Why did the right to vote program on TVC disappear? Roman Babayan: biography, personal life. Russian television journalist, host of the program “The Right to Voice. What happened next

Roman Babayan is a Russian correspondent and host of the “Right to Voice” program on the TVC channel. During his career, he worked in 54 countries, including hot spots in Russia and abroad.

Childhood and youth

Roman Babayan was born on December 7, 1967 in the capital of Azerbaijan - Baku. Mom is Russian, dad is Armenian. His maternal ancestors were from Karabakh; after 1917 they moved to Baku. The future TV presenter received his name from his grandfather. He sang at the Mariinsky Theater. During a tour of Azerbaijan, he decided to stay in Baku and open an opera theater. My father was from Kirovabad.

The boy studied at secondary school No. 82, after which he entered the Polytechnic Institute. At the end of his second year, the guy was drafted into the army. Roman served in Hungary as part of the Southern Group of Soviet Forces.

Upon his return, he was reinstated at the university. But unexpectedly for everyone in the country, the Karabakh conflict began. As Roman himself says, classes were canceled and all students were sent to a rally. When the young man saw the slogans “Death to the Armenians” in the column, he realized that he had no further path with these people.

Then he decided to move to Moscow, where he entered the Institute of Communications. Roman graduated from his studies in 1991 and immediately began working as an engineer in the technical directorate of Radio Russia at the VGTRK television and radio company. He is fluent in English and Turkish. Roman’s parents were always proud of their son; it didn’t matter to them what profession he would choose or what success he would achieve.

Journalism and television

Roman Babayan worked at VGTRK for 2 years. But ever since I was a student, I dreamed of being a correspondent, one who searches for and finds the hottest news. He decided to change his cozy office to work as a journalist. Since 1993, he began working as a correspondent for the Vesti program.

Often, Roman Georgievich reported from hot spots, although the journalist himself does not like this combination, just as when he is called a war correspondent. The man says that he has always been interested in crisis journalism. First, he covered the events of the civil war in Tajikistan, then in Chechnya. After Chechnya, he went to Afghanistan.

Since 1997 he has been in Yugoslavia. When NATO announced the start of hostilities in 1999, the Yugoslavs decided to close their borders to entry. He and his cameraman Boris Agapkin remained at that time almost the only film crew from Russia in the country. They tried to transmit materials to Russia daily through the local television center.

Roman conducted one of his reports directly during the bombing in Belgrade. In 2000, he was awarded the NATO medal “For participation in the NATO peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.” Although Roman himself said in an interview that he was a true opponent of this so-called peacekeeping operation. In 2000, Roman Babayan was invited to Channel One. He became a political observer for the Vremya program.

In 2003, I went on a business trip to Iraq. The first missile strike on Iraq found Roman's film crew in Baghdad. As a result, he managed to leave the country only after the United States entered the capital. Then his film “Iraq” was released. One hundred days without Saddam." Babayan was recognized as a laureate of the Press-ELITE award.

His film “Santiago” was no less successful. Chile. 30 years later,” telling about the events in Chile in 1973. Roman managed to interview the former Secretary General of the Communist Party of Chile, Luis Corvalan. By the way, Roman Babayan was the only journalist who managed to meet with.

From 2005 to 2012 he worked at Channel Three. He was the chief editor of the “Main Topic” and “Conclusions” programs. In 2008, he became a TV presenter of the information program “City”.

In 2010, the TVC channel offered Roman airtime. At that time, he already had something to offer the public. Soon viewers saw a new format of the show. Every evening, popular journalists and influential politicians appeared on the “Right to Voice” program, they discussed current topics, expressed their opinions on this or that situation. Soon the editors even stopped looking for “guests” on the show themselves; specialists from various fields themselves wanted to get on the program.

More than once, conflicts broke out between show participants in the studio. But in 2016, Roman himself could not stand it. In response to an unflattering phrase about Russians by Polish journalist Tomasz Maciejczuk, he threw his folder of papers at him and asked him to leave the studio.

