Russian celebrities who adopted adopted children. It was in the evening, there was nothing to do The "former" adopted daughter of Irina Ponarovskaya again declared herself

For young journalists, Svetlana Innokentievna Sorokina is the standard of journalistic professionalism and honesty. In 2013, the TV presenter and director was awarded the symbolic 10th level of journalistic hardness. She has a huge number of awards, of which Sorokina calls popular recognition the most valuable.

Svetlana Sorokina (maiden name Sarykova) was born in January 1957 in Pushkin, Leningrad Region. The parents of the future journalist were intelligent workers. Dad worked as a military builder, and mom taught history at school. The cult of education reigned in the family. Parents dreamed that their daughter would grow up as an erudite, intelligent person. And Svetlana tried to live up to these dreams. The girl studied remarkably and graduated from school with a gold medal. The girl decided to get a higher education without leaving her beloved city. She entered the Forestry Academy, choosing landscape architecture.

The habit of doing everything well, no matter what one undertakes, also affected while studying at the academy. Svetlana Sorokina, as one of the most successful university students, was offered to enter graduate school.

The idea of ​​TV journalism came to Svetlana when the girl, like other students, worked as a guide. Showing tourists the local sights, of which there were a great many in Pushkin, Svetlana noticed how attentively people were listening to the young guide. She made it interesting and informative. Probably, then the journalist “woke up” in Sorokina.

Unexpectedly for relatives, Svetlana becomes a student of a special studio of announcers, formed at the Leningrad television.

Journalism

A year later, Svetlana Sorokina made her debut on television. The girl was taken as a freelancer for the Telecourier analytical program. Another 1 year passed, and in 1987 he noticed the existence of a talented journalist. At the personal invitation of Sorokina, she moved to the increasingly popular Nevzorov's 600 Seconds project.

This program, according to Svetlana Innokentievna, turned out to be a school of journalistic skills. Here the girl quickly becomes a professional and acquires her own handwriting. Sorokina had to cover the criminal chronicle, so the girl was constantly at the forefront of events, she learned to respond quickly and adequately.

Soon Svetlana Sorokina becomes the main TV presenter of 600 Seconds. This program is remembered by the middle generation of Russian viewers. When the program went on the air, all cases were postponed. The plots and reports of Sorokina and Nevzorov were watched with bated breath.

No wonder that in 1990 Svetlana Sorokina was invited to Moscow. The journalist was entrusted with conducting the program, which was considered the symbol of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company - Vesti. And the journalist led the program masterfully. Few people after Sorokina managed to so brilliantly hold the attention of the audience. It is noteworthy that Svetlana Innokentievna was also the direct creator of the project, developing issues from A to Z.

Sorokina worked as a presenter and political observer until 1997. It was the peak of the popularity of the journalist. She received the Order for Personal Courage after covering the events of 1993. And in the piggy bank of Svetlana Sorokina, a TEFI figurine appeared.

In 1997, a well-known TV journalist switched to NTV. Here she becomes the author and host of the popular and poignant projects "Hero of the Day" and "Voice of the People". These programs immediately turn into the most rated.

In the same period, Svetlana Sorokina made her debut as a documentary filmmaker. Her projects, which appeared on the screens from 1997 to 2006, are of great interest. For the first time in many years and even decades, the veils of secrecy began to slip from power. People saw its representatives not as monumental statues, but as ordinary creatures of flesh and blood. Sorokina's documentary " Heart"Told about the operation that Boris Yeltsin underwent. The film "Purely Russian Murder" revealed the motives for the murder, and the tape "First First Lady" told about life.

After the release of projects by Svetlana Sorokina, the already impressive number of her awards doubled. But the sharp criticism of the authorities, which the well-known journalist allows herself, does not go unnoticed.

In 2002, Svetlana Sorokina hosts a new author's program "Nothing Personal", but after five episodes the show closes. According to the journalist's fans, the experimental format of the program, incomprehensible to viewers, is to blame here: strangers, transparent partitions, a full-wall screen.

In 2003, Svetlana Innokentievna began hosting the Basic Instinct talk show. But the program was soon closed.

