Censorship, Propaganda and Fake News: The Troika of Vladimir Putin

Censorship, Propaganda and Fake News: The Troika of Vladimir Putin
Speaker
Roman Badanin
Date
Fri January 28th 2022, 1:00 - 2:00pm
Event Sponsor
CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Location
This is an in-person event open to members of the Stanford community who must present their Stanford ID at the door at Encina Commons 123

Roman Badanin is founder and editor-in-chief of Agentstvo (The Agency, in English), a collaboration of journalists who have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country. Badanin started The Agency in the summer of 2021, after Russian authorities outlawed Proekt (The Project in English), the non-profit investigative news organization he founded in 2018. The Kremlin declared Proekt an “undesirable” organization, which meant that Badanin, his colleagues and anyone who had dealings with Proekt, including sources, could face criminal prosecution. Over the previous three years, Badanin had led his team in publishing a series of investigations into secret financial ties between major business interests and top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and his family. The Proekt has been recognized with several Russian and international journalism awards.  

Badanin has been working as a journalist in leading independent Russian news organizations for 20 years. He previously was a deputy editor-in-chief at Gazeta.Ru, editor-in-chief at Forbes Digital (Russia), RBC news agency, and editor of Dozhd (TV Rain), an independent Russian TV channel. Badanin created the Moscow-based Proekt during his 2018 JSK Fellowship, modeling it after the nonprofit U.S. investigative news outlet, ProPublica. It was Russia’s first nonprofit news organization.

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