About Meduza

Every day, we bring you the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of sources in Russia and across the former Soviet Union. Our team includes some of Russia’s top professionals in news and reporting. We value our independence and strive to be a reliable, trusted outlet for verified, unbiased information about Russia and the former Soviet Union, as well as a source for sharp insights about one of the world’s most enigmatic regions.

So who works here?

Meduza in English

Managing Editor

Kevin Rothrock

News Editor

Eilish Hart

Features Editor

Hilah Kohen

Meduza

CEO

Galina Timchenko

Editorial Director

Tatiana Ershova

Editor-in-Chief

Ivan Kolpakov

Deputy Chief Editor

Dmitry Tomilov

Innovation Director

Sultan Suleimanov

Head of Special Correspondents

Pyotr Lokhov

Head of Investigative Reporting

Alexey Kovalev

Investigative Reporting Correspondents

Ivan Golunov

Maxim Solopov

Liliya Yapparov

Special Correspondents

Irina Kravtsova

Pavel Merzlikin

Andrey Pertsev

Kristina Safonova

Sasha Sulim

Anastasia Yakoreva

Newsroom Editors

Alexander Baklanov

Dmitry Kartsev

Olga Korelina

Grigory Levchenko

Olesya Samborskaya

Alexander Filimonov

Photo Director

Valeriy Gorokhov

“Games” Director

Yuri Saprykin

“Culture” Director

Nataliya Gredina

“Like It or Not” Director

Maxim Ivanov

“Science” Director

Alexander Ershov

“Analysis” Director

Vladimir Tsybulsky

“Analysis” Editors

Denis Dmitriev

Dmitry Kuznets

Darya Sarkisyan

Photo Editors

Alexandra Gorokhova

Michael Stavtsev

Art Director

Anastasiya Yarovaya

“Output” Editors

Dmitry Andreyev

Darya Nevkrytaya

Podcast Chief Producer

Alexander Sadikov

Podcast Chief Editor

Anna Chesova

Podcast Editor

Viktor Davydov

Designers

Anastasiya Grigorieva

Yarik Maksimov

Video Designer

Andrey Pershin

Technical Director

Boris Goryachev

Technology Team

Dmitry Averenkov

Vladislav Alfimov

Kirill Balyasnikov

Ilya Borisov

Anton Byrna

Dmitry Zakharov

Alexey Prilepskiy

Andrey Skopintsev