And although Babayan immediately stepped aside, the conflict continued. All the guests of the TV show took part in it. The altercation continued until Ukrainian MP Igor Markov hit Matseychuk in the face. Filming on "The Right to Vote" was stopped. This program was not aired on the channel.

In 2017, Roman Babayan became the winner of the TEFI award in the category “Host of a prime-time socio-political talk show.”

Personal life

Roman met his wife Marina Chernova at work - on the set of the VGTRK studio. She worked as a sound engineer. They got married in 1995. They had three sons - George, German and Robert.

Since Babayan was constantly on business trips, he more than once expressed his regrets in interviews about the fact that his children’s childhood passed practically without him.

As Roman Babayan notes, the most important things in life are family and peace.

Roman Babayan now

In 2016, he left his post as TV presenter of “Right to Voice”. As it turned out, he decided to run for the post of deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from A Just Russia. As a result, the man was not elected to the State Duma and soon returned to television.

In 2018, as before, he hosts the “Right to Voice” program on the TV Center channel. The TV presenter also regularly writes posts on

The biography of Roman Babayan is unique and worthy of the attention of everyone who is not indifferent to professional people in their field, which is Roman Georgievich. – a multifaceted and incredibly patriotic person. Currently, he defends the rights of the Armenian people and in his words: “Wherever I am, the first thing I always read is the news feeds of Armenia - they are my people, my soul and heart. I am interested in any events that occur in the land of my ancestors. I sincerely root for my people, for all Armenians. I will not be unique if I say that my people have suffered quite a few trials - genocide, terrible earthquakes and oppression. Probably all Armenians imbibed this excitement for their nationality with their mother’s milk. I'm not an exception. My mission, as a famous person, is to convey to everyone that Armenians deserve to live better, deserve justice and respect like no one else.” Unfortunately, a lot of people have heard about Roman Babayan, but do not know his path to fame and popularity, to what he has today. Today we want to talk about his life, his achievements and everything related to Roman Georgievich Babayan.

Childhood, youth.

After graduating from secondary school Babayan Roman Georgievich entered the Azerbaijan Polytechnic University at the Faculty of Radio Engineering. After studying at the university for 2 years, Roman, like many boys of that time, joined the army. It should be noted that the Babayan family did not even think about their son not going to serve. At that time, military service for a young man was the personification of growing up, a new stage in a man’s life. Either military service on the territory of Hungary, or changed views during the service, but upon returning home, Roman Babayan realized that he had wasted 2 years at the university and that the chosen profession was not at all desirable. Therefore, Roman Babayan is transferred to the Moscow Institute of Communications and receives higher education in the capital of Russia.

After graduating from university, many roads were open to Roman: he could become a radio and television presenter, broadcast television programs. However, in difficult times for the country, in 1991 Babayan accepted an offer from VGTRK to become a producing engineer for Radio Russia radio programs. Having worked in this position for 2 years, Babayan makes a fateful decision for himself - he exchanges the cozy office of a famous and eminent company for the profession of a correspondent. Years later, Roman Georgievich commented on this act as follows: “Yes, working at VGTRK is a tremendous experience and I am still grateful for this work. But I felt that I had already served my purpose in this position, and it was necessary to move on. Since my student days, I dreamed of becoming a correspondent, a journalist, someone who searches for and finds the hottest news. It was a great chance to make my dream come true, and I did it.".

Carier start. The path to the formation of Roman Georgievich Babayan.

For 7 years of his life, namely from 1993 to 2000, Roman Babayan worked as a correspondent for the Vesti program. Babayan repeatedly reported from hot spots, risking his health and his life. Roman Georgievich got in touch with TV show hosts from Ingushetia, North Ossetia, and Grozny. He also conducted one of his reports during the bombing in Belgrade.

All his merits, brilliant reports and impeccable and unique flair as a professional could not go unnoticed by television and radio aces. Babayan himself said that after some reports, very famous people contacted him and praised his work: “Every time someone praised me and admired my work, I was incredibly confused. In fact, everything I did and do is not for the sake of recognition, not for the sake of fame. My greatest pleasure comes not from praise, but from the fact that my reporting and my work helps people become more informed about political affairs. When people recognize me on the streets and come up and thank me for my work, this is the best thing that can happen in my career.”

