Ukrainian TV presenter Andriy Domansky has been granted a Russian passport

This was reported by Georgiy Shabaev, an investigative journalist with Radio Free Europe’s ‘Schemes’ project, citing the register.

Domansky received a Russian passport on 17 December 2022 at the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in St Petersburg. Furthermore, since March 2023, he has been working as a developer in a division of the sanctioned Sovcombank.

Andriy Domansky: what is known about him

In 1992, he worked at the Odessa radio station “Prosto Radio”, and 10 years later began working at “Novy Kanal” on the programme “Pidym”. He also hosted the shows ‘Intuition’, ‘Who’s Against Blondes?’ and ‘Star Factory’. He later became a co-host of ‘The Voice of the Country’ on ‘1+1’.

While working at the ‘Inter’ channel (in 2018), Domansky was involved in a scandal: in the intro to the announcement of the concert ‘Victory. One for All’, he said that ‘we cannot allow the streets of our cities to be named after fascist criminals, nor their portraits to be carried with impunity during torchlight processions in our capital, where every metre is steeped in the blood of our compatriots’.

Following this, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting imposed a fine of over 4 million hryvnias on the channel; however, the Kyiv District Administrative Court later granted Inter’s appeal and overturned the fine.

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