail Leontiev (15%), Ekaterina Sedova (15%), Investbank (15%) and Dukelevel Holdings Limited (55%) registered in Cyprus. In 2009, Leontiev told Kommersant that the majority shareholder is the main investor in the project.
And then in history, as usual, the Central Bank appeared. On December 3, 2013, he revoked the license from Investbank due to the unsatisfactory quality of assets. At that time, the bank ranked 80th among the largest banks in Russia with an asset value of 75.6 billion rubles. It soon became clear that 44 billion rubles would not be enough for the bank to settle accounts with creditors. This record hole size at that time, comparable only to the bankrupt Mezhprombank of Sergei Pugachev. The investment bank was declared bankrupt on March 4, 2014. The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) began searching for assets and collecting receivables. As of the summer of 2016, the DIA managed to return to depositors only 4.1 billion rubles out of 40, in total the bank's debt to creditors is 60.2 billion rubles.
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And here the most interesting begins. The decision came into force on December 30, 2015, but there are no signs that the money was returned to Investbank. An important detail - the representatives of the "Press Code" were not present at the court hearings. According to SPARK, the publishing house has not reported to the tax authorities for more than a year. And according to the database of bailiffs, the enforcement proceedings initiated in August and November 2016 to collect tax debts from Press Code were soon terminated: it is impossible to locate the debtor, his property or obtain information about the money in the accounts (Article 46, Part 4 of this Code). 1 clause 3 of the Federal Law "On Enforcement Proceedings").
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.
He 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 joiner-cabinet worker, but he did not find a permanent job in his specialty. During this period, Leontiev worked as a laborer at 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 Sergey 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 department of economics. 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 II convocation from the 203rd Cheryomushkinsky electoral district of 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 financed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 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 “However” began to appear in March of the same year. . Leontiev explained his departure from TVC by saying that he does not share "the views of those people who own the TV Center." Later, Leontiev led "However" 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.
From November 2001 to December 2002, Leontiev's analytical program Another Time was aired on Channel One, 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 O 2 TV channel. In October 2007, on Channel One, his Big Game project was released - a series of programs dedicated to the history of the confrontation between Russia and Great Britain for dominance in Central Asia in the XIX-XX centuries. In November 2008, Leontiev's book of the same name 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 the magazine Moulin Rouge. Later, answering a question from Ksenia Sobchak regarding the presentation of his creed in this publication, the TV presenter explained:
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, he starred in a small role in Stas Mareev's film True Love.
In the preface to E. Dodolev's book "The View", published in 2011, the beatles of perestroika defined the attitude to the profession:
M. Leontiev is a member of the journalistic Serafim Club, he taught at the non-state Higher School of Management, where the "commissars" of the Nashi movement were trained.
Press Secretary and Vice President of Rosneft
On January 8, 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reported that from January 13, Mikhail Leontyev, 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. Prior to Leontiev, this position was held by the singer and composer Alexei Lebedinsky. Sources of the publication indicated that between Sechin and Leontiev there are long-standing "friendly relations." At the same time, Leontiev remained the host of the program "However" on Channel One. On January 14, Rosneft issued a press release, according to which Leontiev works in the company as a press secretary - director of the information and advertising department with the rank of vice president.
In May 2016, Rosneft allocated 170 million rubles for the publication of the Odnako magazine with the wording “Providing a sponsorship contribution for the publication of the Journal (“Odnako. Business and political magazine”) and the provision of information and advertising services” . At the same time, it was reported that in 2016 only one issue of the magazine was published. The politician and shareholder of Rosneft Alexei Navalny in January 2017 (then information about the fact got into the media) said that he would ask the company for the relevant documents, since he “doesn’t like the story at all.” Mikhail Leontiev himself said that the allocated money was spent on the website of the magazine "However", which had "2 million individual visitors at the best time".
In January 2017, Leontiev cursed the journalists of Dozhd and the BBC Russian Service with foul language. Leontiev was irritated by their question about the legality of the use of a car with a special signal by the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin. The press noted that the cheeky style of communication with the media of the press secretary of Rosneft became the subject of criticism many times.
