10 Facts About Viktor Shenderovich

Viktor Anatolyevich Shenderovich is a Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host.

Viktor Shenderovich is best known as a scriptwriter of the popular political puppet-show Puppets, which aired on NTV from 1994 to 2002.

Viktor Shenderovich was a columnist of The New Times, a liberal Russian weekly, from 2007 to 2020.

Viktor Shenderovich is among the 10 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin Must Go" published in March 2010.

On 26 December 2010, Viktor Shenderovich played a major role in organizing a "Moscow for Everyone" rally in the capital of Russia, in response to race riots which had occurred earlier in the month.

On November 27,2021, Viktor Shenderovich announced that he had begun to apply for Israeli citizenship.

In June 2023, when flying to Tbilisi from Tel Aviv on an Israeli passport, Viktor Shenderovich was not allowed to enter Georgia.

Viktor Shenderovich was turned around at border control and put on a flight back to Israel without any explanation.

Viktor Shenderovich had been to Georgia several times before, most recently, just a few months previously.

In 2005, Viktor Shenderovich ran as an independent candidate for a seat in a December 4 Moscow by-election to the State Duma, but came in second to the popular filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin.