For many years, Marchenko was a sponsor of the crimes that took place in Ukraine, and, along with her husband, openly supported Putin. We decided to tell what is known about her personality, millions, expensive things, companies, and how her gift to her husband, a politician, became a new symbol of corruption, eclipsing even Yanukovych’s golden loaf and Pshonka’s house.

Family and work

Oksana Marchenko was born in the village of Chabany near Kyiv, allegedly dreamed of becoming a doctor and even entered a medical school after the eighth grade, but due to the fact that her mother had a third child, she was forced to help at home and took the documents. Why she didn’t repeat her dream after graduating from school is unknown, but instead of the medical faculty, she entered the historical faculty of the Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov. While still studying at the university, Oksana began to take her first steps in the world of television and at the age of 19 she became the face of the TV channels “UTAR” and “UT-1”, hosted the programs “Streaming news”, “Good morning, Ukraine!”.

While working, Marchenko meets her first husband, Yuri Korzh, a businessman, the son of a people’s deputy. In this marriage, the couple had a son, Bogdan, but the boy never bore his father’s surname. The TV presenter did not comment on the details of life with her first husband, but it is known that in the spring of 1999 she met Viktor Medvedchuk, a politician and lawyer, who was also married at that time. As a result of the novel, both filed for divorce and began to live together. At that time, Marchenko’s son was 4 years old and, in fact, Medvedchuk raised him. It is known that Bogdan and Viktor have a good relationship. The couple, apparently, was in no hurry with the wedding, because it took place already in 2003.

A year after the wedding, in 2004, Marchenko and Medvedchuk had a daughter, Daria. It is interesting that already at that time the politician had close relations with the Russian elite, and the godparents of the girl were Russian President Vladimir Putin and the wife of Dmitry Medvedev, who at that time served as head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. The girl was baptized in the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

Little is known about the children of Marchenko, except that his son Bogdan studied in Switzerland, at the school of St. George. On October 10, 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the guy got married in an elite institution on the banks of the Dnieper in Kyiv. The chosen one of Bogdan Marchenko was a girl named Ekaterina, a makeup artist and photographer from Kyiv. The elite wedding was attended by many Ukrainian politicians, stars and businessmen.

The bride shone in an expensive dress and diamonds. Until recently, on her Instagram page, the girl actively shared various pictures, which showed not only branded clothes, cars and Cartier jewelry for thousands of dollars, but also the couple’s luxurious apartments and their holidays abroad. In 2021, Bogdan and Ekaterina had a son, who was named after Bogdan’s stepfather – Viktor. Where the spouses are now and what they are doing is unknown, but it is likely that before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they fled either to Russia or to Europe. In social networks, Oksana’s daughter-in-law did not write a word about the war.

As for the daughter of Marchenko and Medvedchuk Dasha, there are also few details about her. After Bogdan’s wedding, a video appeared on the Web in which the girl sang Lady Gaga’s song.

Also, the politician himself, in an interview with a pro-Russian channel, said that his daughter graduated from high school in Kyiv, and then planned to get an education at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, but did not receive a visa. Because of this situation, Dasha entered another university and studies there. Where exactly and in what country – he did not specify. Interestingly, despite the fact that the children of a politician study and live abroad, he, as an ardent admirer of the “Russian world”, opposes the West and its values.

“Yes, I oppose external management – external management by the United States and the West. And I will speak out,” Medvedchuk said at the time.

As for the career of Marchenko herself, after meeting Viktor, she rapidly went up. In 2000, Oksana founded the Omega-TV television company, making her debut first with the social entertainment show My Profession, and then with the political talk show Chas. In 2007, Marchenko launches the author’s program in Russian “The Oksana Marchenko Show”.

However, real fame came to her in 2009, when Oksana started working on the STB TV channel, where she hosts the show “Ukraine Got Talent” and “X-factor”.

Throughout all these years, the TV presenter appeared as guests in other programs, which were sometimes filmed in her luxurious house, but the interiors of the country mansion were shown only in fragments, and no one ever knew exactly how the deputy’s wife actually lives.

As for Marchenko’s outfits for broadcasts, she herself, without undue modesty, admitted that everything she wore on stage was bought by her personally, some dresses were exclusive and, accordingly, cost thousands of dollars.

“These were my dresses. Many were created specifically for broadcasts. These dresses are from world designers: Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Elie Saab, Carolina Herrera, Chanel, Oscar De La Renta, Zac Posen, Valentino, Zuhair Murad, Alessandra Rich. I worked in dresses and Ukrainian designers – Kraskin, Shakhovskaya, Navrotskaya; Russian – Sergienko, Terekhova. Now they are stored at my house. Some dresses were presented to my nieces, relatives, because no one canceled graduations, weddings. There are dresses that have never been worn Very interesting, but two or three more dresses were sewn or bought on the air than was necessary. And depending on the mood, on the topic, I chose this or that dress. I could change it at the very last moment, “Marchenko said about the wardrobe for the show.

