Kashin Oleg Date of Birth
17 June 1980
Kashin Oleg Citizenship
Russia
Kashin Oleg Professional field/official position
Oleg Kashin is a Russian journalist and blogger. He hosts the Kashin.Guru program on TV Rain and writes for the Republic. He is also a member of the Opposition Coordinating Council (2012).
Kashin Oleg biography
KASHIN Oleg Vladimirovich was born in 1980 in Kaliningrad and graduated from the Baltic State Academy of the Fishing Fleet in 2003. He worked as a correspondent for several media outlets and hosted the Black and White program on the O2TV channel.
In April 2007, he became Deputy Chief Editor of Russkaya Zhizn magazine. From 2009 to 2012, he worked for the Kommersant Publishing House. On November 6, 2010, Oleg Kashin was severely beaten near his home. It is believed that the then governor of the Pskov region was the instigator of the attack. In May 2013, he moved to Geneva and continued to write for several online media outlets.
In June 2015, he announced his return to Russia. In September 2015, he began hosting the Kashin.Guru program on TV Rain. In April 2016, he moved to London. Since 2017, he has been the exclusive author of the Republic. In 2018, he started appearing on the state TV channels Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24. In 2019, he began airing broadcasts on YouTube.
Kashin Oleg crimes
Oleg Kashin has been accused of using his position as a journalist to support the aggressive policies of the Russian government and promote chauvinistic ideologies. He openly backed Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, becoming an effective promoter of the propaganda slogan 'Crimea is Ours.'
Oleg Kashin expressed controversial views, supporting the Russian annexation of Crimea and making derogatory remarks about the Russian Federation. He also made provocative statements about Crimea and Palmyra.
In November 2018, Kashin made offensive and chauvinistic comments about various ethnic cultures during the Personally Yours program on Echo of Moscow radio station.
In December 2018, Oleg Kashin made his first live broadcast at the main propaganda talk show 60 Minutes on the Russia-1 channel, where he sharply and ambiguously spoke out about the political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia on false charges of terrorism. Kashin agreed with the position of official Russian propaganda, saying that “we are enemies for him, he is an enemy for us.” This episode provoked a heated discussion in the media. At the same time, the main complaint of the critics was the very fact of Kashin’s complimentary participation in the propaganda show.
In January 2019, Kashin acted as an advocate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, criticizing the results of the investigation, that confirmed his involvement in the murder of a group of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic in July 2018.
In April 2019, he supported a provocative decision on the massive granting of Russian citizenship to Ukrainian citizens living in the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In September 2019, Kashin said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda that “A good Ukrainian calls himself Russian.”
Indirect evidence is Kashin’s constant public expression of sympathy and solidarity with “pleasant people” — the most rabid Russian propagandists Yevgeny Popov, Olga Skabeeva, and Margarita Simonyan, whom he considers his colleagues or even friends.
