Media workers

PUSHKOV Alexey Konstantinovich (b. 1954) is a Russian politician and TV presenter. Born into a Soviet diplomat family in China, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1976. After graduation, he worked at the UN office in Geneva.

PUCHKOV Dmitry Yuryevich (b. 1961 in Kirovograd) grew up in Leningrad and studied at the Leningrad College of Aviation Instrumentation and Automation, which he did not graduate from. From 1980 to 1982, he served in the Soviet Army.

REMESLO Ilya Borisovich (b. 1983 in Nalchik) graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 2005.

Ryabtseva Olesya (Lesya) was born on July 28, 1991, in Volgograd. In the past, she worked for Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station as a guest producer and assistant to the editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov.

MIKHEEV Sergei Alexandrovich (b. 1967 in Moscow) worked at the Air Force Engineering Academy in 1987–1994.

PROKOPENKO Igor Stanislavovich (b. 1965) graduated from the Tver Suvorov Military School, served in the Air Defense Forces, and then graduated from the Donetsk Higher Military-Political School of Engineering and Signal Corps as a political instructor.

PROKHANOV Alexader Andreyevich (b. 1938 in Tbilisi) graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1960. He has been engaged in literary work since 1959. In 1968, he became a journalist for the Literary Newspaper, which was considered “liberal” by Soviet standards, but not in covering foreign policy issues.

Pridybaylo Konstantin, Russian and Belarusian journalist and media manager. An employee of the government-owned TV channel RT, one of the hosts of the RT-owned YouTube channel “Beautiful Russia boo-boo-boo,” aimed at deliberately defaming the opposition to the Putin regime. He is known for calling for the murder of active members of the Belarusian opposition, in particular, the captured co-founder of the NEXTA resource Roman Protasevich.

Journalist and war correspondent. An employee of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) in Belgium, chief of its office in Brussels. Citizen of Russia and Belgium. She became famous for filming a story about “Alexei Navalny’s villa in Germany.” After filming a disinformation story, she received the Golden Pen of Russia award.

POPOV Evgeny Georgievich (b. 1978 in Vladivostok) graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern State University in 2000.