Biography
Alexander Lyubimov - Soviet and Russian television journalist and TV host. It was one of the creators of the first Russian independent television company "VID". Also leads political activities.Childhood and youth
Alexander was born in London. By nationality he is Russian. In Great Britain
At that time, his father Mikhail Lyubimov served, colonel of foreign intelligence. Mother Ekaterina Vishnevskaya received an acting education and played on stage. Grandfather on the motherboard was a director.
Three years after the birth of the son, the family returned to Moscow. And when Sasha was six, the parents divorced. Mother and stepfather were engaged in the further education of young loved. Alexander had complete freedom of action, which allowed the boy a lot of time to devote various sports and heavy rock, officially forbidden in the country.
In his youth, the young man entered the prestigious university - MGIMO, where he received a specialty of an economist-international. The Institute of Lots, perfectly mastered English, French and Danish languages, although during his studies he had to earn money by the translator and even a loader on the Mikoyan meat processing plant.
By distribution, Alexander was supposed to go to the service in Denmark, to the Soviet embassy in this Scandinavian country. But Lyubimov refused and decided to find a job independently. As a result, the young man begins the journalist's way. After 12 years, he will again sit at the desk and graduates from the course "manager of the election campaign and a political consultant" at Harvard University in the United States.
Journalism
In 1985, Alexander Lyubimov came to the "Gosperary" in the department of Scandinavian countries. At the "Radio of Moscow", the young man conducted a transfer in Danish and worked there for about two years. Then the journalist got a correspondent for television, and soon, together with Vladislav Leaves, Dmitry Zakharov and Oleg Vakulovsky began to conduct a rating program of the end of the 80s - "Look". Most of the compatriots believed that this transfer not only changed the attitude of citizens to television, but also became a symbol of perestroika, and also taught people to express an opinion openly.At the end of 1990, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigned. The journalists were going to show the plot about it in the "glance", but the authorities banned such material, and the initiators were fired from the channel.
Lyubimov, together with his colleague, Alexander Politkovsky decided to produce the author's programs from the underground and distribute on video tags. But this enterprise did not justify itself: the underground "ether" turned out to be less sharp and topical than official.
In 1992, Alexander returned to Ostankino, where he led the "Red Square" transmission, and then the author's "look with Alexander Lyubimov". At about the same time, became the co-founder and president of the VID television company and, together with Ivan Demidov, produced various show programs of this channel. A few years later, Lyubimov returned to the duties of the producer and began to promote the reality show "The Last Hero" and other projects.
As TV presenter, Alexander Mikhailovich was the face of the gear "one on one", "here and now", "Senate", "Name Russia". In addition to television projects, under the leadership of Lyubimov, a number of paintings came out, among which the Russian-Chinese series "And the dawns here are quiet ...", the TVils "Barvikha", "plot", "fatal fight", "Department" S.S.S. " " and others.
In 2011, Alexander Lyubimov took an invitation from the creators of the information and analytical channel "RBC-TV" and became his general director, and in a year he took over the duties of the chief editor of the channel.
In 2014, the media space occurred a scandal associated with a significant reduction in the interview with Pavel Klimkina, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which he gave the RBC-TV journalist. Ukrainian media drew attention to this fact. Alexander Lyubimov, in his commentary, noted that the "RBC-TV" regularly decreases interviews of politicians, regardless of state affiliation.
In October 2014, Alexander Lyubimov ceased cooperation with the TV channel in the previous position, without leaving the Board of Directors. At the same time, loved ones returned to activities in the company "VID".
In the fall of 2017, a popular show "Wait for me" has happened on the NTV television channel, which since 1999 has been broadcast on the first channel. The producer of the program this time was Alexander Lyubimov. The TV journalist stood at the origins of the birth of the transfer. In 1998, together with Sergey Bodrov, the younger on the broadcast of the "Look" of Lyubimov received applications for finding missing people. Then the idea of creating a separate program dedicated to the burning topic was born. Since 2014, I loved the creation of the project. In the same year, Ksenia Alferov and Alexander Galibin came to change Mary Shukshina and Mikhail Efremov to the TV presenters. In 2017, Sergey Shakurov, Julia Vysotskaya, and founder of the search and rescue squad of Lisa Alert, were chosen instead of the new leading the leaders.