In 2005, Sorokina left television for the Ekho Moskvy radio, where she hosted the program In the Circle of Light. Soon a television version of this program appears on the Domashny channel. But only 4 issues were able to come out. The latter sharply criticized the Russian judiciary. The reaction of the channel's shareholders, in particular Alfa Group, to the words that the Russian court is a police court, and the FSB interferes in the work of the "third power", was the immediate closure of the show.

In 2006, Svetlana Sorokina became the TV presenter of the social project of the Fourth Channel “Together we can do everything!”, Which helped orphans and children with serious illnesses. The social TV program received two TEFI statuettes: in 2006 in the nomination "Publicistic Program" and in 2007 in the nomination "Special Project" Television and Life ".

In 2009, Svetlana Sorokina was appointed a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation. But already in 2011 Svetlana Innokentievna leaves the post. In this way, the TV presenter protested against the massive falsification of the results of the elections to the State Duma.

After such a bold act, the television biography of the journalist also suffered. Svetlana Sorokina began to appear on the air only on the Echo and Rain channels. Fans argue whether the TV presenter independently decided to turn away from federal channels, or whether punitive measures were taken against a popular journalist who was not afraid to publicly declare election fraud.

Nevertheless, Svetlana Sorokina continues to work and periodically appears on the air. From April 27 to December 29, 2015, Svetlana Innokentievna hosted the Sorokina talk show on the Dozhd TV channel.

Also, Svetlana Innokentievna began to appear on Internet television. In 2015, Internet users saw an hour and a half dialogue between Svetlana Sorokina and the topic “Russia: 15 years later” as part of the “April Dialogues” of the Open Library project. Physically, the discussion took place on April 25 of the same year in the library named after .

Personal life

Svetlana Sorokina represents the category of people who "burn" at work. Trying to do everything they undertake in the best possible way, such people devote themselves to their own business without a trace.

The personal life of Svetlana Sorokina is two marriages. Both ended quickly. Nothing is known about the first wife of the journalist, but the TV presenter left the name of her first husband.

With her second husband, cameraman Vladimir Grechishkin, family happiness and idyll came. But television did not leave the spouses time for two, taking away all their strength. The couple broke up.

Svetlana Sorokina was also credited with a relationship with, but the TV journalist denies such rumors. Svetlana Innokentyevna claims that she has been friends with the minister for a long time and once, for the sake of laughter, invited him to celebrate the New Year.

When the former intensity and employment were gone, Svetlana Sorokina thought about her family. In 2003, the adopted daughter Antonina appeared in the life of a journalist, a native person who warmed the life of a woman with a warm light. Svetlana Innokentievna took Tonya from the orphanage and managed to replace the girl's mother. Svetlana Sorokina does not have her own children, but her adopted daughter has long become her own for a journalist.

Svetlana Sorokina now

Today Svetlana Sorokina is working on a new series of programs and giving lectures at the Faculty of Media Communications of the Moscow Higher School of Economics.

Since May 2016, Svetlana Sorokina has become the TV presenter of the #VeschernyaHillary talk show on the Dozhd TV channel. Colleagues of the TV presenter on the transfer became, Arina Kholina and.

Today, the journalist continues to work as an independent journalist, Svetlana Sorokina writes freelance articles, comments on events in public life.

January 15, 2017 journalist and TV presenter Svetlana Sorokina celebrated her anniversary. The TV journalist turned 60 years old.

Projects

• 1988 - "600 Seconds"
• 1990 - "News"
• 1997 - "Hero of the day"
• 1997 - Voice of the People
• 1998 - "Heart of Yeltsin"
• 1998 - "Purely Russian Murder"
• 1999 - "Congress of the vanquished?"
• 1999 - "First First Lady"
• 2000 - "Shine and poverty of Gokhran"
• 2000 - “Victory. One for all"
• 2001 - "Virgin Soil Not Raised"
• 2001 - "Songs of War"
• 2002 - "Swan"
• 2003 - "Amber Ghost"
• 2002 - "Nothing personal"
• 2003 - "Basic Instinct"
• 2005 - Punishers
• 2005 - "Russian captivity"
• 2005 - "In the circle of light"
• 2006 - "Together we can do everything!"
• 2006 - "Russians"
• 2011 - "Civil Defense"
• 2015 - Sorokina
• 2016 - "#VespersYaHillary"

For some, adoption (adoption) is the last chance to become a mom and dad, for someone - an act of goodwill. Either way, it's good for the child. Today, all over the world, the adoption of children, for one reason or another, left without parental care, is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. Well, public people - they are just in plain sight.

