Daniil Orain

Daniil Orain (Cyrillic: Даниил Ораин; born July 2000) is a YouTube journalist known for his YouTube channel "1420 by Daniil Orain" in which he interviews random Russians on various political topics, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In typical interview sessions, he asks the same question to many pedestrians in a busy public area to create a vox populi report.

The name "1420" comes from Moscow Public School No. 1420, which is where Orain went to high school.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Orain shared that after asking many individuals the same question, the answers tend to repeat themselves.

A common pattern regarding Russian politics is that some people support government decisions, some people oppose, and some people directly say that they do not wish to respond.

In an interview with Der Standard, Orain shared that his approach to interviews is to ask simple open questions and to let people answer.

"We [the pollers] do not insult anyone, including the government", Orain said.

The 1420 YouTube channel has about 300,000 viewers.

Of those, 40% are from North America, and about 5% are from Russia.

Orain established the channel in 2019 at which time he was asking people about LGBT rights in Russia and political opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The channel became much more popular when he started interviewing people after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

One discovery in media conflict which Orain discovered is Russian versus international views on the Bucha massacre.

Russian interviewees routinely denied the massacre, calling it a hoax and propaganda, while people outside Russia typically accept that the massacre occurred.