Victor Shenderovich

Who is Victor Shenderovich?

Victor Anatolievich Shenderovich is a popular Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host. In 1980, Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, specialising in "direction of volunteer theatrical groups". He is best known as a scriptwriter of popular political puppet show Kukly which was aired on NTV 1994 to 2002. He hosted satirical author program "Total" on NTV 1997 to 2001 and TV-6 in 2002. Later, Shenderovich ran a weekly program "Processed Cheese" on the Echo of Moscow radio station. The texts of this program's editions were later collected in his book "Better two heads than one. Duumvirate times chronicle", implying Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Nowadays Shenderovich is a columnist of The New Times, a liberal Russian weekly.

He is known as an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin's rule and the government's stance on war in Chechnya. Shenderovich is among the 10 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go" published in March 2010. In April 2010, Shenderovich was involved in a sex scandal with a woman claimed to have acted as a Kremlin "honey pot" to discredit opposition figures.