“The president’s attempt to justify”: the air about Kursk

The last program of Sergei Dorenko to Ort - this is how he will remain in the history of Russian journalism

On May 9, journalist Sergei Dorenko died, who since 2014 was the editor -in -chief of the Radio station "Speak Moscow". Most Russians know Dorenko as the host of the Time program, and then their own author's program on ORT (now-Channel One) in the late 1990s. Dorenko was fired from federal television in September 2000 after the release of the release dedicated to the death of the Kursk submarine. In it, the journalist sharply criticized the actions of the authorities and President Vladimir Putin during a rescue operation. Here is this issue.

“Sergey Dorenko’s author’s program” provided him with the nickname “Telekiller”. On the eve of the resignation of Boris Yeltsin Dorenko, in his program, he aggressively criticized and told the details of the personal life of the former Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov-leaders of the opposition bloc “Fatherland-all of Russia” and potential rivals of Vladimir Putin in the upcoming presidential elections. Dorenko did not hide that he purposefully opposed Putin's opponents.

“I said:“ This will be my right with the right [what happened to the submariners from] Vidyevo, ”Dorenko explained his motive to release the program with the story of the death of Kursk and the criticism of Putin, who became the president six months before the disaster. Dorenko showed on the air of the federal television channel, in which Russian submariners were forced to live, consistently pointed out mistakes and inaccuracies in the presidential statements, reproaching him in attempts to justify himself for the death of the sailors. “The main conclusion is that the authorities do not respect us all. Therefore, it is lying. And most importantly - the authorities treats us so only and solely because we allow it to her. All the best to you, ”he told the audience before leaving the air.

After the transmission, the ORT CEO Konstantin Ernst announced Dorenko that he was dismissed.