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Redkollegia
''Redkollegia'' () is an independent media award established by the '' Sreda Foundation'' headed by to support free professional journalism in Russia. 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." Entry and prize consideration On the pages of the project, links are published daily to the materials of federal and regional publications collected by a group of experts. These materials are potential applicants for the award. Both authors and readers can nominate material for the award, informing the jury and experts about important publications. ''Redkollegia'' is awarded to a specific author or group of authors for a specific journalistic text (investiga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dozhd
TV Rain ( rus, Дождь, Dozhd, p=ˈdoʂtʲ, a=Ru-дождь (doʂtʲ).ogg; stylized ДОДЬ) is an independent Russian television channel. It was launched in 2010 in Russia, and since 2022 was based in Latvia. It focuses on news, discussions, culture, politics, business reports, and documentaries, with most shows broadcast live. TV Rain is owned by journalist Natalya Sindeyeva. Its slogan is "Optimistic Channel". In March 2022, the Russian government blocked access to TV Rain in response to its coverage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The channel relaunched from studios in Riga, Latvia on 18 July 2022, but after multiple violations had its Latvian license cancelled on 6 December 2022, though it continues to broadcast over YouTube. History Early years TV Rain was founded in 2010 by two women, Natalya Sindeyeva, media entrepreneur and owner, and Vera Krichevskaya, a TV and documentary film director. It has focused on news, discussions, culture, politics, bu ... [...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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Kolezev
Dmitry Evgenievich Kolezev (russian: link=no, Дмитрий Евгеньевич Колезев) is a Russian journalist from the region called Urals who is known internationally for working at independent online mass media, dedicated primarily to life in this region, and is particularly known for criticizing Russian authorities. His current position is the head of the online magazine ''It's My City'' dedicated to Yekaterinburg. Kolezev previously served as the leading journalist at ''Znak.com'' and ''Ura.ru'', both also based in Yekaterinburg. Biography Dmitry Kolezev was born in Kamensk-Uralsky, graduated from School №9 in Ekaterinburg and later from Faculty of Journalism of Ural State University. Upon graduation, he worked at ''Uralpolit.ru'', a news website currently belonging to ''FederalPress'' media holding, later at popular 2006-founded ''Ura.ru'' news website and subsequently at popular ''Znak.com'' news website which he co-founded and developed for 8 years. All t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Parkhomenko
Sergey Borisovich Parkhomenko (russian: Серге́й Бори́сович Пархо́менко; born March 13, 1964) is a Russian publisher, journalist and political commentator. Biography Parkhomenko was born in Moscow in 1964 and graduated from the Department of Journalism of the Moscow State University. In the early 1990s, he worked as a political reporter and columnist in Russian dailies such as Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Independent Newspaper) and Segodnia (Today). In 1996, Parkhomenko founded Russia's first news magazine Itogi (Summing Up), which was published in cooperation with Newsweek. Parkhomenko was the chief editor of the magazine until 2001, when the new owner fired the magazine's entire team. Parkhomenko then launched a new news magazine, Yezhenedelnyi Zhournal (Weekly Magazine), and was its editor-in-chief until 2003. From 2004 to 2009, Parkhomenko successively headed several publishing houses (Inostranka, CoLibri, Atticus and Corpus). From October 2009 till th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Medvedev (writer)
Sergei Aleksandrovich Medvedev (; born December 20, 1966) is a Russian scholar. He is currently a professor at the Charles University in Prague, and he has previously worked at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki, the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, and the Institute of Europe in Moscow. Medvedev won the 2020 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is ma ... for his book ''The Return of the Russian Leviathan.'' The book was translated by Stephen Dalziel, and was widely praised in the US and UK. References 1966 births 21st-century Russian journalists Living people Academic staff of the Higher School of Economics People listed in Russia as media foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreda Foundation
Boris Dmitrievich Zimin (russian: Борис Дмитриевич Зимин; born November 24, 1968) is a Russian businessman and public figure, philanthropist, motor sportsman. The son of Dmitry Zimin, (1933-2021), the founder of VimpelCom company (brand name Beeline). Boris Zimin is involved with the Zimin Foundation, which finances and supports Russian non-profit educational projects in the field of education, protection of human rights and freedom of speech, as well as scientific research in the field of natural sciences (mathematics, biology and medicine). Biography Born on November 24, 1968 in Moscow to parents Dmitry Borisovich Zimin, head of the laboratory at the Radio Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Maya Pavlovna Zimina (née Shakhmatova, born 1936), an archaeologist. Graduated from the Higher School of Economics. Served in the Soviet Armed Forces from 1987-1989, carrying out most of his service in Kazakhstan. In 2002, Boris Zimin became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kononov