Relations with the Ukrainian authorities
After the journalist became "persona non grata" in Latvia, he was banned from entering (July 14, 2006) and Ukraine. Later, the ban was lifted, and in September 2007, Mikhail, together with his colleague Yevgeny Dodolev (who acted as a publisher), launched the Russian-language version of the German weekly Der Spiegel (“Der Spiegel-Profile”) in Ukraine, which became a notable event on the Ukrainian media market.
The magazine was launched on the basis that “the quality of content in Ukraine lags far behind Russian requirements”, and it was stated that, in concept, this is 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 was an online version of the publication.
In August 2014, Leontiev was included by Ukraine in the sanctions list of Russian journalists.
Socio-political views
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 radical liberal views, primarily in the field of economics, which predetermined his opposition to the communists in the 1996 elections and the government headed by Yevgeny Primakov in 1998-1999. Criticized the left ideology. In February 1998, Leontiev became a laureate of the Adam Smith Prize, established by Gaidar "for criticizing liberal politics from the standpoint of liberalism." Leontiev himself called the Gaidar reform "shock therapy under anesthesia" [ ] .
In earlier writings, Leontiev also called for the abandonment of the "imperial burden", warning against attempts to restore the "empire".
Leontiev also repeatedly spoke out in support of Augusto Pinochet, whom he considered a consistent, albeit cruel politician. Leontiev believes that Pinochet carried out an exemplary economic reform in Chile, creating "an efficiently functioning social system, built on a truly liberal principle."
He outlined his political creed in 2007 in his article for the almanac "Moulin Rouge":
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 does, for example, Tarantino. 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 well-known novels about politics the theme “ How power destroys a person».
Awards and prizes
Bibliography
- However, hello! - M., 2005.
- However, goodbye! - M., 2005.
- Fortress Russia: farewell to liberalism, "Yauza", 2005. - 189 p. (co-authored)
- Is Russia in danger of an “orange revolution”? - M., 2005.
- Internal enemy: The defeatist "elite" is destroying Russia - M., 2005.
- Leontiev M.V., Zhukov D.A. “Independent” Georgia: A bandit in a tiger skin. - M.: Yauza, 2008. - 352 p.
- Big Game: British Empire vs. Russia and the USSR. - M.: AST, 2008. - 319 p.
- ideology of sovereignty. From imitation to authenticity. - M.: Izborsky club, Book world, 2014. - 320 pages.
Filmography
- Real love.
Family
Married with a second marriage to Maria Kozlovskaya. From the first marriage with the poetess and philologist Natalia Azarova - son Dmitry (works on the O2TV channel), daughter Elena and two grandchildren. From his second marriage, Leontiev has a daughter, Daria (1999).
Notes
- Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev: biography
- Leontiev, Mikhail (indefinite) . Lenta.ru. Date of treatment December 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 25, 2012.
- Mikhail LEONTIEV: “We can be proud of the fact that after the madness we came to ourselves” (indefinite) . Komsomolskaya Pravda (October 9, 2008).
- Leontiev Mikhail Vladimirovich (indefinite) . Institute for the Economy in Transition. Date of treatment December 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012.
- Mikhail Leontiev (indefinite) . First channel. Date of treatment December 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 25, 2012.
- Politics as reception art (indefinite) . Art cinema (May 1, 1998).
- Mikhail Leontiev left Sokolov for Nevzorov (indefinite) . Komsomolskaya Pravda (October 31, 2001).
- HOWEVER, EVERYTHING, THE SAME, ALTHOUGH, AND ANOTHER TIME (indefinite) . Novaya Gazeta (November 26, 2001).
- Mikhail Leontiev: "I have the right "to load" (indefinite) . Izvestia (July 12, 2002).
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However, Rosneft
Kirill Melnikov, Ivan Safronov, Natalia KorchenkovaRosneft will have a new vice president for PR. A well-known journalist will supervise the external relations of the company Mikhail Leontiev. At the same time, Mr. Leontiev will retain his own projects: he will continue to host the Odnako program on Channel One, as well as publish a magazine of the same name.
From January 13, journalist Mikhail Leontiev will become an adviser to the president of Rosneft in the rank of vice president for PR, sources close to the company, the government and the presidential administration told Kommersant. Rosneft itself declined to comment. Mr. Leontiev told Kommersant that "while there is no official information, there is no point in commenting on anything."
