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Dok Tok (Док-ток) is a Russian daily evening talk television show on Channel One Russia. The hosts are Ksenia Sobchak (Ксения Анатольевна Собчак) and Alexander Gordon (Алeксандp Гаppиeвич Гордон). The program currently airs on Monday to Wednesday at 10:30 pm. Although brand new, the television show is already rife with extreme scandals and controversy.
In interviews promoting Dok-Tok, Ksenia Sobchak said the program would be "not about shouts and conflicts in the studio", in a clear attempt to distance the series from other Russian talk shows, such as Let Them Talk.[1] This maybe in reference to television shows such as Let's Get Married, which has had guests walk out and have asked guests about abortions, and the television show Let Them Talk, in which the rape victim was mocked by the presenters and audience.
Criminal defamation by Dok-Tok
There is a pending lawsuit for criminal defamation, harassment, moral defamation and a tort claim. Defendants in the case include, Ksenia Sobchak and Alexander Gordon, the three producers, Olga, Tanya, Fetma, the assistant to Sobchak, Lena, the director, Eldar Sharipov, the producer, Alena Alimova, and finally, the television show "Dok-Tok" and First Channel.
Other Criticisms
In early February 2020, the RTVI TV channel accused Channel One of plagiarism, since a show with a similar name “Doc Talk” has been released on RTVI since September 9, 2019.[2] The first episode of February 10, 2020 on YouTube collected twice as many dislikes as likes.[3]
In July 2020, Veterans of Russia appealed to Konstantin Ernst, General Director of Channel One, with a demand "to terminate Ksenia Sobchak's activities as a presenter on the channel". The reason was the presenter's calls to ignore the all-Russian vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution, return Crimea to Ukraine and support Ivan Safronov, accused of treason.[4][5]
The programs devoted to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny received a high level of criticism , in particular, the discontent of journalists caused Alexander Gordon's mockery of the oppositionist's personality and distortion of information about the causes and consequences of the attempted assassination.[6] [7] [8] [9]
In November 2020, the lawyer of the historian Oleg Sokolov, Alexander Torgashev, filed a lawsuit against Channel One and the guest of the program on October 19, Ekaterina Przhigodzkaya, demanding to refute the information that Sokolov tortured and beat her in 2008, and also to remove the issue from the website channel and pay a thousand rubles in moral compensation.
In February 2021, the Petrogradskiy District Court of St. Petersburg refused to consider the information contained in the program unreliable and dismissed the claim.[10][11]
Notes
- ↑ Matthew Luxmoore. (February 12, 2020). How A Harrowing Family Story Became Russia's Talk-Show Sensation. Radio Free Europe.
- ↑ Susanna Alperina. The New Show with Sobchak is Accused of Plagiarism. Russian newspaper (Российская газета) (February 5, 2020).
- ↑ Ivan Medvedev. "The premiere failed. Viewers criticized the new show on Channel One, which was hosted by Ksenia Sobchak". BFM.ru (February 12, 2020)
- ↑ Ksenia Sobchak is asked to be excluded from the hosts of Channel One. Party of Veterans of Russia (July 17, 2020). Retrieved September 14, 2020. Archived July 19, 2020.
- ↑ Artyom Kozhedubov. Veterans demanded from Channel One to fire Sobchak for his political views. Moskovsky Komsomolets (July 17, 2020).
- ↑ Viktor Shenderovich . What a vulgar and meaningful nit has become a friend of my youth, Sasha Gordon! Russian Monitor (October 12, 2020).
- ↑ Slava Taroshchina. Before and after. Portrait of the hero of the day Molchanov against the background of Gordon with "Novichok". Novaya Gazeta (October 13, 2020).
- ↑ Yuri Bershidsky. "It could be no-shpa!" Seven fakes from Alexander Gordon's program about the Navalny case. The Insider.15 October 2020.
- ↑ Irina Petrovskaya, Ksenia Larina. The man from the TV. Echo of Moscow (October 17, 2020).
- ↑ [https://ria.ru/20201116/isk-1584856122.html Defense of the historian Sokolov filed a lawsuit against Channel One. RIA Novosti. (November 16, 2020).
- ↑ The court in St. Petersburg refused to delete the Doc-Tok issue about the historian Sokolov. Business Petersburg. (February 10, 2021).