The luxurious jewelry of the TV presenter, in which she appeared in front of the cameras, was also real.

Religion and strange projects

Among the friends of the Medvedchuk family were not only Russian politicians and oligarchs, but also stars. Oksana often said that she was friends with Kirkorov and Baskov, recorded interviews with them, showed joint photos from holidays and events, and promoted on social networks.

Several strange stories with these pro-Kremlin artists have aired on the celebrity channel. The interviews were taken for her series “The Pilgrim”, which aired on the channel of the Russian Orthodox Church “Spas”, the general director of which is an outspoken Ukrainophobe Boris Korchevnikov.

According to the plot of the series, Oksana travels the world and visits various churches, meets with priests, but in fact her show is thoroughly saturated not only with money, lies, but also outright propaganda, which can be seen from the first episode, which begins with the words: “I relate to people who remember the Soviet Union and mother’s tears when Brezhnev died.”

At the same time, the “pilgrim” Oksana drives BMW cars, wears clothes from expensive brands, including Louis Vuitton, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana. Marchenko often records interviews in Russia and openly supported the Moscow Patriarchate.

Sponsoring the war and threatening the government

The money for the “innocent pilgrimage” of the billionaire TV presenter was earned not only by her many years of work in entertaining talk shows. Thanks to the investigations of the Pennies and Schemes: Corruption in Details programs, it became known that Marchenko is the owner of the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region of Russia. It is this plant that has been providing oil products to the militants of the self-proclaimed “DNR” and “LNR” for many years. At the same time, according to documents, Viktor Medvedchuk has almost no business in Ukraine. In the summer of 2020, in the declaration, he indicated 97 companies and firms registered to his wife, luxury real estate, several cars, including the Mercedes-Benz Maybach S650, land, the real value of which was underestimated, jewelry, works of art and other expensive things.

After the sponsorship of the war was exposed, sanctions were imposed on Viktor Medvedchuk and Oksana Marchenko: all family accounts were allegedly blocked.

“I will not reveal a big secret, and this is open information: 14 kilometers from our border, on the territory of the Russian Federation, there is one of the oil refineries owned by Medvedchuk, together with his wife, and Kozak (Medvedchuk’s associate, owner of channels 112, ZIK and NewsOne – Ed.), also together with his wife. We have enough evidence that this is a terrorist group that deliberately finances and helps militants. On the basis of which the meeting was held today, there was a report from the SBU, all relevant documents were provided,” – said the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov.

It is worth noting that the sanctions were also applied to the politician’s yacht Royal Romance and aircraft that illegally flew on the Kiev-Moscow route, and the companies that serve them.

After the imposition of sanctions, Oksana Marchenko recorded a video message in which she openly threatened the President of Ukraine and announced that she was going into politics.

“You, without realizing it, forced me to take up political weapons in order to stand next to my husband and go towards our common goal on one front. Now, instead of one Medvedchuk, you also got Marchenko, who never aspired to get into politics. But you don’t left me a choice,” Viktor Medvedchuk’s wife said.

At the same time, Marchenko stated that her family was “the most ordinary and modest”, and everything that was said about her was slander.

Flight from Ukraine

The information that Russia plans to invade Ukraine has been circulating on the Web for a long time, but just a few days before this happened, on February 18, Marchenko, accompanied by guards in a huge SUV , fled to Belarus . The husband of the TV presenter at the same time escaped from house arrest.

On April 12, Medvedchuk was found, and President Zelensky personally shared his photo.

Oksana Marchenko recorded several videos in which she stated that her husband had not violated any laws, and that the SBU was detaining him illegally.

Gold carriages and million dollar houses

After Marchenko left Ukraine, many interesting things were found among her and her husband’s seized property. We are talking about two property complexes, seven apartments, vehicles and valuable art objects. For example, more than 300 paintings by eminent artists and even a real train carriage , which stood on the territory of the house in Pushcha-Voditsa, were confiscated from the former star.

Oksana gave this car to her husband, and besides being completely made of gold and velvet, it is also the couple’s nostalgia for the USSR – the car is called “Dalnyaya village”, probably in honor of the old Soviet film.

But this is not the couple’s only property. Also, Marchenko has a house in the Crimea, where they, despite the occupation by Russia, continued to rest every year. How much real estate the family has in reality is unknown.

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