Alexey Stolyarov is a well-known pranker from Russia, who plays mainly famous personalities via telephone and the Internet. He gained popularity for his resonant and risky draws, which were implemented with famous Russian and Ukrainian politicians, as well as show business stars. The most popular work of Alexei is prank on Igor Kolomoisky and Elton John. These two pranks provoked incredible public echoes. In 2015, Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov (a prank colleague) were interviewed on the evening Urgant television show.
Varieties of Pranks
Prank culture has many genres and approaches. Some approach strangers on the street and act out some kind of non-standard situation in order to capture the emitted emotion from an unsuspecting person. Others work "from under the bushes" and only for a few seconds are shown to the person being played. Still others are doing something completely new and extraordinary, sophisticated with staging methods. However, not many people know that prank is primarily a telephone rally (telephone hooliganism). Prankers call other people and “bred” them into emotions, provoking and annoying them during telephone communication. One of these is Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus is the nickname, nickname of the pranker).
The popularity of Stolyarov
On the Internet, the guy became famous for his unique pranks over such famous personalities as Petro Poroshenko, Igor Kolomoisky, Vitaliy Klichko, Mikhail Gorbachev and many others. Alexey is not limited to only Russian-speaking people. Once he played the United States Senator John McCain himself, then he mocked the Secretary General of NATO (Organization of the North Atlantic Alliance) Jens Stoltenberg. In addition, Alex, along with Vovan 222 (also a no less famous Russian pranker) recorded a telephone rally over Mr. Elton John.
Pranker Alexey Stolyarov: biography
Alexey, born in 1987. Born in Sverdlovsk (now - Yekaterinburg). As a child, he was an experienced Internet user - he “monitored” all the most popular image-board resources, at the same time being interested in politics. For the first time I learned about the prank movement from the beginning of the zero. At the same time, Alexei Stolyarov begins to record his experimental pranks. He chose his first victims from the people - ordinary people. He began to engage in political pranks from the beginning of 2012. The guy began to record his draws in anticipation of the presidential election. The first loud prank was with Boris Berezovsky, when he admitted by telephone that he was financing the opposition and the rallies that were taking place at that time on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.
Drawings of Ukrainian politicians
In 2014, the Russian pranker Lexus switched to Ukrainian politics, because it considered that there were more “interesting” representatives and more resonant events (Euromaidan, the anti-terrorist operation in the Donbass, etc.). The loudest and most resonant rally was recorded with Igor Kolomoisky (Ukrainian oligarch, businessman and politician) and Dmitry Yarosh (nationalist military leader).
This prank was recorded for two months through video calls on Skype. Alexey Stolyarov was represented by the People’s Governor of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Pavel Gubarev (it is worth noting that the pranker was very similar in appearance). During the rally, some political secrets were revealed, namely: corruption schemes and their problems, legally circumventing the Minsk agreements, reasons for the withdrawal of large Ukrainian battalions (Azov and others). Video clips of the conversation are divided into entire series from 7 to 30 minutes. The videos have become popular on YouTube, each series has gained more than a million views.
