The war propagandist was born on August 22, 1983 in Belgorod. There he received his secondary education at School No. 20. Poddubny’s parents are doctors. He received his higher education at Belgorod State National Research University. Knowledge of psychoanalysis helps him in assessing the target audience and the right selection of information to present. Since 2011, he has worked as a special correspondent for the TV channels Russia-24 and Russia-1. In 2018, he and war correspondent Sladkov performed at a concert in the Kremlin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Red Army and Defender of the Fatherland Day. Singing to the tune of the Russian authorities has become a habitual task for a war correspondent.
The correspondent’s experience counts many facts of participation in criminal acts. For example, close communication with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad led to Poddubny being considered an “accomplice to terrorism. In 2018, Poddubny became Putin’s proxy thanks to a thorough treatment of the Russian population.
Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he has worked as a military reporter for VGTRK. As a result, he was put on the sanctions list. The reason is the spread of Kremlin propaganda.
He is close friends and works with the well-known military correspondent and propagandist Alexander Kots.
Interestingly, in 2020, opponents of the Bashar al-Assad regime were willing to pay $25,000 for Poddubny’s head. Although in fact, a talking head is not worth a ruble. There are plenty of those in Russia.
In general, it should be noted that Poddubny is a Kremlin pawn who is ready to deceive the population for money, praise Putin’s dictatorship and criticize the West, but at the same time go on vacation to “decaying” European countries.
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