Sergey Brilyov

{{Short description|Russian journalist (born 1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date= March 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Sergey Brilyov | image = Sergey Brilev 27-5-2015.jpg | alt =  | caption = Brilyov in 2015 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|07|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Havana, Cuba | death_place = | citizenship = Russia, United Kingdom | other_names = | occupation = [[TV anchor]], [[public figure]] | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = Irina Konstantinova | children = 1 }}

'''Sergey Borisovich Brilyov''' or '''Brilev''' ({{langx|ru|Сергей Борисович Брилёв}}; born 12 July 1972) is a Russian television journalist on the state-owned TV channel ''[[Rossiya TV channel|Rossiya]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Levy |first1=Clifford J. |last2=Barry |first2=Ellen |date=8 July 2009 |title=In Russia, Obama's Star Power Does Not Translate |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/europe/08russia.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201410/16/WS5a2fd896a3108bc8c672ab1e.html|title=Russian TV anchor makes his name doing big interviews - USA - Chinadaily.com.cn|website=usa.chinadaily.com.cn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.china.org.cn/video/2014-02/11/content_31431175.htm|title=Russian TV host: Xi is a candid, easy-going - China.org.cn|website=www.china.org.cn}}</ref>

== Early life ==

Sergey Brilyov was born on 24 July 1972 in [[Havana]], Cuba, where his father worked as an interpreter for Soviet civil aircraft exporters. His early life was spent between Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay (where his parents were posted with Soviet trade missions) and Moscow.<ref>{{in lang|ru}}{{cite web | title=Сергей Брилёв | website=smotrim.ru | date=2012-09-14 | url=https://smotrim.ru/person/100780 | language=ru | access-date=2022-08-12}} — profile at [[VGTRK]] website</ref>

He attended Moscow school No. 109, known as the "Yamburg school".

He read international journalism at the [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] (MGIMO). Brilyov took a [[sabbatical]] in 1990–1991 to attend the Montevideo Institute of Foreign Languages (Uruguay). He briefly studied management at the [[University of Westminster]] in London.

== Career == [[File:Vladimir Putin 24 December 2001-7.jpg|thumb|Sergey Brilyov interviews [[Vladimir Putin]] in 2001]] [[File:Dmitry Medvedev and Sergey Brilyov, August 2010.jpeg|thumb|Sergey Brilyov interviews [[Dmitry Medvedev]] in 2010]] [[File:Defense.gov News Photo 110322-D-XH843-018 - Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts an interview with Sergei Brilyov anchorman of Vesti V Subbotu News on Saturday TV program in.jpg|thumb|Sergey Brilyov interviews [[Robert Gates]] in 2011]] [[File:Secretary Kerry is Interviewed by Sergey Brilev of Russia's Channel One TV (23688756871).jpg|thumb|Sergey Brilyov interviews [[John Kerry]] in 2015]] While studying in Uruguay (1990–1991), he was a columnist at the Uruguayan newspapers ''[[La República (Uruguay)|La República]]'' and ''[[El Observador (Uruguay)|El Observador Económico]]''

During 1993–1995, he was a special correspondent of the foreign desk of ''[[The Moscow News]]'' newspaper, writing mostly about Latin America. He became the first correspondent to visit Cuba after a ban was imposed on ''The Moscow News'' in connection with refugees leaving the country on rafts and was summoned as an expert by Russia's [[Duma]] (the lower house of parliament). Simultaneously he was Moscow contributing correspondent of ''El Observador Económico'' and the Argentinian newspaper ''[[La Razón (Buenos Aires)|La Razón]]''.

In 1995 and 1996, Brilyov was a special correspondent of the daily news programme ''Vesti'' broadcast by TV channel ''[[Rossiya 1|Rossiya]]'' during the [[First Chechen War]] and the [[Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis|hostage crisis in Budennovsk]]. For the five years from 1996, he was the London correspondent of ''Vesti''.<ref name="Observer" />

In 2001, Brilyov accepted an offer from the head of RTR Oleg Dobrodeyev to become a presenter of the ''Vesti'' programme. His first day as presenter was [[September 11, 2001]]. Brilyov had been due to start work on 17 September, but was called in to cover the attacks on U. S. targets live [[Television broadcasting|on air]] because of his knowledge of English and international realities. He was on the air for almost the entire day, this instantly made him one of the Russia's top presenters.

From 2001 to 2003, he anchored the evening prime time daily news ''Vesti''. 2003–2007: anchor of Sunday weekly review ''Vesti nedeli'' ("Weekly news"). Since 2008 until February 2022 he has been author and anchor of his own political programme ''Vesti v subbotu'' ("Saturday news with Sergey Brilyov").

