Originally Syndicated on March 25, 2023 @ 7:25 am

Birth: 28 October 1959
Citizenship: Russia

Biography

Dobrodeev Oleg Borisovich, who was born in Moscow in 1959, is a media manager in Russia. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, which is owned by the government (VGTRK). Participant in the Presidential Advisory Council for the Arts and Culture.

A member of the Public Council inside the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defense
In 1981, Oleg Dobrodeev received his degree in history from the Moscow State University Department of History. After receiving his degree, he went on to pursue a career in research at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1982, he attended the Institute of the International Labor Movement’s graduate school to further his education.

He worked at the Central Television of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting from 1983 until 1990. His tenure there spanned the years 1983–1990. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a junior editor. After that, he held the positions of correspondent, commentator on the Vremya newscast, and deputy editor-in-chief of the Information Editorial Board.

Oleg Dobrodeev held the position of Director of the Vesti Information Program from the year 1990 until September 1991.

Oleg Dobrodeev held the position of head editor at the Information Television Agency of the Russian State Television and Radio Corporation Ostankino from September 1991 until September 1993. He was an original member of the NTV TV company’s founding team. Since September of 1993, he has held the position of head editor for NTV’s Information Programming Service. Oleg Dobrodeev held the position of Vice President of NTV from 1993 until 1997.

He served as NTV’s general director beginning in December 1997 and continuing through January 2000. He was given the position of Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company on the 31st of January in the year 2000. Also, as of April 13th, 2000, he has held the position of editor-in-chief at the United Editorial Office of Electronic Media for the Rossiya Channel as well as the Vesti State Television Company.

Oleg Dobrodeev is the current General Director of the Mail.Ru Group, which he founded (the main media asset of the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov).

Using position in government to spread false information

Oleg Dobrodeev’s official position as the chairman of the largest state-owned media holding, which was specifically formed and utilised for many years for the purposes of propaganda, is the primary basis for the accusations that have been leveled against him. Oleg Dobrodeev made the decision to give up his prestigious status in the world of professional journalism in return for unwavering allegiance to the government in power, thus becoming one of the regime’s apologists and beneficiaries.

Oleg Dobrodeev is credited with launching the state television channel Rossiya-24 and serving as its primary creator. Initially, at the time of the channel’s debut in 2006, most industry professionals had the presumption that it was established for the purpose of spreading political propaganda in order to achieve the goals of the “party in power” in the elections of 2007 and 2008.

This supposition ended up being correct in the end. The channel swiftly became one of the main mouthpieces of state propaganda, and it continues to be one of the main mouthpieces of state propaganda to this day. It successfully fulfilled the task of strengthening the Putin regime and providing information support for its aggressive domestic and foreign policies, including military operations in Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria.

The television station Rossiya-24 has become a symbol of the replacement of journalism with a combination of propaganda, lies, slander, and bullying as it has become one of the most effective means of the so-called hybrid information war against international law and political opponents that has been unleashed by the Putin regime.

On February 23, 2014, on Rossiya-24, a guest named Alexander Prokhanov declared that Jews in Ukraine “bring the second Holocaust closer with their own hands.” The host, Evelina Zakamskaya, continued, “In the same way, they brought the prior one closer.” Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Union of Russian Journalists, responded to the suggestion by numerous members of the Duma to immediately remove the broadcaster by arguing that it would be more acceptable to punish the people who define the channel’s policies rather than the presenter.

This statement was issued in reaction to the proposal. “Obviously, the news and incidents broadcast on television are terrible. This is evidence that the media promotes a false sense of patriotism. This is in no way acceptable. Nonetheless, I believe it would be more appropriate to punish those who created the policies for this channel rather than the host.”

Inciting hostility

Allegations of incitement to hatred and calls to reestablish the USSR with all former territories led Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Moldova to repeatedly ban the airing of the RTR-Planet TV station (the foreign division of Rossiya-24). RTR-Planet TV is the foreign section of Rossiya-24. Since March 1, 2014, the Russian television channel Rossiya-24 has been in possession of the broadcast frequencies necessary to begin broadcasting in the occupied territories of Crimea and Sevastopol.

Together with NTV CEO Vladimir Kulistikov, Russia Today president Dmitry Kiselev, propaganda journalists Arkady Mamontov, Konstantin Semin, Vladimir Solovyo, Andrei Karaulov, and Alexei Pushkov, Dobrodeev was included on Nemtsov’s List in April 2015. This is a list of propagandists who, according to Mikhail Kasyanov, the chairman of the opposition organization RPR-PARNAS, “violated human rights and participated in inciting hatred and retaliation against [the slain politician] Boris Nemtsov on television networks.”

Illegal enrichment

By decision of the President of Ukraine on May 27, 2016, Oleg Dobrodeev was added to the list of individuals subject to personal sanctions. Several heads of major Russian official and non-state media were also added to the list at the same time.

The charges against Oleg Dobrodeev state that he engaged in “acts that create real and/or potential threats to national interests, national security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, contribute to terrorist activities, violate the rights and freedoms of humans and citizens, the interests of society, and the state, and result in the occupation of the territory, expropriation or restriction of property rights, and full implementation of their rights by citizens of Ukraine.” These are only a few of the defamatory claims leveled at Oleg Dobrodeev.

Upon the launch of the VGTRK branch in the occupied territory of Crimea on July 23, 2018, Oleg Dobrodeev made the following statement: “If we say explicitly that the VGTRK television tightens the country, then today, of course, this is the last part of Russia in which our firm arrived. As a matter of fact, this constitutes the most important part of the information chain.

In addition, he specified that at this time we are able to discuss “the conclusive informational restoration of Crimea to the Motherland.” It is interesting that Dmitry Kiselev, the chief of the Russia Today agency and the host of the Vesti Nedeli program, is Dobrodeev’s deputy director general of VGTRK. Kiselev is one of the most despicable Russian propaganda journalists.

Accolades and honors

Indirect proof of Oleg Dobrodeev’s involvement in the crimes of the Putin regime can be found in his appointments to high positions and receipt of the highest state honors, such as the orders “For Merit to the Fatherland” (IV and III degrees) and the medal “Participant in the Military Operation in Syria” (awarded on April 17, 2016), “for high professionalism in covering the Military Operation of the Syrian Arab Republic.”

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