Osman Pashayev ( crh, Osman Paşayev, uk, Осман Пашаєв, russian: Осман Пашаев, born 23 January 1977 in Angren) is Crimean Tatar journalist and producer.

Biography

Pashayev was born in Uzbekistan in Crimean Tatar family. His grandparents were deported from Crimea by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

along with the entire Crimean Tatar nation in 1944. Since 1980 he lived in the Ukrainian city of

Henichesk Henichesk ( uk, Гені́чеськ, Heniches’k, ; rus, links=on, Гени́ческ, r=Genichesk, p=ɡʲɪˈnʲit͡ɕɪsk) is a port city along the Sea of Azov in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre ...

and since 1989 moved to

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. Pashayev studied in

Kyiv National Economic University The Kyiv National Economic University ( uk, Київський національний економічний університет імені Вадима Гетьмана, lit=Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University) is a self-govern ...

. First he worked as a news presenter on Crimean Tatar edition of state "Krym" TV-company, and later as a reporter there. In 2001 he moved to Kyiv. He worked with various TV-channels including

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, 5 Kanal, NTN, TVi. From 2011 to 2014 he worked on Crimean Tatar TV-channel

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in Simferopol. In spring 2013 he moved to

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office of ATR. In 2009 he was elected on chairman of "Mediafront" trade union which brings together 158 workers of four national Ukrainian channels (STB,

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, Ukrayina,

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). During 2014 Crimean crisis he founded Crimean Open Channel with purpose of covering events in occupied Crimea by live streams from hot spots and streets, blitz-interviews with random citizens and studio interviews with politicians and activists. In the beginning the project was joined by Zenife Seydametova, Muslim Umerov, Ridvan Pashayev and Lyuman Abdullayev. Pashayev did reports on the Gezi protests, Ukrainian revolution and Crimean crisis as well as investigations concerning Ukrainian officials including

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

and

Valentyna Semeniuk Valentyna Petrivna Semenyuk-Samsonenko ( uk, Валентина Петрівна Семенюк-Самсоненко; 4 June 1957 – 27 August 2014) was a Ukrainian politician. The body of Semenyuk-Samsonenko was found with firearms wound to hea ...

. Crimean Tatar newspaper Avdet recognized him one of the 20 most influential Crimean Tatars as of 2009.20 наиболее влиятельных крымских татар
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pashayev, Osman 1977 births Kyiv National Economic University alumni Ukrainian journalists Crimean Tatar journalists Uzbekistani people of Crimean Tatar descent Crimean Tatar television personalities Uzbekistani television presenters Uzbekistani emigrants to Ukraine Living people People from Angren, Uzbekistan ATR (TV channel) people Ukrainian expatriates in Turkey Ukrainian exiles of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation