Anton Dolin (film critic)
Anton Vladimirovich Dolin (; ) is a Russian film critic, journalist, radio host, blogger and podcaster. He was the chief editor of the "Iskusstvo Kino" magazine from 2017 to 2022 and the regular film reviewer of "Evening Urgant" from 2012 to 2020. Biography. Anton Dolin is a son of a Soviet poet Veronika Dolina and Vladimir Vorobyov. He graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology) in 1997 as a teacher of Russian literature. In 2000, he graduated from the doctoral program of Gorky Institute of World Literature, writing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological  Sciences on "The history of the Soviet fairy-tale novel," which he did not end up defending. He worked as a host for the "Echo of Moscow" from 1997 to 2003 and for "Radio Mayak" from 2007 to 2019. He has also worked for such newspapers and magazines as "Moskovskiye Novosti" (2006–2007), "Expert" (2006–2013), "The New Times" (2008–2017), "Vedomosti" (2011–2014), "Gazeta.Ru" (2012–2013), "Afisha" (2013–2017), and "Meduza" (since 2017). He was the regular film reviewer of the "Vesti FM" from 2010 to 2019, and then of the "Silver Rain Radio". In 2012 Dolin joined the staff of the "Evening Urgant  late-night show as a host of the film review section. In 2020, he was fired from Channel One for publishing a negative review on Andrei Kravchuk's Union of Salvation" for "Meduza". In 2017 Anton Dolin became the editor-in-chief of the "Iskusstvo Kino" film magazine. In 2021 he started his own YouTube channel "Radio Dolin", supported by "Meduza". He is the co-host of Galina Yuzefovich's podcast "Book bazaar" (, "Knizhny bazar") since 2021. Public activity. Dolin claims to be 'a follower of democracy and liberalism'. He supports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny despite the fact that  there was a collision between them over the dual citizenship of Kremlin-linked journalist Sergey Brilev. In 2013, Dolin opposed the Russian gay propaganda law and expressed support to the Russian LGBT community. In 2014, he supported Euromaidan and criticized the Russian government for interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In September 2020, Dolin supported the Belarusian protests. On 7 March 2022, after protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dolin fled to Riga in Latvia following death threats by Russian ultranationalists. He is a member of the public council of the Russian Jewish Congress. Artistic preferences. Dolin chose following  movies for the "Sight & Sound's" 2012 survey on the greatest films in history: Anton Dolin calls Manoel de Oliveira his favourite film director and Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Luigi Nono his favourite composers. In 2020 he has also mentioned The Beatles as his favourite music band.