The post of adviser and vice president for PR at Rosneft is being created under Mr. Leontiev. He will oversee the activities of the Department of Information and Advertising. At the moment, it is headed by the former editor-in-chief of the REN TV channel Vladimir Tyulin, he is also the press secretary of Rosneft. Kommersant's interlocutors do not know how their powers will be redistributed. Kommersant's sources say that between the president of the state company Igor Sechin and Mikhail Leontiev have a long-standing "friendly relationship". “Leontiev is a well-known person, Igor Ivanovich likes to invite such people to work,” one of Kommersant’s interlocutors said. In particular, for example, the integration committee of Rosneft, which was involved in the takeover of TNK-BP, included the author of the cult book Production, Daniel Yergin. “Leontiev is known as a journalist, now Igor Ivanovich was choosing PR people with a big name for himself, there were other candidates. But what kind of PR manager Mr. Leontiev will be is not at all clear, ”said one of the interlocutors of Kommersant.
Last year, one of the main targets for criticism in Mikhail Leontiev's programs was Gazprom and the chairman of the company's board Alexey Miller. In his question during Vladimir Putin's "straight line" in April, Mr. Leontiev accused Mr. Miller that the gas company is ignoring the "shale revolution", while "losing markets and capitalization".
Formally, the appointment to the positions of top managers of the largest company in the country does not require coordination with the presidential administration, but they are aware of the arrival of Mikhail Leontiev in Rosneft. A Kommersant source close to the company said that "PR specialists of this level are always coordinated, this is standard practice." “If Igor Ivanovich is confident that Mikhail Leontiev will be able to benefit the company, then he, as the president of Rosneft, vouches for this decision,” said a senior official in the presidential administration.
At the same time, Mikhail Leontiev will continue to engage in journalism, Kommersant sources say: he will remain the host of the Odnako program on Channel One, which comes out twice a week. The press service of the channel officially confirmed this information to Kommersant. “There is nothing unusual in such a combination, it happens so often. It is difficult to combine, taking into account the total style of work of Rosneft, but it is quite possible, ”one of the interlocutors of Kommersant said. According to Kommersant's information, the issue of continuing Mr. Leontiev's career on television was a matter of principle. “This was also discussed at a separate meeting between Igor Sechin and the CEO of Channel One. Konstantin Ernst, which took place before the New Year, ”said one of the interlocutors of Kommersant. In addition, Mikhail Leontiev will continue to publish his own magazine, Odnako. He is also the author of the program on Mayak radio, nothing is known about her future yet.
Some of Kommersant's interlocutors believe that the arrival of Mr. Leontiev at Rosneft may indicate the plans of the state-owned company to create its own media holding. However, Kommersant sources close to her refute this. “The company does not need this, it is engaged in oil and gas production,” one of Kommersant's interlocutors said.
[AAV Sr., 01/08/2014, "Back in 2007..." : Back in 2007, Mikhail Leontiev, in a conversation with me, complained that Putin had chosen Medvedev, not Sechin, as his successor.
“That would be a president!” he exclaimed.
Now he himself is Igor Ivanovich's vice-president.
Sechin does not forget neither good nor bad. - Inset K.ru]
[Kirill Shulika, 01/08/2014: Misha can only be hired for one job - as a drinking buddy. Just if an adviser, then it is logical to call and pass a glass in the boss's office. If the vice-president for PR, then this is completely fucked up, moreover, fucked up. But no less f*ck is Tyulin in PR. Who has forgotten, he headed the criminal editorial office of NTV. On the other hand, Sechin does not need PR, he has slightly different functions and positions. Accordingly, you can just put good people on the budget. True, judging by the names of the vice-presidents, he does not need personnel in the company, because the person responsible for them in the position of Sechin's deputy is the former head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Kalinin. - Inset K.ru]
What is Mikhail Leontiev famous for?
Private bussiness
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontiev was born on October 12, 1958 in Moscow. In 1979 he graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of National Economy with a degree in labor economics.He worked at the Moscow Institute of Economic Problems, where, in his own words, he tried to "deal with the real Soviet economy." In 1985 he graduated from vocational school with a degree in cabinet-making. He worked as a laborer at the Literary Museum, guarded Boris Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino, was a history tutor, and wrote analytical articles on sociology.
