Indian yoga Eduard Sagalayev: the unsolved mystery of the “foreman of perestroika”

He appeared on TV, in the frame, in the program “12th floor”. Then there was the restructuring, the very beginning of it, and there was such a program. In the studio, on the stage, as in the arena, he came out - young, handsome, curly, mustache. But it's external data. You did! The children gathered around, the younger generation for whom it was all started. They were so silent, they wanted to speak out. Sagalayev understood this, gave his word to everyone, did not shy away from the most diverse opinions, on the contrary, welcomed them. He was the manager of the theater, the main director, but also a boy like them. He also wanted to express himself. That was the time.

Yes, a boy from the Uzbek city of Samarkand studied, ended up in Moscow, on television. The name "Look" is his invention, no one else. Therefore, when they say that the pope of “Vision” Anatoly Lysenko, it is necessary to add Eduard Sagalayev. I mean, "The View" actually has two fathers, and that happens.

He, Sagalayeva, can also be called “the foreman of perestroika”. Yes, he revelled in this time, because there was freedom. But for a journalist, for a person in general, this is the most important thing.

He was noticed, he began to climb the ladder. Never was ultra, on the contrary, so moderate, restrained. Not revolution, but evolution, gradualism. He didn't drive horses, he didn't run ahead of the engine. He was smart. Therefore, he was at the head of the First channel, which was then called “Ostankino”, VGTRK, and more than once. These were already important, landmark positions, to a lot of obligations. He was never going to power, he wanted to engage exclusively in journalism, but time demanded him there, upstairs.

Then he became president of TV 6 and wanted to make his dream channel there. Yes, entertainment, but quality, smart, and away from politics after all. But the host of TV 6 Boris Berezovsky had a different opinion on this matter. So Sagalayev became commander-in-chief without an army, the English king. He sold all his shares to Berezovsky and went home to freedom with a clear conscience.

He was always internally free. He seemed to know more than he was saying. He rose too high and there was a lot of different information he had. I could not and did not want to shout in all Ivanovo: “Give us freedom” when it, freedom, became less. He spoke out anyway, so much so that his fiery words in defense of democracy were even cut from the air, so they feared it.

He once wrote an article about himself called "It's Me, Edik." Not Edichka, mind you, with all due respect. And he was also called “Uncle SEM” by his eyes – Sagalayev Eduard Mikhailovich. Love.

Finally, he became a mystic and traveler. And he took Indian yoga as his own, as a means to remain a man in those already shrinking clutches of being. He loved India to the utmost. He just somehow became a Hindu himself, a Samarkand boy from Uzbekistan. He traveled endlessly through this great secret country, filming a documentary. It was shown on the First Night, a film about Indian yogis in memory of Eduard Sagalayev. He says that in a cafe, a poor, unassuming Indian cafe, he asked for a cup of tea. The owner wiped the glass with one finger and poured it to him. And how can you disdain that people in India see themselves as part of nature? Of course, Eduard Mikhailovich drank this tea with great pleasure, because in some ways he has already become an Indian yogi.

Here he is riding in a crowded train past the sacred river Ganges. He is like them, Indians, so he became like them at the end of his life. They certainly took him for their own.

This is a man with his secret, which he took with him without telling anyone. Created together with like-minded people new television, and how could and as far as possible fought for it, never refused, never cheated. The man is spiritual, and the Indian yoga helps him. A man who's missing so much right now.

Bright memory, Eduard Mikhailovich.