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TRANSLATING WORLDS Explorations on Foreign Reporting in Times of Crisis n-ost media conference in Berlin 19-21 November 2015 #tw_15 >> LIST OF PARTICIPANTS // Adil Nurmakov Lecturer and freelance journalism, Almaty Adil Nurmakov is teaching journalism at the Department of media and communications in KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), and also working as a regional editor for Central Asia with the Digital. Report, a website about ICT policies in Eurasia. // Adrian Plesca Blogger and Project Manager, Chișinău Adrian Plesca is a young blogger from Chișinău, Moldova and the general coordinator of the biggest urban project there. He is the vice president of the European Pupil's Association, working in the Municipality and Ministry of Youth and Sport. // Aija Bley Photographer, Riga Aija Bley is a creative photographer with seven years of professional experience in documentary photography. Storytelling on women’s lives in the world is her most important professional calling and dedication. // Alena Baltrukevich Blogger and lawyer, Minsk Alena Baltrukevich is a practitioner lawyer. She raised controversial and significant topics of Belarusian legislation in her blog. Its materials are dedicated mostly to questions of Labour and Civil law. The aim of her work is increasing awareness of legislation in Belarusian society and making people discuss problems and think about alternative ways to solve it. Motto of her blog is “Think, speak and argue”. >> Navigation: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
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TRANSLATING WORLDS

Explorations on Foreign Reporting in Times of Crisis

n-ost media conference in Berlin

19-21 November 2015

#tw_15

>> LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

// Adil Nurmakov

Lecturer and freelance journalism, Almaty

Adil Nurmakov is teaching journalism at the Department of media and

communications in KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), and also working as a

regional editor for Central Asia with the Digital. Report, a website about ICT

policies in Eurasia.

// Adrian Plesca

Blogger and Project Manager, Chișinău

Adrian Plesca is a young blogger from Chișinău, Moldova and the general

coordinator of the biggest urban project there. He is the vice president of the

European Pupil's Association, working in the Municipality and Ministry of Youth

and Sport.

// Aija Bley

Photographer, Riga

Aija Bley is a creative photographer with seven years of professional experience in

documentary photography. Storytelling on women’s lives in the world is her most

important professional calling and dedication.

// Alena Baltrukevich

Blogger and lawyer, Minsk

Alena Baltrukevich is a practitioner lawyer. She raised controversial and

significant topics of Belarusian legislation in her blog. Its materials are dedicated

mostly to questions of Labour and Civil law. The aim of her work is increasing

awareness of legislation in Belarusian society and making people discuss

problems and think about alternative ways to solve it. Motto of her blog is –

“Think, speak and argue”.

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// Alexandra Reinig

Intern euro|topics, n-ost, Berlin

Alexandra Reinig is an intern at euro|topics since September 2015. She studies

Sociology in Bielefeld. During her studies she spent time in Russia and Finland.

// Amalia Oganjanyan

Lecturer and freelance journalist (Deutsche Welle), Tbilisi

Amalia Oganjanyan works as lecturer at the Mass Communication Department of

the Tbilisi State University (TSU), as correspondent for the Deutsche Welle-

Russian, and as Georgian project manager for the Deutsche Welle Academy.

Since September 2014, a PhD student (Mass Communication Department, TSU).

She has a MA in International Media Studies from the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

University. Since 2003 she has been working for Georgian, German, Russian, and

Armenian media. She authored the book "The August War in Georgia: Foreign

Media Coverage" (Diplomica: Hamburg, 2012).

// Anastasiia Magazova

Freelance correspondent (DW, Die Tageszeitung), Kyiv

Anastasiia Magazova works as correspondent for Deutsche Welle covering

Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus and is correspondent for Die Tageszeitung.

// Andrea Dernbach

Political reporter, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

Andrea Dernbach studied German language and literature studies and history in

Mainz and Freiburg. After attending Henri- Nannen-School in Hamburg she was

correspondent in Bonn, senior news editor of Badische Zeitung and Stuttgarter

Zeitung and senior politics editor of Der Tagesspiegel. Since 2012 she is political

reporter at Der Tagesspiegel. Her main interests are migragtion, civil rights,

gender policy and diversity.

// Andreas Bock

Head of euro|topics editorial desk, n-ost, Berlin

Andreas Bock is senior editor for the euro|topics press review. Before coming to

n-ost, Andreas spent three years working as a cultural manager at the Institute for

Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and as a project manager for MitOst in Budapest.

He studied cultural studies and social studies at the European University Viadrina

Frankfurt (Oder), Berlin's Free University and the University of California,

Berkeley, and believes that Europe's future lies in the regions.

