Pranker Lexus (real name Alexey Stolyarov ; born September 16, 1987 [1] , Sverdlovsk , now Yekaterinburg , RSFSR , USSR ) is a Russian pranker working in the genre of “prank journalism”.
| Pranker Lexus | |
|---|---|
| Alexey Stolyarov | |
| Date of Birth | September 16, 1987 ( 31) |
| Place of Birth | |
| A country | |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
Records with such persons as Petro Poroshenko [2] , Recep Tayyip Erdogan [3] , US Senator John McCain [4] , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg [5] , Mikhail Gorbachev [6] , Igor Kolomoysky [7] brought fame to Lexus. Vitali Klitschko [8] , Elton John [9] and many other politicians and stars of show business.
Biography
Born in 1987 in Sverdlovsk. By education, economist and lawyer [10] .
Career
He started practicing prank in the early 2000s, initially specializing in “popular” victims of telephone hooliganism. He began to engage in political prank in 2012 during the presidential race, having recorded several revealing materials with Boris Berezovsky and his associates on the financing of the opposition and rallies on Bolotnaya Square [11] [12] [13] .
In 2014, he concentrated on Ukrainian topics with pranker Vovan . So there was a rally with Igor Kolomoisky and Dmitry Yarosh [14] , in which Lexus took on the role of “people's governor of Donbass” Pavel Gubarev , which took 2 months to reveal all the internal political and corruption problems of Ukraine. During the conversation, it was possible to understand how things are going with the appointment of governors to posts, the coordination of the Minsk agreements, the withdrawal of territorial defense battalions [15] [16] [17] . The video series has collected more than a million views on youtube under almost every series [18] .
He arranged a “television diversion” in the famous talk show of Savik Shuster , where for half an hour he played the role of a Russian soldier in front of an audience [19] . In 2015, he came to Donetsk with playwright Andrei Krupin to collect materials for a play about the war in the Donbass [20] . In the fall of 2015, the duo recorded the infamous call to Elton John on behalf of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Peskov. In the Kremlin, the rally was evaluated, after which the president himself contacted Elton John and asked him not to be offended by the “telephone guys” [21] [22] [23] [24] . In the same 2015, the guys helped law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Crimea establish the identities of the organizers and performers of the “energy block” of the Republic of Crimea, thanks to telephone conversations with representatives of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis [25] .
In 2016, records appear with Erdogan, which reveals his attitude to President Putin and the operation in Syria [26] . In January 2016, he advised the Krasnoyarsk deputy Konstantin Senchenko to apologize to Ramzan Kadyrov, with whom Senchenko had a conflict [27] [ significance of fact? ] . In the spring of 2016, the guys managed to convince the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to end the hunger strike by sending a letter to her lawyer Mark Feigin on behalf of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko [28] .
Since April 2016, she has been co-host of the Prank show “Call” on NTV [29] .
When accused of bias when choosing victims of pranks (mainly representatives of foreign states or oppositionists become them), he is guided by the principle of “do no harm to your own, do not harm your country” [30] [ significance of fact? ] .
Together with Vovan, he led a program on the radio station “Komsomolskaya Pravda” called “Phone Guys”, borrowing the term that Vladimir Putin first spoke [24] [31] [ when? ] .
In November 2016, he called the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on behalf of the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev and held a 40-minute conversation with him. Poroshenko said about his views on the situation in the Donbass, in the Crimea, about his attitude to Putin and about his desire to re-register his confectionery factory as a Russian citizen in the Lipetsk region. [32] Initially, the president of Ukraine mistook Lexus for the real president of Kyrgyzstan and even posted the news about the conversation on his official website, but removed it the next day. Many media outlets noticed that the day before the conversation, the pranker was interested in Kyrgyzstan specialists in his social network. [33] The call was posted on November 17. [34] After the publication, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary accused the prankers of working for the Russian special services. [35]
In February 2017, the pranker called NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on behalf of the Ukrainian president and discussed plans for Ukraine to join the military alliance [36] . In the same month, he called a number of American congressmen on behalf of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman . The most high-profile records were with the representative of the US House of Representatives, Maxine Waters , who believed in false Groysman’s allegations that Russian hackers “cracked the election system in Limpopo and established the regime of their Aibolit puppet” [37] [38] and US Senator John McCain. who said that introducing new sanctions against Russia at this point in time is difficult. [39] Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on a conversation with Waters: “We highly appreciate the fact that so far it has never occurred to anyone to blame the Kremlin. This already indicates some enlightenment. But this, of course, is a joke ” [38] .
