Oksana Yarmolnik's story about the last days of Vysotsky. Long family union of Leonid Yarmolnik. Oh yeah son of a bitch

Leonid Yarmolnik and Oksana Afanasyeva have been together for 35 years. Two characters, two solid personalities, two leaders did not find each other immediately. The meeting with Oksana turned Leonid from a fickle conqueror of women's hearts into an exemplary family man. She was last love great Vladimir Vysotsky. Yarmolnik became her husband, friend, lover and father of their only daughter.

Oksana Afanasyeva: life before Leonid

She had a difficult childhood, this strong girl. She was only six years old when her mother died. Oksana remembers very well her childhood and the pain of the loss she experienced. The little girl stayed with her father, a fairly popular writer at that time. Companies often gathered in the house, where alcohol flowed like a river. She studied at the most prestigious French school, and at home she saw her father every day drunk, who, in a state of intoxication, was often aggressive. And he was still trying to find the perfect stepmother for his daughter, not realizing that his early grown-up Oksana did not need any replacements for her beloved mother.

After school, the girl entered the textile institute, choosing for herself the profession of a costume designer. At some point, she made a cardinal decision to exchange the apartment she shared with her father and start her independent adult life.

She often visited the theater, trying not to miss the premiere. And one day in the administrator's theater on Taganka, fate brought her together with Vladimir Vysotsky. It is her, Oksana Afanasiev, who will be called the last love of the great bard. For his sake, she will leave her fiancé, and live with Vysotsky for two bright years. the last two years of his life. He loved her, he idolized her and died when she was around. Then she was only 20 years old. And two years after his death, fate gave her a second chance to love and become loved.

Leonid Yarmolnik: life before Oksana

Leonid was born in Primorsky Krai into a military family. He did not show much zeal for his studies, but he played the accordion virtuoso, graduated music school. In high school, he became interested in literature, and then the theater. After school he entered the Shchukin school.

While working at the Taganka Theater, he began acting in films. It was about the movie that the actor dreamed of. But this world did not accept him immediately. In fact, Yarmolnik's debut took place only in 1974, in the film "Your Rights". He was remembered by the audience in the role of Theophilus in the film "The Same Munchausen", and also on numerous humorous television programs. A little later, he will play many bright roles in the cinema that the audience will love.

In the theater, he had excellent work in a wonderful acting environment. Even during his lifetime, Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky gave him some of his roles.

Young Yarmolnik could rightly be called a womanizer and heartthrob. The first love happened to him at the age of 15, however, the girl was older than him and was very condescending to the feelings of the young admirer. The actor's romance with Zoya Pylnova lasted for seven years. Then there was the first official marriage with Elena Valk. He actually had a lot of women. He seemed to be looking for his soul mate. And he found her in 1982.

Fateful meeting

They met at a party with mutual friends. Oksana was already in the company when Leonid Yarmolnik arrived with Alexander Abdulov. And Leonid almost immediately realized that he was gone. He immediately began to look after a charming girl with a sad look. He joked, he was all courtesy. After the party, he went to see her off. And a day later he lived with Oksana.

Leonid realized that he had finally met his perfect woman. And that he simply has no right to lose her. Many dissuaded him from relations with Oksana. But it was absolutely impossible to convince Yarmolnik. He loved and was loved. He had enough intelligence and tact not to ask Oksana about her past with Vladimir Vysotsky and, moreover, not to be jealous of him. In 1983, Oksana and Leonid had a daughter, Alexander.

Boring marriage

They both don't like to talk about love. They achieved the main thing in their family - harmony. The once loving Yarmolnik became an exemplary family man. He dearly loves his straightforward Ksenia. He always speaks of her with undisguised tenderness and respect. He also became a very caring father and a completely crazy grandfather for his grandson, little Petya.

Oksana herself admits that only such a person as Leonid Yarmolnik could become her husband. They do not make their lives public, preferring to solve all problems within the family. They had a period of a long showdown, when they were on the verge of a divorce. Oksana even wanted to leave. But looking at the situation from the outside, I realized: she has no right to deprive her daughter of such a wonderful father. He has no right to ruin the happiness of his daughter Alexandra, who loves dad immensely. Leonid also decided to moderate his emotionality in order to save his beloved wife and daughter. They had the strength to start life with clean slate and have never regretted it. Although once Oksana and Leonid nevertheless divorced, but only in order to solve the housing problem. But the second marriage in 1998 was then celebrated very widely.