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// Andrew Connelly

Freelance correspondent (The Independent, Vice News), London

Andrew Connelly is a freelance journalist covering politics in Europe and its

neighbours for various international print, online and radio media with a special

focus on the UK, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and the current refugees

exodus into Europe. @connellyandrew

// Angela Phillips

Professor in Journalism, Goldsmiths, University of London, London

Angela Phillips is a Professor in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London.

She ran the journalism courses at Goldsmiths for a number of years and now

researches and lectures on the subject of journalism. Her most recent book is

“Journalism in Context” (Routledge) which was written for students of journalism

practice. Currently she is involved in research into audience behaviour,

particularly the way in which young people find and use news today.

// Ani Hovhannisyan

Editor, Hetq, Yerewan

Ani Hovhannisyan is a multimedia journalist at "Investigative Journalists of

Armenia" NGO, which publishes Hetq Online Newspaper. She works at Hetq since

2009 firstly as blogger and later as investigative multimedia skilled journalist. She

is very interested in data journalism, data visualization and cross-border

investigations.

// Anna Romandash

Freelance journalist and blogger, Kyiv

Anna Romandash is a freelance journalist who writes for a media watch platform

Mediasapiens as well as for the variety of Ukrainian and international media.

Besides, she is member of the editorial team of the Orange Magazine, funded by

the Council of Europe. She studies Corporate Communications at the Danish

School of Media and Journalism and works on her M.A. in Media Communications

at Ukrainian Catholic University.

// Anna Zekria

Producer and agent, Moscow

Anna Zerika is a producer and agent. In 2005 she joined Photographer.ru

representing Russian artists worldwide and international agencies including

Magnum Photos within Russia, becoming its managing director in 2008. In 2011

she founded Salt Images agency. She joined Screen Projects in 2014. She curated

a number exhibitions (selected) Stories of Life:Best of multimedia journalism

2013, Russian contemporary photography at Dali International festival 2013. Anna

served as a nominator and jury member worldwide, including the World Press

Photo Multimedia contest 2012.

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// Annette Streicher

Reporter and editor (ZDF), Berlin

Annette Streicher is a Berlin-based editor and reporter. She works with public

broadcaster ZDF, Deutsche Welle and print media. Annette has a M.A.

International Journalism, with focus on documentary. Studies in political science,

sociology and dramatic art at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Stockholm

University, University of Westminster. She worked for Süddeutsche Zeitung, dpa,

N24 and ZDF London and did field research in Eastern European countries such as

Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Bosnia. She received a travel writer’s grant for

Israel/Palestinian territories in 2010/2015 and was trained picture editor at Berlin-

based photo agency school Ostkreuz.

// Annika Gläser

Project coordinator, n-vestigate, n-ost, Berlin

Annika Gläser joined n-ost in August 2015 as a project coordinator for the

investigative network “n-vestigate”. From 2008 to 2012 she was project manager

and member of the board at the German Youthpress. Until 2015 she studied

cultural sciences at Viadrina University in Frankfurt.

// Arthur Bondar

Photographer, Moscow

Arthur Bondar is a freelance photographer and shoots his personal documentary

projects. He studied photography at New York University and was a participant of

the Eddie Adams Workshop and NOOR-Nikon Masterclass. Arthur was awarded

and granted with Magnum Emergency Fund, The Documentary Project Fund,

National Geographic Grant and the Best Photographer of the Year in Ukraine. His

projects were widely exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings. He is

author of the books “Signatures of War” and “Barricade”.

Nowadays Arthur is a participant of VII Photo Agency Mentor Program.

// Arzu Geybullayeva

Freelance correspondent, Istanbul

Arzu Geybullayeva is a freelance writer born and raised in Azerbaijan. Since 2008,

she has been writing as a blogger, correspondent and also doing some analyst

work on the side with her main focus on Azerbaijan. Currently she is based in

Istanbul where she continues focusing on Azerbaijan exposing human rights

violations and stories that often don't get attention in international media. In the

past seven years, she has written numerous articles, contributed to a number of

international reports and continues to speak at international events on Azerbaijan

policies.

// Bektour Iskender

Co-founder kloop.kg, Bishkek

Bektour Iskender is one of the founders of Kloop.kg news website and Kloop

Journalism School. Kloop.kg is one of the leading news outlets in Kyrgyzstan

today, famous for its coverage of politics, human rights, and civil society, and also

for introducing innovative methods of telling news by using live streaming and

effectively exploiting social media.It is also one of the few websites in the country

that has started doing exclusive reporting about events happening outside

Kyrgyzstan, with the war in Ukraine being the most famous example of such

coverage.

