Yury Dud
Yury Dud was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany on October 11th, 1986 and is the Journalist. At the age of 37, Yury Dud biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 2001, Dud began working at the Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist, and became a staff journalist at the age of 16. In 2008, he graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism.
In 2007, Dud began working for the sports magazine PROSPORT.ru, which was then in the sports division of NTV Plus.
From 2011 to 2013, Dud hosted the TV show "Headbutt" ("Удар головой") on Russia-2. From 2015 to 2017, he hosted the show "KultTura" ("КультТура") on the newly launched TV channel Match TV. The show was taken off the air due to poor ratings and a lack of sponsors.
From 2011 to 2018, Dud was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru. In 2018, he moved to the position of deputy director-general.
In February 2017, Dud launched the YouTube channel vDud, where he interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and business people. The channel quickly became a success; his interview with popular influencer Nastya Ivleeva in 2018 received over 30 million views. By June 2020, the channel received over one billion views.
In September 2019, Dud was awarded GQ Russia's Person of the Year prize in the Face From the Screen category. In his speech at the ceremony, he urged his colleagues to break the silence over police brutality, corruption, and election rigging. The next day, the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told media that he does not advise for those words to be projected onto the whole of society.
By 2021, Dud became the most popular Russian blogger. In his article "D — Dud" ("Д — Дудь") as part of his "Words of Russia" project ("Слова России"), Yury Saprykin wrote that Dud became a voice of the new generation in his country. In his interviews he openly speaks with guests on topics that are unimaginable to state media. Saprykin stated that he thinks that Dud with his work reinvents recent Russian history showing it as it is, clear of state propaganda. By November 2021, the channel had more almost 10 million subscribers and his 2020 documentary "How the World's IT Capital Works" had received over 40 million views. Forbes estimated Dud's annual income in 2021 to be $1.8 million dollars.
On 17 June 2021, the authorities opened a case against Dud for allegedly distributing "drug propaganda" in his interviews with a Ukrainian blogger and a Russian rapper, despite adding the disclaimer "drugs are evil, don't consume them" at the beginning of the videos. In October, he was sentenced to a 100,000 ruble fine. Dud tried to appeal the ruling, but the Moscow City Court declined his appeal.
Following a mass crackdown in Belarus on the media, the GUBOPiK of the Belarusian interior ministry labelled three videos on his channel as extremist in 2022. The videos were about stand-up comedian Slava Komissarenko, who fled Belarus and openly opposes the government of Alexander Lukashenko. The Committee to Protect Journalists criticized the decision and called on Belarusian authorities to reverse this and "stop using the country’s extremism legislation to silence independent journalism".
- 2016 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face from TV category with Yevgeny Savin
- 2017 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face From the Screen category
- 2017 – Laureate of Redkollegia's prize in October
- 2019 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face From the Screen category
- 2020 – Forbes Life Hero of the Year Award