Tatyana Ovsienko and son Igor

The famous director Vladimir Naumov and his wife Natalya Belokhvostikova have their own adult daughter Natasha and a small adopted son Kirill

Angelina Jolie
The most "promoted" mother of many children in Hollywood is Angelina Jolie: together with Brad Pitt they are raising six children - three boys and three girls.

Svetlana Sorokina and daughter Tonya

Actor Alexei Serebryakov has three children - stepdaughter Dasha and adopted sons Stepan and Danila

Ekaterina Georgievna Gradova with her daughter Masha, son Alexei and grandson Andrei (left)

Sharon Stone
After three unsuccessful attempts to have a child with husband Phil Bronstein, the couple decided to adopt the baby. So, in 2000, Roan Joseph Bronstein appeared in the family. While divorced, Stone adopted two more boys, Laird Vaughn Stone and Quinn Kelly Stone.

Actress Irina Alferova, in addition to her daughter Xenia, has an adopted son and two daughters, whom she adopted after the death of her friend

Actor Viktor Rakov and son Daniel

Statesman Pavel Borodin, son Vanya and daughter Natasha.

Madonna
The pop diva became a foster mother for two kids from a poor African country - Malawi. David and Mercy are not round orphans, but the families in which they grew up were so poor that they were forced to give them to an orphanage (children from one orphanage).

Lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky, daughter Dasha and son Maxim

Spouses Nikolai Karachentsov and Lyudmila Porgina, in addition to their own son Andrei, also have an adopted one - Mikhail

Nicole Kidman
Married to her first husband Tom Cruise, the actress adopted two children - daughter Isabella Jane and son Connor Anthony. After the divorce, the children stayed with Nicole. In her second marriage to Australian singer Keith Urban, Faith's daughter Margaret was born, she was carried by a surrogate mother.

Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock has adopted an adorable baby boy, Louis Bardot, whom she named after her favorite singer, Louis Armstrong. Now the 49-year-old actress plans to adopt a girl, Sandra does not want Luis Bardot to grow up alone.

Michelle Pfeiffer
In 1993, Michelle adopted a girl named Claudia Rosa at baptism.

Meg Ryan
In 2006, Meg Ryan adopted a little girl, Daisy, who was born in China.

Charlize Theron
In mid-March 2012, it became known that Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Charlize Theron had adopted a child. Little Jackson was born in the USA, he is African American.

Recently, a premiere took place in the capital, which gathered under its shadow a lot of domestic celebrities with children. Actress Anastasia Makeeva and her husband, composer and performer Gleb Matveychuk, public figure Irina Khakamada, TV presenter and showman Alexander Tsekalo with his wife Victoria Galushka, actress Olga Budina and many others were seen here.

However, the rarely published popular TV presenter Svetlana Sorokina attracted special attention of the media representatives. She appeared on the red carpet of the event, accompanied by her adopted teenage daughter Antonina. To appear in front of the cameras, Sorokin chose a blue coat and red pumps, and the girl chose a white quilted jacket, a plaid skirt and black ballet flats. A red shoulder bag completed the look. It is noteworthy that Antonina wears glasses.

Note that Svetlana Sorokina never hid from the public that she adopted a child. It happened in the summer of 2003. Shortly after the momentous event, Svetlana Sorokina gave her first interview about the girl. “With my profession and fame, you can’t hide the fact of adoption. I raise her, educate her, and let her grow up to decide how she should be, yes, Tonka? Tell me!” explained Svetlana. She said that she had been preparing for such a serious step for a long time, but the process itself from the beginning of the search to the final result took two months.

Sorokina stressed that she herself gave the girl such a rare name. "On one of my visits, a pretty girl reached out to me. I took her in my arms and that's it! ... I really like the name Tonechka. My grandmother was Antonina. Antonina Antonina Ivanovna. So we now have Tonya Sorokina Antonina Mikhailovna. She and in fact, "Sorokina": she loves everything shiny, "said the TV presenter.

In the new season, the TLC channel presented the Real Adoption program, where people who have already gone through adoption talk about their experiences and try to debunk the myths about the process of adoption and adaptation of adopted children. Some Russian celebrities - actors, TV presenters, politicians - also turn to adoption and try to give adopted children as much love as their relatives. They, like ordinary people, have to go through bureaucratic red tape, but in the end they find a real family.