Present tense. From correspondent to the most sought-after presenter.

Personal life of Roman Babayan.

I don’t like the babayan, he interrupts and lies a lot.

It’s unbearable to listen to Babayan’s self-promotion; he invites to the program “Khokhlyat rednecks, Baltic underdogs and shit liberals, for example, the state traitor Nadezhdin and the oblique bastard Zlobin. They are excitedly discussing how to destroy Russia?! I really want personal responsibility for the chosen topics of discussion and Babayan’s invitees. It just offends me humiliation of my country on the Day of lifting the siege of Leningrad! Maybe the leading masochist?

Boev Nikolay Vladimirovmch

I wanted to watch a program - 4-5 people are talking about their own things at the same time... Everyone is probably right. Who are you talking to? Why can’t I hear your argument? Who are you working for? There is only one line between you and me. Why are you connecting 6 people to my ear who are talking at the same time. I can only hear one person - this is why I turned on your channel. If I can’t hear what everyone is talking about at the same time, why the hell do you need me?

I'm tired of the transfer. Babayan shuts up people who say sensible things.

Sergey Nikolaevich

I would like to leave feedback from the entire Krasnodar region. How long will you test our patience? Why do you invite stubborn Benderites to the program who constantly lie on all the talk shows where they are also invited for some reason? They insult Russia, us, and we are forced to listen to them, hoping that someone will give them a worthy answer. Nevermind. Just patting the Bendera people on the head. And it's been the same thing for 4 years now. When will you get tired of it yourself? Or does money have no smell?

Fomin Sergey sfomin60

Why was Kareiba allowed to knock his shoe on the table and not kicked out the transfers and the countries over there with a ban on coming to Russia

Roman Babayan is rapidly becoming a major political figure. Therefore, he has the right to interrupt everyone, impose his own and turn the discussion in a completely different direction, and then in a third direction. Smarter. In his opinion. He didn't let anyone finish speaking. This is a mess. Pay more attention to the speakers, comrade!

Advantages: No

Flaws: Entire program

The program does not live up to its name. The discussion of topics is chaotic; by the middle of the issue it is impossible to remember where the discussion began.

The experts in the studio behave inappropriately. It seems that shouting at a person expressing his thought about a serious situation (often correct, but it is lost in a meaningless argument) is better than just listening to him. The attitude towards people with a different point of view is openly aggressive. I feel ashamed of the presenter and some experts who do not adhere to the rules of etiquette and insult everyone they want. It's unpleasant to watch the program; the constant screaming causes headaches.

The solution to the problem is not named. Everyone just screams. I do not recommend watching the program.

Advantages:

• I don't like all this.

A bunch of slackers chattering among themselves. You who are chattering, go and solve these problems, and don’t scratch your tongues. Are you getting paid for this?

Advantages:

• sometimes there are people with their own opinions

Flaws:

• not objective Babayan

At first I really liked this program, but then, after the Ukrainian events began, I practically stopped watching it. I completely stopped liking Babayan, a firm conviction of his bias appeared; he easily silences opponents of the official version of events, openly takes the side of the defenders of officialdom, possessing a sharp mind and a large amount of information, he skillfully manipulates the facts in his favor. Very rarely, but I watch if interesting people are present, and when Markov or Zheleznyak appear I immediately turn it off, it’s disgusting. Probably Babayan is right in his own way - start telling the truth - they will close the program, but you have to feed your family.

Neutral reviews

They would invite DEPUTIES and ask about their activities in Russia

"advertise????
We all understand that now in this DUMA she will be pushing HER relatives (Her husband is KHACHATUR) budget money for cutting. Now it is not clear who and how appointed her as the head of the faction for work on CULTURE, and the minister said that a lot of money was spent on culture in Russia. Now this Yampol Duma member, together with her husband Khachyaatur and the so-called producers like DADISHYAN and the company, will cut the general budget of the country????"

