Ostashko Ruslan Stanislavovich
Suspect- Full name of the speaker/author of the statement (in Russian)
- Осташко Руслан Станиславович
- Quotes from the speaker
- Field of activity
- TV host, journalist, blogger, musician
- Position in the media
- TV host
- The media in which the person involved works
- A short biography
"Born on February 18, 1979, in Donetsk in the family of a military man. In 1996, after graduating from school in Sevastopol, where he lived for 12 years, he moved to Moscow and entered the Moscow Border Guard Institute of the FSB of Russia, graduated with honors.
Since 2003, he has been in the IT business. Co-founder of several commercial companies (since 2017, jointly with Mariya Lopukhova, the mother-in-law of Anton Lopatin, member of the Central Election Commission of Russia, and Yana Poliakina (Vololdina), the spouse of Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the State Duma of the 7th convocation), owner of the OST Company, established in 2009. After the elections to the State Duma in 2011 and the protests that followed, he became interested in politics and was a member of the Young Guard.
Since 2014, he hosted the POLITICHESKAYA ROSSIYA (Political Russia) YouTube channel (until it was blocked in 2022), later the project received its own website, Politrussia.com. The project is described as “pro-government” and criticized for persecuting out-of-system opposition due to provocative reporting (in particular, a publication about the danger of spinners gained media attention), the site promoted an anti-Ukrainian and pro-war agenda.
In 2015, he hosted the Global Village and iTech shows on GOVORIT MOSKVA (Moscow Speaking) radio.
Since 2015, he has been taking an active part in TV political talk shows as a guest expert.
From December 2018 to February 2019, he worked on the NTV TV channel as the host of the “Polite People” show. The project lasted three months and was closed.
In 2019, he ran as a self-nominated candidate in the elections for members of the city legislative assembly of Sevastopol, while promoting a candidate loyal to Aleksey Chalyi against a candidate loyal to Governor Dmitriy Ovsyannikov.
In April 2020, he headed the volunteer headquarters “We Are together” in Sevastopol.
Since January 2021, the host of the “Time Will Show” show on the Channel 1, promoting radical anti-Ukrainian narratives during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In November 2021, he became a co-founder of the pop-rock band “NASHY” (Ours).
On September 30, 2022, he took part as a presenter in a rally-concert dedicated to the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian regions. He was also the presenter of the rally-concert on February 22, 2023."
