Vasily Yevgenievich Stepanov (; born in 1981) is a Russian cinema critic, journalist, columnist; since 2020 — chief editor of ''

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'' magazine. Stepanov was born in

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, he is a

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graduate and a SPBU alumni. He started his career as an editor of the cinema review section at Kalendar magazine, in 2006 he became an editor at ''Seans''. Stepanov started writing for this publication much earlier, at the age of 21. Stepanov wrote for

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-Weekend, Russian Reporter, ''Empire'',

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, and others. In 2019, Stepanov released ''Bergman'', a book of critical essays and analytics, dedicated to the famous director. He also writes poetry. In 2014, he was a member of jury at the St Petersburg ''Video Poetry Festival''. In 2020, Stepanov took over as ''Seans'' chief editor when its founder

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resigned after a defamation scandal. In 2021, Stepanov co-authored a book ''Screenlife. Searching for new language in cinema''. In 2022, he released a book about a prominent Soviet and Russian director

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. In March 2022, Stepanov signed a collective appeal of film critics, film historians and film journalists of Russia against

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