Childhood and youth
Vladislav Nikolaevich Listyev was born on May 10, 1956 in Moscow.
His mother Zoya Vasilievna (1934-1996) worked as a copyist at , his father (1931-1973) worked there for a long time, and then got a job at the regional headquarters of the People's Control Committee. Nikolai waited with trepidation for his son, although he was scared: doctors said that childbirth could kill his wife. The obstetricians recommended a caesarean section, but the young mother categorically rejected the offer, for which she almost paid with her life. The baby had to be pulled with forceps. After this, Vlad had noticeable marks on his temples for several years.
Vlad Listyev in childhood
When Listyev was still a schoolboy, his father was sent on a two-year business trip to Africa. His mother followed him. Vlad's godmother, Nikolai's sister, was entrusted with the care of the child. However, instead of two years, Listyev’s parents lived in Uganda for only six months. The hot climate did not suit Muscovites - the head of the family began to have terrible health problems. To Vlad’s great happiness, his parents returned to the capital, and soon the family settled in a cooperative apartment near the Profsoyuznaya metro station.
With Father
He adored Listyev’s parents, and they supported him in everything, endlessly loved and cared for him. When Vlad became interested in athletics, Nikolai Ivanovich did not miss a single competition of his son. And there was something to be proud of: the young man became one of the best students at the boarding school at the Spartak sports society, grew to become a candidate master of sports and even won the title of national champion in the 1000-meter running among juniors.
Vladislav Listyev in his school years
While Vlad was shining on the treadmill, his family was slowly crumbling. There was no respect and love between the spouses for a long time; Nikolai Ivanovich started an affair on the side. But the man had no intention of leaving the family. “For me, there is nothing more important than my son, so I will stay next to him,” said Listyev’s father.
Childhood
Not everyone knows what year Vlad Listyev was born. The future journalist was born on May 10, 1956 in Moscow into a family of ordinary factory workers. From an early age he was involved in sports, even graduated from a sports boarding school named after the Znamensky brothers. Here he even achieved his first outstanding results, becoming the USSR champion in 1 km running among juniors. The difficult situation in the family and the lack of financial assistance gradually led to the young man leaving the sport. After graduating from high school, Listyev taught for some time as a physical education instructor in the Spartak society.
Vlad Listyev's life was not filled with happiness. The fate of his parents was tragic. When Vlad was 17 years old, his father committed suicide by drinking a dichloroethane solution. He held a fairly high position in the People's Control Committee, and after money disappeared from the society's coffers, he was afraid of the accusations and decided to end his life so tragically. After some time, the mother found another man, an alcoholic, and she almost became an alcoholic. The young man had a hard time experiencing family troubles and soon got married and left his home forever. His mother also did not die a natural death: at the age of 62, she was hit and killed by a car.
Father's death
His father constantly tried to explain to Vlad that he had no one to count on in life and that he must learn to achieve everything on his own.
As if he felt that he could not be with his beloved son all his life... Another inspection under the leadership of Listyev Sr. almost ended in the closure of the store. The owner hinted at a substantial bribe so that Nikolai Ivanovich would turn a blind eye to the shortage. The head of the family could not resist the temptation. Soon the people above learned about the incident, and a criminal case was opened against Vlad’s father. Nikolai Ivanovich was terribly afraid that the trials would harm his family. He didn’t know how he would look into his son’s eyes, how he would explain his action. Listyev Sr. saw no other way out - only suicide could save everyone from inevitable shame.
Vlad Listyev with his father Nikolai Listyev
Nikolai took the whole package [for ethical reasons we cannot indicate the name] and lost consciousness. The ambulance arrived too late - three days later Listyev Sr. died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. Later, doctors confirmed that such a dose could easily kill ten people.
The journalist's father was only 42 years old. Vlad was in high school at the time, and he was taking his parent’s death seriously—at that time he did not yet know about the reasons for his death. The mother did not grieve for long, and soon brought her drunkard stepfather, who was only ten years older than her son, into the house. The man dragged the poor woman into a series of endless drinking bouts that drove Listyev crazy. It was later that Vlad would drink with them as equals - but for now the guy was decisively packing his things to leave his home.