In July 2017, along with pranker Vovan, Lexus played U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry . In a telephone conversation on behalf of Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, the prankers reported that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had developed a new type of biofuel based on moonshine and manure [40] .
In 2017, after the murder of Russian ambassador Karlov Andrei Gennadievich in Ankara, he decided to go to Ankara to make graffiti with his image on the site of his death [41] . Moreover, this was already done after a well-known call to President Erdogan on behalf of the Ukrainian leadership. As a result, 2 graffiti with portraits of the ambassador and pilot Oleg Peshkov, who died in Syria, were depicted in Turkey in Antalya [42] [43] .
In 2017, together with his colleague Vovan, he wrote the book “For Whom the Phone is Ringing” [44] .
After the presentation of the book in Donetsk, the “peacekeeper” was placed on the Ukrainian website as an accomplice of the DPR [45] .
In 2018, the performer Vladimir Kuzmin recorded the song “Binomo” based on prank with the US Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Haley, where he sang about a non-existent island, which, according to legend, was subjected to Russian aggression [46] .
Opinions
Popular Russian journalist and TV presenter Mikhail Kozhukhov criticized prankers Vovan and Lexus. After participating with them in the program of the state television channel Zvezda “Special Article”, he stated that “the expert opinion of these same Vova and Lexus is a shame on the profession to which I have a relationship.” [47]
In 2017, US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, played by prankers, spoke of them like this: “Indeed, there was such a call, and I must admit: they have a great sense of humor. Some of the questions they asked me, the way they asked me, was admirable. ” [48]
Russian journalist Igor Yakovenko wrote:
Prank - telephone hooliganism. Pranker is a telephone bully. The pranker differs from the ordinary bully in that the ordinary bully spoils people’s life when they are near these people, in physical reach, and the pranker spoils from afar, from a safe shelter. An ordinary bully runs the risk of getting physiognomy, the pranker is completely safe. That is, an ordinary bully compared to the pranker is just d'Artagnan, woven from courage and noble risk.
In light of the appearance of prankers as hosts and (or) guests on television programs, he characterizes Vovan and Lexus as “two scumbags who, relishing the details, told millions of television viewers how they had committed numerous offenses falling under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ” [49] .
Notes
- ↑ Russian prankers Vovan and Lexus ended up in the Peacemaker base after visiting occupied Donetsk . Gordon (October 4, 2017).
- ↑ Pranker Lexus: “There are people in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine who help us” . strana.ua . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ ntv.ru. Pranker Lexus got through to Erdogan’s office . NTV . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus: we did the work for the Ukrainian government , Novye Izvestia . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus spoke about the drawing of the NATO Secretary General (Rus.) , RT in Russian . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ The author of the call to Gorbachev on behalf of Mikhalkov was the pranker Lexus , Lenta.ru . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ What is behind the conversation between the pranker and Kolomoisky . Today . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Harrasov, Roman . Lexus explained why pranksters played Klitschko for the second time (Russian) , Life.ru. Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Julia Khozhateleva . On behalf of Vladimir Putin, singer Elton John bred prankers (Russian) , Komsomolskaya Pravda (September 16, 2015). Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Prank show "Call" . NTV . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Pranker Alexei Stolyarov told how to reach the Turkish president . Russian newspaper . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Light of War. Spout and Berezovsky (March 5, 2012). Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Russian Prank Television. Video-draw of Boris Berezovsky - Part 2 (Prank) (June 1, 2013). Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ “Yarosh is ready to go to Kiev”: in the Urals, the prank of the leader “P Was presented .” Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ What is behind the conversation between the pranker and Kolomoisky . Today . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Pranker "bred" Kolomoisky, making up under Gubarev . Life.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Prankers are preparing to “bring into the light of God” one of the CIS countries . nsn.fm Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Vovan222prank. Kolomoisky: Poroshenko with Yatsenyuk will be each other e ... t! (November 16, 2014). Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Lexus shamed Shuster - Pranker against Ukrainian propaganda . Free Press (June 1, 2015). Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus): Front-line Donetsk is a more modern city than my Ekaterinburg (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Pranker apologized to Peskov for playing Elton John . Tape.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Peskov advised the pranksters to apologize to Elton John . Tape.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Alexander Ponomarev. “Vladimir Putin called us“ telephone guys ”in conversation with Elton John” . Regional newspaper . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Putin talked to Elton John . Tape.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Natalya Poklonskaya: The Russian prankers may be involved in the case of the power blockade of Crimea . RT . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Vadim Takmenev. “We are not ordinary guys”: prankers Vovan and Lexus told how they got through to Erdogan . NTV . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus dictated to Senchenko the text of an apology to Kadyrov . Life.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus admitted sending Savchenko’s letter on behalf of the President of Ukraine . " New newspaper " . Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ "We will call directly from the studio": the Yekaterinburg pranker Lexus launches a talk show on NTV . e1.ru. www.e1.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus spoke about the principle of selecting victims for rallies . Tape.ru. Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Komsomol truth . In the program "Phone Guys" prankers Vovan and Lexus found out the reasons for the closure of the Ukrainian sky (October 23, 2015). Date of treatment July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Julia Khozhateleva . Prankers: Talking with the “President of Kyrgyzstan,” Poroshenko was not quite sober , Komsomolskaya Pravda (November 17, 2016). Date of treatment November 28, 2016.
- ↑ The “President of Kyrgyzstan”, with whom Poroshenko allegedly spoke, may be pranker Lexus . strana.ua . Date of treatment November 28, 2016.
- ↑ Kazday Video. Pranker Lexus played the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (November 18, 2016). Date of treatment November 28, 2016.
- ↑ Poroshenko showed a real conversation with Russian prankers . Ukrainian truth . Date of treatment November 28, 2016.
- ↑ Roman Golovanov . NATO Secretary General to prankers: “We want to expand to the East, but bypassing Ukraine” (Russian) , Komsomolskaya Pravda (February 3, 2017). Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Congresswoman in the United States believed in Limpopo Aibolit Appointed by Russia as president . Lenta.ru (February 13, 2017). Date of treatment December 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Sands of Prank with Limpopo: Americans have achieved enlightenment . Vesti.ru . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Dmitry Shevaldin. Ural Pranker Lexus: How to call Senator McCain. Interview . Arguments and facts . Date of treatment February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Russian pranksters played the head of the US Department of Energy on behalf of Groysman . RuNews24.ru (July 25, 2017). Date of treatment December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Pranker Lexus will draw graffiti at the site of the death of the Russian ambassador in Turkey
- ↑ Graffiti painted in Antalya with a portrait of Ambassador Karlov murdered in Turkey
- ↑ Artists from Yekaterinburg painted in Turkey a portrait of the pilot Peshkov shot down in Syria (inaccessible link)
- ↑ For whom the telephone rings (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Prankers Lexus and Vovan entered the database of the Ukrainian site Peacemaker
- ↑ Prankers Vovan and Lexus will send Vladimir Kuzmin's song “Binomo” to the State Department
- ↑ How they are broken through the knee. If the Surgut massacre was not on the TV, it was nowhere . New newspaper (August 23, 2017).
- ↑ State Department appreciates the sense of humor of Russian prankers
- ↑ Igor Yakovenko. MEDIAFRENIA. HEROES OF RUSSIAN SPRING . Daily Journal (March 22, 2016).
Literature
- Karasik V. I. Game Conventions in the Political Media Discourse // Stylistics Today and Tomorrow: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference . - M .: Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University , 2016. - P. 257—262. - 639 p. - 500 copies.
Links
- Pranker Lexus official Facebook page
- Community (inaccessible link) in Vkontakte
- Pranker Lexus on Twitter
- Video channel Pranker Lexus on YouTube
- Call the president Olga Skabeeva's documentary
- Prankers: hooligans or whistleblowers on the meeting place program on NTV
- Lexus and Vovan on the genre of prank journalism // oper.ru , 06/16/2017