Igor Alexandrovich

I don’t understand how the Americans studied the history of Russia? What blow to us? Somehow some guys came and shouted, Russian, give up on us, arda, to which we replied, “FUCK YOU!!!” and so it has always been and will be,

Advantages:

• Competent presenter
• Current topics.

Flaws:

• The leader is not in control of the situation
• Everyone is yelling at the same time.

Good program, competent presenter. But Babayan is not in control of the situation. Everyone is yelling at the same time, and the presenter cannot restore order. I have to switch because it's annoying.

Advantages:

• Interesting

Flaws:

• Casting of participants is not always successful

The professionalism of the presenter and the team creating the “RIGHT TO VOTE” program deserves a good assessment. Special thanks to the presenter Roman Babayan. The selection of guests and experts with different points of view is well balanced. However, I really hope that you will invite a certain Maria Shteiman to participate in this program less often, since it is not so much her personal point of view that is difficult to perceive (we have enough “politically unconstructive Protestants”), but rather her screeching voice, clogging up everything and everyone, and also eternal flaunting in the style of “everything is crap, I’m the queen.” Honestly, I can’t watch the show anymore because of it, it has a negative effect on my brain: -/ Thank you for your attention to my opinion.

Positive reviews

The best of all political shows. The credit for this goes solely to Roman Baboyan. Unfortunately, the format of the program is such that everyone can shout at once, but Roman copes with this masterfully. Handsome, smart, intelligent. Thank you.

Irina Nikolayevna

Thank you for the program “Social Revolution” dated July 31 this year. For the first time on the central channel I heard unbiased and professional assessments of the upcoming pension reform, and in general, the state of the economy. It’s surprising that they didn’t talk about pensioners jumping from a parachute or playing bowling (laugh). The United Russia deputy (Mikhail Starshinov, it seems) should be ashamed. He talked a lot, well - very streamlined! - as a result, he said nothing. However, this is another evidence of the degradation of United Russia - they do not listen to people. I will be 63 years old this year, I see how ordinary people live around me - pension reform will be murder for them. And who, tell me, will help raise this generation? Grandmothers will disappear like a class.

Advantages:

• Interesting
• without shouting
• clear and intelligible information.

Flaws:

• Haven't noticed it yet.

Unlike many programs we know, where everyone is shouting something and you can’t figure out who is talking about what, in this program everything is more correct - a famous figure or official is invited and they ask him questions in turn and receive complete answers to them. No one interrupts anyone and you can at least understand something.

I think that high-level officials or well-known figures would not come to a bad program and a bad presenter, but at this program they appear regularly, hence the conclusion - the program is good. Yes, and it has been on the TVC channel for a very long time, but would they really keep a bad program with a low rating on the channel for so long!

However, everyone has their own opinion, but personally I like “The Right to Vote”.

Advantages:

• Decent behavior of both the presenter and experts from the Russian side
• There is clearly a high level of cultural behavior.

Flaws:

• This Tatyana from the Ukrainian Gestapo does not shut up at all. Turn off her microphone. It's disgusting to listen to her.

The Ukrainian side clearly shows the limited thinking. It's amazing how sincerely they lie and evade answers. They discredit the entire Ukrainian people.

Advantages:

• I like the program.

Flaws:

• More heroes, not screamers and onlookers.

Roman Babayan, for you.

My Motherland is Russia, my small Motherland is Moscow Region, Krasnogorsk, and looking at the cowards, traitors, and hohlyad men just makes me want to vomit. I'm talking about those who fled to Moscow, and from Moscow they yap like Tabaki. After all, everyone fled to Moscow, and not to their own people in Novorossiya. As after the victory of the defenders of Novorossiya, they will look into the eyes of people who shed their blood, lost relatives and friends, lived in hardship and torment, but won, and did not flee to Moscow.