Education
After graduating from school and serving in the army, Listyev entered the international department of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. Studying Spanish, French and Hungarian took a lot of energy, but studying gave Vlad only pleasure. Successes at the institute were complemented by the student’s powerful organizational talents - Listyev was the course sports organizer, commanded the “parade” at the autumn potato harvest on the state farm.
Vlad Listyev in his youth
Vlad also did not forget about sports, but family problems (and then he was already married) increasingly undermined his potential. In 1980, Vlad did not make the Olympic team, and plunged headlong into his studies. However, even here a stormy personal life prevented development. His wife’s denunciations about the “traitor Listyev” to the department closed his internship in Cuba.
In his youth, Listyev was involved in athletics
Career breakthrough
Having become a certified “literary television employee” in 1982, Vlad got a job as an editor at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the country’s main broadcasting organization for 60 years.
Vlad Listyev in his youth
And already in the late 80s the whole country started talking about Vlad Listyev. Having become one of the hosts of the “Vzglyad” program, he instantly turned into a folk hero. Listyev personified grandiose changes within the country, raising within the framework of the program such bold topics as sex, power, the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and others, the discussion of which became possible thanks to Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost. The first episode of “Vzglyad” with Vlad Listyev The success of the program was stunning. This prompted Listyev and his colleagues to found their own television, which still produces entertainment programs and documentaries. The television company's logo became a nightmare memory for all those whose childhood was in the early 90s: the ceramic head of the ancient Chinese philosopher Guo Xiang with a toad on his head inspired awe. It is noteworthy that for some this mask resembled the face of Boris Yeltsin.
VID company logo
Since 1991, Listyev was listed as the general producer of the television company, and later he became its president. Vlad not only managed the projects - he wrote scripts for them and acted as a presenter. The years of work of the journalist at VID were headlined by the release of a number of legendary television programs, many of which are still broadcast to this day.
Listyev founded the VID television company
Even before Leonid Yakubovich, who has been offering to spin the drum for the last 30 years, Listyev hosted the capital show for a whole year. Yakubovich was literally a “man from the street” and for a long time refused Vlad’s offer to become a presenter, but in the end he agreed and even suggested changing the concept. So “Field of Miracles” became a program not about words, but “about those who play it.”
Listyev was the host of “Field of Miracles”
The “Tema” program became one of the first on Russian television that could be called a talk show. Listyev hosted it for two years, discussing with guests and viewers the most pressing problems of our time. Later, Vlad was replaced by Alexander Lyubimov and Yuliy Gusman.
“Theme” with Vlad Listyev, 1992
Rush Hour's interview style was copied from Larry King Live, right down to the host's braces. This program, which Listyev hosted for the first nine months, changed the way Russians view television. Many politicians themselves paid to be invited to the studio. According to the recollections of contemporaries, the “tax” for participation in “Rush Hour” was 40 thousand dollars. After Listyev, the show was hosted by a whole army of talented journalists - Dmitry Kiselev, Leonid Parfenov, Konstantin Ernst and even musician Andrei Makarevich.
"Rush Hour" with Vlad Listyev
Another intellectual project of Listyev was the children's program “Starry Hour,” which reveals the talents of children and teenagers. Its host was Sergei Suponev. After his tragic death in 2001, the show was closed. “Smak”: Andrey Makarevich and Vlad Listyev In collaboration with Vitaly Vulf, Listyev launched the “Silver Ball” program, dedicated to outstanding people of art. The program ran for 16 long years and was closed in 2010, a few months before the death of Wolf, its permanent host.
With colleagues from “Vzglyad”
But the entertainment show “Guess the Melody”, although with interruptions, is still on. True, Listyev did not see the triumph of the music show. The first filming, led by Valdis Pelsh, took place two weeks after Vlad’s murder. Despite the success of the programs, Vlad’s workdays were marred by conflicts with colleagues and others. By 1995, Listyev, who had become the number one TV personality, had made many envious people and just enemies. But they never went to showdowns with bandits, like his colleagues - he hated this whole audience.
At the Interview (1992)
Many still believe that Listyev was a weak presenter, but an excellent manager and organizer. He could be tough, he could easily humiliate a person. At the same time, Vlad often caught up with a sobbing person in the corridor and tearfully asked for forgiveness. Nobody understood how it coexisted in one person.