In the Yarmolnik family driving force and the motor is, of course, Oksana. But she has enough female wisdom to turn everything in such a way that Leonid considers her every idea to be his own. In her own words, the highest female talent is to make a man feel absolutely free.

Leonid Yarmolnik and Oksana Afanasyeva have been together for 35 years. Two characters, two solid personalities, two leaders did not find each other immediately. The meeting with Oksana turned Leonid from a fickle conqueror of women's hearts into an exemplary family man. She was the last love of the great Vladimir Vysotsky. Yarmolnik became her husband, friend, lover and father of their only daughter.

Oksana Afanasyeva: life before Leonid

She had a difficult childhood, this strong girl. She was only six years old when her mother died. Oksana remembers very well her childhood and the pain of the loss she experienced. The little girl stayed with her father, a fairly popular writer at that time. Companies often gathered in the house, where alcohol flowed like a river. She studied at the most prestigious French school, and at home she saw her father every day drunk, who, in a state of intoxication, was often aggressive. And he was still trying to find the perfect stepmother for his daughter, not realizing that his early grown-up Oksana did not need any replacements for her beloved mother.

After school, the girl entered the textile institute, choosing for herself the profession of a costume designer. At some point, she made a cardinal decision to exchange the apartment she shared with her father and start her independent adult life.

She often visited the theater, trying not to miss the premiere. And one day in the administrator's theater on Taganka, fate brought her together with Vladimir Vysotsky. It is her, Oksana Afanasiev, who will be called the last love of the great bard. For his sake, she will leave her fiancé, and live with Vysotsky for two bright years. the last two years of his life. Jn loved her, he idolized her and died when she was around. Then she was only 20 years old. And two years after his death, fate gave her a second chance to love and become loved.

Leonid Yarmolnik: life before Oksana

Leonid was born in Primorsky Krai into a military family. He did not show much zeal for studies, but he played the accordion virtuoso, graduated from a music school. In high school, he became interested in literature, and then the theater. After school he entered the Shchukin school.

While working at the Taganka Theater, he began acting in films. It was about the movie that the actor dreamed of. But this world did not accept him immediately. In fact, Yarmolnik's debut took place only in 1974, in the film "Your Rights". He was remembered by the audience in the role of Theophilus in the film "The Same Munchausen", and also on numerous humorous television programs. A little later, he will play many bright roles in the cinema that the audience will love.

Leonid Yarmolnik - "The same Munchausen". / Photo: www.kino-teatr.net

In the theater, he had excellent work in a wonderful acting environment. Even during his lifetime, Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky gave him some of his roles.

Young Yarmolnik could rightly be called a womanizer and heartthrob. The first love happened to him at the age of 15, however, the girl was older than him and was very condescending to the feelings of the young admirer. The actor's romance with Zoya Pylnova lasted for seven years. Then there was the first official marriage with Elena Valk. He actually had a lot of women. He seemed to be looking for his soul mate. And he found her in 1982.

Fateful meeting

They met at a party with mutual friends. Oksana was already in the company when Leonid Yarmolnik arrived with Alexander Abdulov. And Leonid almost immediately realized that he was gone. He immediately began to look after a charming girl with a sad look. He joked, he was all courtesy. After the party, he went to see her off. And a day later he lived with Oksana.

Leonid realized that he had finally met his ideal woman. And that he simply has no right to lose her. Many dissuaded him from relations with Oksana. But it was absolutely impossible to convince Yarmolnik. He loved and was loved. He had enough intelligence and tact not to ask Oksana about her past with Vladimir Vysotsky and, moreover, not to be jealous of him. In 1983, Oksana and Leonid had a daughter, Alexander.

Boring marriage

They both don't like to talk about love. They achieved the main thing in their family - harmony. The once loving Yarmolnik became an exemplary family man. He dearly loves his straightforward Ksenia. He always speaks of her with undisguised tenderness and respect. He also became a very caring father and a completely crazy grandfather for his grandson, little Petya.

