The satirical essayist, known in particular for staged the Russian version of the “Guignols” in the early 2000s, was sued by the businessman near the Kremlin, Evgueni Prigojine.
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It has become a quasi-daily litany. Every morning, Russian social networks report on the last searches, open criminal cases and, from now on, departures from the country. More and more, these only concern supporters of the opponent Alexei Navalny. Bloggers, policies, human rights defenders, rappers, journalists, lawyers, scientists … dozens of personalities have chosen in recent months the exile for political reasons.
The identity of the last starting has raised an unusual emotion at the beginning of the year. It is by a Published message On Facebook on January 10th that Viktor Chenderovich, 63, featured small screen and humorist famous, announced that he was leaving his native country for a still unknown destination. “Putin Russia told me my place: near the toilets, in the national jails,” he writes, denouncing twenty years of pressure, threats and police monitoring.
With his departure, it’s a page of Russian story that closes: in the spirit of millions of Russians, the name of Viktor Chenderovich remains associated with that of the “koukli”, emblematic television show of years 1990 featuring puppets with the effigy of Russian political figures. The satirical program had not survived for a long time on the arrival of Vladimir Putin, which appeared there in “naughty little dwarf”: in 2001, the NTV channel had been closed by the authorities, and this program directly inspired by “Guignols of the info “stopped in the stride.
In the viewfinder of the” Putin cook “
Since then, he had become a prolific writer – author of thirty pieces, news, novels and collections of poetry – and an acer commentator, especially for the Radio Echo de Moscow, the Russian political scene. He did not hide his support for opposition to Vladimir Putin. At the end of December 2021, it had been designated by Russian justice “foreign agent”, an infamous designation involving significant administrative constraints.
The author, accustomed to the courts, explained to flee new legal proceedings, brought this time by the Oligarch Evgueni Prigojine, for defamation. “I have always presented to court or interrogations. In part by curiosity, partly for confidence in fate and in this belief acquired in childhood – in the triumph, if not good, at least good sense . (…) This time I abstain, precisely in the name of common sense. “
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