Alexander Plushev: biography, photo, personal life

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Plyushchev Alexander Vladimirovich is a Russian journalist, blogger, TV and radio host. Among other things, he is a well-known figure in the Runet, an employee of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Usually uses the alias Plusshev.

Biography of Alexander Plushev

Alexander was born on 1972-16-09 in the city of Moscow. His mother is from the Ryazan region, his father is a native Muscovite. He worked all his life as a foreman at a factory, my mother tried herself in various fields, although she was a teacher by education.

Alexander studied at school No. 751, then entered the Moscow Chemical Technology Institute at the Faculty of Chemical Technology of Silicates. Initially, he was attracted to this path, but soon the future journalist realized that he had chosen the wrong profession.

When he studied at the university, he began to earn money in the institute newspaper, which was called "Mendeleevets", was the head of the youth editorial board, quickly gained popularity as a very talented and creative young employee.

Career

In February 1994, he was hired as a news anchor for the EchoMoscow.”

His career grew at an amazing rate, three years later he was appointed morning news editor at NTV.

In 1998, Alexander Plushev created his own program, which was called "EchoNet" and was dedicated to the Internet. This radio program received the National Popov Prize in 1999 as the best special program, and in 2001 it was awarded the National Internet Prize.

In addition to his work on the radio, as a journalist, Alexander Plyushchev, for more than ten years, led the column "Site of the Day" in the Vedomosti newspaper.

In October 2001, a six-hour night program "Silver" appeared on the radio station "Echo of Moscow" (later it was renamed, it became known as "Argentum"), one of the hosts of which was Alexander.

Also, until 2003, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Axel Springer Russia. In 2003, he was hired as chief editor of the Lenta.ru online publication.

Since 2006, he began to broadcast on the channel "Russia-24". In 2007, he was a member of the jury at the blog competition "The BOBs-2007". In the same year he released his book called "Full Ivy".

Currently hosting the Wiki Awards on a regular basis.

Private life

Alexander Plyushchev met his wife Valeria at the university. The wife told how she came to school on her first day and immediately saw Alexander, who was standing in the company of several girls,enthusiastically listening to his story about how he works at Ekho Moskvy.

The future spouses almost immediately fell in love with each other. They met for some time, in 1999 they had a daughter, Barbara. At first they were at a loss, but later, as they themselves admitted, they began to receive good support and help from work colleagues.

Scandal

In November 2014, Alexander Plushev was fired from the Ekho Moskvy radio station for publishing a very incorrect post on his Twitter about the death of Vnesheconombank deputy chairman Alexander Ivanov, who, in turn, is the son of Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation - Sergey Ivanov.

A few hours after the "evil" tweet appeared, Plyushchev deleted it and apologized for his incorrectness.

On November 6, Alexander was fired from the radio station "Echo of Moscow" on the orders of Mikhail Lesin, who is the chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom-Media. The editor-in-chief of the radio station Alexei Venediktov did not know about this, so he decided to challenge this decision in court.

November 20, Venediktov and Lesin came to an agreement and the dismissal order was canceled.

This topic was widely covered in various media, Alexander became notorious. Thanks to this, he gained a lot of new subscribers. Some of them condemned the journalist, others shared his views.