Nikolay Kononov (russian: Никола́й Ви́кторович Ко́нонов, 24 August 1980 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian writer and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of ''The Firm's Secret'' from 2014 to 2017, then editorial director until 2018. The author of four books: ''Deux Sine Machina: Stories of 20 crazy people who made business in Russia from scratch'' (2011), ''Code of Durov. The real story of the social network "VKontakte" and its creator'' (2012), ''Author, scissors, paper. How to write impressive texts quickly. 14 lessons'' (2017), ''The Uprising'' (2019), and ''The Night We Fled'' (2022). Biography Media In 2002 Kononov graduated from the Department of Literary and Art Criticism and Publicism of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. In 2003-2004 he worked as a reporter for the newspapers ''Izvestia'' and ''Stolichnaya Vechernaya'', was focused on social issues, covering e.g. problems of the refugees in Ingush field camps and local election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Zimin
Boris Dmitrievich Zimin (russian: Борис Дмитриевич Зимин; born November 24, 1968) is a Russian businessman and public figure, philanthropist, motor sportsman. The son of Dmitry Zimin, (1933-2021), the founder of VimpelCom company (brand name Beeline). Boris Zimin is involved with the Zimin Foundation, which finances and supports Russian non-profit educational projects in the field of education, protection of human rights and freedom of speech, as well as scientific research in the field of natural sciences (mathematics, biology and medicine). Biography Born on November 24, 1968 in Moscow to parents Dmitry Borisovich Zimin, head of the laboratory at the Radio Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Maya Pavlovna Zimina (née Shakhmatova, born 1936), an archaeologist. Graduated from the Higher School of Economics. Served in the Soviet Armed Forces from 1987-1989, carrying out most of his service in Kazakhstan. In 2002, Boris Zimin became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogoniok
''Ogoniok'' ( rus, Огонёк, t=Spark, p=ɐɡɐˈnʲɵk, a=Ru-огонёк.ogg; pre-reform orthography: ''Огонекъ'') was one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines in Russia. History and profile ''Ogoniok'' has issued since . It was re-established in the Soviet Union in 1923 by Mikhail Koltsov. The headquarters is in Moscow. In 1957 the circulation of the magazine was 850,000 copies. The colour magazine reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the Perestroika years, when its editor-in-chief Vitaly Korotich "was guiding ''Ogoniok'' to a pro-American and pro-capitalist position". Those years are the subject matter of the book ''Small Fires: Letters From the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990'' (Summit Books, New York, 1990) selected and edited by Christopher Cerf, Marina Albee, and with an introduction by Korotich. The magazine sold 1.5 million copies in 1987 and 4.6 million copies in 1990. In the early 1990s, ''Ogoniok'' was owned by Boris Berezovsky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Help Needed
Help Needed (russian: Нужна Помощь) is a charitable foundation that helps other charities and social projects in Russia. The mission of the foundation is systematic development of charity in the country and change of public attitude towards solving social problems. The foundation systematically implements projects aimed at interaction and development of all parts of society related to solving social problems. The main goal is to strengthen the nonprofit sector in Russia, so that employees could maintain high professional level; the number of charities and NGOs would be sufficient to address the needs of vulnerable population; and finally, all citizens would be actively involved in solving social problems. The foundation works as a fund of funds, fundraising for other non-profit organizations, including charitable foundations. While it helps other organizations, it does not provide targeted assistance to beneficiaries. All projects supported by Help Needed are being care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RBK Group
The RBC Group, or RosBiznesConsulting (russian: Группа компаний «РБК» РБК, РосБизнесКонсалтинг), is a Russian media group headquartered in Moscow. It was established in 1993. The company holds an informational agency RosBusinessConsulting, including a news web-portal, business newspaper ', monthly business magazine '' RBC'', and RBC TV. Capitalization on MOEX is $44.13 million ( 10 March 2018). History RBC was recognized in Russia for investigative journalism, including reports on corruption and abuse of power which led to forced change of leadership, including the editor-in-chief Yelizaveta Osetinskaya, in May 2016. In April 2016, searches were conducted at the ONEKSIM Group investment fund, controlling shareholder of the RBC Group, due to publications about Vladimir Putin's daughter Katerina Tikhonova and her husband, Russian oligarch Kirill Shamalov, as well as about the Panama Papers. ''The Moscow Times'' reported that the 11 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. It is based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Competitors in the national business magazine category include ''Fortune'' and ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. ''Forbes'' has an international edition in Asia as well as editions produced under license in 27 countries and regions worldwide. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), of the America's Wealthiest Celebrities, of the world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000), Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People, and The World's Billionaires. The motto of ''Forbes'' magazine is "Change the World". Its chair and editor-in-chief is Steve Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
