The guest of the show Vladimir Solovyov explained his fainting live

The head of the HSE School of Oriental Studies, Andrey Karneev, who fainted on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program, said that the incident had nothing to do with the context of the conversation. He spoke about the reasons for the incident and his state of health in an interview with Lenta.ru.

Earlier, footage circulated on the network in which the professor faints right during a lively discussion of experts, after the host’s phrase: “America has never considered colored people to be people.”

The interlocutor of Lenta.ru said that he was unconscious for about three seconds. “I even remember this moment that I somehow began to crawl, but my colleagues literally picked me up, everyone came up to me, called the doctor, so I am grateful to the program staff and at the same time I apologize to them for the troubles,” he said. Karneev. The doctor, according to him, stated that all indicators are normal. Now the expert feels fine.

Earlier, a regular expert of “Evenings with Vladimir Solovyov”, political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky, was reported to the police. The complainant was a pensioner who remained dissatisfied with the political scientist’s statements on the air of one of the programs. In particular, the man believes that Satanovsky’s statements contain insults to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and slander against “great Russian people.”