Ayder Muzhdabaev

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Ayder Muzhdabaev
Ayder İzzet oğlu Mujdabayev
Muzhdabaev Aider Izzetovich.jpg
Muzhdabaev in 2015
Born (1972-03-08) 8 March 1972 (age 52)
Tambov, USSR
NationalityUkrainian
Other names Ukrainian: Айдер Іззетович Муждабаєв
Education Tambov State University
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • columnist

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]

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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]

Biography

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]

Notes

  1. ↑ Crimean Tatar: Ayder İzzet oğlu Mujdabayev; Ukrainian: Айдер Іззетович Муждабаєв (Ayder Izzetovych Muzhdabaev; surname also romanized from Ukrainian as Muzhdabayev).

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References

  1. ↑ "Ayder Muzhdabaev". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Ayder Muzhdabaev's column". www.pravda.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda . Retrieved 10 August 2022..
  3. ↑ "ATR Channel". Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (in Russian)
  4. ↑ Putin. War (PDF) (Report). 29 May 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2015. 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.
  5. ↑ "Спикеры — Форум Свободной России" [Speakers – Free Russia Forum] (in Russian). www.forumfreerussia.org. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Muzhdabaev's articles in the Moskovskj Komsomolets". Archived from the original on 31 July 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ "2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ukraine - Crimea". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022. 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.
  8. ↑ Muzhdabaev, Ayder. "ЛИТВИНИСТОВ — ВОН ИЗ ЛИТВЫ. Отрицание Литвы = депортация". YouTube.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Dad stopped breathing: The coronavirus killed the father of a famous Ukrainian journalist" Тато перестав дихати: коронавірус вбив батька відомого українського журналіста. РБК-Україна [RBK Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 5 November 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  10. ↑ Bekirova, Gulnara (20 October 2006). "Aider Muzhdabaev: 'I want to see Crimea as a free and prosperous land where people of all nationalities live well'" Айдер Муждабаев: "Хочу видеть Крым свободным и процветающим краем, где хорошо живут люди всех национальностей". kirimtatar.com (Interview) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 November 2006.
  11. ↑ "27.10.17 PRIME: Муждабаєв. Приїзд Умерова та Чийгоза в Київ - Телеканал ATR". 24 January 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  12. ↑ ""Придется стрелять": пропрезидентский журналист высказался об избирателях Зеленского - Выборы-2019 - Главред". 24 January 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2023. Это означает новую революцию, победу патриотов, но и одновременно потерю ещё 6–8 областей.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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