Programs of the TV company “VID”
After the stunning success of “Vzglyad” there was a whole body, the organizer and inspirer of which was Listyev. Glance And Others - this is how the mysterious abbreviation stands for. The concept of “others” included an incredible number of programs - news, talk shows, entertainment, and children's intellectual programs. Which ones do you remember the most? Yes, perhaps everything, well, or almost everything. Each was a unique highlight, bringing something new and interesting. Viewers of the 90s, both old and young, found an outlet for themselves in some of Listyev’s programs.
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"Peak hour"
One of the most popular was the television program Rush Hour. Conversations were held with the guest invited to the studio in the genre of a television interview. Completely new faces were interesting, as were the topical issues raised in the conversations, on the topic of the day, as they say. The studio was visited by both politicians and artists who were at the peak of their popularity. How can you not watch the program if the interview is with Gorbachev himself, or with Pugacheva and Kirkorov?
"Subject"
The talk show “Tema” was conducive to philosophical reflection. Guests of the studio together with the audience discussed interesting and pressing topics. Naturally, the TV viewer mentally participated in the reflections, supported or refuted this or that opinion, in a word, participated. This was the attractive power of television from Vlad Listyev - it captivated, disposed, made you think and not be indifferent.
“Silver Ball”
The most interesting program “Silver Ball” is about outstanding people of art who lived at that time and have already passed away. The program is gratitude, the program is memory. And for the viewers of the 90s it was also pride for their compatriots.
Entertainment programs
Entertaining “Field of Miracles”, “Guess the Melody”, “Muzoboz” and many others made it possible to escape from the gray routine and forget about the vicissitudes of the crisis period. They made a real splash in those difficult times. Just look at “Field of Miracles”. It’s still interesting to watch now, but what was going on at the screens back then cannot be expressed in words. Each broadcast is an event. It is clear that everyone guessed the words, worried about the participants, laughed at funny incidents, and there were plenty of them. Many were interested in a funny question: where do the spectators’ gifts go? Only a little later it became clear that it was a museum. Funny? Yes, but that’s how it was, and there’s no getting around it. And how the whole country rejoiced for the girl who was the first to win a car! There was some kind of unity in this, and it was wonderful!
One cannot help but recall children's intellectual and educational programs, such as “Finest Hour,” for example. They allowed the younger generation to express themselves. Many people still say that the best children's television was back then, in the 90s. I would also like to remember Vlad Listyev, as the leader of many of his projects. In this role he was inimitable and unique. He knew how to turn on the audience in the studio, and he seemed to break through the screen and sit down next to the TV viewers. They loved him, he belonged. It seemed to every single viewer that Vlad was speaking only for him. This is called talent.
One has only to regret that Vlad Listyev is not among us. But we REMEMBER. And we know that he has his own “Silver Ball”.
General Director of ORT
At the beginning of 1995, Vlad left VID to take the post of general director of the new ORT television company (since 2002 Channel One).
They say that Boris Berezovsky, who was on the board of directors of the television company, chose Listyev for one reason: of all the candidates, he was the only one who had the titular fifth point. The fact is that the content of the “nationality” column (the notorious “fifth point”) in the documents of many television company managers at that time differed from the titular nationality in Russia. Having taken up his new position, 38-year-old Listyev immediately launched serious reforms in the company’s policy. In particular, he approved a moratorium on advertising on ORT. So he tried to fight against the association of advertising companies that controlled the placement of all advertising on the TV channel.
“Short Encounters” (1994) In connection with the appointment and transformations on the channel, threats rained down on Listyev. But Vlad was not going to change his positions, although he was squeezed from all sides. He did not respond to anonymous calls, did not hire bodyguards - he believed that everything would work out. And I was sadly mistaken. But more on that later.
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“Rush Hour” is a copy of the show of American television journalist Larry King. However, no one has ever denied this. Moreover, Listyev always deliberately emphasized this, going on air in a shirt and suspenders, just like King.
The Rush Hour program consisted of twenty-minute interviews on topics of politics, economics, culture or sports. Guests for the program were chosen not by popularity, but by the degree of professionalism in a particular issue.
The first episode was shown on TV in May 1994. Listyev did not stop being a presenter even after he was appointed general director of ORT. At that time it was one of the most popular programs on Russian television.
