There are people who are bored with life without scandals and dangerous situations. This journalist belongs to those too. He made a name for himself with radical statements and illogical maneuvers.
In our seemingly calm time, this person looks extravagant. He is in constant search of adventure and does not make sure that his point of view coincides with the generally accepted one. Love for all sorts of extremes made him one of the first to come to the aid of the residents of Donbass, who resisted the Kiev usurpers of power.
Childhood
Andrei was born in Moscow in September 1964. His father was a film worker from Tajikistan, Marat Aripov. After playing the role of the poet Rudaki, he became famous and met his love in the capital of the USSR - screenwriter Zoya Babitskaya. The heir to a creative international family was supposed to continue the work of the dynasty.
When the boy was young, there was a breakdown in the relationship of his parents. Passion was gone, everyday life was destroying the former affection. Zoya's husband yearned for his native land, so after an official divorce he left for Dushanbe. His son received his mother's surname and remained in Moscow. There he graduated from high school and entered the philological faculty of Moscow State University. The guy dreamed of a career as a journalist, he was not interested in the world of cinema.
Youth
Having received an excellent education, our hero could get a job in the leading mass media of the Soviet Union, however, in 1987 he chose the dubious publication Glasnost, which was headed by Sergei Grigoryants. The chief of the young journalist recently left prison under an amnesty. He served his sentence for criticizing the party's course, and, having freed himself, created the aforementioned magazine to spread his ideas. His subordinate soon came to the attention of the KGB himself. He was accused of anti-Soviet propaganda. The punishment for the young man was administrative arrest.
Babitsky's activity in the fight against the Soviet system was noticed by the West. In 1989, the valuable person was invited to work on Radio Liberty, funded by the US government. Naturally, in 1991 Andrei supported Boris Yeltsin, reported from the White House, and then made news notes about the everyday life of Russian parliamentarians. The head of state praised the journalist's contribution to the defeat of the USSR with a medal.
Something went wrong
During the events of 1993, Andrei Babitsky found himself within the walls of the Parliament. He tried to impartially present information, and after the storming of the building by troops, he broke off the chain. A media worker protested the massacre of Muscovites who were dissatisfied with the president's policies and returned his award to Boris Yeltsin.
The journalist's trick shocked the leadership of Radio Liberty. He himself filed a letter of resignation from this structure. He was asked to return when the war in Chechnya began. Babitsky agreed. Andrei went to Grozny, fell into the disposition of the detachments of Dzhokhar Dudayev and showed the events from the side of the opponents of Russia. The scandal erupted in 1999. The master of artistic words said that the bandits cut the throats of captured soldiers for a reason. The archaic method of execution helps to add color to the war, to make it a vivid and memorable event.
Sedative for the journalist
The next year, the militants were doing very badly. Babitsky tried to escape from Grozny, but was detained by Russian law enforcement officers. The journalistic community was outraged by such an attitude towards the author of the work about the delights of the massacre. US diplomats demanded to release their man. In February 2000, a connoisseur of ancient traditions was exchanged for three captured soldiers.
The recipient of Andrei Maratovich kept him in the basement until he was informed that this citizen should be provided with forged documents and released. The bandit did not burden himself with the search for a well-made fake, so Babitsky soon found himself behind bars again. Vladimir Putin undertook to solve the problem of the strange character. By his order, our hero was expelled from the country. Andrei Babitsky settled in Prague. In 2009, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Radio Echo Kavkaza, a project of Radio Liberty.
A New Look
In the adventure lover's personal life, everything went smoothly. He married a Crimean woman, Lyudmila, who bore him three children. From time to time, the wife told her husband about how difficult it was for her relatives who remained on the peninsula. The Ukrainian authorities imposed on local residents alien orders, fought against the cultural self-identification of ethnic groups inhabiting the region. The couple often visited Crimea, where it was possible to make sure that the complaints were not groundless.
When the opposition seized power by right-wing radicals in Kiev in 2014, Andrei Babitsky supported the referendum in Crimea and the Kremlin's decision to accept a new region as part of the Russian Federation. The curators of Radio Liberty did not forgive him for this. This time they did not wait for the brawler to put his ID on the table himself. Our hero was fired. It didn't matter anymore, the journalist left Prague and went to Donbass, where the people were organizing to resist the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
Opponents of the Kiev regime knew the biography of this adventurer, but did not interfere with his work. It was Babitsky who made the first reports on the massacres of Ukrainian punitive forces against the civilian population of Donbass and helped the leadership of the DPR to launch television broadcasting in 2015. Today the journalist oversees several news projects and shocks the public with statements about the political situation in Russia.
