The article is dedicated to the popular YouTube blogger Sergey Dorenko, known under the nicknames pastushok and rasstriga. The radio and television presenter is also the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Talks radio station, which he founded in 2014. He gained fame thanks to criticism of the government in the 90s, when he directed information broadcasting on the ORT television channel.
The path to journalism by Sergey Dorenko
The biography of the radio host is similar to hundreds of other stories of his peers born in a military family. The date of the birth of the hero of our article is 1959, October 18. A native of Kerch (Republic of Crimea), a young man during his school years replaced several educational institutions due to the constant relocation of his parents to new places of his father's service. As a result, he had to complete 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 University of Friendship of Peoples, is educated as a philologist and learns Spanish and Portuguese.
He worked for 5 years as a translator, having been on a business trip in Angola and having served military service in the CA. In 1985, the career of a journalist on television began. 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. Especially went to Yu. Luzhkov. In 1999, when Dorenko became deputy director general of ORT, he showed the real estate 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, Sergei Dorenko’s programs were recognized as provocative and suspended him from working on television. This prompted the journalist to join the Communist Party and begin cooperation with the radio station "Echo of Moscow", where for four years he had two popular programs.
Dorenko left the “Echo” broadcast for the “Russian News Service” (RSN), of which he was invited to become the leader. But in 2013, he again returned to his former radio station to continue to lead the U-Turn. Since 2014, the journalist has been working as editor-in-chief on the Moscow Talks radio and has a blog on YouTube.
It is curious that Dorenko was disappointed in the Communist Party and left her ranks in 2012. Moreover, he did this with his usual hype, promising to transfer party contributions to the development of Wikipedia.
The first family of a journalist
While still a student, Sergey Dorenko, whose personal life is often discussed in the press, married a girl from a 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 - Catherine (born in 1984) and Ksenia (1985). In 1999, the couple had a long-awaited son, who was called Prokhor.
According to the journalist, after 26 years of relationship, his feelings for his wife died away, but for another three years they lived in marriage, although in fact Dorenko had a new family. In November 2012, the divorce proceedings began, which ended in April next year. Marina Fedorenkova did everything to drag out the trial, argued about the property and even demanded child support, based on the fact that she was raising a 13-year-old son. What did Sergey Dorenko answer to this? The wife, in his opinion, should not be 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 suburbs.
