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Galina Timchenko
Editor-in-Chief
Ivan Kolpakov
Editorial Director
Tatiana Ershova
First Deputy Chief Editor
Tatyana Lysova
Deputy Chief Editor and News Desk Director
Dmitry Tomilov
Newsroom Editors
Alexander Baklanov
Olga Korelina
Grigory Levchenko
Tatyana Pashkova
Olesya Samborskaya
Alexander Filimonov
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Pyotr Lokhov
Special Correspondents
Irina Kravtsova
Pavel Merzlikin
Andrey Pertsev
Farida Rustamova
Kristina Safonova
Anastasia Yakoreva
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Alexey Kovalev
Investigative Reporting Correspondents
Ivan Golunov
Maxim Solopov
Liliya Yapparov
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Dmitry Kartsev
“Analysis” Editors
Denis Dmitriev
Dmitry Kuznets
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Maxim Ivanov
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Yuri Saprykin
“Culture” Director
Nataliya Gredina
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Alexander Ershov
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Darya Sarkisyan
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Maria Kolomychenko
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Alexander Sadikov
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Anna Chesova
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Boris Goryachev
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Dmitry Averenkov
Vladislav Alfimov
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Ilya Borisov
Alexey Butskikh
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Alexey Prilepskiy
Andrey Skopintsev
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Kevin Rothrock
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Eilish Hart
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Hilah Kohen
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