Oksana herself admits that only such a person as Leonid Yarmolnik could become her husband. They do not make their lives public, preferring to solve all problems within the family. They had a period of a long showdown, when they were on the verge of a divorce. Oksana even wanted to leave. But looking at the situation from the outside, I realized: she has no right to deprive her daughter of such a wonderful father. He has no right to ruin the happiness of his daughter Alexandra, who loves dad immensely. Leonid also decided to moderate his emotionality in order to save his beloved wife and daughter. They had the strength to start life from scratch and never regretted it. Although once Oksana and Leonid nevertheless divorced, but only in order to solve the housing problem. But the second marriage in 1998 was then celebrated very widely.

In the Yarmolnik family, Oksana is undoubtedly the driving force and motor. But she has enough female wisdom to turn everything in such a way that Leonid considers her every idea to be his own. In her own words, the highest female talent is to make a man feel absolutely free.

Perhaps they are happy because each managed to preserve his own personality in marriage, without dissolving into his beloved. Each of them is busy doing what they love. Leonid says that his wife understands his profession much better than he does in what his wife does. Oksana is a well-known costume designer in the capital, a successful designer. She also owns her own studio, where she sews her author's soft toys.

They never tried to prove who was the boss in the family. They just go together hand in hand. When Oksana fell ill, her husband admitted that he would have endured his own pain more easily. This seems to be true love.

Oksana and Leonid Yarmolnik opened their own recipe happiness. He was also in the family, but their happiness was overshadowed by family drama.

For Yarmolnik and his wife Oksana, this marriage for two is the sixth in a row, but, despite the bad reputation of the number, the union turned out to be the happiest.

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Yarmolnik, exemplary family man, loving husband and caring father, previously not distinguished by constancy in romantic relationships. When he was once asked about his first love, he could not even give the name of a particular girl: to the future artist, every hobby seemed to be that fatal feeling. Although once Leonid still remembered a certain Galina, whom he fell in love with at the age of 15. As often happens, the chosen one was older and treated the young admirer condescendingly, which did not prevent the boy from experiencing the whole gamut of feelings of a man in love. Of course, there could be no question of any serious relationship at that age, but the connection with the one who moved to South Sakhalin The actor supports his first love and still does.

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“The holiday of physical maturation,” as Yarmolnik himself called this turbulent period of his life, ended for him, perhaps, only by the age of 30.

Leonid, after graduating from school in Lvov, decided to move to Moscow and begin his studies at the Shchukin school, he was popular with girls, and the interest was clearly mutual. Judging by the number of marriages and divorces that fell on Yarmolnik's early youth, his intentions were serious, but not stable. The artist who liked the person could offer his hand and heart without hesitation, and then just as calmly get a divorce.

O ex-wives Leonid speaks neutrally and lists their names without emotion, as if reading a notebook. “I also had marriages, quite long, but without consequences and special tragedies,” the actor recalled in an interview. “There were Olya, Zoya and Lena until I found my Oksana.”

Vysotsky

Oksana really became a completely unusual woman in the fate of Leonid Yarmolnik, although she did not give her first real feelings to him. It was not for nothing that Oksana Afanasyev was called the last love of Vladimir Vysotsky: it was she who spent the last two painful years of his life with him. Oksana met the legendary artist when she was 18 and he was 40. They met by chance in the administration of the Taganka Theater. Vysotsky was so fascinated by the beautiful blonde that he made every effort to continue this acquaintance. Under the pressure of the most famous artist Soviet Union the girl gave up.

A solid age difference, Vysotsky has a legal wife, his bad habits- all this could scare someone, but not Oksana. She simply enjoyed every day she lived with her beloved, and found the strength to forgive him for betrayal and hard drinking. Vysotsky, in response, was ready to carry her in his arms and literally showered her with expensive gifts and indulged in foreign new clothes that were scarce at that time.

The lovers were going to get married and even found a priest who would not check stamps in passports. But this was not destined to happen. Vysotsky, who suffered from withdrawal symptoms, died next to Oksana when, exhausted, she went to sleep in another room for a couple of hours. She mourned the death of Vladimir Semenovich for a year, but fate gave Afanasyeva another chance, giving her a meeting with Leonid Yarmolnik.

It so happened that after Vysotsky's departure, it was Yarmolnik who got some of his roles in the theater; even during his lifetime, Vladimir Semenovich himself gave some parts to a young colleague.

