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Øystein Bogen (born 20 December 1969) is a Norwegian journalist and documentary film maker. Bogen has been working for

TV 2 Norway TV 2 (''TV to'') is a Norwegian terrestrial television channel. Its headquarters are located in Bergen. TV 2 began test broadcasting on 13 November 1991, and a year later, it was officially launched on 5 September 1992, becoming Norway's first com ...

as a foreign correspondent and editor since 1995. He has mainly been covering

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

and the former

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, but also a range of international wars and conflicts, including the

Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...

, the Russo-Georgian War and the

War in Donbass War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular ...

. Øystein Bogen gained a lot of international attention ahead of the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

Sotchi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

when he and TV 2 cameraman Aage Aune were arrested and questioned for several days by Russian police while working on critical reports of the organisation of the event. The episode led to an unusual public apology from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Filmography

Bogen has directed 16 documentaries which have been broadcast by TV 2 and other international broadcasters, including: *

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

(2000) together with Odd Isungset and Per-Christian Magnus. The documentary was awarded the 2000 Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo International Television Festival and was nominated for the Norwegian Amanda Award in 2001 * A Letter from the Deep (2001) * A Prayer for Beslan (2005), which won the 2006 Columbine Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in the US, and the 2005 Golden Word Award from the Russian Media Union * Pirate Hunting (2009) * The Battle for Attica Square (2010). Awarded the Norwegian Silver Umbrella in 2011 and Honorable Mention from Norwegian International Reporter in 2011 * The Price of War (2011) Øystein Bogen studied journalism at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

, USA and has a master's degree in democracy building from the University of Bergen.

Books

Bogen has published the following books, all with the Kagge publishing house: * Putin og jeg. Russlands vei fra håp til håpløshet" (Putin and I: Russia's Path from Hope to Hopelessness) in 2016 * Russlands hemmelige krig mot Vesten (Russia's Secret War against the West) in 2018 * En uvanlig spion. Frode Berg, norsk etterretning og spøkelsene fra den kalde krigen (An improbable spy. Frode Berg, Norwegian spy and ghost from the Cold War) in 2019

Other references

*IMDb *Vimeo

References

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