Journalist Anastasia Popova Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. She was awarded the medal "For Courage" for a series of reports from the warring Syria, awarded the Golden Pen of Russia award. The Syrian Diary, as well as a review of the rented house in Germany, was widely fame after the release of the documentary film, where he lived during the period of rehabilitation after the poisoning of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.

Journalist Anastasia Popova childhood, youth, family Anastasia was born in the fall of the year in a family of hereditary journalists from Moscow. Her grandfather on the paternal line, Evgeny Vladimirovich, during the Great Patriotic War was a colonel of military intelligence, and after the victory over the Nazi invaders became a journalist, founded the Arab edition of TASS. At one time he worked in North Africa, then in Europe.

He was gone in the year. He passed several armed conflicts, including in Lebanon. He created deep and interesting reports from the places of events. He died on a morning walk in the year from a sudden cardiac arrest. Anastasia from an early age knew that she would also become a journalist. At school, her works invariably received five, the girl liked to describe the events, their participants, to show her opinion about what was happening.

After graduating from school, Popova became a student of the Moscow Linguistic University and tried to get on television. She made the first reports during the time of the student, and having received a diploma, she became a correspondent for the TV channel "Russia". About how it all began and what problems I had to face, Nastya talked in one of the interviews: ...

When I was just starting to work, they told me that I had a terrible voice, too low, childish, cheerful, so I had to work a lot on special courses, develop a voice to achieve an understanding of how all this works. When you come to work, it seems that everything that you were trained at the university does not at all apply to reality. In fact, practice is needed, this is the most important thing, practice appears, an understanding of how this work is done, where and how to do this work better.

Everything can be changed, both appearance and voice. A career on television, starting as a television journalist in the year, Popova gained experience, working as a reporter from the places of events in Moscow. Three years later, she became a correspondent for the program “Vesti.

She received the first experience from “hot spots”, illuminating the revolutionary events of the year in Egypt. Since August and a total of eight months, the journalist on the instructions of the editorial office was in Syria. During this time, the local civil confrontation gradually grew into an uprising against the regime of Bashar al -Assad with the participation of various international organizations, military groups, world powers.

Answering the question why she, a fragile girl, had to climb into the most thick events that were dangerous to life, Anastasia emphasized that she did not like that the Western press puts the interests of the Syrian opposition at the forefront, but Assad and his supporters did not bother anyone: ... I always want to cover any conflict somehow. And what I saw there, Western media, other journalists, they very specifically dwell on the opposition.

They are very one -sidedly highlighting the activities of the opposition. No one talks about the other side, about the government side. As if it does not exist. It seems to me that her activity also needs to be covered. Popova with his group - operator Mikhail Vitkin and editor Evgeny Lebedev - showed the most acute events, attracting the attention of international organizations to them.

A series of reports of the Russian journalist attracted the attention of not only foreign colleagues, but the entire world community. The fact that she had to survive herself, Popova told her much later: when we started shooting, we ran faster. Bullets whistled, and then I felt that something in my nose hit me very much, and I fell to the ground. The operator drove me to the booth, for which everyone who fled hid.

I broke my knees very much. Blood is pouring, I do not see that with me, my forehead is on, my hands are all ripped off. When I fell, I calculated 11 kg of body armor. I thought to fall in my hands, but in the end I drove on the ground and the shooting continued around. The soldier took out a bandage, wiped my blood. The soldiers scream so that we got into the car.

The car is armored, safer there. We ran to the car, jump there, close the doors and understand that the car was stalled. I sit and hear bullets hit the car, everything is floating in my eyes. They almost died in a stalled car: a person from a free army aimed at it with a rifle anti-tank grenade, and if only the rapid reaction of the Army saved the crew from the imminent execution.

When Popova got into the hospital, she only thought about what to do with Standap [report with the direct participation of the journalist straight from the scene - approx.They pasted me a large patch on almost the whole face, again the idea of ​​what to do with a standap, because the story has already developed, it can no longer be given it. Then I had to apply makeup, a ton of foundation, so that the patch was not visible.