He actually introduced Yarmolnik to his future wife. Here is what Oksana herself said about this: “I remember when the film“ The Same Munchausen ”was released, Volodya and I watched it together. “God, what an amazing actor,” I say. “Some kind of Baltic?” - “Why the Balts? This is ours, Yermolai."

Acquaintance

Oksana and Leonid met for real in 1982, two years after Vysotsky's death. It's funny, but now the spouses talk about this event in different ways. “Oksana and I met at a party with friends when I was already 29 years old. Everything was in our relationship: I gave her flowers, declared my love, did nasty things, provoked, was jealous, ”Yarmolnik recalled. But he himself clearly prefers a more spectacular acquaintance story. He likes to tell how he went out for a smoke at a rehearsal and saw a charming girl in a miniskirt behind the glass door in line at the cashier. She held a fashionable black cigarette in her hand, Yarmolnik showed a lighter, the beauty bent down, lit a cigarette ... “We can say that we got married that very evening,” the actor shared his memories.

Oksana also either tells a similar story about a lit cigarette at the administrator's Taganka theater (where she also met Vysotsky), or she presents the events in a more prosaic form. So, according to another version, they met Leonid through mutual friends, then somehow met again and certainly didn’t think about the wedding. But Yarmolnik managed to involve the girl he liked in serious relationship. The actor was married, but when Oksana was in interesting position, Leonid divorced his wife and honestly took a deeply pregnant girlfriend to the registry office.

Family

In 1983, the couple had a daughter, Alexander, in whom Yarmolnik literally does not care. To this day, he talks about his only daughter with great warmth, tenderness and fatherly pride. The girl, to the delight of her father, never showed much interest in acting and decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and become an artist. She graduated from the Stroganov Academy and is now painting on glass.

Oksana Yarmolnik, having become a wife and mother, also did not abandon her favorite work, since she and her husband give each other complete creative freedom. The woman knew from childhood that she would be a costume designer. This profession still brings her great pleasure, Oksana devotes a considerable part of her time to working with the best Moscow theaters. The main earner in the family, of course, remains Leonid. “He has a remarkable quality: at a critical moment, he instantly finds the only right solution. The word "husband" is very suitable for him. I literally follow my husband - like behind a stone wall, ”Oksana says admiringly about her wife. Of course, for almost 30 years of marriage there have been quarrels in the family, but the spouses are not going to take this seriously.

“I love Ksenia. I can't live without her. We can send each other 30 times a day, we can quarrel. There are different moments. It has nothing to do with love. Love is something that is created by itself from the totality of other human relationships, ”the actor is sure.

Vysotsky's last love

19-year-old Oksana Afanasyeva became close to the bard two years before his death. Actress Alisa Yufa, who was in love with the poet, tried to prevent their romance. Vysotsky brought suitcases of outfits to Oksana from abroad. For your last New Year presented a TV, a refrigerator and a luxurious lilac suit. Two years after the death of Vladimir Afanasyev, she married Leonid Yarmolnik and bore him a daughter, Sasha. Despite the fact that the filmmakers claim that the image played by Akinshina is a collective one, she survived the events in Bukhara, which are mentioned in the movie, next to Vysotsky specific girl- his last love, student Oksana Afanasyeva.

Vysotsky himself called her his last love. And it's worth it. Oksana Afanasyeva (now Yarmolnik) was silent about her relationship with Vladimir Semenovich for a very long time, and only about five years ago some means mass media managed to get her revelations.
When they met, she was 18, he was 40. He saw her near the administrator's room of the Taganka Theater. Beautiful and, as they would say now, unusually stylish girl in a miniskirt. He asked for a phone, invited me on a date. And she ... pondered whether to go or not, until her friend shamed her: "What are you talking about?! All the women of the Soviet Union simply dream of being in your place!" This convinced her. They met, and the next day Oksana broke up with her fiancé, deciding that one day with a man like Vysotsky was better than a lifetime of gray mediocrity. Instead of one day, fate gave them almost two years.
She still bows before him, considering "absolutely, completely, one hundred percent a man of genius." It was Oksana who openly stood up to protect the memory of the singer from sweeping accusations of alcoholism and drug addiction, so popular in recent times: "They only write about this: he drank, injected, an alcoholic, a drug addict ... So you imagine a kind of goner with shaking hands, in front of whom there are cocaine grooves and a pair of syringes. This is absolute nonsense. For the last two years that we have known each other, Volodya starred in the films "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" and "Little Tragedies". He had records on the radio, roles in the theater, he traveled around the country with performances. At the Odessa Studio, he was preparing to launch the film "Green Van" as a director. True, he they didn’t give it. At the same time, yes, I drank, I sat on the needle. But it was mixed with work for wear and tear, racing with the disease. "

