Journalist for Important Stories, member of the “Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project” (OCCRP). She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (2017) for her research in collaboration with journalists from the “International Consortium of Investigative Journalism” (ICIJ) on the Panama Papers. She worked in the news department of “Autoradio,” in the department of politics “Gazeta,” in the newspaper “Vzglyad,” in “Marker,” “The Village.” In November 2020, Olesya Shmagun published an article about the corruption of medical officials in the Rostov region for “Important stories.” Participated in the project “Kassandra” in collaboration with 400 other journalists in 2020.
Name
Shmagun Olesya Valentinovna
Field of activity
Media
Status
“Foreign agent” (individual media)
Reason for recognition
"The Vazhnye Istorii" (where Olesya works) published an investigation about Kirill Shamalov, Putin's alleged son-in-law, offshore deals with "friends of the president," and the purchase of a stake in the Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli for Rosneft (after that, Rosneft sued and won the case against "Vazhnye Istorii".)
Year of recognition
2021
Status description
Since 2019, this register includes those individuals who, in the opinion of the Russian government:
a) publicly disseminate messages and materials created by a media-foreign agent, or participate in the creation of such materials,
b) receive foreign funding (money or property).
A person may be declared “foreign agent” if he/she reposts materials from a foreign media outlet, writes materials for it, publishes joint materials (for example, journalistic investigations), provides some data, prepares...
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