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Echo Moskvy
Echo of Moscow (russian: links=no, Эхо Москвы, translit=Ekho Moskvy) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow. It broadcast in many Russian cities, some of the former Soviet republics (through partnerships with local radio stations), and via the Internet. From 1996 its editor-in-chief was Alexei Venediktov. On 1 March 2022, it was taken off the air by Roskomnadzor as a result of its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 3 March, the Board of Directors voted to close the station down. While the radio programming of Ekho of Moscow ceased to exist, Venediktov and most of the employees began a spin-off YouTube channel, ''Zhivoi Gvozd (literally "Live Nail", a pun on the common term "Live Guest"), which follows the late station's format and schedule. In October 2022, Echo resumed online programming from Berlin, Germany via its Echo app. History Echo of Moscow gained attention during the events of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attemptit was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). In 2017, it was named the European Region of Gastrono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Latynina
Yulia Leonidovna Latynina (russian: Ю́лия Леони́довна Латы́нина; born 16 June 1966) is a Russian writer and journalist. She is a columnist for ''Novaya Gazeta'' and the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years. Yulia Latynina has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction. Biography Yulia Latynina was born in Moscow on 16 June 1966. Her father is poet Leonid Latynin and her mother is literary critic Alla Latynina. Yulia Latynina studied philology at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute from 1983 to 1988. In 1993, she defended her PhD at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. Latynina worked for periodicals ''Segodnya'' (1995–96), ''Izvestia'' (1996–97), ''Expert'' (1997–98), ''Sovershenno Secretno'' (1999–2000), ''Ezhednevny Zhurnal'' (2005–15) and '' Gazeta.ru'' (2006–2013). She also worked for television channels NTV (2000–01), ORT (2001–02), TVS (2002–03) and REN TV (2003– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Felgengauer
Tatyana Vladimirovna Felgenhauer ( rus, Татья́на Влади́мировна Фельгенга́уэр, p=fʲɪlʲɡʲɪnˈɡaʊɨr; born January 6, 1985) is a Russian journalist, correspondent and presenter of Echo of Moscow radio station, and its deputy editor-in-chief. Biography She received the Moscow Prize in the field of journalism in 2010 (along with Matvey Ganapolsky). The participant of the protest actions against the falsification of the elections in Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue, covered the events on the air of the radio station. On October 23, 2017, a man with a knife forced his entry into the building of the Echo of Moscow radio station and wounded Felgenhauer in the neck. The attacker was a native of Georgia Boris Grits, a 48-year-old with dual Russian and Israeli citizenship. A report on Russian television during the month accused the radio station, and Felgenhauer directly, of working to benefit foreign interests in Russia. Police treated the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed". RFE/RL is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent government agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services. Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor-in-chief of RFE. RFE/RL broadcasts in 27 languages to 23 countries. The organization has been headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, since 1995, and has 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff and 1,300 stringers and freelancers in countries throughout their broadcast region. In addition, it has 700 employees at its headquarters and corporate office in Washington, D.C. Radio Free Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He has organised anti-government demonstrations and run for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against president Vladimir Putin and his government, who avoids referring directly to Navalny by name. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He is the leader of the Russia of the Future party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He is recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. Navalny had more than six million YouTube subscribers; through his social media channels, he and his team have published material about corruption in Russia, organised political demonstrations and promoted h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matvey Ganapolsky
Matvey Yuryevich Ganapolsky (born Margolis; russian: link=no, Матвей Юрьевич Ганапольский, uk, Матвій Юрійович Ганапольський; born 14 December 1953 in Lviv) is a Russian and Ukrainian journalist who has contributed for Pryamiy kanal, Echo of Moscow, ''Moskovsky Komsomolets'', and other media. He is also a member of the Russian Jewish Congress. Biography Ganapolsky was born in Lviv in 1953. His mother Dina Levina was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Babi Yar tragedy. Ganapolsky spent his childhood in Lviv, later leaving for Kyiv and then for Moscow where he graduated from the GITIS. From 1981 to 1986, he lived in Kyiv picking up a job at the local Variety Theatre. In 1990, he started working for the radio station Echo of Moscow where he launched the ''Bomond'' programme. In 2016, he obtained Ukrainian citizenship. As of 2020, Ganapolsky hosted a talk show named ''Ekho Ukrayiny'' on Pryamiy kanal Priamyi ( uk, � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitrii Bykov
Dmitry Lvovich Bykov ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Львович Быков, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪdʑ ˈbɨkəf, a=Dmitriy L'vovich Bykov.ru.vorb.oga; born 20 December 1967) is a Russian writer, poet, literary critic and journalist.Bykov author profile " (in Russian). ''''. Retrieved 5 December 2009. He is also known as biographer of , and |
Sophie Shevardnadze
Sophie (Sophiko) Paatovna Shevardnadze (Russian: София (Софико) Паатовна Шеварднадзе; Georgian: სოფო შევარდნაძე, born 23 September 1978) is a Georgian/Russian journalist, presenter, author and producer. She is the creator and executive producer of the show Simply Complicated on the platform Yandex.Efir, Russia's equivalent of Google. She is the host of SophieCo Visionaries, and between 2006 and 2015 she was a presenter on the radio station Echo of Moscow. Biography Sophie Shevardnadze was born on 23 September 1978 in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. She studied in Tbilisi until the 8th grade at public school No 55 and developed an early passion for dance and music, learning the piano and taking up ballet. Much of her childhood coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union. Due to having career politicians in the family, her late grandfather being the last foreign minister of the USSR and leader of Georgia, Sophie was one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Yasin
Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin (russian: Евге́ний Григо́рьевич Я́син; born 7 May 1934) is a prominent Russian economist. He was the Russian Minister for the Economy between 1994 and 1997. Until July 2021 was an academic supervisor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to Ekho Moskvy radio. Biography Evgeniy Yasin was born on May 7, 1934. In 1957 he graduated from the Odessa Institute of Civil Construction, and in 1963 from the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Economics. In 1968 he defended his thesis for the degree of the Candidate of Science. In 1976 - Doctor of Economics, and since 1979 - Professor. From 1958 - 1960 Evgeniy Yasin was an engineer at the Design Institute Number 3 of the Committee of Civil Engineering, Ukrainian SSR. After graduating from MSU, from 1964 - 1973 he worked at the Research Institute of the Central Department of Statistics as head of department and later head of labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Ryzhkov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Рыжко́в; born 3 September 1966 in Rubtsovsk) is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of People's Freedom Party (2006 –2014) and former Russian State Duma member (1993–2007), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and the leader of parliamentary group Our Home – Russia. He is a candidate of historical sciences and a professor of the Higher School of Economics. Anchorman of a number of Echo of Moscow radio programs. Vladimir Ryzhkov was a deputy head of administration of Altai Krai in 1991-1993 and represented the city of Barnaul in the State Duma in 1993-2007. Since 2006 Vladimir Ryzhkov is a co-chair of registered political party Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party (RPR-PARNAS). He was one of members of The Other Russia coalition and a participant of Dissenters' Marches and other meetings. Active speaker during 2011–2013 Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian political activist, journalist, author, and filmmaker. A protégé of Boris Nemtsov, he serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He has directed two documentaries, '' They Chose Freedom'' and '' Nemtsov''. As of 2021, he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018. In April 2022, Kara-Murza was arrested on charges of disobeying police orders; later his arrest was extended after new charges of "discrediting" the military were introduced, and in October, new charges of treason w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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