Alexei venediktov biography of george washington

  • The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a discussion with one of Russia's preeminent and most insightful journalists, Alexei Venediktov.
  • In our column Viewpoint, we present an interview with Alexei Venediktov, Editor-in-Chief of radio station Echo of Moscow, about Internet technologies in radio.
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    Russia's new history textbook reinforces the Kremlin's narrative on the war in Ukraine

    An entire chapter of the book, intended for 10th and 11th grade high school students, is devoted to the 'special military operation.'

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    At the start of the new school year, which in Russia is scheduled every year on September 1, students in 10th and 11th grade will be provided with a new history textbook. Entitled History of Russia, from to the Beginning of the 21st Century, the book develops a highly biased vision of the most recent events, giving pride of place to the narrative shaped in recent years by the Kremlin. A symbolic detail: The cover features a photograph of the Crimean bridge, inaugurated in May by President Vladimir Putin, four years after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula.

    Hastily written in five months, the new textbook, with its strong propaganda overtones, speaks volumes about the authorities' desire to maintain control over

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    Echo of Moscow’s Alexei Venediktov on the station’s closure, press freedom in Russia, and the evolution of Putin’s propaganda

    Before the war in Ukraine began, Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy) was one of the last remaining independent press outlets in Russia. On March 1st, the radio station was taken off air bygd Roskomnadzor – the country’s Federal Service for the Supervision of Communications, upplysning Technology and Mass Media. 

    By March 3rd, the company’s Board of Directors had voted to close the station and its accompanying platforms down, and a day later, Putin’s new law preventing truthful reporting on the war in Ukraine came into play.  

    Here, the 31yr old outlet’s only ever serving Editor-in-Chief, Alexei Venediktov, talks to us about press freedom in the country, fake news, and importantly also provides his konto of the series of events that led to the station’s closure. 

    But before we get into any of that, some historic context:

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