14 Facts About Sergey Parkhomenko

Sergey Borisovich Parkhomenko is a Russian publisher, journalist, opposition activist and political commentator.

In 1996, Sergey Parkhomenko founded Russia's first news magazine Itogi, which was published in close cooperation with American weekly Newsweek.

Sergey Parkhomenko was the chief editor of the magazine until 2001, when the new owner fired the magazine's entire team.

Sergey Parkhomenko then launched a new news magazine, Yezhenedelnyi Zhournal, and was its editor-in-chief until 2003.

From 2004 to 2009, Sergey Parkhomenko successively headed several publishing houses.

Since 2003, Sergey Parkhomenko has hosted the political talk show Sut' Sobytiy, which aired on the radio station Echo of Moscow.

In 2022, after the station was closed, Sergey Parkhomenko continued to work on his own YouTube channel and in programs of his colleagues on other independent YouTube channels.

Sergey Parkhomenko is known as an author or participant of various civic initiatives.

Sergey Parkhomenko is the author of the idea and the name of the public movement "Society of Blue Buckets" that fights against the privileged position of road vehicles with flashing lights ; Sergey Parkhomenko was an organizer of the society's first public events in spring 2010.

Since 2013, Sergey Parkhomenko is one of the founders and an active popularizer of a voluntary networking community Dissernet whose activity aimed at purification of the Russian science from plagiarism, especially among Doctoral and post-Doctoral dissertations in Russia.

Sergey Parkhomenko is one of the initiators of the project Last Address that started in 2014.

In May 2014 S Parkhomenko was elected a member of the Russian PEN Center, the Russian branch of the PEN International.

In January 2017 he was expelled from the group for "provocative activity"; Sergey Parkhomenko claimed he was expelled for criticizing the Russian PEN Center for failing to support imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.

In 2016, Sergey Parkhomenko became a co-founder and jury member of the independent award in the field of professional journalism Redkollegia, established by the charitable foundation "Sreda Foundation" to support free professional journalism in Russia.