1. In 1982, Dorenko graduated from People's Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, and served as a Portuguese-Russian translator in Angola.
18 Facts About Sergey Dorenko
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In September 1999, Dorenko hosted the weekly Sergey Dorenko Show on Saturdays at 9pm, and in November 1999 became a Deputy Director General of ORT.
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Sergey Dorenko was critical of the Mayor of Moscow, Yuriy Luzhkov, Yevgeny Primakov and their party Fatherland-All Russia, who were major opponents of Vladimir Putin and the pro-Putin party Unity during the 1999 State Duma electoral campaign.
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Sergey Dorenko accused Luzhkov of involvement in the murder of American businessman Paul Tatum in 1996.
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The 24 October 1999 broadcast of the program became memorable: it revealed some details about the state of Yevgeny Primakov's health, as a result of which Primakov dropped out of the race for the presidency of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Dorenko received the nickname "telekiller" from his colleagues.
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On 2 September 2000, Sergey Dorenko's program criticized the government's handling of the sinking of the Kursk submarine based on materials from a business trip to the Vidyayevo garrison.
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In September 2001, Sergey Dorenko tried to resume his program on Channel Three instead of ORT.
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On 30 September 2003, in Stavropol Krai, Sergey Dorenko joined the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
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In 2004, in Kyiv, Sergey Dorenko negotiated with the management of the Ukrainian television channel NTN about cooperation.
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In December 2004, during the Orange Revolution, Sergey Dorenko spoke on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in front of protesters criticizing Vladimir Putin.
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From 2004 to 2008, Sergey Dorenko collaborated with the Echo of Moscow radio station.
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In 2005, Sergey Dorenko published 2008, a work of political fiction about an upcoming revolution in Russia, featuring President Vladimir Putin and Igor Sechin, Sergey Dorenko's close ally.
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On 23 May 2007, Sergey Dorenko provided the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal with the full videotape of an interview he recorded in April 1998 with Alexander Litvinenko and fellow FSB employees, where the agents appeared to confess that their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap or frame prominent Russian politicians and businesspeople, and thus made it publicly available in full for the first time.
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In March 2012, Sergey Dorenko announced his resignation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
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Since 2014, Sergey Dorenko was the founder and chief editor of the Govorit Moskva radio station.
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On 9 May 2019, Sergey Dorenko was riding his Triumph Bonneville motorcycle in the center of Moscow when he began veering into oncoming traffic, reportedly after suffering a cardiac event.
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Sergey Dorenko avoided collision with other vehicles, but struck the concrete guard rail on the opposite side of the highway.
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Sergey Dorenko was hospitalized, with doctors attempting to revive him for over an hour.