Biography
Sergey Loyko in Russian society knows as a journalist and military photocondant. He expresses a personal position in relation to the political events of Ukraine, due to which it is classified as opposition ranks. In recent years, he moved away from journalism and became a writer. His books are prohibited to release in Russia, but they are published by large circulations in foreign publishing houses.Childhood and youth
Loyko was born on February 26, 1953 in the capital of the Finnish province of South Savo, in the city of Mikkeli. Who is his parents - no information. In the controversy with a subscriber in Facebook, he calls himself an "Moskvich in the tenth knee". In the same social network, Sergey Leonidovich wrote that his father and mother were not particularly remarkable people. In an interview with Gordon's publication, a journalist says that he had a very difficult childhood and her youth.
According to the nationality of the journalist, there is also no accurate information. In one source it is written that he is Russian, in another - has a Jewish origin. Sergey Leonidovich has American citizenship.
In 1978, an internship in England was among the best students of the Institute of Foreign Languages. There he tried to work as a bartender, for which he was withdrawn from the country and were excluded from Komsomol and university.
Worked by the adjuster at the second Moscow time plant and a loader in the metropolitan northern river port. The former student could not get anywhere else. Then Sergey gradually finished the mine named after N. K. Krupskaya (Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute). After that, through a friend, he managed to get into the English special school, where he worked for 9 years.
The ranks of the Soviet army was called. It was possible to serve in the Far East, in the Amur region, in the rocket troops of the strategic appointment. A few years later, Loyko spends 2 months in the officer camps of the Ryazan Tent School. The experience gained later will be useful to him in military journalism and when working on books.
In his biography there is an interesting case of collaboration on the set of the American film "Red Heat" with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Loyko was a movie star translator.
Journalism
In 1988, a close friend offers Loyko to try himself as a translator at the Associated Press agency. After a month, he writes the first article. Then during the year there is a producer in the English television company TV / AM GOOD MORNING, BRITAIN.
In 1991, it begins to cooperate as a translator, correspondent and photographer with American newspaper Los Angeles Times. Here, in the Moscow Bureau, Sergey Leonidovich worked until 2016. The main specialization of the journalist is the coverage of military-political events in the territory of the former USSR and far abroad. Also cooperates with the editors of the New Gazeta.
In 2003, he put forward a prize of the Union of Journalists for Military Reports from Baghdad. Articles and records have become the basis for the book "Shock and Trepps. War in Iraq, "which came out in the same year.
Large resonance called Loyko at the press conference Vladimir Putin in 2012 on Sergei Magnitsky, more precisely, the law that prohibits Americans to adopt children from Russian orphanages. In his opinion, for sick children, life in the US would be much happier.
Next year, Sergey asks another question to the President of the country on the hypothetical conclusion of the Russian troops from the Crimea. After the appeal, the flurry of critics collapsed to Loyko, and he himself called clown. Sergey Leonidovich explained that he asked questions not as a journalist, but as a citizen, and wanted to hear "living" answers, and not learned phrases.
In 2014, Loyko writes articles about the conflict in the east of Ukraine. Next year, the presentation of the book "Airport" is held in Kiev. It is called artistic fiction based on real facts. The novel describes a small passage of time from the 240-day confrontation of the Ukrainian military in the airport. Hollywood producers appealed to the Writer on the screening of the novel, but he refused.
The "Airport" photos of Sergei Loyko were reprinted by world publications and put forward to the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press Photo. In 2015, he is awarded the American Prize Overseas Press Club Bob Considine Award. In September 2016, an exhibition of famous photographs opened in the Saharov Center, which acted only one day and was destroyed by activists.
In 2017, another book of the Writer "Flight" is published. Sergey Leonidovich gives his vision of events around the Boeing passenger aircraft over the territory of Ukraine.
Loyko collaborates with the Ukrainian channel "Direct". In 2018, two documentaries are published: 4-serial "Hybrid War" and "Bloody Apartment". The first is investigating such a thing as fake news, their influence on society and consequences. In the second, the journalist understands the history of the pardon Lviv real estate of Lyubov Kushinsky. She became the first woman in Ukraine, which was given a lifelong conclusion.
Personal life
Sergey Leonidovich - Widower. His feftye wife Anastasia Stepanovna died in June 2014 from cancer. In marriage, which lasted 37 years, the son of Stepan was born, he is the last name of the mother. It is known that the spouse of the journalist was from an old famous kind. Her Praprapraded was the governor of St. Petersburg and the teacher of Paul's first.
Talking about the personal life, the journalist does not hide bitterness from the loss. In the Donetsk airport, he drove immediately after Anastasia's death and there, he said, did not even try to hide from bullets and explosions, climbed under the foe. It believes that the success of his photographs lies in this.
"You know, this war took the most expensive person in my life. If Nastya was alive, I would never go to the airport, "he says.Stepan lives with family in America, has children.
Sergey Loyko now
Now Sergey Leonidovich happens in Russia, it works in Ukraine, visits in the United States. As a political scientist and writer constantly participates in a political talk show on radio and television.
The last appearance in April 2019 the program "Place of Meeting" on the NTV television channel again attracted attention. After the speech of Loyko, the live broadcast unexpectedly left the leading Andrei Norkin, who at the very end said that because of such speeches he could stay without work. Later, the official cause of sharp care was voiced - worsening health.
In Stagram, Sergei Loyko is not, but it is active on a personal page in Facebook. Discusses events and communicates with subscribers. Here, too, did not cost without a scandal, when in the summer of 2018 he died with a journalist Arkady Babchenko. Loyko called the opponent with a sofa hero, and he in turn was obscenely expressed to his address. Swimming of two military journalists poured into news tapes and became the subject of disputes and discussions of the public.
Bibliography
- 2003 - "Shock and trepidation. War in Iraq "
- 2015 - "Airport"
- 2017 - "Flight"
Filmography
- 2018 - "Hybrid Story"
- 2018 - "Bloody Apartment"