The team of Ales Mukhin is one of the most famous and prominent in the intellectual club "What? Where? When?" in recent years. At different times, many famous players played for her. True, recently she has not been participating in the teleclub. One of its leading players, Ilya Novikov, was denied participation in projects on Channel One because of his participation as a lawyer in the case of the Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko. As a sign of solidarity with him, the whole team refused to play.
Ales Mukhin - team captain
Alesia Mukhina in the medium of “What? Where? When?” know for a long time. This is a famous TV presenter. In Belarus, he is the leading local counterpart to the television version of this game, which is broadcast on ONT.
In ordinary life, Mukhin is engaged in entrepreneurship. He graduated from a specialized school in English in Minsk. He received the specialty of a teacher of history and English at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University.
He still lives in the capital of Belarus. He has a wife, Tatyana, and two children: son Anton and daughter Daria.
He began his career in business as the director of a perfume company. Then he headed the Belarusian branch of Euroset. Now has its own business, not related to mobile communications.
Career in "What? Where? When?"
I was carried away with intellectual games in my school years. In the sports version of the game “What? Where? When?” He played for the AMO team. True, he has not recently been participating in tournaments since he began to conduct the Belarusian television version of the program.
He made his debut in the Russian elite club of experts on December 15, 2001. He has since spent 45 games. In 25 of them, his team won.
Successful for him was the 2004 season. In the final of the spring series, Ales Mukhin was recognized as the best player and handed a crystal owl. In 2005 he received the title of best captain of the club, since then he bears a symbolic captain epaulet.
Last game
At the moment, the last game of the team Ales Mukhin took place on December 5, 2015. She opened the spring series.
Grigory Alkhazov, Yulia Arkhangelskaya, Gunel Babaeva, Ilya Novikov and Roman Orkodashvili played in the composition.
It was an experimental game. Two teams at a time played at a table at once: Ales Mukhin and Viktor Sidnev. After one of them gave the wrong answer, the staff at the table was replaced. The experts began unsuccessfully. Maxim Potashev did not answer the question about Don Quixote, and the Mukhin team lost in sector 13.
Then the wards of Sidnev rushed forward, taking 4 questions in a row. Mukhin and company returned to the table with a score of 4: 3. They got a blitz, they managed to answer correctly only the first question. Sidnev's team returned to the table brought the game to victory - 6: 4.
Conflict over Ilya Novikov
One of the most popular players of the Mukhin team, Ilya Novikov, in his law practice, took up the case of the Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko, who participated in the armed conflict in southeastern Ukraine. She was accused of murdering Russian journalists, lawyers insisted on her innocence and the need to extradite to Ukraine.
In August 2016, in an interview, the host and director of the television project Boris Kryuk asked Novikov to leave the club “What? Where? When?”. The team of Ales Mukhin, in solidarity with the player, also refused to take part in further games.
Novikov is a popular connoisseur. He began his career in the teleclub in 2002. During this time he spent 44 games. According to this indicator, he is among the ten experts, occupying 9th place. Twice became the owner of a crystal owl: in 2004 and 2014. In 2014, he was also awarded a diamond owl as the best player of the year.
Now Ales Mukhin has announced that in the near future his team will nevertheless return to the television club in an updated composition. True, when this happens, he did not specify.