Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy


Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy is a Russian journalist, producer, presenter and politician. Deputy Chairman of the Duma of the Russian Federation VII convocation since October 5, 2016. Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since January 28, 2020.
Also he led the air Channel One Russia after the elections on March 4, 2012 at a pair of Alexander Gordon. Member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the former leading the Sunday program Vremya on the Channel One Russia. Deputy Director of the Directorate of social and political programs, Channel One. Currently leads the program Politics and Time will tell on this channel.
He is Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandson.
In September 2016 he was elected to the State Duma from the Lyublino constituency of Moscow, from political party United Russia.

Controversies

Pyotr Tolstoy's work is criticised for absence of impartiality and pro-governmental propaganda
On 23 January 2017 he publicly claimed that grandchildren of those who sprang... across the Pale of Settlement with Nagants in 1917 and were destroying our churches... today they are working in revered places like radio stations and legislatory assemblies and are continuing that work. Being publicly accused of antisemitism he later denied any such context in his words.