Vladimir Semenovich was very worried because of the disorder of her fate, because he could not, being married to Marina Vladi, marry Oksana. He even decided to ask Marina for a divorce. At the end of December 1979, Marina Vladimirovna flew to Moscow, where she wanted to celebrate the New Year and have a serious talk with Vysotsky. By the way, this visit is not mentioned at all in her book.
Here is what the administrator of the Taganka Theater Valery Yanklovich, who was a member of the last years Vysotsky’s life in the circle of his close friends: “... Marina is already at the dacha. And Volodya goes to get a TV for one girl, takes him to her home. (Here I must say that in recent years Volodya took this girl very seriously. Although she annoyed me a little then ... But I saw Volodino's attitude: he took part in her life, delved into student problems ... Of course, she played a certain role in Vysotsky's life) ".
From the first minute of their acquaintance, Vladimir Semenovich and Ksyusha had a feeling of communicating with a loved one. She went everywhere with him to concerts. When Vysotsky came to his senses after the first clinical death, it was to her that he said: "I love you!"
If he went abroad, he always asked what to bring her. For two days spent in Germany, he managed to buy her two suitcases of clothes. Everything is handpicked with extraordinary taste. "I like it," he said, "when you wear something new every day." Or: "But this is my special luck." Lucky was a French straw bag or some other thing that, in his opinion, suited her especially.
Dresses from Dior and Chanel in scarce Moscow created a certain fame for Oksana, introducing her to someone, her friends said: "Meet Oksana - she has 18 pairs of shoes." But when Vysotsky died, she left his apartment light - she didn’t take anything ... She needed Volodya, but he was no more ...
Vysotsky wanted to marry Oksana. They even found a priest, bought rings, but did not have time ..

One spring, she confessed to him that she loved lilies of the valley very much. And when she woke up, she saw that her whole room was lined with lilies of the valley ... Probably, he really had a very special gift - he knew how to turn life into a holiday.
He wanted to marry her: they naively believed that in a state where the church is separated from the state, they would be married without a stamp in their passport. But it turned out that it is not so simple. After long search Vysotsky nevertheless found a priest who agreed to such, in general, an illegal act. Vladimir Semenovich bought rings, but they did not have time to get married. And after the death of Vysotsky, the rings disappeared from his apartment - they lay in the bedroom - on the bedside table, in a glass ...
The year of his death was the most terrible in the life of Oksana Afanasyeva: she went on academic leave, wanted to leave the country, the KGB even tried to recruit her - and when it didn’t work out, they were simply expelled from the institute.
Today Oksana is a theater artist. Two years after Vysotsky's death, she met Leonid Yarmolnik and married him some time later. But Oksana still remembers Vysotsky with love and tenderness, believing that he, like a kind angel, largely determined her future life.

He met Oksana two years after Vysotsky's death and realized that he would no longer be able to leave.

Comes from Far East, Jewish by origin and Russian by self-awareness - this is how Leonid Yarmolnik says about himself. From the Far Eastern village of Grodekovo, the family moved to Lviv when Lena was only 7 years old, due to the work of her father, a commander motorized rifle battalion. In Western Ukraine, the future actor lived until graduation.
He was neither a good boy nor a hooligan: he studied without deuces, swam well and played the accordion, but only seriously became interested in playing on stage. I went to Leningrad, to LGITMiK, but they didn’t see the future actor there. In a year selection committee the Moscow Shchukin school turned out to be more perspicacious. Leonid was enrolled in the first year, settled in a hostel and given a chance that he would not miss - to become a professional actor.

Roles from Vysotsky

In the foyer of the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka, 1962

Studying at Pike went according to the school scenario: Yarmolnik could skip lectures in the company of his friend Sasha Abdulov, but in general he was considered a promising and talented student. After graduation in 1976, he was admitted to the Taganka Theater, where Vladimir Vysotsky shone in those years.