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// Carmen Eller

Freelance journalist (Zeit Online, Cicero, NZZ), Berlin

Carmen Eller works as an author and journalist in Berlin for Zeit Online, Neue

Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt, Spiegel Geschichte and others. Her main focus is

culture, especially literature from Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel and the United

States. Before moving to Berlin she worked several years as editor and reporter in

Moscow and spent two years as Robert Bosch Fellow in Romania. 2010 Herder

published her book “Ein Jahr in Moskau. Reise in den Alltag“.

// Cecilia Andrea Bacci

Blogger, Milan

Cecilia Andrea Bacci is a 25-year-old journalist based in Milan. Ten years ago

someone put a camera in her hand so she is currently working as a videomaker

deeply in love with multimedia storytelling. She likes to report on social

movement and social issues.

// Christian Spahr

Director, Media Program South East Europe, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung,

Sofia

Studied at Dresden University of Technology (M.A. in linguistics and

communication studies). Alumnus of the KAS School of Journalism. Afterwards

business editor at Sächsische Zeitung daily. 2006-12 Spokesperson at the German

high-tech association BITKOM and editor of studies on digital society. Since 2012

Director of the Media Program South East Europe of the Konrad-Adenauer-

Stiftung (KAS); focus of work: support of quality journalism and modern political

communication. Co-founder and board member of the South East Europe Public

Sector Communication Association (SEECOM). Co-host of the South East Europe

Media Forum (SEEMF). Speaker at Club of Venice plenary meetings,

Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland (Leipzig) and other media conferences in

Germany and abroad.

// Christiane Käsgen

Program officer, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart

Christiane Käsgen has been program officer at the Robert Bosch Stiftung since

2011. Her responsibilities in the program area “International Relations Europe and

its Neighbours” include media and journalism programs involving particulary

Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. She previously worked in Berlin at

InWEnt's International Institute for Journalism, where she developed and

organized dialogue and further training programs for journalists from Asia, Africa

and the Middle East with a focus upon online journalism and media ethics. From

2005 to 2008, she developed and implemented numerous culture and education

projects in Morocco supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Goethe-

Institut.

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// Chrsitina Hebel

Political editor, Spiegel Online, Hamburg

// Dario Bosio

Photographer, Sulaymaniyah

Dario Bosio is an independent photography professional. He co-founded the

PanAut Collective in 2012 to promote dialogue and exploration around visual

storytelling. He worked at NOOR Images and 10b Photography before starting

freelancing. Darios work as a photographer focuses on international social issues

while questioning the medium of photography itself and the ways in which it

affects our lives. Since March 2015 he has been based in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq,

where he was working as photo-editor and project manager at the Metrography

photo agency. He is one of the two curators of the project “Map of

Displacement”.

// Daya Thussu

Professor of International Communication, University of Westmisnter,

London

Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of

Westminster in London. Author or editor of 17 books, among his key publications

are: “Mapping BRICS Media”; “Communicating India’s Soft Power”; “Media and

Terrorism”; “Internationalizing Media Studies”; “News as Entertainment: The Rise

of Global Infotainment”; “Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow”;

“International Communication - Continuity and Change”, third edition; and

“Electronic Empires”. He is the Managing Editor of the journal Global Media and

Communication.

// Dimiter Muftieff

Freelance correspondent, Sofia

Dimiter Muftieff lives and works in Bulgaria and Macedonia as freelancing author

and producer for several German media.

// Dirk Auer

Freelance correspondent (Deutschlandfunk), Belgrade

Dirk Auer has been living and working in Southeastern Europe since 2005. He is a

freelance correspondent for German media – first based in Sofia, now in

Belgrade. His main fields of interest are: politics, society, migration and

minorities.

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// Dmytro Korol

Editor (Insider), Kyiv

Dmytro Korol is a journalist from Ukraine. He works in the economic department

of the Ukrainian online-media Insider and his main task is to prepare anti-

corruption investigations. Prior to joining Insider he was correspondent for the

news agency UNIAN and wrote investigations for Corruptua. Furthermore, he

writes analytical and political articles about revolutions, reforms, war and all

significant events Ukraine passed through for the last two years.

// Donald Weber

Photographer and author, Amsterdam

Donald Weber is the author of three photography books. Interrogations, about

post-Soviet authority in Ukraine and Russia, has gone on to much acclaim; it was

selected to be included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s seminal “The

Photobook: A History, Volume III.” He is the recipient of numerous awards and

fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize and two

World Press Photo Awards.

Currently Don is working on his next project, War Sand, about historic sacrifice,

and the meaning of war in our modern world. He is a member of the acclaimed VII

Photo.

// Dóra Diseri

Freelance journalist (Hungarian Public Service), Berlin

Dóra Diseri is a Hungarian freelance journalist based in Berlin and EJF-fellow at

the International Center for Journalism of the Freie Universität Berlin. She

received her M.A. degree at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in 2011 in

cultural and media studies. Between 2008 and 2015 Dóra worked as a reporter for

the Hungarian Public Television in the news department. Currently she is working

on her research project "The Hungarian Exodus: Fleeing Orbán's country. Or:

What has become of Europe's 'happiest barack'?"

// Dörthe Ziemer

Freelance journalist (euro|topics, Lausitzer Rundschau, Märkische Allgemeine,

Berliner Zeitung), Groß Köris

Dörthe Ziemer studied Russian studies, German studies and East European

history in Berlin and Moscow. After a traineeship at the Lausitzer Rundschau and

an IJP scholarship in Russia, she worked for three years as a journalist in Lusatia.

This was followed by two years working as an editor and project manager at n-ost

in Berlin. She now works as a freelance project editor and author. She is

euro|topics correspondent in Germany.

// Ekaterina Garnik

Blogger, Yekaterinburg

Ekaterina Garnik has been working in the field of cultural affairs as an arts

manager, PR consultant, new media adviser, cultural journalist and curator for 10

years. She has participated in more that 50 projects during these years. She is

convinced that during period of social and economical challenges, a human being

still needs culture to cope with troubles, to communicate and understand people

of other cultures. She runs her blog (www.cultpr.ru), puts on the air online video

program, and participates in different social activities.

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// Elena Vasileva

Blogger and trainer, Moscow

Elena Vasileva is a journalist and creativity coach from Moscow (Russia). Her

project Woman on Top (www.womanontop.ru) is about women changing the

world for the better. She is focused on positive things like self-growth, developing

creativity, finding opportunities and helping people make their dreams come

true. Furthermore she conducts workshops and trainings for writers, bloggers and

creative people of all kinds.

// Fabian Weiss

Photographer, Tallinn

Fabian Weiss is a photographer and visual storyteller based in Estonia and

member of the German photo agency LAIF. His projects explore cultural changes

in personal structures within a broader assessment of the surrounding culture.

Fabian‘s work has been honoured by several international awards and his

photographic essays have been exhibited internationally and published in

numerous media including GEO, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and The New York Times

amongst others.

Weiss works in Germany, the Baltics and further East.

// Florian Bachmeier

Photographer, Munich

Florian Bachmeier studied photography in Pamplona, Spain, and History at LMU

of Munich. He is working as a freelance photographer, represented by n-ost. In

2013 and 2014 he has been working on the book “The White Death. Tuberculosis

in Moldova” and on his project about “The Black Sea”.

// Franziska Hild

Assistant at Fink and Fuchs, Wiesbaden

Franziska Hild works for the PR agency Fink and Fuchs in Wiesbaden. She

supports the organizers in the Blogger Workshop Shift_Shape_Mobilze (who will

do the Live Blogging of TRANSLATING WORLDS) and coordinates especially

registration, catering and accommodation. So you can focus on the workshop and

have a relaxed time.

// Fruzsina Katona

Blogger at Átlátszó, Budapest

Fruzsina Katona works for Hungary's leading investigative journalism portal,

Átlátszó, where she contributes to the data journalism and the foreign affairs

blog. She is doing her M.A in media and communication. As a hobby, she

particiaptes in various projects in connection with human rights, but mostly about

media freedom.

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// Gemma Pörzgen

Freelance journalist, Berlin

Gemma Pörzgen is a freelancing journalist in Berlin, specialized in Foreign policy

and Eastern Europe. She studied political science and Slavic studies in Munich,

worked as news editor for the daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau and as a

foreign correspondent in Belgrade, Israel and the Palestinian territories. She

serves as a board member of the German section of Reporters Without Borders in

Berlin. More information: www.gemma-poerzgen.de

// George Damian Mocanu

Blogger, Chișinău

George Damian Mocanu is a journalist from Romania working in Chișinău,

Republic of Moldova, which he finds a challenging thing to do. He fell in love with

Chișinău, his adoptive city, and blogs about it, beside some other issues in which

he is interrested – like history, spirituality and politics.

// Hannes Jung

Photographer, Berlin

Hannes Jung is a freelance documentary photographer currently based in Berlin.

Born 1986 in northern Germany. He studied photography and photojournalism in

Munich, