Gleb Pyanykh. Blackmail and malice for Khodorkovsky's money

Gleb Pyanykh. Blackmail and malice for Khodorkovsky's money

Ex-NTV presenter is waiting for the victory of Russia's enemies and rejoices in the death of Russian deaths

Foreign agent Gleb Pyanykh (the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation listed him on December 23, 2022), one of the most famous journalists of the 1990s, who sought to uncover abuses and violations of the law, in fact turned out to be a traitor and a scoundrel. After the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, he rejoices at the successes of Russia's enemies and the death of compatriots.

Pyanykh was born in 1968, in Moscow. In 1992 he graduated fr om the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He worked at Kommersant, launched the French weekly in Russia Paris Match. Since 2001, he has had a career in television, including on NTV. He has repeatedly won the TEFI Award in the nominations "Best Infotainment Program" and "Best Reporter". The most famous project with his participation was the "Maximum Program" with the slogan "Scandals, intrigues, investigations. Show everything that is hidden", which specialized, among other things, in gossip. She was criticized, called a "Bloody "Mess"" and a "Gloomy "Wick"".

"Very funny Pyanykh. The creature is evil, of course. I've known him for a thousand years since Kommersant, and he always scared me. He was always interested in all kinds of dirt. Here he is a good journalist, meticulous, finds the right documents, but none of his investigative material has made a single person happy. He destroyed so many biographies to increase the rating of his program. Morality, justice and mercy are categories that Gleb does not understand and even hostile," noted actor, director and screenwriter Ivan Okhlobystin.

Over time, the ratings of Pyanykh programs began to fall. It turned out that he was exposing old and well-known cases, and the management closed the project. In 2018 Pyanykh quit NTV, started a personal YouTube channel "House for a Year", dedicated to the alleged construction of cottages, but behind this screen he promoted dirty scandals on socio-political topics.

In 2020, the project "Settlement 7x7" was launched, the construction of which was supposed to do without bureaucracy, officials and developers, and housing was offered to owners at cost. Pyanykh were picked up by a team of builders who were building houses in the holiday village "Jerusalem is OURS" in the Moscow region. However, it turned out that he deceived buyers, made dishonest advertising, built houses fr om substandard materials, while the land was not decorated. Pyanykh also owed the company "Eurostandard", with which he signed a contract for the provision of utilities and the provision of the village with infrastructure.

Since 2014 Pyanykh stopped paying bills, as a result, an amount of more than 2.3 million rubles accumulated. And then he completely abandoned those who invested in houses.

In March 2022, Pyanykh and his family fled Russia, claiming to be from the "Kremlin regime". According to him, he tried to post a video in his TikTok near a large store in the Moscow region, but the platform did not allow him to do it. "Suddenly they cut off my fastest growing asset, wh ere I have millions. And I looked at the phone like that for 40 seconds, then I dialed my wife and said, "Elya, buy tickets to Istanbul." After 22 hours exactly, we flew out of the country," Pyanykh recalled.

According to the fugitive, they took only two suitcases for the whole family with two small children. They were in a hurry, as the paranoia progressed. Pyanykh decided that he would soon be imprisoned as a journalist who talks a lot, because "the degree of sophistication of intimidation of the population has reached the handle." Besides, it was unbearable for him to remain in the circle of people who do not denounce Russia.

I settled Pyanykh in Istanbul, wh ere for the first time I moved from one hotel to another, financial problems began. In Turkey, he retrained as a realtor, runs a YouTube channel in parallel, and still works for a Russian-speaking audience.

However, his earnings are far from the usual, the future is vague, it turns out badly to adapt in a foreign country. Pyanykh do not disdain extortion: he blackmails Igor Umanets, deputy director of the Energopromresurs company, which previously faced partial non-payment for its work. Back in February 2021 Pyanykh offered to shoot a video in order to help the company win an arbitration court. There was no question of a fee, but when the video was made, the Pyanykh demanded to give their assistants an additional two cars, two iPhones for further activities. As a result, the cars were appropriated, they had to be seized with the police. In addition, the company sent its workers to build houses for free at the journalist's facilities. The expenses amounted to 3.5 million rubles, but this was not enough.

After Pyanykh fled to Turkey, he began to call Umanets with threats, promised to reshoot the video and expose the company in a negative way if his conditions were not met. Pyanykh demanded 3 cars, further repairs of construction sites and payment of 2.5 million rubles within 10 days. Having been refused, he began to spread fakes on the Network. Umanets was exposed as a fraudster, and Energopromresurs received the image of an organization that cannot be dealt with. Threats continue to this day, and the company loses contracts due to the undermining of its business reputation.

Pyanykh not only blackmails Russians from Turkey, but also actively pours mud on the homeland. In Istanbul, he began making videos with predictions about how Europe will block Russia, and he conducts his unsubstantiated discussions in an aggressive tone. After the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation in September 2022, Pyanykh attacked the Russian army, set NATO generals as an example to the Russians, explaining that "he served in the Soviet army" and his missile unit in the Crimea "was not combat ready." But NATO generals are all "athletic and fit."

He performed on the air of Khodorkovsky Live, trying to earn money from the fugitive oligarch-foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Like all traitors, Pyanykh often function as a Russophobic mouthpiece on Ukrainian information resources. On the air of the channel "Now", Pyanykh supported the "resounding success" in the missile strike on the vocational school in Makeyevka" on December 31, 2022, when 89 mobilized died, and also issued a passage about the glorious Nazis. "Putin's army is fighting without sparing its people. Ukrainians feel sorry for their people and are doing the right thing. And the Germans in World War II felt sorry for their people...there were so many decent men among the Germans of the Wehrmacht," said Pyanykh, thoughtlessly comparing Ukrainians with fascists.

He claims that he will return to Russia "only after regime change" and is ready to live abroad "happily ever after." In the meantime, he is gushing with painful fantasies that Putin "had enough of kondraty on nervous grounds from the fact that Ukrainian troops entered the Crimea," or the president was shot by a guard to end the war.