Aleksandr Igorevich Kots (born September 3, 1978 ) is a Russian journalist. Since 1999, he has been working as a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda , a special correspondent for the politics department, responsible for covering military conflicts, natural disasters, and other disasters. His track record of war correspondent includes wounds and captivity, work in Kosovo , Afghanistan, the North Caucasus , Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Ukraine. He also runs programs on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
| Alexander Igorevich Kots | |||||
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 At the presentation of awards to representatives of television and print media, 2009. | |||||
| Date of Birth | September 3, 1978 ( 41) | ||||
| Place of Birth | Sakhalin Oblast , USSR | ||||
| Citizenship |  Russia | ||||
| Occupation | journalist | ||||
| Father | Igor Kots | ||||
| Children | daughter | ||||
| Awards and prizes |
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Biography
Born September 3, 1978 in Sakhalin . Father - journalist Igor Kots [1] , in 2003-2013 he was editor-in-chief and general director of the publication " Soviet Sport ". A month after birth, Alexander's family moved to the mainland in Khabarovsk . He entered school, then continued his studies in Vladivostok [2] .
In 1993 he moved to Moscow , where he graduated from high school and entered the institute. However, I had to interrupt my studies. After two years of service in the Airborne Forces of Russia [3] he continued his studies [2] .
Since 1999, she has been working as a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda , becoming a special correspondent for the politics department. He is responsible for covering military conflicts, natural disasters and other disasters [2] in Russia and other countries, interviews prominent political figures, and broadcasts on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station [3] .
As a war correspondent he covered events in Kosovo (2000, 2008 and 2011), Afghanistan (2006, 2013), the republics of the North Caucasus (more than 30 business trips from 2000 to 2016), Egypt (January-February 2011, 2012, 2013 ), Libya (several business trips during 2011), Syria (several business trips in 2012-2013 and 2015-2017), [3] in Iraq (2016) and Ukraine (2014-2017).
On May 9, 2004, when President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov was killed as a result of a terrorist attack at a stadium in Grozny , Alexander Kots was shell-shocked [3] .
On September 3, 2004, during a business trip to Beslan, he participated with the Russian special services in the evacuation of hostage children from a school seized by terrorists [3] . The journalist was presented to the state award "for participating in the rescue of children from the Beslan school, for helping to investigate the tragedy", but refused the award [2] .
Together with the journalist Dmitry Steshin, he was preparing material for the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident , having lived for several days in the abandoned city of Pripyat [4] .
In June 2006, together with other journalists, he covered in Feodosia ( Crimea ) the actions of the local population against NATO and US-Ukrainian exercises. At the same time, he actively protested against the presence of NATO troops in Crimea, taking part in the hoisting of the flag of the Russian Federation on the roof of the building of the military sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in Yevpatoria [5] [6] .
On August 9, 2008, Alexander Kots was sent to Tskhinval ( South Ossetia ) to cover the events of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict . Together with a convoy of a motorized rifle battalion of the 58th army , traveling to Tskhinval to help Russian peacekeepers, it was ambushed. During the battle, Alexander Kots continued to fulfill his journalistic duty, filmed what was happening on a video camera and prepared a report to the room. He was seriously wounded in the right hand, but the very next day from the field hospital of the Ministry of Emergencies near Vladikavkaz he transmitted his report [3] . The decisive actions of Major D. V. Vetchinov ( Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously) saved from the death of Alexander and other journalists [7] [8] . For a business trip to South Ossetia, Alexander Kots was awarded the medal “For Courage” (January 16, 2009) [9] .
In 2010, he broadcast reports from the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince in Haiti , destroyed by an earthquake [3] .
During the “ Arab Spring ”, in April 2011, covering the civil war in Libya , together with his colleague Dmitry Steshin and three journalists of the Russian television channel NTV was captured by rebels. Reporters were accused of working for Muammar Gaddafi’s regime as scouts. However, thanks to the prompt intervention of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Special Envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin , all reporters were released with the help of the Italian military stationed at the Benghazi airfield [3] [10] .
From December 2013 to the present, Alexander Kots has been working in Ukraine, in the war zone in the Donbass. According to some reports, he was awarded the medal of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, II degree (April 21, 2014) for "objectivity in reporting on events in the Crimea" [11] . And the SBU closed for him entry into the territory of Ukraine for five years and put him on the wanted list as an accomplice of terrorists [12] . Despite the ban, he continues his work in Ukraine [13] .
Ratings and Opinions
Over the years, Alexander Kots has developed his own journalistic style. The light irony of Alexander, who went through many “hot spots”, usually presents his reports on the war in such a light that the reader is no longer afraid. In the team of Komsomolskaya Pravda , he is valued as a courageous, principled, objective, executive and professional journalist [3] .