I would send them to Kolyma, to Magadan, if they don’t want to defend it from their homeland, then let them live there. And then Ishchenko first of all stated that he left property worth $1 million, and the fact that people in Novorossiya are leaving their lives for their Motherland is for him later, because he can fight for his Motherland only in comfortable conditions, he even went on a campaign with a glass a mug and a porcelain plate, and probably only with a blue border, like Americans, they definitely need toilet paper, and without it they don’t go into battle, for obvious reasons, the so-called journalist Cat, just yells, Markov, Oleynik Vetrov and deputies of the 7th convocation, who were deprived of power, they all have pathos, paranoia, slyness, people in Novorossiya don’t even need them, they are not needed anywhere, and I wouldn’t want to see them in my homeland, let them go defend their homeland, on their territory, help people morally, they help restore Novorossiya, because there is a lot of work there. And they need toilet paper. After all, any Russian man, in such a situation, will not run to Kyiv, but will defend his Motherland to the last drop of blood. Roman, you asked - if people in Ukraine are against the regime, then where are these people? But we did not receive a firm answer.

Real people, unfortunately, are only in Novorossiya. The women did not run away, neither Bondarenko, nor, it seems, Berezhnaya, and some others, I don’t remember their names, but I saw them on Russian channels. And Bondarenko’s situation is generally OH - her guards are Trojan horses, unfortunately I don’t know how many of these horses there are, and she is not afraid, and did not ESCAPE to Moscow. The real Helen of Troy. Oles Buzina is a true patriot of his people. I would forbid the listed men to even pronounce the name Olesya from their mouths - this is... We have our own Kotov, Ishchenkov, Markov, Oleinikov, Vetrov, etc., unfortunately, there is a lot of such shame. And we don’t need more such shame. They should be shown on television as an example of cowardice, betrayal, and deceit. And these, on our screens, became stars, examples of courage, love for the Motherland, love for their people, and this is thanks to you too, it’s a pity. And so they fight for their homeland, do not flee from it - courageous, honest, beautiful -

Ukrainian women!!! Yes, there are women in Russian villages...

Thanks to Sergei Minaev that his programs are without pathos, paranoia and there is no imposition of opinion in them, (with Roman sometimes this slips through) there is dialogue in them, and we draw conclusions ourselves.

Sincerely!

Igor Smirnov.

Advantages:

• Hot political issues are always discussed

Flaws:

Talk show "Right to vote" (TVC) is a very lively and interesting television program. I’ve been watching it for a long time, different people with their opinions and discussions of a mainly political and economic nature are interesting in it. The topic of the program is always surprising - always fresh battles about one or another current issue in the world.

The TV presenter of this program, Roman Babayan, approaches every question very competently, spins the topic “to the fullest,” as they say, asks a lot of detailed questions, and listens carefully. He conducts this program very competently - it is always interesting to watch it.

I advise you to watch this TV show and you will be aware of all socio-political events.

Advantages:

• democracy
• openness to ideas
• publicity

I recommend for daily viewing relevant, lively discussions on topics that are significant to many people (social, first of all), which take place in a dynamic mode between supporters of different points of view, experts and viewers in a democratic manner conducted by experienced presenters of the RIGHT OF VOICE program on the TV center. I am especially concerned about education, healthcare and culture, which today are turning into INDUSTRIES for the “rental” of our souls, minds, bodies for the purpose of SUCCESSFUL zombification (according to American, Anglo-Saxon models) and effective management of public opinion of members of Russian society who think simplistically in line with the learned cliches , which someone needs to make standard digestible for the Atlanteans to digest. THE CINEMA becomes CLIPPLE, the spectacle POP: THE THEATER (St. Petersburg Alexandrinka, for example) - DEAD! (long live GAD-he-TARTRE with the schizoCACOphony of images and sounds); education (both school and university) is turning into a conveyor belt production of cliché-minded IT managers for INDUSTRIES of various types; medicine is minimized in Human-Human interaction (DOCTOR-patient) to unified production lines according to the standards of “high-tech” methods of diagnosis and standard schemes for pharmacological (chemical) relief (cutting symptoms)... I recommend about all this and much more: watch, think , speak out...

