Dobrodeev Oleg Borisovich - General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company: biography, career

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A well-known Russian journalist, media manager and co-founder of a number of television companies - NTV, Most Media and NTV Plus, Oleg Borisovich Dobrodeev - currently heads the All-Russian Television and Radio Company (FSUE VGTRK). The journalist is also a member of the Russian academies of cinematographic arts, sciences and television.

Oleg Dobrodeev: biography, origins

The future journalist was born in the capital of Russia, in the family of Boris Dobrodeev, on October 28, 1959. His father worked for many years as a screenwriter and was awarded the Lenin Prize. Interest in television and journalism was formed in the early years.

The start of the journey

Oleg Dobrodeev was educated at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, at the same time the future Russian politician Konstantin Zatulin, the future NTV presenter Vladimir Kara-Murza, famous historians Alexei Levykin and Elena Osokina studied at the faculty.

In 1981, the future mediathe manager graduated from Moscow State University, the next year he entered graduate school at the Institute of the International Labor Movement. After completing his studies, he did not defend his dissertation, as he did not show interest in the topic of scientific work proposed by the leadership of the university.

Beginning of a working biography

Oleg Borisovich begins his career immediately after graduating from the university at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Works as a researcher at the university.

Television work

Since 1983, Oleg Dobrodeev began a long period of work on television. He begins his career in journalism as an ordinary editor at the Central Television of the State Radio and Television of the Soviet Union. At this moment, Dobrodeev gains invaluable experience that will be useful to him for the implementation of many of his projects.

During the seven years of work here, Oleg Dobrodeev was a commentator in the Vremya program, as well as a correspondent and presenter of the 120 Minutes program, worked as deputy chief editor in the information service.

During these years, a talented journalist comes up with various initiatives to improve the work of TV. In particular, in 1989, together with Alexander Tikhomirov and Eduard Sagalaev, Dobrodeev proposed to create a daily informational and journalistic TV show "Seven Days" on the channel. The program did not last long, in early 1990 its release was banned at the direction of the secretariat of the Communist Party and the leadership of the central television. The reason for this decision was two reports on howSoviet troops in Baku. The author of the plots was Oleg Dobrodeev. In 1990, the journalist takes an active part in the creation of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

1990-1991 occupies the post of director of the information program "Vesti". This program, according to many authoritative experts, in the early nineties was considered a kind of know-how in ways of providing news information, significantly different from the Vremya program. Since October 1991, he has been the head of the editorial office of TAI, a television information agency at the All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, which in 1992 was reformatted into the Ostankino TV and Radio Company.

Work on NTV

Oleg Borisovich Dobrodeev is rightfully considered one of the founders of the leading domestic channel NTV. The formation of the channel was preceded by the creation in 1992 of the weekly analytical program "Itogi", which was initiated jointly with Evgeny Kiselev. First, the information and analytical program goes on the air of Ostankino, but the very next year the creators of Itogi, together with Alexei Tsyvarev and Igor Malyshenko, establish a limited liability partnership of the same name.

In turn, on 1993-14-07, Itogi LLP initiated the creation of the NTV channel. In the new structure, Oleg Dobrodeev holds the position of vice president of the company and heads the editorial office of the information service. In the same year, an agreement was concluded with the St. Petersburg fifth channel, that NTV programs would be broadcast onthis resource. At the end of the year, NTV receives its frequencies for broadcasting.

Oleg Dobrodeev's activity on NTV was highly productive. In tandem with like-minded people, a high-quality and popular information product was created, which quickly brings the channel to the forefront in broadcasting.

Dobrodeev brought many of his colleagues from Ostankino with him to the new television. Among them are presenters and correspondents: Mikhail Osokin, Tatyana Mitkova, Vladimir Luskanov and Alexander Gerasimov.

Creation of a number of channels, activities in a media holding

In 1996, the media manager established CJSC NTV-plus together with a team of like-minded people. And already at the beginning of the next year, on the initiative of Dobrodeev, Media Bridge was organized, chaired by businessman Vladimir Gusinsky. Then, on the basis of Media-Most, an NTV holding arose as part of such television companies: NTV, NTV-Kino, TNT, NTV-Plus, radio station Ekho Moskvy, Bonum-1, NTV-Profit, "NTV-Design". In the newly formed structure, Oleg Borisovich becomes one of the leaders, in particular, he holds the post of general director of the NTV television company.