Since the end of 1989, he worked in the politics department of the Kommersant newspaper, at the same time collaborating with Sergey Kurginyan's Experimental Creative Center and the Riga newspaper Atmoda. In 1990, he became a section editor at Nezavisimaya Gazeta, then was the first deputy editor-in-chief of the Business MN weekly. In 1993, he took part in the creation of the Segodnya newspaper, where he later worked as first deputy editor-in-chief. In December 1995, as an independent candidate, he unsuccessfully ran for the State Duma of the second convocation. Since April 1997 - the head and presenter of the program "Actually" on the channel "TV Center". At the same time, he hosted the Seventh Day program and was the head of the TV channel's socio-political programs service. Since the beginning of 1999, he has been the author and host of the Odnako program on Channel One (formerly ORT), in 2009 he became the founder of the magazine of the same name. From 2007 to 2009 he was the editor-in-chief of the Profile magazine.
Member of the United Russia party. Laureate of the Golden Pen of Russia award.
In terms of loaf [Leontiev] was a real legend of the 1990s
The original of this material© 09.06.2010
Orgy of patriotism
[...]Sokolova At this point, I would like to change the subject a little and talk, so to speak, about the genesis, the formation of your so amazing for us, glamorous girls, but coinciding with the folk system of values. After all, Mikhail, you were by no means always a pillar of the ideas of statehood. Quite the opposite! You started with extremely liberal views. At the end of the scoop, they guarded Pasternak's dacha in the company of practically dissidents ...
Leontiev The Pasternak Museum does not commit to anything ideological.
Sokolova It's true! But then you were friends with the main liberals of the 90s - Aven, Glazyev, Kagalovsky. You worked for Gusinsky in the Segodnya newspaper, negotiated with Khodorkovsky on the creation of the Delo newspaper.
Leontiev I was an economic liberal, because who else could be a person who was undereducated by the Soviet economic school? I always felt like a political conservative, but I was a radical economic liberal. I now believe that Samuelson's tutorial works!
Sokolova Or maybe it's not just the venerable Samuelson? Legends were told about your income from Mr. Gusinsky in the Segodnya newspaper. According to your colleagues, you were entitled to $50,000 a month just for entertainment expenses - and this, mind you, was almost 20 years ago, at a time far from oil stability. While statesmen in the 90s were by no means popular. The ideology of "protection" was not capitalized.
Leontiev All this is nonsense. I told you that my views have changed. Being an economic liberal, I saw, figuratively speaking, only this napkin, but then I saw, as it were, the whole table.
Sobchak But still it's somehow... suspicious. I personally don't trust communists who suddenly start going to church, or Marxists who suddenly become liberals.
Sokolova And I personally believe in Michael! Everything shows that he is an ideological person and money is not the main thing for him. In the magical world of real statesmen, there are things more important than money. Tell me, Mikhail, is it true that you have been drinking vodka every day for the last 30 years?
Leontiev No. Not every.
Sokolova I think you are being modest. I was told that you were a real legend of the 90s in terms of busha! American correspondent Cary Goldberg still cannot forget how in 1992, it seems, you fell to the floor and fell asleep drunk in her room. And what about the apartment on Vernadsky Prospekt, which you shared with Andrei Babitsky, the star of Radio Liberty, who took a scandalous interview with Basayev and is now an enemy of Russia?! According to your friends, it was a desperate, months-long alcohol trip. They say that at some of your booze, Babitsky got drunk to the point that he uprooted the toilet bowl in the toilet and then for a long time you relieved yourself in the yard.
Leontiev I don't remember the toilet. I was drunk - I forgot.
Sokolova They also say you didn't miss a single skirt. And the girls willingly gave you, because in the early 90s you were a fashionable guy, you were shown on TV and there was a credit card in your pocket with a monthly half a dollar for representative. They say that one girl even jumped out of the window because of you...
Leontiev Not a single girl threw herself out the window because of me - I officially declare. Although I do prefer drinking girls.
Sobchak Why?
Leontiev They don't remember bad things.
Sokolova And if they accidentally remember, they are thrown out of the windows. But, fortunately, alcoholic amnesia is a disease that often affects representatives of the imperial nation of both sexes.