Now Alexander Lyubimov, in addition to television activities, has become known as the author-publicist. Together with Camille Akhmetov in 2017, the producer released the book "VID on the craft: how to turn the talent in the capital," which revealed some facts of the journalistic biography and spoke about the methods of creating a high-quality media product that will be interested in the viewer. The release of the publication is timed to the 30th anniversary of the creation of the "Look" program.
In the same year, Alexander starred in the film Yuri Dudya, who was dedicated to the actor Sergey Bodrov. In the interview, Lyubimov said that he was he who noticed a young actor and invited to the "look." However, Svetlana Bodrova refuted his words:
"I looked at the movie and heard it all this ears. And it was outraged me. And my mother souls also indignant. "According to her, Artist noticed Sergey Kushner. A little later, the journalist visited the program "Alone with everyone".
In October 2018, Alexander Lyubimov became the Deputy Chairman of the Growth Party and its federal secretary. This decision was made at an extraordinary party congress. In this political association also includes a musician Sergey Shnurov and Artist Nikolay Fomenko. The main purpose of the party is the protection of entrepreneurs.
Personal life
The first wife Alexander Lyubimova became TV presenter Tatyana Pushkin. Journalists got acquainted in the cafeteria of the Ostankino TV Bashni, and after a week Alexander made Tatiana proposal.
At first, family life was similar to idyll. The spouse blown the dust from Tatiana and treated her son from the first marriage - Nikita. But then the conflicts in the family began to exacerbate, and two years after the wedding, loved and Pushkin broke up. It is noteworthy that Tatiana has been avoiding meetings and communication with her ex-husband.
The second wife of the TV host became Natalia Yurievna Kunikova, a translator and a teacher of Japanese. By the way, the grandfather of the current wife of Lyubimov is the hero of the Soviet Union Caesar Kunikov, the commander of the landing squad, who seized the bridgehead "Small Earth" during the Great Patriotic War. Natalia and Alexander, three sons were born in their years - Cyril, Oleg and Konstantin. In addition to his own children, lovers raised the orphaned neighbor girl. Alexander satisfied with his personal life, the journalist managed to create a strong family.
Among the close friends of the journalist, the musician of Zhenya Belousov, who died in 1997 was listed. Friendship Belousov and Lyubimov became a mystery for many, because they were opposite personalities. Alexander - Intellectual, and Evgeny - Hooligan, grew up on Kursk streets.
Alexander Lyubimov beloved Hobby believes reading books, visiting theatrical ideas, fishing, rally and windsurfing.
For the coverage of hostilities in Chechnya, the journalist was awarded the Order of Honor, and for the contribution of the development of Russian broadcasting - also the Order of Friendship.
From social networks, Alexander Lyubimov prefers "Twitter." Regularly updates the microblog posts and photos.
Alexander remains faithful to the tradition - annually on March 1, he visits the grave of a friend and the associate of Vlad Listeyev.
Alexander Lyubimov Now
In October 2020, Alexander Lyubimov starred in the show "My Hero", which leads Tatyana Ustinov. As part of the interview, the new details of the personal life and career of the journalist were revealed.In November, the TV host became the guest of the program "Tonight", which Maxim Galkin leads. The issue was devoted to abnormal phenomena. The guests of the studio were witnesses of strange and mysterious phenomena. Alexander spoke about the participants of the show "The Last Hero" and tried to explain the cause of their death.
Now loved visits the meeting of the "Growth Party". You can follow his political activities through the official website of the party.
Projects
- 1987-2001 - "Look"
- 1992-1993 - "Red Square"
- 1995-1997 - "one on one"
- 1998-2001 - "Here and now"
- 2007-2008 - "Senate"