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Yury Dud
Yury Aleksandrovich Dud (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Дудь, Russian pronunciation: [dutʲ], also spelled Yuri Dud; born 11 October 1986) is a German-born Russian journalist known primarily for his informational online videos he distributes as a YouTuber. He has been deputy director-general of the sports website Sports.ru since 2018, having previously served as the editor-in-chief from 2011 to 2018.
In 2017, Dud launched his YouTube channel, vDud (Russian: вДудь), where he interviews individuals from Russia and other post-Soviet states. He is one of the most popular YouTubers in Russia, with vDud having over ten million subscribers as of early 2022. His series of socio-political interviews have included multiple opponents of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related foreign policies of the nation. This has brought him attention from worldwide audiences and opposition from Vladimir Putin's government. On 11 April 2022, Dud released Человек во время войны (English: Man in the Time of War / Man in War), a film project based upon his research into the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Dud was born on 11 October 1986 in the city of Potsdam in East Germany to Alexander Petrovich Dud, the head of Bauman Moscow State Technical University's military department and professor of military science, and Anna Stepanovna Dud, a schoolteacher of chemistry. In 1990, his family moved to Moscow. Dud has lived in Russia since the age of four. He considers himself to be of Ukrainian origin and particularly Russian by identity.
Dud played football as a child and dreamt of becoming a goalkeeper, but had to stop playing because of asthma. However, this passion got him interested in sports journalism. In 2001, Dud began working at the Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist; he became a staff journalist at the age of 16. In 2007, Dud began working for the sports magazine PROSPORT.ru, which was then in the sports division of NTV Plus. In 2008, he graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism.
From 2011 to 2013, Dud hosted the TV show Headbutt (Удар головой) on Russia-2. From 2015 to 2017, he hosted the show KultTura (КультТура) on the newly launched TV channel Match TV. The show was taken off the air due to poor ratings and a lack of sponsors.
From 2011 to 2018, Dud was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru. In 2018, he moved to the position of deputy director-general.
In February 2017, Dud launched the YouTube channel vDud (вДудь), where he interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople. The channel quickly became a success; his 2018 interview with influencer Nastya Ivleeva received over 30 million views. By June 2020, the channel received over one billion views.
In September 2019, Dud was awarded GQ Russia's Person of the Year prize in the Face From the Screen category. In his speech at the ceremony, he urged his colleagues to break the silence around police brutality, corruption, and election rigging. The next day, the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told media that he does not advise for those words to be projected onto the whole of society.
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Yury Dud
Yury Aleksandrovich Dud (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Дудь, Russian pronunciation: [dutʲ], also spelled Yuri Dud; born 11 October 1986) is a German-born Russian journalist known primarily for his informational online videos he distributes as a YouTuber. He has been deputy director-general of the sports website Sports.ru since 2018, having previously served as the editor-in-chief from 2011 to 2018.
In 2017, Dud launched his YouTube channel, vDud (Russian: вДудь), where he interviews individuals from Russia and other post-Soviet states. He is one of the most popular YouTubers in Russia, with vDud having over ten million subscribers as of early 2022. His series of socio-political interviews have included multiple opponents of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related foreign policies of the nation. This has brought him attention from worldwide audiences and opposition from Vladimir Putin's government. On 11 April 2022, Dud released Человек во время войны (English: Man in the Time of War / Man in War), a film project based upon his research into the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Dud was born on 11 October 1986 in the city of Potsdam in East Germany to Alexander Petrovich Dud, the head of Bauman Moscow State Technical University's military department and professor of military science, and Anna Stepanovna Dud, a schoolteacher of chemistry. In 1990, his family moved to Moscow. Dud has lived in Russia since the age of four. He considers himself to be of Ukrainian origin and particularly Russian by identity.
Dud played football as a child and dreamt of becoming a goalkeeper, but had to stop playing because of asthma. However, this passion got him interested in sports journalism. In 2001, Dud began working at the Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist; he became a staff journalist at the age of 16. In 2007, Dud began working for the sports magazine PROSPORT.ru, which was then in the sports division of NTV Plus. In 2008, he graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism.
From 2011 to 2013, Dud hosted the TV show Headbutt (Удар головой) on Russia-2. From 2015 to 2017, he hosted the show KultTura (КультТура) on the newly launched TV channel Match TV. The show was taken off the air due to poor ratings and a lack of sponsors.
From 2011 to 2018, Dud was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru. In 2018, he moved to the position of deputy director-general.
In February 2017, Dud launched the YouTube channel vDud (вДудь), where he interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople. The channel quickly became a success; his 2018 interview with influencer Nastya Ivleeva received over 30 million views. By June 2020, the channel received over one billion views.
In September 2019, Dud was awarded GQ Russia's Person of the Year prize in the Face From the Screen category. In his speech at the ceremony, he urged his colleagues to break the silence around police brutality, corruption, and election rigging. The next day, the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told media that he does not advise for those words to be projected onto the whole of society.