Ayder Muzhdabaev | |
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Ayder İzzet oğlu Mujdabayev | |
| Muzhdabaev in 2015 | |
| Born | 8 March 1972 Tambov, USSR |
| Other names | Ukrainian: Айдер Іззетович Муждабаєв |
| Education | Tambov State University |
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Ayder Muzhdabaev [a] (born 8 March 1972, Tambov, RSFSR) is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar journalist. [1] He is a regular columnist at Ukrainska Pravda [2] and serves as the deputy director of the ATR television channel. [3] Muzhdabaev is one of the authors of the report Putin. War published after the assassination of Boris Nemtsov [4] and was involved in the Free Russia Forum. [5]
While he was based in Russia, Muzhdabaev served as a correspondent in the politics section of Moskovskij Komsomolets from 1998 to 2015. [6] In 2015 he left his position and moved to Ukraine, due to the Russo-Ukrainian War. Muzhdabaev's support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, which he routinely expressed on the daily talk show that he cohosted, has led to criminal charges against him in Russia. [7]
In 2023, Muzhdabaev criticized Zianon Pazniak, Litvinists, their claims to Lithuania's history and capital Vilnius and concluded that such Litvinists should be deported from Lithuania with wolf's tickets, while describing the Lithuanians as "our friends". [8]
Ayder Muzhdabaev was born in Tambov in 1972 to Izzet Muzhdabaev [9] and Tatyana Muzhdabaeva. His paternal ancestors hailed from Karasubazar in Crimea (now Bilohirsk) prior to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Family lore holds that they were related to Ismail Gasprinsky. [10]
Muzhdabaev holds Ukrainian citizenship since 2016. Since October 2017 he hosts the "Prime: Muzhdabaev" program on the ATR television channel. [11]
During the 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine, he supported Petro Poroshenko and spoke out against Volodymyr Zelensky believing his policies (and his voters) to be dangerously pro-Russian: "so there should be a new revolution for the sake of patriot's victory even if it means losing six or eight regions."[ needs context ] [12]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (in Russian)The following people worked on the content of this report: Ayder Muzhdabayev Russian journalist and media manager. For many years he has studied the civic and political problems of Crimea.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Occupation authorities deemed expressions of support for Ukrainian sovereignty over the peninsula to be equivalent to undermining Russian territorial integrity. For example, on May 22, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged in absentia Crimean Tatar television channel ATR deputy director Ayder Muzhdabaev with violating a Russian law against "public calls for committing terrorist activities." The charges were purportedly due to his support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, which he routinely expressed on the daily talk show that he cohosted.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Это означает новую революцию, победу патриотов, но и одновременно потерю ещё 6–8 областей.
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