On March 1, 1995, he was killed in the entrance of his own house. He was returning home after filming the next episode of the program “Rush Hour”. After him, the television program lasted until 1998. At different times, the presenters were Andrey Razbash, Dmitry Kiselev and Sergey Shatunov.
First wife: Elena Esina
The journalist met his first wife, Elena Yesina, at a sports training camp: after being assigned, Vlad ended up in the same athletics group with her. In 1977, the lovers got married.
Elena Esina and Vlad Listyev got married as students
Listyev was madly in love with Lena. Perhaps they would not have divorced after 2.5 years, but the man could not stand the endless scandals. Problems began after the death of their first child: he was born too weak and died three days later. It is believed that after the tragedy, Elena developed schizophrenia.
His wife’s second pregnancy did not stop the journalist from leaving the family. After another scandal, he ran away from the apartment in the middle of the night - he came to his mother in what he was wearing, in slippers and sweatpants. Elena began writing complaints to the Komsomol and the university, but Listyev did not want to return to his wife and newborn daughter.
Elena Esina with her daughter Valeria
He never wanted to see his daughter - he doubted the authenticity of his paternity. Valeria grew up without a father, trained as a speech therapist, but today she works outside of her specialty - she does manicures in a salon on Arbat.
Valeria Listyeva in the “Battle of Psychics”
The general public became acquainted with Lera thanks to the program “Battle of Psychics,” to which the girl turned herself. While filming an episode dedicated to the mystery of Listyev’s death, she met ex-vsglyudovka Evgeniy Dodolev, one of her father’s good friends.
Second wife: Tatyana Lyalina
Listyev’s departure from his first family was facilitated by his affair with Tatyana Lyalina, a student at the Faculty of Philology.
They were brought together by the Olympics, where young people worked as translators. Tanya already had a small son, Nikolai, but this did not deter the aspiring journalist. Scandals broke out again in the new family - this time because of the mother-in-law commander. The woman was not satisfied at first with the man’s small salary, and then with his passion for work. The disability of their common son Vladik added to the grief. Due to a medical error after surgery on the intestines, the baby was paralyzed, and due to the flu, he lost his sight and hearing.
Vlad Listyev, Tatyana Lyalina and their son Alexander
The situation at home was unbearable - the couple even wanted to send the child to an orphanage, but they never decided to. After the birth of his second son, Alexander (who followed in his father’s footsteps), the situation only worsened. Listyev had to pay alimony to his first wife, take care of his disabled son, and raise a baby.
Alexander Listyev
In 1988, 6-year-old Vladislav Jr. passed away after choking in his sleep. Listyev took the death of his son and quarrels with his wife hard. After another scandal, he tried to open the veins, but the doctors managed to save the man. A divorce followed, Listyev became a heavy drinker, almost lost his job and his home - he left the apartment to his wife, and he lived in a hotel.
Third wife: Albina Nazimova
When drunk, Vlad turned into a different person, became caustic and aggressive, no different from his mother, who was mired in alcohol addiction. The man was saved from an inevitable fall by his third love, the artist Albina Nazimova, whom Listyev met in 1991.
Vlad Listyev and Albina Nazimova
The woman does not tolerate questions about her incredible life story, and there is something to be surprised here: the daughter of a poor janitor, who grew up in poverty, managed to win a place in secular society thanks to her talents and charisma.
Albina and Vlad were introduced by fellow TV workers. Listyev’s bad habits did not scare away the woman. Rolling up her sleeves, she began to pull her husband out of his many years of drinking - she came to drinking parties and literally took him home by the scruff of the neck, loaded him with chores, forced him to work from morning to night.
Albina Nazimova: 25 years without Listyev Nazimova radically changed the TV presenter’s living environment. The vague drinking buddies disappeared, and intelligent and successful people entered the family circle (including her classmate Igor Vernik). Listyev’s successes on television in these years are the merit of Albina. With her, he gained confidence in his abilities, peace of mind and family happiness. They had no children together - Albina gave birth to her only son after Listyev’s death, from his colleague Andrei Razbash.
