1. Roman Badanin is the founder and editor in chief of the Proekt media outlet, former digital platform editor in chief of Forbes Russia, former editor in chief of the Dozhd TV channel and the RBK news agency.
12 Facts About Roman Badanin
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Roman Badanin graduated from the Faculty of History, Moscow State University.
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In 1996, Roman Badanin began to work at the Izvestia newspaper.
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Two weeks before the 2011 Russian legislative election, the newspaper received an order to place an advertisement for the ruling political party United Russia, and Roman Badanin was against it, because the advertisement required the newspaper to remove existing banners of the Movement for Defence of Voters' Rights "Golos" and the "Violations map" project, which tracked violations in the elections and in the voting results.
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On 14 October 2013, it became known that Roman Badanin was appointed executive director of the Internet Projects Service of the Interfax news agency.
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Roman Badanin was one of the authors of the RBK's investigation about one of the daughters of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova, and her then husband Kirill Shamalov.
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On 13 May 2016, Roman Badanin quit due to pressure from Russian officials.
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On 25 July 2016, Roman Badanin was appointed editor in chief of the Dozhd TV channel.
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Roman Badanin was one of the authors of Dozhd's reportage about the Russian businessman and criminal Ilya Traber, after which a criminal libel case was initiated.
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In 2017, Badanin moved to the United States to study at Stanford University under the programme John S Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.
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Proekt was closed in 2021 after being listed as an undesirable organization, and Roman Badanin left Russia for his safety.
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Roman Badanin is a 2022 JSK Senior International Fellow at Stanford University.