russian TV presenter, media manager, journalist, public figure, actor, member of the Academy of russian Television, member of the Public Chamber of russian federation, General Director and General Producer of the russian TV channel "Spas", host of the project "Life and Fate" on the TV channel "russia-1"
He is one of the kremlin's key propagandists, formulating justifications for war crimes, inciting radical actions and legitimizing russian aggression. His activities are aimed at ideologically preparing russian society for a long-term war, religiously justifying violence and destroying Ukraine as a state.
It openly supports the armed aggression of the russian federation, the occupation of Crimea and plays an active role in the information war against Ukraine, spreading the kremlin's narratives about "fighting fascism" and "protecting the russian-speaking population". His media activities are aimed at justifying russia's war crimes, discrediting Ukraine and inciting hatred towards the Ukrainian people.
He heads the Spas TV channel, which is controlled by the russian Orthodox Church (rOC) and is used as an instrument of kremlin propaganda. In his broadcasts, he systematically spreads anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, justifies the occupation of Ukrainian territories and calls for support for the russian army.
In October 2022, on Solovyov Live, Korchevnikov said that russians who did not support the war were "garbage" and should be "purified", threatening them with "retribution from divine forces". In December of the same year, as part of the "War and the Bible" program, he justified the genocide, calling it "a God-pleasing cause" and "a test of faith".
Korchevnikov's rhetoric includes radical calls for the destruction of Ukraine. In his public speeches, he stated that "the project Ukraine has begun to die" and will end up even worse, and compared the country itself to "a corpse that is already being eaten by worms". He also called for ecocide as a result of the destruction of the Kyiv Dam, presenting it as a "divine punishment" for Ukrainians.
He pays special attention to discrediting the Ukrainian government, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukraine's international partners. It spreads theories about "external governance of Ukraine by NATO and the United States" and tries to provide a religious justification for the war.
Through its own social networks, it systematically raises funds for the needs of the russian armed forces, in particular for the russian military, which is fighting in Ukraine, and actively provides information support to fundraisers of other russian Z-publics.
He was included in the list of рutin's proxies in the 2018 and 2024 presidential elections.
In 2014, for his active participation in the information support of the occupation of Crimea, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, first class, "for high professionalism and objectivity in covering events in the Republic of Crimea".
In 2021, he was awarded the Order of Friendship for "great contribution to the development of the media and many years of fruitful activity" and received the russian government's media award for "contribution to the development of spiritual culture in the media".
He systematically visits the temporarily occupied Crimea, in particular, in March 2021 he became co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Cosmo-Damian Monastery in the temporary occupied Crimea near Alushta.
On March 19, 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine notified Korchevnikov in absentia of suspicion of encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, justification, recognition of the legitimacy, denial of the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants, committed with the use of the media and illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine.