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Redkollegia Award Winners
''Redkollegia'' () is an independent media award established by the Sreda Foundation headed by Boris Zimin to support free professional journalism in Russia. In 2015, after the Sreda Foundation was closed, charitable activities of Boris Zimin are carried out through the Zimin Foundation. The prize is awarded monthly to several authors. The organizers of the award believe that in this way they will be able to “help those who maintain high professional standards in Russia at a time when free and high-quality journalism is under pressure from the state, and the human rights to freedom of expression and free access to information are systematically violated." The war in Ukraine created new challenges for the award that continues to support the independent journalists who still manage to perform their work in Russia. In particular, the jury has to take into account possible exposing the winners to risk, so before announcing the award publicly, the jury consults with the winners t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimin Foundation
''Zimin Foundation'' is a philanthropic nonprofit organization established by Dr Dmitry Zimin and his son Boris Zimin with the aim of supporting science, education and spread of information. History In 2002 Dmitry Zimin started Dynasty Foundation, an organization focusing mainly on Russia. The foundation became the first private Russian nonprofit supporting science and education in the country through programs for gifted schoolchildren and university students, young physicists, mathematicians, biologists, and teachers. In 2015 Russian Ministry of Justice put Dynasty Foundation on the list of foreign agents, effectively forcing it to wrap up its activities. Since then the Zimin family has continued its philanthropic effort through the Zimin Foundation. No longer limited to Russia, the organization’s activities have extended to other countries. After Dr. Zimin’s death on December 22, 2021, his son Boris Zimin took over as the leader of Zimin Foundation’s charitable effo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Firm's Secret
''The Firm's Secret'' () is the Russian online magazine about 'entrepreneurs, companies, management insights and applied business problems'. It has been coming out since October 2001. Since December 2014 it belongs to . Nikolay Kononov is the editor-in-chief. History ''The Firm's Secret'' was created by in October 2001 as a monthly supplement to the weekly magazine ''Money'' of the publishing house ''Kommersant''. The supplement was supposed to cover business seminars held by the publishing house in cooperation with the Higher School of Economics and Harvard Business School. Later, when the publishing house no longer needed the supplement, Katsman and his partners bought out ''The Firm's Secret'' and since September 2002 the magazine came out at first – twice a week, then – weekly. In 2004, a publishing house was established on the basis of the magazine, and also published a newspaper ''Business'' () and magazines ''You have the right'' () and ''Everything is clear'' (). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perm, Russia
Perm (, ; ; ), previously known as Yegoshikha, Yagoshikha (; 1723–1781) and Molotov (; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia. It sits on the banks of the Kama River near the Ural Mountains, covering an area of . With over one million residents Perm is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, 15th-largest city in Russia and the 5th-largest in the Volga Federal District. Economy In 1723, a copper-smelting works was founded at the village of ''Yagoshikha''. In 1781 the settlement of Yagoshikha became the town of ''Perm''. Perm's position on the navigable Kama River, leading to the Volga, and on the Siberian Route across the Ural Mountains, helped it become an important trade and manufacturing centre. It also lay along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Perm grew considerably as industrialization proceeded in the Urals during the Soviet period, and in 1940 was named ''Molotov'' in honour of Vyacheslav Molotov. In 1957 the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kanygin
Pavel Yurievich Kanygin ( rus, Павел Юрьевич Каныгин, p=ˈpavʲɪɫ ˈjʉrʲɪ̯ɪvʲɪt͡ɕ kɐˈnɨɡʲɪn; born 30 January 1987) is a Russian journalist and media-manager. Former investigative journalist, special correspondent, and executive producer of ''Novaya Gazeta''. From 2022, editor-in-chief of the ''Prodolzheniye Sleduyet'' ("To Be Continued") media. Biography Kanygin was born on 30 January 1987 in Neftekamsk, Bashkir ASSR. He started his journalistic activity in the weekly regional newspaper ''Vecherniy Neftekamsk'' in the high school. In 2004, he moved to Moscow, studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and worked in the newspaper ''Moskovskie Novosti'' and Moskovsky Komsomolets. He has been a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta since October 2004. Kanygin interned at the Harriman Institute as a Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellow in 2016. He won a Nieman Journalism Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University in 2019. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Kovalev (journalist)
Alexey Andreevich Kovalev () is a Russian journalist, translator, media manager and commentator. He is former the head of investigative desk at Meduza, former editor-in-chief of Russian Coda Media and former editor-in-chief of inoSMI. Early life and career Alexey Kovalev was born in Moscow in a family of art historians. He graduated from the of Moscow State University and later from the Faculty of Journalism of City, University of London. In London, he was writing articles for ''Wired'' and ''The Guardian'' and has been a correspondent for the magazine since March 2011. Kovalev moved to Moscow and from 1 March 2012 to 9 December 2013 was the editor-in-chief of the inoSMI website, which publishes translations of foreign media articles. inoSMI is part of RIA Novosti, a Russian state-controlled news agency, and formally Kovalev was the head of the department at RIA Novosti. He was fired as a result of the formal liquidation of RIA Novosti and news agency's transfer under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Kostyuchenko
Elena Gennadyevna Kostyuchenko (; born 25 September 1987, Yaroslavl, Russia) is a Russian journalist and gay rights activist in exile. She is an investigative reporter for the newspaper ''Novaya Gazeta''. Kostyuchenko was the first journalist to write about the punk protest band Pussy Riot and about the Zhanaozen massacre in 2011. She covered protests against the construction of a controversial 12-lane highway through the Khimki Forest, and exposed the presence of Russian fighters in the War in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine. She has been assaulted and arrested on several occasions in retribution for her journalism and activism. In October 2022 she survived a possible poison attack in Munich, Germany. Career Kostyuchenko is from the town of Yaroslavl, not far from Moscow. By age 16, she was already working on the local paper in Yaroslavl. She later said that “when I started working as a journalist, I had no lofty aspirations.... I just wanted to buy winter boots with buckles; my f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Milashina
Elena Valeryevna Milashina (; born 1977) is a Russian investigative journalist for ''Novaya Gazeta.'' She has received multiple awards for her work. Milashina has been threatened and attacked over her work multiple times over the course of more than a decade. In 2023, she was severely beaten while covering a trial in Chechnya. Early life and education Elena Milashina was born in 1977. In 1994–95, she took part in the FLEX exchange program; this helped her to further enter the Moscow State University. Career In 1997, Milashina began working as a reporter and journalist for ''Novaya Gazeta'', while studying at the same time. One of her mentors was Anna Politkovskaya. In 2001 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. The areas of professional interest of Milashina include corruption, human rights violations in the North Caucasus and Chechnya, in particular, the investigation of the 2004 Beslan school siege, the 2006 assassination of Anna Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Shmagun
Olesya Valentinovna Shmagun (; born 21 August 1987) is a Russian investigative journalist. She worked for the Russian newspaper ''Novaya Gazeta'' and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Shmagun is one of the founders of the iStories media outlet. Education Olesya Shmagun was born on 21 August 1987. In 2012, she graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism. From 2012 to 2015, Shmagun studied full-time postgraduate studies at Moscow State University and on 23 June 2017 she received her Candidate of Philological Sciences degree. The topic of her doctoral thesis was ''"Small" newspaper in the period between the two revolutions of 1917''. In 2023, she graduated from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs with a Master in Public Policy degree. Career Shmagun has worked as a journalist for various organisations, including AvtoRadio, , Vzglyad (newspaper), Vzglyad and Izvestia. She also worked for two year for outlet. In 2013 and 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7x7 (website)
7x7. Horizontal Russia (Seven by seven) is a Russian independent news website based in the Komi Republic and operating in 31 regions of the European part of Russia. Content The name of the website is a reference to the original homepage design, which had seven columns and seven rows. As of August 2020, the website operates in 31 out of 85 regions of Russia; these are the regions of the European part without and the North Caucasus and the South of Russia. The website has a news section written by professional journalists and an opinion section written by community and civil activists. The main topics of publications are politics, human rights and ecology. In particular, the website publishes materials about corruption and torture in prisons and social materials (for example, a video about one day in the life of a disabled person). The authors of the website are generally critical of the Russian regional and federal authorities. The website has a blog platform with the ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Azar
Ilya Vilyamovich Azar (; born June 29, 1984) is a Russian journalist, special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta since 2017, former special correspondent for the online publication Lenta.ru, and a former special correspondent for the Meduza project. He was a Member of the Council of Deputies of the Khamovniki District in Moscow. Azar was charged with organising opposition demonstrations demanding free elections to Moscow's city legislature on September 8, 2019. In May 2020, he was arrested and jailed for 15 days for breaking protest laws during a protest against the detention of an campaigner against police corruption. Other journalists were subsequently arrested while protesting against Azar's arrest. He was also criticized by authorities of Kazakhstan for a text at Meduza describing local separatists. This led to blocking of Meduza in Kazakhstan. Azar is a two-time winner of the ''Redkollegia ''Redkollegia'' () is an independent media award established by the Sreda Foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kononov
Nikolay Kononov (, 24 August 1980, Moscow) is a Russian writer and journalist. He served as editor-in-chief of '' The Firm's Secret'' (2014–2017) and its editorial director until 2018. He is the author of four books: ''Deux Sine Machina: Stories of 20 crazy persons who made business in Russia from scratch'' (2011), ''Durov's Code. The real story of the social network "VKontakte" and its Creator'' (2012), ''The Uprising'' (2019), and ''The Night We Disappeared'' (2022). Biography Media career Nikolay Kononov graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, specializing in literary and art criticism. He also studied political philosophy in a joint program of Shaninka and the University of Manchester. He began his journalism career with newspapers ''Izvestia'' and ''Stolichnaya Vechernyaya'', then served as a senior reporter of ''Expert'' (2004–2005). In 2005, Kononov joined ''Forbes Russia'' as a columnist and editor. Between 2010 and 2011, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