As General Director of VGTRK

In 2000, Dobrodeev leaves NTV and went to work at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and was appointed chairman of this organization. The media environment perceived the departure from NTV and the transition to Russian television as a sensation, which instantly scattered across all TV channels, including NTV.

The journalist himself did not specifically say about the reasons for the termination of cooperation with NTV, stoppingon the wording of disagreement with the policy of the channel's management. According to a number of media sources, the reason for the disagreement concerned the unwillingness of the owner of the company, media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky, to support the second Chechen war on television, which helped to increase the political rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Since April 2000, Dobrodeev also heads the editorial board of the electronic media on the Russia TV channel and the state company Vesti.

In April 2001, in the midst of a scandal involving the participation of NTV management in a corruption case, he resigned, which was rejected by the head of state.

In July 2004, Dobrodeev became the General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (FSUE VGTRK). The appointment to a new position was evidence of the need for reforms in the organization. Russian television was supposed to reach a qualitatively new level, and a qualified media manager was supposed to help in this matter, and Dobrodeev at that time was the best candidate for the position.

As a result of the reform, a number of subsidiaries, such as state-owned TV and radio companies in the Russian regions, Kultura and Rossiya channels, some radio stations (Mayak, Radio Rossii, Mayak-24 and many others, and there were more than ninety) became branches of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

Figurant of a number of sanctions lists

For expressing his opinion on a number of geopolitical issues, the activities of some politicians appear in the lists of sanctions and Oleg Dobrodeev:

• For expressing a position on the annexation of Crimea to Russia, andalso for assessing the events related to the armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine, the journalist was included in the sanctions list by the Ukrainian authorities.
• Russian oppositionists represented by Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Kasyanov initiated the inclusion of Dobrodeev and some other heads of federal channels in the "Nemtsov list". The accusations of the oppositionists were as follows: inciting hatred, propaganda against the politician Boris Nemtsov, which, in their opinion, led to his death. The persons included in this list are proposed not to be allowed into the United States of America, to freeze their financial assets.

Browser Family

The journalist was married only once. Together with his wife Marina Arnoldovna, they raised their son Boris. Almost nothing is known about Boris Dobrodeev himself.

Dmitry Borisovich Dobrodeev, brother of a media manager, born in 1950, writer, orientalist and translator, lives in the Czech Republic. He wrote a number of works, including "Journey to Tunisia", "Return to the Union" and a number of others.

Achievements of a journalist

The contribution of a journalist to the development of the media space is highly appreciated both at the state level and among various public organizations. Since 1995, Oleg Borisovich has been a member of the Academy of Russian Television. In 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia. For his many years of journalistic activity, Dobrodeev was awarded various distinctions, both domestic and foreign.

Recognition

What are Oleg Dobrodeev's awards and prizes:

• Order of Honor - awarded in 1999.
• Thanks from the President of the Russian Federation (2007, 2008).
• Two Orders of Merit to the Fatherland of the third and fourth degrees (2010, 2006).
• Awards of the Russian Orthodox Church: Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (second class in 2014) and Right-believing Prince Danil of Moscow (second class in 2007).
• Order of Merit of the French Republic - 2001
• Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for educational activities and popularization of culture and achievements of science (2011)

During my spare time…

He is fond of reading memoirs and fiction, and also prefers watching documentaries. The journalist loves outdoor activities and sports; he considers playing billiards to be his hobby. He is fond of learning foreign languages. Knows French and English.

On the place and role of journalism in the life of society, on interaction with politics

In his numerous interviews, discussing the role of journalism, Dobrodeev pays great attention to the role of the information service, both on television and in the life of society as a whole. “Information dictates the way and style of life, disciplines, helps to quickly make the right decisions,” the journalist notes in an interview with Kommersant.

Oleg Dobrodeev is skeptical about the opportunity for a journalist to engage in political activities, believing that politics makes a person dependent. Alsonoted in an interview that he did not know an example of a journalist leaving for politics. He was outraged by the news that he was on the Western sanctions list. What caused the sanctions against Oleg Dobrodeev is still not known.

Throughout his career, the journalist himself tried to distance himself from politics. But at the same time, the media manager is convinced that newsmen should try to cooperate with the authorities, otherwise it will be difficult for them to convey information to the masses and, thus, they will not be able to fulfill their main mission.