At the same time, there are other opinions about Alexander Kots and his colleague Dmitry Steshin. Nationalist and xenophobic motifs were previously found in their materials. In particular, this concerned publications on the Caucasus [14] .
Family
Married, has two daughters. [2]
Awards and Prizes
Winner of a number of awards in journalism, including:
- Julian Semenov Prize in the field of extreme geopolitical journalism (2012) [3] ;
- twice winner of the Artyom Borovik Prize (for investigating circumstances related to the death of the Kursk nuclear submarine and reporting from South Ossetia) [3] ;
- Iskra Prize nominee (for a series of reports from the North Caucasus) [3] .
Russian state and departmental awards:
- Medal “For Courage” (January 16, 2009) [9] - for courage and courage shown during coverage of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict
- Medal “For the Strengthening of the Military Community” [3]
- Emergencies Ministry medal “To a participant in emergency humanitarian operations ” [3]
- Medal “To a participant in a military operation in Syria” (awarded on April 17, 2016) - for high professionalism and objectivity in covering the military operation in the Syrian Arab Republic [15]
Publications
- Kots A.I. Catch up in number: a collection of reports of the special correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda / Alexander Kots. - Vladivostok: Publishing House of the Far Eastern University, 2009. - 217 p. - ISBN 978-5-7444-2193-7 (erroneous) .
Notes
- ↑ Andrey Smirnov, Andrey Fefelov. Blood instead of "cola" . Tomorrow (June 29, 2011). Date of appeal May 16, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Sakhalin native Alexander Kots committed a male act - RBC . SakhalinMedia (February 23, 2013). Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Alexander Igorevich Kots (Unavailable link) . Cultural Foundation of Julian Semenov (2012). - Laureates of the 2012 Yulian Semenov Prize. Date of treatment May 13, 2014. Archived on May 14, 2014.
- ↑ Dmitry Anatolyevich Steshin (Unavailable link) . Cultural Foundation of Julian Semenov (2012). - Laureates of the 2012 Yulian Semenov Prize. Date of treatment May 17, 2014. Archived on May 14, 2014.
- ↑ A Russian journalist who climbed onto the Ministry of Defense with a flag left Crimea . Ukrainian truth (June 9, 2006). Date of treatment June 3, 2014. (unavailable link)
- ↑ The Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent was forced to leave Ukraine (updated) . Television criticism (9.6.2006). Date of treatment June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Heroes of the August war - Denis Vetchinov. IA "Res". 08/07/2009. (Retrieved August 9, 2009)
- ↑ Hero . Tape.Ru (August 15, 2008). Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Representatives of the media awarded with state awards (Inaccessible link) . Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (January 16, 2009). Date of treatment May 13, 2014. Archived on May 14, 2014.
- ↑ Alexey Ovchinnikov. Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin. This is not their first war . Komsomolskaya Pravda (April 8, 2011). Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- ↑ "300 loyal" are named by name: even dispatchers awarded for Crimea . Channel 9 TV (05/13/2014). Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Alexander Kots. Five years without the right of transition . Komsomolskaya Pravda (05/30/2014). Date of treatment June 1, 2014.
- ↑ Alexander Kots. To Ukraine, Libyan trails . Komsomolskaya Pravda (06/03/2014). Date of treatment June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Serker Yakubkhanov. Who framed the Kremlin? The newspaper "Present", No. 7 dated February 28, 2014 (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 10, 2014. Archived on August 12, 2014.
- ↑ Shoigu awarded journalists medals for covering the operation in Syria . TASS (April 17, 2016). - Society. Date of treatment May 8, 2016.
Links
- - Kots, Alexander Igorevich in LiveJournal
- Kots, Alexander Igorevich (Russian) on Twitter
- Kots Alexander Igorevich on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alexander.kots.7
- Columnists - Alexander Kots . TVNZ. Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- Top 7 men's actions - 5. Reporter with the forefront . RBC (02.21.2013). Date of treatment May 17, 2014.
- A native of Sakhalin, Alexander Kots, committed a male act - RBC . SakhalinMedia (February 23, 2013). Date of treatment May 13, 2014.
- "Reedus" congratulates the "celebrating" in Syria his 35th anniversary of the special correspondent "KP" Alexander Kots . Reedus (September 3, 2013). Date of treatment May 17, 2014.
- Egor Petrov. Alexander Kots / “If you openly occupy one of the parties, then this is no longer journalism” . Colta.ru (June 3, 2014). Date of treatment June 5, 2014.