Vladimir Solovyov (journalist)

Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov[a] (Russian: Владимир Рудольфович Соловьёв, born October 20, 1963) is a Russian journalist, television presenter, radio host and propagandist.[6] He is best known being an anchor on the television show Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov on

Russia-1.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and completed a post-doc position at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

Career

Solovyov is known for his often scandalous statements on numerous questions concerning politics, economics, religion, sports, journalism, what frequently causes polemics among his listeners and viewers. He showed himself as an aggressive polemist, defending his own convictions in sharp form.

Since 1997 Solovyov has been the host of the Nightingale Warbling live radio programme broadcast by Silver Rain Radio, discussing many subjects such as culinary, fashion, etiquette, social and political life, computers, cars, philosophy and poetry.

In 1999 he first appeared as a presenter on two TV talk shows: The Process on the ORT channel (with Alexander Gordon) (1999-2001) and Passion for Solovyov on the TNT channel (1999-2002), which were followed by his own projects Breakfast with Solovyov and Nightingale Night on TV6 (the latter being the final show broadcast on the station before it was shut down in early 2002), as well as Look Who's Coming!, Duel on TVS and Orange Juice on NTV.

Since 2003 and 2005, respectively, he has been hosting two more programmes on NTV – political talk show On the Stand and weekly news commentary programme Sunday Night in a talk-show format.

In the fall of 2005 Vladimir Solovyov was awarded the TEFI Russian television prize as the best interviewer.

He is the author of books Russian Roulette (2005, Exmo Publisher), The Gospel according to Solovyov (2005, Kolibri Publisher), Solovyov against Solovyov (2004, Arbor Publisher).

In December 2004 Solovyov featured as a solo singer in his first CD-album Solovyinye Treli (Nightingale Warbles).

Currently he is the presenter of a TV talk show, Duel on Rossiya 1 (2010–2014, 2015–2017). Solovyov also hosts a debate show, Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov, on Rossiya 1.

Since September 2, 2018 — host of the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the channel "Russia-1", in which for 1 hour he talks about the deeds done by the president over the past week. The intonation of the program, the selection of guests (in the premiere, they turned out to be only persons connected with the power: the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov and the State Duma deputy from United Russia Andrei Makarov), the co-host (VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin), and thus prompted a number of media outlets to think about this as an attempt to raise the rating of the current head of state, which has fallen due to the pension reform [ru], and the emergence of a personality cult different from the Soviet era.

In September 2019, the song "Evening Mudozvon" was dedicated to Vladimir Solovyov.

In 2019, he got into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest time on television as a host in the span of one week (25 hours 53 minutes and 57 seconds).

Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov[a] (Russian: Владимир Рудольфович Соловьёв, born October 20, 1963) is a Russian journalist, television presenter, radio host and propagandist.[6] He is best known being an anchor on the television show Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov on

Russia-1.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and completed a post-doc position at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

Career

Solovyov is known for his often scandalous statements on numerous questions concerning politics, economics, religion, sports, journalism, what frequently causes polemics among his listeners and viewers. He showed himself as an aggressive polemist, defending his own convictions in sharp form.

Since 1997 Solovyov has been the host of the Nightingale Warbling live radio programme broadcast by Silver Rain Radio, discussing many subjects such as culinary, fashion, etiquette, social and political life, computers, cars, philosophy and poetry.

In 1999 he first appeared as a presenter on two TV talk shows: The Process on the ORT channel (with Alexander Gordon) (1999-2001) and Passion for Solovyov on the TNT channel (1999-2002), which were followed by his own projects Breakfast with Solovyov and Nightingale Night on TV6 (the latter being the final show broadcast on the station before it was shut down in early 2002), as well as Look Who's Coming!, Duel on TVS and Orange Juice on NTV.

Since 2003 and 2005, respectively, he has been hosting two more programmes on NTV – political talk show On the Stand and weekly news commentary programme Sunday Night in a talk-show format.

In the fall of 2005 Vladimir Solovyov was awarded the TEFI Russian television prize as the best interviewer.

He is the author of books Russian Roulette (2005, Exmo Publisher), The Gospel according to Solovyov (2005, Kolibri Publisher), Solovyov against Solovyov (2004, Arbor Publisher).

In December 2004 Solovyov featured as a solo singer in his first CD-album Solovyinye Treli (Nightingale Warbles).

Currently he is the presenter of a TV talk show, Duel on Rossiya 1 (2010–2014, 2015–2017). Solovyov also hosts a debate show, Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov, on Rossiya 1.

Since September 2, 2018 — host of the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the channel "Russia-1", in which for 1 hour he talks about the deeds done by the president over the past week. The intonation of the program, the selection of guests (in the premiere, they turned out to be only persons connected with the power: the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov and the State Duma deputy from United Russia Andrei Makarov), the co-host (VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin), and thus prompted a number of media outlets to think about this as an attempt to raise the rating of the current head of state, which has fallen due to the pension reform [ru], and the emergence of a personality cult different from the Soviet era.

In September 2019, the song "Evening Mudozvon" was dedicated to Vladimir Solovyov.

In 2019, he got into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest time on television as a host in the span of one week (25 hours 53 minutes and 57 seconds).