Svetlana Sorokina - daughter of Antonin

In 2003, Svetlana Sorokina adopted a one-year-old girl, Tonya. The famous TV presenter decided to become a mother at the age of 46 after a divorce from her second husband. The TV presenter chose the name for her daughter in honor of her grandmother Antonina.

According to Svetlana, she decided to adopt long before this step and even promised to take the child from the orphanage on the air of her Basic Instinct program. Among her friends and relatives were those who dissuaded, saying that there were many other options, but Sorokina was sure: in Russia there are many abandoned children who need parents. At first she wanted to become a foster mother for a boy of three or four years old, she searched for a long time in Moscow and the provinces, and suddenly she saw a little brown-eyed girl who held out her hands to her and went to meet her. Shortly before that fateful meeting, Tonya rejected several potential parents, she simply did not communicate with them - so Svetlana says that it is still unknown who chose whom.

Now Tonya is studying at the music school at the Gnesinsky College, and Sorokina admits that she considers her her own child - mother and daughter have a very trusting relationship and they often travel together. According to Svetlana, the girl is growing up very capable, energetic and surprisingly kind - even strangers are happy.

Alexey Serebryakov - sons Stepan and Danila

The popular Russian actor Alexei Serebryakov, the star of the TV series "Gangster Petersburg" and "Shtrafbat", together with his wife, choreographer Maria, is raising his own daughter Dasha and two adopted sons - Stepan and Danila. The family lives in Canada. At first, the couple took Danya from the orphanage, but his brother Styopa remained in the orphanage, and the boys missed each other, so it was decided to adopt him as well.

Serebryakov is not used to flaunting his personal life and tells the press little about his family, but he admits that he raises boys in strictness - this is how he himself was brought up. First of all, he wants children to understand: in our world, knowledge, hard work are valued, and it is not necessary to be rude, be aggressive and be afraid of people.

Also, the actor, together with his colleagues, Andrei Smolyakov and Irina Apeksimova, founded the charity theater project "Time to Live", aimed at helping orphans.

Tatyana Ovsienko and son Igor

The former soloist of the Mirage group, Tatyana Ovsienko, came on tour to Penza in 1999 and decided to take part in a charity event at an orphanage. There she saw little Igor, who had a congenital heart defect. The boy needed an expensive operation. Returning to Moscow, the singer spoke about the orphan to her husband, producer Vladimir Dubovitsky - the couple decided to pay all the costs of treatment. After being discharged from the hospital, the couple took the boy to their dacha so that he could recover in the fresh air, but they could not part with Igor.

Now the boy underwent another course of treatment in Germany, after which the doctors allowed him to exercise. Tatyana sent Igor to study in America, where he created his school rock band, but the young man is sure that he will return to Moscow after receiving his education, because he loves his homeland very much.

Irina Alferova and Anastasia, Sergey and Alexander

Movie star Irina Alferova, beloved by Soviet and Russian audiences for her roles in the films "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", "Do not part with your loved ones" and "TASS is authorized to declare ...", raised three adopted children - two children of her last husband Sergei Martynov, Anastasia and Sergei, and Alexander, the son of his sister Tatyana, who died in 1997.

Irina Ivanovna said that when Nastya and Seryozha arrived in Moscow after the death of their own mother, she immediately clearly realized that now these are her children. And when Irina's sister died, she could not leave her son Sasha.

Now the foster children have already grown up and their life is developing quite successfully: Nastya and Seryozha received a higher education in London and remained to work in England, and Sasha graduated from the Faculty of Law not so long ago.

Ekaterina Gradova and son Alexei

Ekaterina Gradova, the performer of the role of radio operator Kat in the TV movie "17 Moments of Spring", took a one-year-old boy from the orphanage immediately after the wedding with her husband, physicist Igor Timofeev. Gradova saw her future son in the same orphanage where the children were taken from for the filming of Seventeen Moments of Spring.

School teachers considered Alexei a very talented child, but he decided not to follow in the footsteps of her mother-actress - Catherine herself said that she never wanted to impose on her son the choice of a life path and did not even think about insisting on entering the theater. According to close friends of the family, the boy dreamed of becoming a military man as a child, but at the same time he learned to play the piano and guitar perfectly, and sang well. As a result, Lyosha served in the Marine Corps and is now engaged in the restaurant business.

