Dorenko Sergey Leonidovich: biography and personal life of a TV and radio host

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:42

The article is dedicated to the popular YouTube blogger Sergey Dorenko, known under the nicknames pastushok and rasstriga. The radio and TV presenter is also the editor-in-chief of the Moskva Speaks radio station, which he founded in 2014. Gained fame thanks to criticism of the government in the 90s, when he was in charge of information broadcasting on the ORT TV channel.

Sergei Dorenko's path to journalism

The biography of the radio host is similar to hundreds of other stories of his peers who were born in a military family. The date of birth of the hero of our article is 1959, October 18. A native of Kerch (Republic of Crimea), the young man changed several educational institutions during his school years due to the constant relocation of his parents to new places of his father's service. As a result, he had to complete his secondary education in the Volgograd region.

From here he went to Moscow to enter one of the prestigious universities. Thanks to good knowledge, Dorenko becomes a student at the Peoples' Friendship University,is educated as a philologist and is learning Spanish and Portuguese.

5 years he worked as a translator, having been on a business trip in Angola and served in the SA. In 1985, he began his career as a journalist on television. Dorenko came there as an ordinary employee, but was soon appointed editor and TV presenter on the main channels of the country.

Professional career

Dorenko appeared in the programs "Morning", "120 minutes", "News" (ORT) and "Vesti" (RTR). He became popular after a series of scandalous reports about the events of the 90s in Lithuania, which allowed the journalist to create an author's program. Her rating was constantly growing due to criticism of government officials. Yu. Luzhkov especially got it. In 1999, when Dorenko became deputy general director of ORT, he showed the property of the capital's mayor from the screen, declassified his income and showed incriminating photographs.

Having received the nickname Telekiller, the journalist did not hesitate to criticize A. Chubais, B. Nemtsov and even V. Putin. Two years later, Sergey Dorenko's programs were recognized as provocative and he was removed from work on television. This prompted the journalist to join the Communist Party and start cooperation with the Ekho Moskvy radio station, where he hosted two popular programs for four years.

Left the air of "Echo" Dorenko for the sake of the "Russian News Service" (RSN), the head of which he was offered to become. But in 2013, he returned to his former radio station again to continue hosting U-Turn. Since 2014, the journalist has been working as the editor-in-chief at the radio station GovoritMoscow" and blogs on YouTube.

It is curious that Dorenko became disillusioned with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and left its ranks in 2012. And he did it with his usual hype, promising to transfer party contributions to the development of Wikipedia.

The first family of a journalist

While still a student, Sergei Dorenko, whose personal life is often discussed in the press, married a girl from his junior year. The chosen one was Marina Fedorenkova. She followed her husband on a business trip to the African continent, and soon, with a difference of one year, gave her husband two daughters - Ekaterina (born in 1984) and Ksenia (1985). In 1999, the couple had a long-awaited son, who was named Prokhor.

According to the journalist, after 26 years of relationship, his feelings for his wife faded away, but for another three years they were married, although in fact Dorenko had a new family. In November 2012, the divorce proceedings began, which ended in April of the following year. Marina Fedorenkova did everything to drag out the trial, argued about property and even demanded alimony for her maintenance, based on the fact that she was raising a 13-year-old son. What was Sergey Dorenko's response to this? The wife, in his opinion, should not have been offended by the ex-spouse, because the journalist left her almost all the real estate: apartments in Minsk and Moscow, two country houses in the Moscow region.

Second marriage

Even before the divorce, Sergey Dorenko had already become the father of two little girls - Varvara, born in 2010. and Vera born in 2011

Their mother was his colleague - Yulia Silyavina, with whom they hosted the radio program "Rise!" A graduate of a Moscow university once came for an interview with the editor-in-chief of the RSN, it was Dorenko who hired her. The girl is the absolute same age as the eldest daughter of the journalist. At the time of the beginning of the novel, she was only 26. In August 2013, the couple legalized their relationship.

Not much is known about Julia. A native of Omsk, she continues her career as a journalist on the RSN, the spouses no longer work together. By the way, the woman bears the surname of her husband, as Dorenko reported on his blog immediately after the wedding celebration.