Tolstoy Petr

Tolstoy Petr Date of Birth

20 June 1969

Tolstoy Petr Citizenship

Russia

Tolstoy Petr Professional field/official position

TV Presenter

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (2016 – to date)

Tolstoy Petr biography

TOLSTOY Pyotr Olegovich (b. 1969) graduated from the international faculty of Moscow State University with a major in journalism in 1993. From 1992 to 2008, he worked in various media outlets as a journalist (Moscow branch of Le Mond, France Press, Vid, TV-6, and Channel Three). In 2005, at the invitation of Konstantin Ernst, he began working on Channel One and became the anchor of the Sunday Vremya newscast (until 2012). In 2009–2016, he was Deputy Director of the Directorate of Social and Journalistic Programs of Channel One, hosted social talk shows, pre-election debates of candidates for the State Duma, and the broadcast after the 2012 presidential election on Channel One. In 2013 – 2016, he hosted the Politics talk show and Time Will Show. Since 2014, he has been hosting Tolstoy.Sunday on Channel One.

In 2016, he joined the United Russia party and was elected to the Supreme Council of the party, became the co-chairman of the Council of Supporters of United Russia, and also took part in the elections to the State Duma. He was elected to the State Duma of the 7th convocation and became its Deputy Chairman. In 2017, he was elected the head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (PA OSCE).

Tolstoy Petr crimes

Complicity in establishing a dictatorship, undermining the constitutional foundations of the Russian Federation, discrediting the Russian Federation in the international arena, outright propaganda, including incitement of hatred, hostility, anti-Semitism, violation of human rights, and attacks on freedom of speech.

The journalist Pyotr Tolstoy has been an active supporter of the public administration system forcefully established in the Russian Federation. An analysis of his activities showed that the government official and a well-known TV presenter actively participates in the implementation of the foreign and domestic policy course proclaimed by the official Russian authorities, using all the means and skills available to him due to his professional activities.

In particular, Tolstoy comprehensively supports Vladimir Putin, whose goal is to strengthen the position of the Russian Federation in the international arena through violent external expansion. Pyotr Tolstoy actively supports the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by the Russian Federation, the occupation of parts of Ukraine and Georgia, and also justifies the military operations of the Russian Federation in Syria. He regularly voices his position publicly, using methods of aggressive mass propaganda and consistently injecting in public opinion the ideological cliches elaborated by the Russian authorities.

Ukrainian-Russian relations occupy a significant place in the assessment of the events proposed to Russian society by the state-controlled media. The editor of the Face the Event program on Radio Liberty (06/27/19) outlined the main idea, which was broadcast by Pyotr Tolstoy as the host of the newscast on Channel One:

Pyotr Tolstoy is the host of a highly ideological propaganda show that promotes the idea that Ukraine is a completely dependent state, does not exist, and that the EU controls all the plans of Ukrainian politicians.

The conduct of an official at a PACE session in Strasbourg in 2019, where he led the Russian delegation, is telling. The media are quoting the aggressive language used by the Russian official to denounce Georgia.

He stated that Abkhazia and South Ossetia will never return to Georgia and emphasized that Russia will support their independence.
He continued to express hostility towards countries that suffered Russian invasion, accusing the Ukrainian delegation of having a narrow-minded view of the modern world and labeling the statements of Ukrainian delegates as foolish.
According to media reports, he made fun of and criticized the OSCE Assembly itself, and proposed to hold a PACE meeting in the Russian-occupied Yalta in ten years. The media, not controlled by the Russian authorities, highlighted his aggression and arrogance towards other delegations and independent Russian journalists, describing him as a scandalous vice-speaker of the State Duma.

As the official representative of the Russian Federation, Pyotr Tolstoy showed a complete lack of professional ethics, political correctness, and diplomacy, resorting to primitive rudeness. His public behavior has further undermined the authority and international reputation of Russia, discrediting the country as a participant in the global community.

In 2019, Tolstoy made inappropriate remarks about the victims of the Russian military invasion, referring to Georgia and Ukraine as 'evil dwarfs' who exist only because of Russia. Ukraine included Tolstoy, as a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia, in its sanctions list.

Pyotr Tolstoy also contributes to bolstering the current political system as a member of the parliament by introducing and supporting oppressive bills that contradict the principles of the Russian Constitution and international norms.

In 2017, Tolstoy, along with members of the Federation Council, Bokova and Klishas, proposed a bill on 'media-foreign agents' that requires media receiving foreign funding to disclose information about their management, funds, and audits. According to numerous experts and publications, the real goal of the adopted bill is to further limit freedom of speech and information dissemination from independent sources.

The Committee to Protect Journalists criticized the new rules as a systematic effort to limit press freedom. Changes in Russian laws regarding foreign media have received strong criticism from OSCE, international human rights groups, and the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia. As a result of the new bill, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation listed the editorial offices of several media outlets not under Kremlin control as 'foreign agents,' including Voice of America, RFE/RL, Radio Liberty Factograph, Siberia.Realii, Current Time TV channel, Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty, Idel.Realii, Kavkaz.Realii, and Crimea.Realii.

In 2018, Tolstoy suggested removing the limit on presidential terms in Russia and voiced firm support for the State Duma's ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens, describing it as 'absolutely humane and fair.' He also backed Russia's response to American sanctions by imposing a ban on around 1000 essential drugs, without acknowledging the lack of access to high-quality alternatives for Russian citizens.

In 2017, Tolstoy called for strong measures to combat mockery of patriotic values on the Internet, including the traditional values of the Russian people: faith, Orthodoxy, family, and spirituality, aligning with state policy on restricting freedom of speech and imposing pseudo-patriotism.

Pyotr Tolstoy supported the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church and made an anti-Semitic statement, which was condemned by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. The organization accused him of undermining ethnic peace and called on parliament to address his statements.

Tolstoy Petr family

Father – Oleg Vladimirovich Tolstoy, mother – Olga Alekseevna Tomara. Wife – Daria Evgenievna Evenko (born 1969). Daughter – Alexandra (born in 2000). Peter Tolstoy is the great-grandson of writer Leo Tolstoy and third cousin of TV host Fyokla Tolstoy.

Tolstoy Petr Election

In early 2016, there were reports of Peter Tolstoy's potential participation in the preliminary voting of the United Russia party, which he later confirmed in an interview with a local newspaper. He won 75.8% of the votes during the preliminary count and secured the top position in the 199 single-mandate administrative district, becoming the co-chairman of the “United Russia” party’s Council of Supporters in the summer of 2016 and joining the party’s election headquarters.