The start of Yarmolnik in the theater was bright: the main director of the theater, Yuri Lyubimov, immediately entrusted him to play in the play "The Master and Margarita", and then Vysotsky himself "shared" with the new roles.
Then the young artist did not yet suspect that this was far from the main gift that he would inherit from the legend. And with rapture he went on stage in the role of Kerensky.
A career in cinematography developed simultaneously with a theatrical one: in 1974, Yarmolnik made his debut in the film “Your rights?”, And in 1979 he became famous throughout the Union with the humorous miniature “Chicken Tobacco”. The role of Theophilus, the son of Baron Mühhausen in the film "The Same Munchausen" finally secured the status of a popular artist for Leonid Yarmolnik.

Marriages civil and fictitious

At the Taganka Theater, he also met his first actual wife, actress Zoya Pylnova. She was seven years older and also married, but both turned a blind eye to this, enjoying the flash of passion. Zoya's husband, actor Vladimir Ilyin, seems to have faded into the background, although they did not officially file a divorce.
“We had a wonderful and happy life with her in civil marriage seven years, ”Leonid later said about their relationship.
Happiness ended tragically: Zoya was expecting a child from Yarmolnik, but a miscarriage occurred in the seventh month of pregnancy. For the actress, this was a real tragedy, followed by a crisis in the relationship. They failed to cope with him: Pylnova returned to Ilyin, and Yarmolnik again became a free man.

He experienced this very painfully and eventually decided on a rash adventure: he married Elena Koneva, a girl with whom he became friends in a common company.

Some considered this marriage fictitious - Yarmolnik needed a Moscow residence permit. He himself says that by official marriage he wanted to finally put an end to past relationships. None of this, of course, came of it: a month after the wedding, he met a girl whom he truly fell in love with.

Vysotsky's last love

Oksana Afanasyeva was a costume designer, from the age of 18 she tried not to miss a single theatrical premiere - this is how she met Vladimir Vysotsky. It was she who was next to him in the last, most difficult, two years of his life. It is said that he died next to her.

The 20-year-old girl could not recover from this loss for a whole year. Helped a strong character and love for the profession. And the meeting with Leonid Yarmolnik finally healed a broken heart.
For the first time he caught a glimpse of her in the foyer of the theater - beautiful girl in a miniskirt stood in line at the cashier. She bought a ticket and left, he ran away to the rehearsal. A few days later I saw the same girl in the company of friends celebrating the May holidays.
“The very next day after that May Day gathering, I moved in with Ksyusha. I had a chic car - a Zhiguli, I brought it home on it and ... I just stayed there, as they say, settled forever, ”Yarmolnik recalled the very beginning of their relationship.
They signed only when Oksana was seven months pregnant. was modest, in the circle of the closest people. The holiday was made up for when daughter Alexandra was already 15 years old: in the early 90s, Leonid and Oksana were forced to “divorce” on paper in order to solve the housing problem with the housing of the actor’s parents.
But the second one went according to all the canons of the holiday: with guests, the bride’s dress, gifts and cries of “bitter”.
Yarmolnik does not like to talk about his love for his wife: he believes that each happy family consists of such "Oksan and Leonid". They have been together for 35 years, cope with everyday crises with confidence and do not pay attention to the gossip that arises every now and then.

Leonid and Oksana with their daughter

In early 2014, the media wrote about the novel by Leonid Yarmolnik and the young actress Victoria Romanenko, but the rumors remained rumors that subsided without finding confirmation.
Now Leonid and Oksana are the happy grandparents of their grandson Peter. Yarmolnik does not have a soul in the boy and is very proud that his parents easily trust his grandfather. Daughter Sasha followed in the footsteps of her mother and also became an artist, but she does not create costumes, but unique stained glass windows.

Leonid Yarmolnik is still in demand as an actor and producer. In recent years, she and Oksana have been appreciating each other's company more and more - they prefer to celebrate even once noisy holidays like the New Year together, and not in cheerful companies.

Photo: Persona Stars, Ria Novosti, AnatoLiy Garanin/RIA Novosti, Evgeny Novozhenina/RIA Novosti