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Konstantin Lvovich Ernst Константин Эрнст: человек с серьезной фамилией, Constantine Ernst: Man with serious family, 6 February 2012, 1TV.Ru (; born 6 February 1961) is a Russian media manager, film producer and TV host. He is currently the CEO of Channel One Russia. Biographical details in Lenta.ru
Konstantin Ernst's mother is Svetlana Nilovna Golevinova, Медведев выразил соболезнования родным и близким биолога Льва Эрнста - RIA Novosti a financial officer.
Ernst spent his childhood and youth in Leningrad, where his father had been appointed Head of a new research center. Konstantin graduated from High School No. 35 located on the Vassilyevsky Island and in 1983 got a degree from the Biology and Soil Department of the Leningrad State University.
As a child, Konstantin was fascinated by painting, in particular, the work of the Soviet avant-garde painter Alexander Labas.
His colleague Yevgeny Dodolev says in his book, The Beatles of the Perestroika, that Ernst was able to try himself as a director after he had arranged that Videofilm would provide him with equipment rooms and state-of-the-art (for their time) Betacam SP video cameras for his business trips (at the time, only Vremya personnel had access to this equipment at the Ostankino Technical Center). This persuaded Vzglyad management to give a chance to the young employee and he did not let them down.
Ernst served as a scriptwriter, presenter, director and producer, experimented with ways of presenting information and would sometimes reincarnate into the protagonists of his show.
The candidacy of a new CEO generated a lot of controversy among shareholders, because, under the Charter, all minority shareholders had to reach a consensus (private individuals and the State owned 49% and 51% of the television channel respectively).
Boris Berezovsky, one of the main minority shareholders, offered this post to Ernst, whom Valentin Yumashev had introduced to him, but Ernst refused. Several months later, however, he changed his mind and accepted the post of executive producer.
On 3 September 1999, following the resignation of Igor Shabdurasulov, who had been at the helm of ORT since October 1998, Ernst became the TV channel's interim CEO, while maintaining his post of executive producer.
As recommended by Shabdurasulov and with the support of the President Boris Yeltsin and Boris Berezovsky, the meeting of the ORT shareholders appointed Ernst new CEO of ORT on 6 October 1999. He continued to combine the roles of CEO and executive producer until July 2001, when Alexander Faifman became the new executive producer of ORT.
After deep divisions emerged between Berezovsky and President Vladimir Putin. Berezovsky sold his stock of shares to Roman Abramovich.
In his testimony given by the former head of the President's Office Alexander Voloshin at Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in England in the discussion of the lawsuit that Berezovsky had filed against Abramovich in 2011, Voloshin said that the CEO of ORT needed to get rid of Berezovsky's informal influence, hence pressure exerted on Berezovsky in 2000. According to Voloshin, after this Ernst set things straight.
When announcing his experiment with vertical integration, Ernst said in an interview to TimeOut that in doing so the channel was trying to meet the needs of TV viewers and to be of interest to those who do not usually watch TV.
New series had relatively poor ratings for Channel One Russia (approximately 13%), but all the episodes that had been filmed by that time were, however, aired, after which the channel resumed horizontal integration.
Right after the end of the ceremony, all the content disappeared from the singer's official website, replaced with a black page featuring the following text: "channel one ignored every possible agreement and used my track without my consent. this is in direct violation of my intellectual property rights. it's outrageous) a great opening ceremony! Kostya, congratulations! but why this lack of respect? you do whatever you want?".
In response, Ernst declared in the broadcast of Echo of Moscow on 9 February 2014 that he "had known Zemfira since the very beginning, when nobody knew her" and that he "had done very much for Zemfira and her career". He added that "Zemfira had breached her contract with REAL Records, a company that I was heading at that time, but I decided not to sue her". Under the circumstances, however, he would have to do that if she was going to sue him.
Ernst did not provide any details on the supposed breach of contract between Zemfira and REAL Records, stating only that this had happened some five or seven years before that.
