Osman Server oglu Pashayev (, , ; born 23 January 1977 in Angren) is Crimean Tatar journalist and producer.
Biography
Pashayev was born in Uzbekistan in Crimean Tatar family. His grandparents were deported from Crimea by the
NKVD
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along with the entire Crimean Tatar nation in 1944. Since 1980 he lived in the Ukrainian city of
Henichesk
Henichesk (, ; , ) is a port city along the Sea of Azov in Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Henichesk Raion. Since 9 November 2022, it has served as the temporary administrative centre of the Russian o ...
and since 1989 moved to
Crimea
Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...
.
Pashayev studied in
Kyiv National Economic University
The Kyiv National Economic University is a self-governing public university in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university was founded in 1906 as Higher commercial courses.
It was ranked #3 by the Ukrainian national ranking of the universities conducted by ...
. First he worked as a news presenter on Crimean Tatar edition of state "Krym" TV-company, and later as a reporter there. In 2001 he moved to Kyiv. He worked with various TV-channels including
STB
State Security (, ), or StB / ŠtB, was the secret police force in communist Czechoslovakia from 1945 to its dissolution in 1990. Serving as an intelligence and counter-intelligence agency, it dealt with any activity that was considered oppositio ...
,
Inter
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Association football clubs
* Inter Milan, an Italian club
* SC Internacional, a Brazilian club
* Inter Miami CF, an American club
* Inter Playa del Carmen, a Mexican club
* FC Inter Sibiu, a Romanian club
* FC Inter Turku, ...
,
5 Kanal
5 Kanal () is a television station in Ukraine formerly owned by businessman and fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.NTN,
TVi TVI may refer to:
*RTL-TVI, a French-language television station in Belgium
*TVi (channel), a Ukrainian TV-channel
*TVi, former name of TV Okey, a Malaysian TV-network
* Tamil Vision International, a Tamil language television channel in Toronto, C ...
. From 2011 to 2014 he worked on Crimean Tatar TV-channel
ATR ATR may refer to:
Medicine
* Acute transfusion reaction
* Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3 related, a protein involved in DNA damage repair
Science and mathematics
* Advanced Test Reactor, nuclear research reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory, ...
in Simferopol. In spring 2013 he moved to
Istanbul
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office of ATR.
In 2009 he was elected on chairman of "Mediafront" trade union which brings together 158 workers of four national Ukrainian channels (STB,
1+1
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annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russ ...
he founded Crimean Open Channel with purpose of covering events in occupied Crimea by live streams from hot spots and streets, blitz-interviews with random citizens and studio interviews with politicians and activists. In the beginning the project was joined by Zenife Seydametova, Muslim Umerov, Ridvan Pashayev and Lyuman Abdullayev.
Pashayev did reports on the
Gezi protests
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Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of t ...
,
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriiovych Yushchenko (, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. He aimed to orient Ukraine towards Western world, the West, European Union, and N ...