Kremlin Mouthpieces

He systematically supports russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and glorifies the war crimes of the occupiers, supports putin's policies and the kremlin regime. During the 2018 presidential election, he became a member of the putin Team movement, which supports putin. On his official Telegram channel, he published a birthday greeting to putin. After the start of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, he repeatedly participated in mass events in support of the russian military invaders. In particular, he spoke during a propaganda rally-concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea called "For a world without Nazism! For russia! For the President", which took place on March 18, 2022 at the Luzhniki Stadium. On September 30, 2022, he took part in the rally-concert "People's Choice. Together Forever", dedicated to the so-called ‘accession’ of the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine to russia. In December 2022, he took part in a propaganda concert in Moscow and donated 1 million rubles of his own money to the needs of the russian armed forces. In November 2024, as a co-host, he took part in a charity concert of the federal project "Heroes of Our Time", which was held with the assistance of the United russia political party, including to support military personnel, law enforcement officers and their families. On June 14, 2023, during a press conference of the russian media holding russian Media Group at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, together with Yulia Baranovska, Grigory Lepsveridze, Elena Severgina, and the head of the russian Media Group, Vladimir Kiselev, announced the decision to pay the russian military a monetary reward of 700 thousand/1 million rubles for the destruction of Leopard 1/Leopard2 battle tanks that were transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Western partners. The russian military received certificates for this award in November 2023 at the Golden Gramophone National Music Award ceremony.
In December 2024, she took part in the leading russian New Year's television show "Goluboy ogonyok" on the VGTRK channel featured as invited guests military personnel of the russian armed forces who are or have been involved in the war against Ukraine. During the concert, these servicemen were honored by the hosts and participants, given the opportunity to make "military-patriotic" speeches and send greetings to their "colleagues" from the front.
He has repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with speeches in support of the occupation authorities and the kremlin regime.

He is a well-known supporter of putin and a friend of putin's ally and head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.
He supports and justifies russia's military aggression against Ukraine by spreading kremlin propaganda narratives and symbols of the so-called "SMO" and declares his readiness to personally fight against Ukraine. He commented on the russian invasion of Ukraine as "a forced measure taken by the country's leadership in response to a series of actions taken years earlier by the Ukrainian leadership."
He supported putin's candidacy during the 2012 election campaign and was his confidant in the 2018 presidential election. He is a co-performer of the song "Guiding Star," the so-called "anthem" of the putin Team movement, which supports putin in the presidential election. In 2024, he officially supported putin's candidacy, participated in his election campaign and provided media support for it.
In 2014, he supported russia's annexation of Ukrainian Crimea and took part in the rally-concert "For a world without Nazism! For russia! For the President", which took place on March 18, 2022 at the Luzhniki Stadium in honor of the so-called ‘annexation of Crimea’.
In 2019, together with the Army of russia chain of stores and the russian Ministry of Defense, he presented a joint collection of military-style clothing.
He supports the russian military, provides them with humanitarian aid and vehicles, and regularly holds concerts in their honor, including at russian military-industrial complexes and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Systematically visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to conduct commercial concert activities and support the russian military.
In 2022 and 2023, in partnership with russian businessman Anton Pinsky, he acquired the russian assets of the American coffee chain Starbucks and Domino's Pizza, whose owners had withdrawn from the russian market under pressure from reputational risks. In June 2024, the press service of the Black Star Burger restaurant chain owned by Yunusov announced its intention to open restaurants in the temporarily occupied Kherson region and the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region.
He travels extensively in Europe, South and North America, visiting Greece in 2022 and Mexico and Guatemala in 2023. In January 2024, he vacationed in the Caribbean, and in November 2024 in the Maldives.
He owns a villa in Saint-Tropez (France) and houses in Los Angeles (USA) and the Dominican Republic.
He is a co-owner of the 13 Surfing Department surf club in the Maldives.
In January 2025, he visited Paris (France).
In June 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine notified Yunusov in absentia of suspicion of violating the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine with the intent to harm the state interests, committed repeatedly.

He is the head of the largest media company in russia, which directly carries out the ideological task of the putin regime to form a worldview that is convenient and beneficial for the kremlin elite. He is the head of the largest media company in russia, which directly carries out the ideological task of the putin regime to form a worldview that is convenient and beneficial for the kremlin elite. Gazprom-Media includes a number of TV channels, online services and Internet platforms, including NTV, TNT, Match-TV, Comedy Club Production, Yappy and rutube services, the Central Partnership film studio and others.
Zharov actively implements putin's foreign policy, lobbying for the interests of the russian federation at the international level.
In April 2024, he took part in the international business forum "World of Opportunities" in Dubai, where he emphasized the importance of the historic accession of new countries to BRICS, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and also touched upon the topic of russia's chairmanship of the association in 2024.
In May 2024, in the presence of putin and Xi Jinping, he signed an agreement on cooperation with China Media Corporation in terms of promoting technological developments in the media sector, strengthening joint work in news broadcasting, as well as exchanging expertise on issues of media development. In December 2024, Zharov announced the start of work on a large-scale war film project in collaboration with colleagues from China, as well as cooperation with the UAE, Serbia and India as part of ensuring the strategy of Gazprom-Media's international activities.
Cooperates with the russian society "Knowledge" within the framework of joint projects aimed at "strengthening citizens' interest in the topics of historical truth, spiritual and moral values, and patriotism".
In October 2024, he joined the Council under the President of the russian federation for Culture and Art.
Systematically supports putin's policy and the kremlin regime, and also publicly supported putin's decision to participate in the 2024 presidential elections.
In 2014, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree "for high professionalism and objectivity in covering the annexation of Crimea by the russian federation".
In July 2024, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree "for a great contribution to the development of the media and many years of conscientious work".

He is one of the key figures in russian federal and state propaganda. For over 20 years, he has been the general producer/head of Channel One, which ranks third in the top ranking of the most popular russian TV channels for 2023 and is an important tool for the kremlin's disinformation. Under Ernst's leadership, Channel One actively covers the topic of the so-called SMO, airs many politicized programs, and creates and distributes fakes. Ernst personally calls the russian military participating in the war against Ukraine heroes in his interviews and notes that "the heroes of the special operation take up most of the airtime." He is a co-author/producer of a number of films, the filming and plots of which are authorized and agreed upon with putin personally. In particular, the film project "Challenge" received putin's written consent. For this film, in 2023, Ernst personally received state awards from putin during the ceremony of presenting state awards and awarding heroes of labor on russia Day. Ernst personally thanked putin, calling the mission of the film - the affirmation of russia's space superiority in the world. At the same time, he noted the symbolism of the film's title, saying: "Our heroes receive a "Challenge" from space, history has thrown down a challenge to our country, and we have accepted this challenge." Ernst came up with the initiative to organize a new song contest in russia, primarily for the BRICS countries, to replace Eurovision, the organizers of which have banned russians from participating in it.