Oleg Kashin
Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin (Russian Олег Владимирович Кашин, English Oleg Kashin transcription, . Born June 17, 1980 in Kaliningrad ) is a Russian investigative journalist. He is one of the most famous journalists of the Kommersant and is always critical defects with democracy in Russia apart. November 6, 2010 Kashin was attacked outside his home in Moscow by unknown and is seriously injured.
Life
Oleg Kashin was born in Kaliningrad, his father was an engineer and his mother a doctor. In high school, Kashin organized in 1990 a school strike, which failed, however.
His studies at the State Baltic fleets Academy he finished in 2001 with a degree in marine navigation. Then he stabbed with the Russian sail training ship Krusenstern twice in the lake and took so successful as a navigator in international regattas.
Journalistic work
From August 2001 to May 2003 Oleg Kashin wrote for the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Kaliningrad, where he specialized in exclusive interviews. Kashin interviewed by director James Cameron about the philosopher Alexander Zinoviev and the political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky up to the writers Boris Akunin and Vladimir Sorokin many prominent personalities.
In June 2003, Kashin moved to Moscow, where he worked as a writer for the daily newspaper Kommersant that Russia has the reputation of a serious and critical source of information. When Kommersant Kashin is developed, inter alia, an expert on the controversial youth organizations of the ruling party. As one of the most famous journalists of the Kommersant Oleg Kashin sat generally critically with defects democracy in Russia.
In September 2005, Kashin left the Kommersant temporarily and wrote for various publications, including the daily newspaper Izvestia and for the tabloid Twoi the ( "Your day "). With Maria Gaidar, the daughter of former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, he produced the show Tschornoje i Beloje ( " Black and White " ) in the TV channel O2TV.
From April 2007 to 2009 Kashin was a regular writer and deputy editor of the Russian magazine Russkaya Zhizn ( "Russian Life ").
In 2009 Oleg Kashin returned to Kommersant. Kashin wrote recently about the controversial project for building a highway for which a forest near Moscow to be cut down. In this controversy at the end of 2008 was the journalist Mikhail Beketov, who had campaigned for the preservation of the forest, was critically injured by unknown persons.
Oleg Kashin also exposed in public. He is one of the most prolific Russian Twitter users, alone on the day before the attack on him on 5 November 2010 Kashin wrote 49 tweets (short messages) on Twitter. His posts on Twitter and in his LiveJournal blog are also referred to by fellow journalists as provocative.
In October 2010, the press service of the President Oleg Kashin refused accreditation for an event with Medvedev on the grounds that Kashin was arrested at unsanctioned "March of Dissenten " in spring 2007 and then put on a black list of the Federal Security Service FSB. The editors of the Kommersant described this refusal as unlawful.
On October 13, 2011 Oleg Kashin was awarded together with the Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukaddous and the German television reporter Stefan Buchen with the price for the freedom and future of the media of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig.
Robbery from November 6, 2010
Oleg Kashin was brutally beaten 6 November 2010 at his home in Moscow of two unknowns. The camouflaged with bouquets attacker lurking Kashin on at night and broke his jaw, among other things, both legs and hands. According to initial investigations Kashin also suffered severe internal injuries. A video recording of the surveillance camera before Kaschins house shows the brutality with which the perpetrators and how targeted the journalists with solid bars the legs and hands broke.
Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika initiated an investigation of attempted murder. Civil rights and the Association of Journalists and the human rights organization Amnesty International appeared shocked and called for a speedy resolution. President Dmitry Medvedev said via Twitter immediately, prosecutor's office and the Interior Ministry should inform the attack on the journalists: " The criminals must be punished. "
Family
Since December 2006, Oleg Kashin is married to the Kommersant journalist Yevgenia Milowa.
Publications
- '' Roissja Wperde '', Ad Marginem Press, Moscow, 2010, ISBN 978-5-91103-061-2. In German translation of Franziska dwarf: '' It precedes '', Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03383-5.