Following this, Zemfira's official representative Pavlo Shevchyuk said in an interview to Business FM that she would not sue Ernst for using her song Khochesh' (Do you Want?) without her consent. He also added that the message on the singer's official website, which had disappeared on the morning of 10 February 2014 was a means to express her discontent over the issue.
On 4 September 2017, Ernst said that Channel One Russia had no plans to put matches of the Russian Football Championship on its broadcast schedule, because "television is designed differently" and "it makes no sense to air some individual matches".
His first common-law partner was Anna Silunas, a theatre critic and daughter of Vidas Silunas, a professor and Chair of the Foreign Theatre Department of the Moscow Art Theater School. Constantine Ernst in Gloria Mundi.ru
In 1998, he began a relationship with Larisa Sinelshchikova. It lasted until spring 2010, when Sinelshchikova put an end to it and moved from her upscale apartment on Povarskaya Street, Дом, который построил "Ингеоком" - compromat.ru where the couple had resided until then, to her own mansion in prestigious area of Moscow Oblast (a federal subject of Russia). Contrary to allegations in some American and British media, Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova were never had common household and common business, assets or property.
On 21 July 2014, the Russian version of Tatler announced that "Konstantin Ernst had definitely put his young girlfriend on the list of his social events", adding that "Sofya Zaika, former employee of the Ulyana Sergeenko fashion house, readily changed funny parties at Simach and audacious photo sessions for cultural receptions and timid remarks that are hardly audible from behind the TV titan’s shoulder".
Russian television circles learned about a relationship between 25-year-old Zaika and 52-year-old Ernst as early as the middle of 2013. 54-летний Константин Эрнст станет отцом - Otkryto.lv
In the past, Sofya Zaika had also dated Fyodor Boomer, better known as Kto DJ, and the photographer Timofey Kolesnikov. Sofya is also a close friend and protégé of Russian director and screenwriter Renata Litvinova who calls Sofya her ‘favorite actress’.
A number of Russian media sources announced on 22 July 2017 that Ernst married Sofya Zaika, but there is no official confirmation of this marriage.
Some Russian media erroneously say Ernst the father of Larisa Sinelshchikova's children, Anastasia (born in 1983) and Igor (born in 1985).
According to the leaked Pandora Papers, in 2014 Konstantin Ernst received a loan from a state-connected bank to acquire a stake in a project that saw Moscow theaters demolished to make way for shopping malls. Ernst's involvement was concealed by his partners and lawyers. Putin Propagandist Got Major Stake in $1 Billion Project to Redevelop Soviet Movie Theaters
In May 2016, Ernst was included in the sanctions list of Ukraine by President Petro Poroshenko; Ernst was denied entry to Ukraine. Порошенко ввёл санкции к главам российских СМИ: Эрнст, Симоньян, Гусев // Московский комсомолец
In September 2017, Vladimir Solovyov, a TV host on Russia-1, said in an interview that Ivan Urgant's bold joke about 'nightingale brood' being a good name for a show on Rossiya, which he had made in his show on Channel One Russia, was not a spontaneous but planned act approved by Ernst. "This dig on me took place on television! However, I didn't retaliate against Moscow, but Vania ran wild in his earnest. Someone must be having hard time getting over the transfer of some presenters from Channel One Russia to Rossiya. Urgant is just a tool", Solovyov explained his point of view, adding that "things are not usually done this way on TV" and that "this is a declaration of war". In September 2017, Mikhail Goryachev, content manager of Russia's leading digital television operator Tricolor TV, said that content distribution still refers to the situation when Ernst "stuffs subscribers with what he deems necessary" via TV channels and suggested that such content distribution will not be done through intermediaries but directly.
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| 2011 | Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive |
| 2008 | Admiral |
| 2007 | Attack on Leningrad |
| 2007 | The Irony of Fate 2 |
| 2006 | Day Watch |
| 2005 | The Turkish Gambit |
| 2004 | Night Watch |
| 2004 | 72 Meters |
| 2002 | Azazel |
| 2000 | Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season |
| 2018 | Trotsky |
| 2015 | The Method |
| 2007 | Trace |
| 2005 | Yesenin |
| 2000 | Deadly Force |
| 2000 | Empire Under Attack |
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