Known for scandalous statements, the Russian journalist Sergey Dorenko has vast experience in the media. During his career, he collaborated with several television channels, did not skimp on high-profile statements, for which he paid for his dismissal from ORT, was engaged in social and political activities as a member of the Communist Party and gained managerial experience in the direction of TV-6.
Below, some achievements from the biography of Sergei Leonidovich Dorenko are presented in chronological order.
USSR
Sergey Dorenko was born on October 18, 1959 in Kerch. The head of the family was a military pilot, and Dorenko moved many times - during his childhood and youth Sergey changed several schools throughout Russia. In the end, he received a higher philological education at the University of Friendship of Peoples in 1982.
The diploma allowed him to engage in translations from Spanish and Portuguese. Therefore, after university, Sergey worked as a translator in Angola for another two years. Then Sergey served a year of military service, and upon returning to his homeland he got a job at the State Radio and Television.
Dashing nineties
In the very beginning of the nineties, the whole country was already familiar with Sergey Dorenko: he collaborated with the largest television channels, Pervy and RTR, working in the news.
In 1994, he already appeared daily on RTR, conducting a political broadcast. In the same year, he left the channel, not agreeing on the work with the leadership in the person of Nikolai Svanidze. More loyal to the journalist, then still the "young" TV-6 channel, on the contrary, in 1994, adopted Dorenko as the head of the information service.
1995 was marked by yet another scandalous dismissal, this time with ORT. The "Versions" program with Sergei Dorenko was closed, as the journalist himself later stated, at the initiative of Boris Berezovsky.
The following year, the journalist returns to ORT, however, he releases the Vremya program with stories aimed at political opponents of Berezovsky. In the spring of 1998, he became the producer of ORT programs, and continues to lead Vremya there. But the release of the December program criticizing Prime Minister Primakov leads to Dorenko being removed from her.
In 1999, he served as deputy. TV-6’s general director for politics and information and appears again with the author’s program on ORT, this time attacking the then mayor of the First See, Yuri Luzhkov.
Nowadays
By the beginning of the 2000s, the reputation of a journalist was ambiguous because of his tough, sometimes on the verge of aggression, stories. In September 2000, his transfer to ORT regarding the tragic history of the Kursk submarine caused such a stir that Sergei Dorenko was first removed from the air and then completely dismissed (as soon as Boris Berezovsky got rid of the shares of the channel).
Soon after, Dorenko realizes his socio-political interests:
- joins the Communist Party, having been a party member from 2003 to 2012;
- in 2001-2003 declares a possible ballot in both the Moscow and the State Duma,
- takes part in the nomination of Pyotr Symonenko to the post of president of Ukraine, Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the State Duma;
- cooperates with opposition leaders, including Eduard Limonov;
- in 2005 he released the satirical novel "2008", exposing the vices of the current government and included in the list of winners of the "National Bestseller" for the next year;
- Takes up the radio: since 2004, has been working on Ekho Moskvy as the host of the morning airtime program and is a member of the weekly Minority Opinion; later takes the post of chief editor at the radio station "Russian News Service".
Not much is known about the personal life of a journalist. Sergey Dorenko - father of three children, divorced. His hobbies are computer and rock music, travel and carpentry.