Watch Live Adoption Monday, September 21 at 9:00 pm on TLC.

According to the results of the annual ratings of the leading news programs, many viewers invariably put Svetlana SOROKINA in first place. The hosts of the Balm for the Soul program Svetlana Ivannikova and Igor Pronin met with the “first lady” of Russian television.

Svetlana Sorokina was born in 1957 in Pushkin, Leningrad Region.

Graduated from the Leningrad Forestry Engineering Academy. Kirov and graduate school.
- From 1979 to 1981 she worked at the Leningrad State Institute for the Design of Transport Equipment for the Timber Industry.
- From 1981 to 1984 - in the group for landscaping cities and rural areas of Lesproyekt.
- In 1985, in parallel with her postgraduate studies, she completed courses for guides and worked with tourist groups.
- In 1985 she entered the studio of announcers at the Leningrad television. She worked in the Department of Letters and Sociological Research.
- Since 1986 - a freelancer for the main editorial office of LenTV information, she made stories for the Telecourier program.
- Since 1987 - staff member of LenTV.
- In 1988-1990. - the host of the LenTV news program "600 seconds", then - the correspondent of the news program "TV station" Fact ".
- From 1990 to 1991, she trained at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ostankino.
- Since 1991 - political columnist for the daily news program "Vesti" VGTRK.
- From 1996 to 2004 she was the host of television programs: “Hero of the Day”, “Voice of the People”, “Basic Instinct”, etc.
- Author and presenter of three films from the "Recent History" cycle - "Yeltsin's Heart", "Purely Russian Murder", "Congress of the Vanquished".
Awarded with the Order “For Personal Courage”.
- Laureate of the "TEFI" award in the nomination "The best presenter of an information program".

Svetlana Sorokina: “To ask the right question is skill, to answer is talent.”
Thumbelina grows before our eyes
- There is an opinion on television that you are such an “eternal mother”, you take care of everything, take care of everything. Is there really a maternal instinct in your character that spreads to everyone around?
- As for the maternal instinct, it is difficult to say. Just in my personal life, I did not succeed in this, I did not turn out to be a very talented person. My daughter, Tonechka, has just appeared to me. And this is an adopted child, I took her from the orphanage. Therefore, I pass my universities late when it is supposed to be too late.
- It's good that you deliberately went for it. Since you have such a need, why not at least give it to Tonechka ...
- I have been thinking about this for several years. Of course, it is difficult to make a decision, and go to the orphanage, and achieve it, in general, I have been looking for her for a year. When I took Tonya, she was very small, tiny, and the very first civilian doctor to whom I showed her said: “Oh, what a inch! There are different girls, but yours will be very petite.” A year has passed. Now they say to me: “However, your big girl is growing up. It will be big." And it’s impossible to explain to anyone that my Antonina is that very little Thumbelina. Everyone just asks: “What do you feed her?” Yes, with cast-iron balls, do not lift (laughs) ...
- Shows talents?
- She shows talents, she is a wonderful girl, quick-witted. She is 2 years and 5 months old. She is a normal, spoiled, sassy child. Very positive, she cries extremely rarely, and then - only on business and not for long. Quickly pulls himself together and says: “Moustache, mustache, I don’t cry. Mom, wipe your cheeks." He reads poetry with might and main, he talks to me on the phone. The other day I call home and ask: “Tonechka, did you walk today?” And she told me: "No, because it's dark, it's raining and the wolves are howling." It turns out that the nanny told her that a gray top is running along the street, it can bite on the barrel.

I do not have one global answer that will save Russia today, since you ask me about it. There is, of course, a common answer that love will save the world, but this is too banal and simple. Love, of course, is saving. What else will save us? Do not know. Maybe a sense of solidarity, which we always lack.

