How Kashpirovsky led a journalist by the nose

This past week, Anatoly Kashpirovsky began touring in Tomsk. The country first learned this name in 1989 - then the first TV session of Kashpirovsky’s communication with the people took place in Ostankino. There were six so-called “Health Sessions of Anatoly Kashpirovsky” in total. Kashpirovsky, who calls himself a psychotherapist, smoothed out scars directly from the screen, treated for enuresis, and even administered anesthesia during operations from the screen. Thanks to unprecedented advertising, Kashpirovsky packed stadiums. All this happened against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet empire, general apocalyptic expectations and anxieties, which apparently created a suitable background for all sorts of quackery. Then other times struck and Kashpirovsky disappeared somewhere from the screens, toured near and far abroad - where he was still welcomed by our former Soviet people who had scattered all over the world. And now Kashpirovsky has resurfaced in his native lands - and is now touring the cities of Russia.