Murder
Late in the evening of March 1, 1995, Vlad Listyev was returning home after filming the show “Rush Hour.” Before leaving Ostankino, he whispered to one of his colleagues: “You know, I’m very afraid to go home.” His terrible fears were confirmed. Right in the entrance of his own house on Novokuznetskaya Street, he was shot dead by two unknown people.
Vlad Listyev was killed on March 1, 1995
The first bullet pierced the right forearm, the second hit the head and proved fatal. Investigators concluded that three more intruders were waiting outside in the car, including ex-military personnel. It was clear to everyone that Listyev was attacked not just by robbers who wanted to profit from the TV presenter’s money, because all the valuables remained untouched.
When and how the murder happened
Late in the evening of March 1, 1995, Vladislav Listyev was returning from work to his home. At that time, he lived at the address: Novokuznetskaya street, building 30, building 2. Entering the dark entrance, he was shot by two unknown assailants.
Both fired bullets hit the target. One in the forearm, the second in the head. Death came instantly. The money and material assets that were with him were untouched. This was the reason to think that the murder occurred due to the professional activities of the journalist.
Versions
The murder of Listyev became one of the most high-profile cases of the 90s. It remains unsolved to this day, despite countless guesses. During the investigation, businessman Boris Berezovsky was interrogated, because due to the moratorium on advertising on ORT, he suffered huge losses. But this version is untenable: the businessman could simply fire Listyev.
Listyev was shot dead in his own entrance
Other suspects were Alexander Lyubimov, a “deceived husband” without a last name or first name, Federation Council member Sergei Lisovsky and an influential representative of the criminal world Sergei Mikhailov.
A year after Vlad’s death, his mother also died. A 62-year-old woman was hit by a car and died on the way to the hospital. Although many talked about “elimination” (after all, she was one of the heirs to a substantial fortune), the investigation abandoned this idea. The woman was simply drunk and could not cross the multi-lane highway correctly.
In 2009, the case was suspended, and a year later the statute of limitations in the murder case expired.
Later it turned out that the work did not stop for several more years - however, to no avail. We are unlikely to find out who took the life of this man with a unique charisma, the essence of which no one has ever comprehended. 25 years later: who killed the main star of the new Russian TV? March 1, 2021 - 25 years since the murder of Vladislav Listyev. In memory of the journalist, Alexey Pivovarov released a documentary film “25 years later: who killed the main star of the new Russian TV.”
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Who killed Vlad Listyev? Four investigative groups were looking for an answer to the question. There are three main versions of what happened and seven alternative ones. At least one main suspect has died. 25 years later, several film crews released their films about the high-profile case, and three authors even asked the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, and the Prosecutor General, Igor Krasnov, to resume the investigation. Constantinople returns to one of the most notorious murders of the 20th century on the day of the funeral - on March 4, 1995, they said goodbye to Vlad Listyev.
They killed him as a businessman, and not as a TV personality?
Vlad Listyev passed away on March 1, 1995. A couple of months before his death, he headed the Public Russian Television (ORT) at the suggestion of the oligarch Boris Berezovsky . And a week before the shooting at the entrance, Vlad Listyev announced a moratorium on advertising on the air of Russia’s first private TV channel. Investigators came to the conclusion that it was this statement that became fatal.
The moratorium on advertising was needed to concentrate sales revenues in one hand. If previously each creative group of the channel looked for clients independently, now they decided to transfer advertising activities to a single agency. But first, they introduced several weeks of silence in order to develop “ethical standards.” The silence was interrupted by two shots at the entrance to Novokuznetskaya: in the forearm and a control shot in the head. Listyev died instantly, valuables and money remained untouched; investigators had no doubts about the ordered nature of the crime. However, in 2005, the investigation was stopped; neither the customer nor even the perpetrators of the murder were named.