God's Providence

Why a girl, why not a boy?
- This is actually a very funny story. I was looking for a boy. I had such a feeling, persistent, long-standing, that a boy would suit me. Since I am a woman with a complex and even sometimes harsh character, it seemed to me that the boy is for me, and the girls are snot, bows are not mine. And with this attitude, I was looking for a boy for about a year, and I wanted not a small one, but somewhere around a three-year-old. I searched and searched, nothing worked out for me, it didn’t grow together, I went to one child, to another. But, apparently, something really must slip between people. From the mind, everything seems to be nothing, but from the heart it does not add up. As a result, completely desperate, she came to the orphanage, where she had already been, but nothing happened. The director asked me who I want. I reported to her in a tortured, tired voice: “A boy, three years old.” To which she says: “I have what you need. Girl, 10 months. I was a little taken aback, but we went to look, went into a room where there were many children, and in the corner, in a walker, a tiny girl was sitting, whom I didn’t even see right away. I sat down and looked at her. And before that, it turns out, she very sharply shuged the two previous adoptive parents. And so I sat down next to her, and she suddenly smiled, stretched out her paws and ran to me on these walkers. Despite the fact that I had the experience of such walks and it happened in different ways, and the children came up, of course. And then I took her in my arms and said: “Wrap it up.” Everything was quickly arranged, and I took her home. This is truly God's work. I didn’t believe in it before, I approached the process rationally, but as a result, everything turned out the other way around. And, you know, from the first moment she seemed to me an insane beauty, insane. And I remember that I brought my sister to this orphanage to meet Tonya, and before that I talked about her in such a way that when she looked at the child, she exclaimed: “What did you find in her? There’s nothing to see here, as you can’t see!” But I am still convinced: she does not change, she only gets better, she is beautiful. And now the whole family already thinks so: there is no better than our Tony. She managed to make everyone fall in love with her, including my friends or acquaintances who happened to meet on the street, in a pharmacy, in a store. Wherever we meet, she is the center of attention, she is an amazing child.
What happiness is...
- Pure truth. We recently just had a topic
program was - "Orphan Russia". There are about a million children in the country who are only registered orphans - a colossal figure. Another two million homeless children. Nothing like an army, right? A whole generation, layer after layer comes out. Moreover, it is known that these are people who then very hard to adapt to life, replenish themselves with prisons, invalid homes and the ranks of simply unsettled people. There was no such figure even after the war. The country that drinks in our country, unfortunately, the cruelty in families is such that it’s just a guard. And the speech in that program was about the need to promote adoption. Once I was at some kind of charity event, where I rarely go, and then I was called by a certain American organization involved in the adoption of children. And the tone at that evening was tearful: let's make the children happy, take them into our families, oh, how unhappy they are, and so on. I strongly disagree with this approach. Firstly, I am deeply convinced that children choose us, and not we choose them, as in my case. And secondly, we do not make them happy, but they make us. Quite the opposite situation: they give us this happiness. And that's the only way to approach it.

Quite desperate, she came to the orphanage, where she had already been, but nothing happened. The director asked me who I want. I reported to her in a tortured, tired voice: “A boy, three years old.” To which she says: “I have what you need. Girl, 10 months.