We returned to where we were shot, we saw tanks there, I go up, agree, and let them jump, well, one double, recorded everything, jumped and everything. So the plot has developed. There were many such stories. A huge resonance in the world community was caused by her documentary film "Syrian Diary", released in the year. In an interview with the independent Swiss Italian -Removal journalist Sylvia Kattori Anastasia said that she went to Syria to report the facts, but eventually realized that people were not facts, she felt their pain, their grief in her heart: this film was my personal initiative.

It was an emotional answer to the events that I reported. I did this to honor the memory of my fallen friends and the people of Syria, who does not care about politics and who simply wants to live in the world. Fortunately, my work gives me the opportunity to convey this thought to many people, and I took this opportunity, although it was not so easy to achieve the approval of this film from the authorities.

The journalist also told the colleague how much her comrades were struck by the difference between what they said about Syria from the outside, and what actually happened inside the country. About provocations when people were killed for belonging to the “wrong” religion, about armed attacks on government buildings and employees and much more. In addition, Popova said that Western states supply the opposition with weapons to overthrow the Assad regime.

In the year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the awarding of a journalist and its film crew medals “For Courage” and personally presented Popova as a reward so rare in peacetime. A year later, the "Syrian language" was translated into German and presented in Leipzig. Foreign colleagues expressed their admiration to the girl. In her reports - coverage of anxiety events in Western Europe, news regarding elections in France and much more.

Anastasia announced that the approximate daily rental cost is at least five hundred euros, and in the rooms themselves showed vases with fruits, coffee machine, wine ... and a minshik for the toilet. Comments under the "investigation" were different. Then it turned out that the owner of the villa contacted the police, saying that the shooting was carried out without his knowledge, to which the journalist replied that he perfectly saw the operator with the camera.

She also monitored how much this information is submitted in the European media. The personal life of Anastasia Popova about a personal journalist does not apply. Openly available there is unverified information that Anastasia married abroad. Her husband's name is Alexander Bourt. Popova took the last name of her husband and became a citizen of Belgium during a report from Germany, she pretended to be a tourist and showed a Belgian passport in the surname of Bourt.

It is assumed that the couple has one child. Alexander calls himself a designer and a programmer and leads a channel on YouTube, where he publishes discussions about color philosophy. Anastasia Popova, despite the fact that in the year the last name of the journalist was on the sanctions lists, she continued to work, remaining a representative of the VGTRK in Belgium.

He still keeps reports from the places of events in the European Union, talks about the protest and rallies held. After the attack of the Hamas group on Israel on October 7, the journalist informed Russian spectators that a number of European countries officially banned rallies and promotions in support of the Palestinians. Anastasia Popova, interesting facts, admitted that there was no division into men and women in the Syrian war: the first literally five minutes, probably, at first, maybe everyone was watching warily, oh, the girl came, but then we also run, they shoot at us the same, they even shoot at journalists more often and more.

If they see the inscription “press” on their backs and if, for example, the militants see the official visa, then all, we are the main target, we need to destroy so that we do not illuminate the activities of the army. But we run in the same way, jump in the same way, half -earth, we fall under the bullets and everything is exactly the same. There is no difference, man or woman.

All are equal. Colleagues characterize Anastasia Popov as a fearless, invariably elegant, inventive inventive and talented woman. She knows five languages: in addition to Russian - English, French, Spanish and Arabic. People are happy to make contact with her, succumbing to her charm. In the year, Anastasia Popova was an Olympic flare. Popova stated that if it were needed, she would again go to war.

To the remark of the journalist of VGTRK Dmitry Kiselev that the reporter of the secular chronicle, for example, also gets a lot of risks and romance, Anastasia replied that this is a controversial question and that it is still unknown, which is more dangerous for the correspondent psyche - a secular chronicle or military reports. There are a lot of personnel in the Syrian Diary, on which Popova walks through the ruins.

She admitted that this is scary, but this is not the most important thing: it is scary when you go to this house, and is lying, for example, a photo album, such fragments of someone's life. They are trampled, shot, you go and understand how many human lives are destroyed by the war. When the grandfathers say that the main thing is that there is no war, you do not understand, but at such moments you understand how true it is.

Whatever happens, all disappeared, if only there was no war. Important events in life year: entered the Moscow Linguistic University. Sent on a business trip to Syria. Light military operations. The documentary "Syrian Diary" was released. Awarded to the International Prize "For Faith and Fidelity".