GAZDIYEV Marat/ Murad Salikhovich

He is an active participant in russia’s information war against Ukraine as a propagandist and war correspondent for the russian television channel RT.
From 2011 to 2017, he covered russia’s military operation in Syria, since 2014, he has covered the russian-Ukrainian war in eastern Ukraine and he is currently covering the so-called "special military operation."
In April 2022, during active combat operations in Mariupol, he was in the city and produced reports from the area around the Azovstal steelworks. In other reports authored by Gazdiev, accusations were leveled against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, specifically regarding their alleged use of banned anti-personnel mines.
In 2017, he was a finalist in the New York Festivals competition in the "Best News Reporter" category for his reports from besieged Aleppo (Syria).
In addition, he conducts master classes and training sessions as part of the RT Academy project for foreign journalists, press service staff, and representatives of defense ministries.
He is also a member of the jury for RT’s international Khaled Alkhateb Memorial Awards, which are presented to war correspondents.
He served as putin’s representative during the 2024 presidential election.
In June 2023, he participated in a meeting between putin and war correspondents operating in the so-called "special military operation" zone.
In 2022, he became one of the main subjects of the documentary "War Correspondents," produced by RT, which romanticizes the activities of russian war correspondents in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
He regularly visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
In September 2026, he appeared in a campaign video for the "United russia" party ahead of the elections to the state duma of the russian federation.