Who plays in the team of Ales Mukhin?

Ales Mukhin's team is one of the most famous and notable in the intellectual club "What? Where? When?" in recent years. For it at different times there were many famous players. However, recently she does not participate in the television club. One of its leading players, Ilya Novikov, was denied participation in the projects on the First Channel because of his participation as a lawyer in the case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. As a sign of solidarity with him refused to play the whole team.

Ales Mukhin - captain of the team

Ales Mukhina in the "What? Where? When?" Know for a long time. This is a famous player, TV presenter. In Belarus, he is the leading local analogue of the TV version of this game, which is broadcasted on ONT television channel.

In ordinary life Mukhin is engaged in business. He graduated from the specialized school of English in Minsk. He received a major in History and English at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University.

He still lives in the capital of Belarus. He has a wife Tatiana and two children: Anton's son and daughter Daria.

Career in business began as a director of a perfume company. Then he headed the Belarusian branch of Euroset. Now has its own business, not connected with mobile communications.

Career in "What? Where? When?"

Intellectual games were carried away in school years. In the sports version of the game "What? Where? When" was playing for the "AMO" team. However, recently he does not participate in tournaments after he started to conduct the Belarusian TV version of the program.

In the Russian elite club of experts debuted on December 15, 2001. Since then, he has spent 45 games. In 25 of them his team won.

Successful for him was the 2004 season. In the final of the spring series Alesya Mukhina was recognized as the best player and awarded a crystal owl. In 2005 he received the title of the best captain of the club, since then he has symbolic captain's shoulder strap.

The last game

At the moment the last game of the team of Ales Mukhin took place on December 5, 2015. She opened the spring series.

The composition was played by Grigory Alkhazov, Yulia Arkhangelskaya, Gunel Babayeva, Ilya Novikov and Roman Orkodashvili.

It was an experimental game. At the table in turn, two teams played at once - Ales Mukhin and Viktor Sidnev. After one of them gave the wrong answer, the composition behind the table was replaced. Began experts unsuccessfully. Maxim Potashev did not answer the question about Don Quixote, and Mukhin's team lost in the 13th sector.

Then Sydnev's wards pulled ahead, taking 4 questions in a row. Mukhin and the company returned to the table when the score was 4: 3. They got blitz, they managed to answer correctly only to the first question. Returned to the table, Sidney's team brought the game to victory - 6: 4.

The conflict over Ilya Novikov

One of the most popular players of the team Mukhina Ilya Novikov in his law practice took up the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who participated in the armed conflict in the south-east of 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 presenter and head of the television project Boris Krjuk 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 started his career in the television club in 2002. During this time he had 44 games. On this indicator, he is among the ten experts, occupying the 9th place. Twice he became the owner of the 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 announced that in the near future his team will nevertheless return to the television club in an updated composition. The truth is when this happens, did not elaborate.