Leontiev The Lord or nature has awarded me with a unique organism. In general, the relationship with alcohol is an individual thing. There are a lot of decent people, more moral and worthy than me, who have a difficult relationship with alcohol. What is a binge? This is pure biochemistry. The person is not to blame.
Sokolova That is, according to Dovlatov: "I drink every day, and I also have binges."
Leontiev I don't get drunk! As I said, I have a unique organism. I have never in my life been late for an important meeting, I have not ripped off a single broadcast. I worked on the daily air for a very serious time and worked in a daily newspaper, where I wrote two or three texts per issue. Never missed a deadline in my life.
Sokolova Bravo! Not many manage to match. Alcoholism is a full time job.
Leontiev Since I work at a frantic pace, my brain is constantly occupied with what I am working on. In order to rest, you need to somehow unload your brains, you need to turn them off in order to sleep and not come up with texts in your sleep. I found a way, nature allows me to relax in this way.
Sokolova But for a public person, drinking almost every day is simply dangerous. Serious reputational losses are possible.
Leontiev I agree. I remember one day I came to Transnistria to see General Lebed. Well, in the evening I went to a tavern there, met a man, drank. In the morning he came to the general not quite fresh. And he kicked me out. I had to go back in the evening.
Sokolova This is when you went to persuade Lebed to become a Russian Pinochet?
Leontiev Nothing like this! About Pinochet - it's different. I made a film about the general.
Sokolova They say you told Putin the same story. That, they say, V.V. is the Russian Pinochet, the savior of the Fatherland. They told.
Leontiev I do not know anything.
Sokolova And I also heard that the Chechens sentenced you to death because you snatched a machine gun from a soldier somewhere from a butt and fired a burst in the room.
Leontiev This nonsense was written by yellow newspapers.
Sokolova Come on, be modest! For example, it is now clear to me why all the girls gave you in the 90s! After meeting you, the image of a statesman literally shone with new unknown facets. But you probably have a hard time with such views in the 2000s.
Leontiev Why?
Sokolova The trend has changed. You know, the cult of health, muscles, beauty fascism, fitness clubs. But most importantly, the image of a pretty drunk has lost its relevance. I'm afraid that being an alcoholic statesman is now even less prestigious than belonging to the Kasparov-Kasyanov camarilla. Moreover, according to rumors, the love of a glass cost you a personal friendship with Putin. Vladimir Vladimirovich, as you know, cannot stand drunkards.
Leontiev Vladimir Vladimirovich controls himself very well, therefore he appears before those around him exactly in the form in which he wants to appear.
Sokolova That is, you want to say that the prime minister is secretly applied?
Sobchak Here I can say as an eyewitness! The great advantage of the St. Petersburg team is a negative attitude towards alcohol. In this, the "Petersburgers" are the absolute opposite of the crazy Yeltsin times.
Leontiev And I think that drinking is not shameful. Now, if Lesha Kudrin drank, he would be more useful!
Sobchak After talking with you, I became convinced that there is a direct relationship between the position of a statesman and vodka. People who theorize a lot and strongly on the topic of the state, as a rule, drink bitter.
Leontiev I am the flesh of the flesh of my people - my people drink, and therefore, like that drinking girl, they do not remember the bad, but remember that the state is good.
Sokolova Michael, you are a great theorist! And most importantly, a godsend for the interviewer. You do not have to pull anything out of you with tongs, you have brilliantly formulated everything yourself! Probably the glass we caught you drinking helped you...
Leontiev A year ago, I put forward the concept of an anti-crisis policy, which our government is implementing in practice, although it is not actually recognized as such.
Sokolova Should everyone drink "liquid from corns"?
Leontiev Not so radical. Let the people go on a drinking binge during the crisis. It also provides a solution to the main problems! First, social tension is completely destroyed. Secondly, there is a complete import substitution, because an elementary snack is the only thing that our national economy is able to produce.
Sokolova Great plan! I have only one remark. Don't you think that you are acting in the spirit of the "theoreticians of fascism"? Are you sending people on a binge, although you yourself have never been in it?
Leontiev Such is my body!
Sokolova And to suffer for the sake of the Fatherland?
Leontiev Why not? I think I deserve a drink.