On Channel One this weekend, the advertising version of the murder of Vlad Listyev was partially confirmed by Konstantin Ernst . Most of the journalist’s colleagues are also confident that the redistribution of the market will be fatal. For example, journalist Alexander Gordon says that he learned about the decision literally two days before the tragedy and simply said: “They’ll kill him.” The President of the Club of History and Statistics of Russia, Alexander Lyubimov, in a conversation with Tsargrad, added that in almost all dark stories, like the one that happened to his friend Listyev, not just money, but super-big money is involved. Finally, Soviet and Russian journalist and media manager Evgeny Dodolev , author of a book about Listyev, is convinced that the general director of ORT was killed as a businessman, and not as a television personality. The only one among Tsargrad’s interlocutors who categorically rejected the “advertising” version was TV presenter Dmitry Dibrov :
"This is bullshit. Firstly, Listyev had nothing to do with this, and secondly, Berezovsky was in charge of everything there. And Berezovsky had a whole team of all sorts of financial geniuses, what about Vladik. We're not at all interested in this matter. Everything that we learned, we learned rather amateurishly, in a grabby way; we didn’t know anything in the world. Our generation, I mean."
After the collapse of the Union, a putsch occurred. People found themselves in new realities, and it was not easy to comprehend what was happening. Journalists were no exception. Photo: © Moscow 1991:08:20 / Globallookpress.
By the way, according to Dmitry Dibrov, he knows the name of the criminal who killed Vlad, but...
The killer was found. Want to hear the name? It is unlikely that the general public is ready for this.
In fact, there are names in the case. There were only three main suspects. This is Boris Berezovsky , media manager, politician Sergei Lisovsky and the head of the security of President Boris Yeltsin - Alexander Korzhakov . The motives of all those involved in the investigation were in one way or another connected with income from ORT advertising, but none of them were ever charged. By the way, in all versions it was most often assumed that the Solntsevo brothers were the perpetrators of the murder, but even here the investigation did not draw any conclusions.
As for alternative versions of the murder, there are seven of them. And according to many, there are no reliable ones among them. For example, there is a “family” version of the reprisal: as if Listyev was planning a divorce from Albina Nazimova , and his fortune at that time was estimated at $16 million. There are several versions conveyed by Paul Khlebnikov , who, by the way, was also subsequently killed. Among the customers here were Sergei Lisovsky , oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky , Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov , and even the KGB. The last couple appeared with reference to a friend of Boris Yeltsin’s , Irena Lesnevskaya . Finally, Boris Berezovsky completely accused journalist Vladimir Putin . True, it was not clear why the deputy chairman of the government of St. Petersburg needed the murder - Putin then held this position.
Against the backdrop of the whole carousel of names, all that remains is to add that the day before, journalists Ksenia Sobchak , Alexey Pivovarov and Rodion Chepel appealed to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to return the case of the murder of journalist Listyev to proceedings. All the authors of the appeal have released their films about the high-profile case and believe that investigators have enough materials to continue their work and even take the case to court.
Listyev three days before the murder: “You don’t even understand how I was framed”
Vlad Listyev was repeatedly threatened: they called him on air, came to his office, and guarded him at the entrance, which he himself repeatedly spoke about in interviews. He celebrated his last New Year with his wife Albina in the house of Konstantin Ernst.
“At about 3 am we stood and looked out the window, talking about some philosophical topics. And for some reason he suddenly began to say: “It’s great to live.” And two months later, when you understand in what context it was said and what came out of it after... I still get chills from time to time, because it was like such a dangerous epiphany.”
Vlad Listyev understood the threat to life, but did not attach much importance to what was happening. The journalist’s wife admits that at that difficult time it was not easy to feel like adults. Photo: Mikhail Svischev Russian Look / Globallookpress.
Listyev understood the threat to his life, but tried not to get hung up and not go crazy, says his wife Albina.
When the air became heated and this began to be felt, Vlad began to get nervous...
... And we sat down at home and discussed: if this is so alarming, we need to hire security. Then they remembered what his colleagues with security looked like, laughed and forgot about it.”
But, perhaps, Vlad Listyev himself explained better than others the refusal of security or other additional security measures:
“The fear that they would kill me somehow passed. I was on Vzglyad for some time because there were a lot of calls and threats. Now this feeling has dulled. Then there were more outbursts - they called home, waited at the entrance. Or maybe this is our Soviet, as with all MMM shareholders - “it can happen to anyone, but not to me.” But against the background of what is happening, some kind of inner chill appears. The devil knows, you can really displease someone. I am not escalating the situation in this situation. As our Minister of Internal Affairs stated, crime in Russia has declined, which for me was a big statement. I don’t feel it.”
Vlad Listyev was only 38 years old at the time of the murder. Photo: Mikhail Svischev / Globallookpress.