Advantages:

• democracy
• openness to ideas
• realism and relevance of problems

The program “Right to Voice” compares favorably with other “talking shops” broadcast on other channels. It is distinguished, first of all, by a real and comprehensive discussion of the problem, which does not flow into “washing the bones” of some abstract Aunt Moti from the village of Kukuevo (which is the sin of Malakhov and Co., Zelensky and similar characters broadcasting on other federal television channels). It’s nice that not only invited experts are given the opportunity to speak (and these are, as a rule, professors, rectors of prestigious universities, specialists in the field of culture/medicine/other spheres of life, and not stars, models and actors), but also the audience.

And it’s doubly pleasant that they do not express themselves in the manner of: “Ahhhhh, what are you doing here, good people!”, but quite intelligently present their position.

The presenters - Natalia Metlina and Roman Babayan - are extremely tactful towards everyone present in the studio. They are serious, but they can joke and smile without slipping into clownery.

In principle, the topics discussed on different channels in the programs are the same. The only difference is in the presentation of the topic. But, you must admit, the consumer’s perception of it directly depends on the presentation of information...

Advantages:

• openness to ideas
• different points of view
• realism and relevance of problems
• good presenter

I've recently become hooked on this show, although I stopped watching TV altogether several years ago. The program is captivating because the discussion contains completely different, if not opposing, points of view, which is always good, does not allow one or the other to relax, and for the viewer it is very exciting to watch and listen to those entering. Trying to shout and shut up your opponent will not work, since the number on one side and the other is equal.

In general, in light of recent events in the world, a couple of good political programs have appeared that are not at all unpleasant to watch. And finally, conscience kicked in, they stopped giving everywhere the one-sided, already fed-up opinion of five or six unsettled would-be politicians, and began inviting journalists, human rights activists, as far as possible from different countries with different points of view.

I advise you to look.

It started after Roman Babayan decided to find out whether Russians live in shit

Another fight took place on Russian television: this time it was initiated by the host of the talk show “Right to Voice” on TVC, Roman Babayan, who quarreled with a guest, Polish political scientist Tomasz Maciejchuk.

The TV channel itself dryly reported this event last evening on its website: “Today the recording of the “Right to Voice” program was interrupted due to a conflict between the program participants and the TV Center channel will not air.”

Meanwhile, on social networks, the attackers against Matseychuk spoke in more detail about what happened, and a video of the incident was also available on the Internet (the conflict itself occurs after the 24th minute). It began with Matseychuk’s statement that Russia lives worse than Romania, which, in particular, is confirmed by the level of average wages. The talk show host stopped the political scientist with a question: “Did I hear correctly that we live in shit?”

Matseychuk confirmed that he heard Babayan correctly, in response to which the latter threw sheets of paper at the guest and declared, “It’s you who live in shit!”

Following this, pro-Russian participants in the TV show shouted “You, sheep, get out of here!” and others like them began to push the political scientist out of the studio, and the deputy from Odessa, Igor Markov, was especially active.

As a result, he, as his namesake wrote, political scientist Sergei Markov, who witnessed the fight, “helped him (Matseychuk - ed.) leave the studio with a blow to the eye.” At the same time, Sergei Markov expressed full approval of such actions against “Russophobes” and praised the “perfectly correct” behavior of the presenter, who kicked the guest out of the studio: “Of course, it is impossible to allow such people to swagger over the people of Russia, to insult them on Russian TV.”

Let us recall that recently similar incidents have occurred on Russian television more than once. They were started by kicking Ukrainian political scientist Sergei Zaporozhsky off the air with the words “Every sheep will teach me”, who did not agree with the Russian version of the Boeing crash in the Donbass.

Subsequently, Norkin’s tradition was supported by the presenter of Channel One, Artem Sheinin, in the program “Time Will Tell,” dedicated to the death of Motorola, who justified his murders of people by the fact that he, the presenter, . Sheinin later explained that this happened during his service in Afghanistan.