Ivan Sergeyevich Kolpakov (; born December 17, 1983) is a Russian journalist, writer, one of the founders of the ''Sol'' () newspaper, editor-in-chief of the ''

Meduza ''Meduza'' ( rus, Медуза, t=jellyfish) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent ''Lenta.ru'' news website. Free mob ...

'' newspaper from 2016 to 2018 and since March 2019.

Biography

Ivan Kolpakov was born in 1983 in

Perm, Russia Perm (russian: Пермь, p=pʲermʲ), previously known as Yagoshikha (Ягошиха) (1723–1781), and Molotov (Молотов) (1940–1957), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Perm Krai, Russia. The city is located on t ...

. In 2005 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Politics of

Perm State University Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, , romanised: , ) or PSU, PSNRU (russian: ПГУ, , ro ...

(PSU). In 2006 he led an expedition of the PSU on excavations in

Chersonesos Chersonesus ( grc, Χερσόνησος, Khersónēsos; la, Chersonesus; modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсоне́с, ''Khersones''; also rendered as ''Chersonese'', ''Chersonesos'', contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson Χερσών; ...

on the shore of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

. In 2006, he trained at

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. In the same place, in 2012, he gave a series of lectures on the situation in the Russian media. In 2008, with Alena Danilkina, he opened a business agency ''Workshop'', specializing in

public relations Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. P ...

for culture and business. In early 2010, together with the Russian collector

Marat Gelman Marat Aleksandrovich GelmanOfficial (in the passport) Latin-graphics spelling of his last name is Guelman as in French. (russian: Марат Александрович Гельман; born 24 December 1960) is a Russian collector, gallerist, a ...

and the Russian journalist , he founded the Internet publication ''Sol'' and became its editor-in-chief. The newspaper closed in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, Kolpakov lived in Moscow and was the head of the special correspondents department in the

Lenta.ru ''Lenta.ru'' (russian: Лента.Ру; stylised as LƐNTA.RU) is a Russian-language online newspaper. Based in Moscow, it is owned by Rambler Media Group. In 2013, the Alexander Mamut-owned companies "SUP Media" and "Rambler-Afisha" merged to ...

online media. In October 2014 he moved to

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, Latvia to become the deputy editor-in-chief of the media project ''

''. In 2016, the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Meduza'', former editor of Lenta.ru,

Galina Timchenko Galina Viktorovna Timchenko ( rus, link=no, Гали́на Ви́кторовна Ти́мченко; born 8 May 1962) is a Russian journalist and the executive editor and owner of ''Meduza' Early life and education Timchenko was born in Moscow ...

, appointed Kolpakov to the position of editor-in-chief, remaining the general director of the publication. In November 2018, Kolpakov left ''Meduza'' by his own decision. In 2017, Kolpakov was a

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