In 2002, 2006 and 2018, he was named the best TV news and current affairs presenter by the Russian TV Academy which gave him Russia's top television award [[TEFI]] in those years.<ref name="tefi">{{in lang|ru}}{{cite web | title=Брилев Сергей Борисович | website=ТЭФИ | date=2019-09-02 | url=http://www.tefi.ru/biography/180/ | language=ru | access-date=2022-08-12}} — profile at [[TEFI]] website</ref>

Revealed in April 2016 in messages sent to [[Dmitry Kiselyov]], Brilyov intended to open a branch of [[Russia Today]] in [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://b0ltai.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BF/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241028210824/https://b0ltai.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BF/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2024-10-28 |title=«Нарциссическая и пограничная психопатология…» — из массива Д. Киселева |trans-title="Narcissistic and borderline psychopathology..." - from D. Kiselyov's array |language=ru |work=[[Anonymous International]] |date=29 April 2016 |access-date=28 October 2024}}</ref>

One of Brilyov's specialities has been interviewing global leaders and their top functionaries. E. g. Brilyov has interviewed such Americans as [[George W. Bush]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2951502.stm|title=Excerpts: Bush on Russian TV|date=31 May 2003}}</ref> [[Barack Obama]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/interview-with-sergey-brilev-rossiya-tv|title=Interview With Sergey Brilev of Rossiya TV | The American Presidency Project|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}</ref> [[Colin Powell]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/24084.htm|title = Interview on Rossiya with Sergey Brilev|date = 11 September 2003}}</ref> [[Condoleezza Rice]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/10/93513.htm|title = Interview with Sergey Brilev of RTR TV|date = 12 October 2007}}</ref> [[John Kerry]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/12/250683.htm|title = Interview with Sergey Brilev of Rossiya 1}}</ref> [[Henry Kissinger]], [[George Shultz]], Britain's [[Tony Blair]], [[Gordon Brown]], [[Boris Johnson]], [[Robin Cook]], [[Jack Straw]] and [[David Miliband]], China's [[Xi Jinping]], former and future French Presidents [[Valéry Giscard d'Éstaing]], [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] and [[Emmanuel Macron]], and Russia's [[Vladimir Putin]], [[Dmitry Medvedev]], [[Evgeny Primakov]], [[Sergei Ivanov|Sergey Ivanov]] and [[Sergey Lavrov]].

In 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2018 he acted as the official co-commentator of the live ceremony of the inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation, along with Channel One's [[Ekaterina Andreeva (journalist)|Ekaterina Andreyeva]], with whom he also anchored Putin's early phone-in shows (2002–2007). In 2012–2018, he also participated in the annual live broadcast ''Talk with Dmitry Medvedev''.[[File:Announcement of the 2020 GEP laureates.jpg|thumb|Sergey Brilyov hosts [[Global Energy Prize]] award ceremony remotely from [[Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics]] in [[Kaluga]], Russia in 2020]] In 2013, Brilyov co-founded the Bering-Bellinghausen Institute for the Americas (IBBA),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibbamericas.com/en/ob-institute/|title = About institute|publisher=Institute Bering-Bellingshausen / IBBA}}</ref> a non-governmental organisation pledged to foster dialogue between the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] and Latin America.

He is the president of the Global Energy Association which operates [[Global Energy Prize]].

== Views and controversy == Russia's anti-establishment critic [[Alexei Navalny]] accused Brilyov of being a "Putin propagandist", who "never criticises the Kremlin."<ref name=":0" /> In 2001, Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation revealed that Brilyov holds a British passport.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/russia-propagandist-sergei-brilev-is-briton-with-flat-in-chiswick-navalny-putin-8lp80tb82|title = Russia propagandist Sergei Brilev is Briton with flat in Chiswick|last1 = Moscow|first1 = Marc Bennetts}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian state TV anchor's British citizenship makes his government 'public council' memberships illegal |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/11/28/russian-state-tv-anchor-s-british-citizenship-makes-his-government-public-council-memberships-illegal |access-date=2022-02-26 |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref> He supported the [[2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia|2020 amendments to Russian constitution]], which are said to cement the existing structure of power, but explained that for him the most important part was that parliament will from now participate in the formation the federal government, which was previously composed exclusively by presidential decrees. He has publicly stated that in the past he had often voted for the Russian opposition [[Yabloko party]], but became disillusioned by its weakness. In Latin America, Brilyov is known as an active supporter of the [[Sputnik-V]] COVID-19 vaccine.

=== Sanctions === He was sanctioned by the [[UK]] government in 2022 in relation to the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref>

In February 2023 [[Canada]] sanctioned Sergey Brilyov for being involved in Russian propaganda and spreading misinformation relating to the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Canada sanctions Russian propagandists, singers, actors, musicians, and Wagner Group media |url=https://english.nv.ua/life/canada-sanctions-russian-propagandists-singers-actors-musicians-and-wagner-group-media-50302091.html |access-date=5 February 2023}}</ref>

== Personal life == Brilyov is married to Irina Brilyova (née Konstantinova). The couple met in 1989 in Moscow and married in 1998 in London; they have a daughter.

Brilyov is on the electoral roll in England.<ref name="Observer">{{cite news |last1=Ungoed-Thomas |first1=Jon |title=Putin propagandist news host has British home and citizenship |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/putin-propagandist-news-host-has-british-home-and-citizenship |access-date=12 March 2022 |work=The Observer |date=12 March 2022}}</ref> His wife owns a flat in [[Chiswick]], west London, bought for £700,000 in March 2016.<ref name="Observer"/>

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