Which side of your character - feminine or more masculine - does this story reveal?
- I don’t even know, for my child, I now combine both functions - both male and female. By the way, can you imagine what an impudent one she is: she began to demand her dad. Horror! Need to think. Maybe you have to get married.
- Don't you have applicants?
- You see, at some point it all becomes difficult and not in the first place. You already somehow get used to it, settle down in your life, as it seems to you convenient, understandable, and, of course, it’s hard to introduce something new. Well, here's Antonina, maybe she'll bring it in.
- Is she interested in men? Did she notice them?
- You see, our friends have complete families, there are dads there. She quickly truncated this and began to demand from me a puppy, gingerbread and dad.
Talk shows are a dangerous genre
- And what about the profession? Will there be anything new?
- Oh, in my, in principle, a long television biography, there were so many new things and so many twists and turns that sometimes you want at least a little stability. In fact, I tried a lot of things on television: I started in St. Petersburg back in the late 1980s in the then very popular Telecourier program, then I began working in 600 Seconds, then in other news, then I left for Moscow in 1991 , she first worked in the Vesti program, hosted Novosti, then switched to NTV, to the old one, which had not yet been overclocked, where she hosted the Hero of the Day program, began to conduct talk shows, and filmed documentaries. And now I work on Channel One, also in talk shows, and continue to make documentaries. As a result, I change genres, I don't even have a long enough piece of time when I would do the same thing.
- All this satisfies you?
- Well, whether it satisfies - it's hard to say. In fact, every time you die, because the talk show, in my opinion, is the most unpredictable story. Here is such a strange thing happening - the exchange of energies. Either it is carved out of the blue, or on a obviously winning topic, with a good selection of people, it is not carved - and that's it, it gets stuck. What does it depend on? From a lot of things. In hindsight, you can figure out why. I once had a case when I went to the audience on a super-relevant topic, turned to the camera and suddenly felt with my back: a dead audience. It happens that a certain number of people gather, and they are all absolutely indifferent. Artists know this when they go on stage, and in front of them is a heavy hall that cannot be stoked: no matter how much you jump, it is not carved. And here I turned my back to the hall and realized that it was blowing cold, and I already felt sick from the thought that I could not do anything, and so it happened. There was a hot topic, there were good characters, but everything was bogged down, it was not supported, I tossed and turned like stones. And it happens out of the blue. I recently had a topic - to die not to get up, it would seem, offhand: “The Kyoto Protocol”. Can you tell me what your personal interest is in the Kyoto Protocol? The lion's share of the population does not know what it is. To begin with, I said: “Keep in mind, as long as we do not give up the Kuril Islands, this is not about that. This is an environmental treaty that we have joined.” In general, no one is interested in ozone holes, but we sparkled. No one really got the hang of what the Kyoto Protocol was, but it was insanely interesting. What's the matter? I do not know. There is no pattern. Talk shows are a dangerous genre. It is insanely hard to make sure that the conversation does not stop, so that people continue each other's thoughts. Because, as a rule, having reached the microphone, they strive to express everything that is sore and they have come up with at home, and not continue the conversation, and it is insanely hard to deal with this.

Gets to everyone around the perimeter

They say you love Peter terribly and know him. Is Moscow already your city?
- I love Peter very much and I know him well, most of my life was spent there. I traveled to him when I worked on television, and I went when I worked as a guide, a lot came together here. But at the moment I can say for sure that Moscow is my city. I've been living here for 13 years, and somehow I managed to fit into the resonance, into the fluctuations of this big, very difficult, confusing city of Moscow.
- Who gets from you when you lose your temper?
- All around the perimeter. The other day we discussed the list of guests for the program, and I yelled that again they called a lot out of fear that he would not reach, he would not come. I cursed, cursed, cursed, and then tried on a new suit and asked the film crew: “Well, how?” To which they answer me: "It is quite feminine." I say: "How can I be feminine?" The girls thought about it and said: “When you don’t yell at us, you visit us, but otherwise you don’t.” So everyone around the perimeter gets it.
- You have already seen so many things, analyzed so many life situations, that you can probably answer the question: what will ultimately save us? Is there only hope for love, or for government, or for beauty?
- You know, someone said that asking the right question is a skill, and answering is a talent. And these are different things. Therefore, it is not at all necessary for those who enter the arena and work for a large audience to have answers to a variety of questions. As a rule, if they have these answers, then they either think little or have a lot of impudence, which is more often. The American journalist Walter Cronkite was wildly popular, they wanted to bring him into the hands of the White House, he had such a rating that none of the presidential candidates at that time could compare with him. And he refused to run for president. Can you imagine the temptation? He had a rating of 90%, and he said: “These are two different things. If a good coach coaches a football team, it is not at all necessary that he can score goals. It is important to distinguish one from the other.” This is my long answer to your question. I do not have one global answer that will save Russia today, since you ask me about it. There is, of course, a common answer that love will save the world, but this is too banal and simple. Love, of course, is saving. What else will save us? Do not know. Maybe a sense of solidarity, which we always lack. Russians, anywhere, living in their own country, living outside its borders, scattered around the world. What distinguishes representatives of some other nationalities is that they are somehow solidary and do not run from each other even in a foreign land. And we are not in solidarity even in our own country. Strange as it may seem, and sad as it may seem, for some reason we are genetically incapable of rejoicing in each other's success. And only when another feels bad, we are ready to sympathize with him with all the breadth of our soul. Here in misfortune we have solidarity steeper than in success. A friend is known in happiness, I am deeply convinced of this. In trouble too, but in happiness - first of all. A country cannot be happy where old people and children are unhappy. And they are unhappy with us. Therefore, solidarity and a normal attitude towards people will save ... Well, at least to relatives, to a small circle, well, at least to the extent possible, well, at least a little ...