He is known for his program "Odnako" (Russian: "Однако") (Translated "However" or "Still"), irregularly appearing on air with commentaries on certain political occasions since March 1999.

Then he graduated from a vocational college with the profession of "joiner-cabinetmaker", worked as unskilled labourer in the Museum of Literature, was a guard at the cottage of Boris Pasternak, and offered private lessons in history.

[2][3][4][5][6] The magazine writers include: Latvia declared Leontyev persona non grata after his sharp words about the country in 2003 interview on Riga television.

[citation needed] Publisher Evgeny Dodolev ended its one-year print run for magazine, due to economic difficulties (in 2008).

[10][11] In November 2014, Leontyev wrote an article for Channel One Russia,[12] which presented an aerial photo claiming to show a jet fighter firing a missile at Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

This refuted the view, widely held in the West, that MH17 had been shot down by a BUK missile fired by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

[16] In September 2016, Leontyev vouched for the experience of Carter Page, former foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump, both in the oil industry and as an "authoritative" expert on Russia.