Listyev’s words, broadcast on Channel One by his colleague Alexei Pimanov, .
“We had a meeting with him three days before his death. And suddenly he says: “You don’t even understand how I was set up.” He said this phrase, but even now I don’t know what he meant.”
Two presidents of Vlad Listyev
At a turning point for a huge country, Vlad Listyev certainly became a symbol. Perhaps due to the fact that he was able to articulate the sorrows and joys of people thrown into the “heap of history” after the collapse of the Union and forced to exist according to completely incomprehensible rules. 25 years later, according to what was said in one of the last interviews, Listyev was offended by Mikhail Gorbachev , the first and last president of the USSR. He begins his commentary to Channel One with the phrase “I liked Listyev,” and then...
“He, of course, took a good example for himself - Larry King . But notice one big difference: Larry listens, Listyev doesn’t have the patience to listen.”
Gorbachev’s resentment 25 years later is quite understandable. In that same “Rush Hour” program with Gorbachev, Listyev’s mood can be seen even by his eyeliner in the first seconds. “This man needs no introduction,” he says. “Some people adore him, others don’t like him, this is Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.” Vlad Listyev really didn’t let Gorbachev finish the story when he tried to evade answering, or when he took a call from a viewer - as you know, “Rush Hour” was broadcast only live, there was no time for listening. This is probably what prompted the words of the Soviet president.
“Then they call me and write: “What is this, how do you tolerate this against yourself...” And Listyev also not very delicately dismissed (the Program - Ed.), did you notice? Constantly interrupted."
Gorbachev, frankly speaking, did not like the big interview with Listyev. Photo: Boris Kavashkin / Globallookpress.
A day after the murder, President Boris Yeltsin also arrived at the civil memorial service. Addressing those gathered, he asked for forgiveness.
“I couldn’t help but come to you at this moment.
I bow my head to you as one of the guilty leaders...
... who have taken insufficient measures to combat banditry, corruption, bribery and crime.”
The last words of Vlad Listyev a few hours before his death were addressed to the audience. On March 1, 1995, he said: “Each of us associates many hopes with spring, and, as we know, hope always dies last.”
Yeltsin arrived at Listyev’s memorial service to, among other things, ask for forgiveness. How sincere were the words spoken? Photo: Boris Kavashkin/Globallookpress.
It's been said. Vlad Listyev
“Based on what is happening in our country, all we can wish for is for women to master karate techniques, keeping in mind the crime on the street, for men to learn to shoot, and for the entire population in general to learn new fasting techniques. But this, of course, is bullshit, and in the New Year it’s a sin to simply make such wishes. I would like to wish everyone who is currently working to achieve the greatest success in their work, and to those who are not working to find work as quickly as possible. And for those who are just entering life, remember that the most important thing in this life is professionalism and honesty. I want you to work as quickly as possible for the good of our Motherland.”
At Field of Miracles we have created a situation where no one ever loses, and everyone wins. And let the prime minister of the country try to create something similar for everyone...
“I would never want to give anyone any advice, although we are a country of advice. There is nothing easier than giving someone some advice. Everyone is surviving now as best they can.”
“I would like a moment to quickly come when people will not know who their chairman of the Moscow Council is, or even who their president is. So that people don’t touch or care about it. So that they know that they have their own business and they can go to the store and buy what they need.”
“We have a unique people who at one time learned to brilliantly read between the lines. Several generations of people have grown up who do not know what democracy is and have never lived under it. They lived in a totalitarian state. It's in the genes. And, unfortunately, we are now reaping the consequences of this.”
Here are just a few quotes that will remind you of the tragic 1990s for our entire country and will make Vlad Listyev not a picture from the screen, but the voice of a generation forced to live by new rules. How far have we come in mastering this game after 25 years? Here everyone will answer for themselves.
Will it be possible to solve the murder of Vlad Listyev? The question is still open. Photo: Mikhail Svischev Russian Look / Globallookpress.
Dashing 1990s
Russian liberals call the collapse of the USSR and the establishment of a new state the era of democracy and freedom. At the same time, they do not like to talk about the plunder and destruction of the country. Constantinople decided to recall the devilry of the 90s using specific examples as part of a weekly special project.
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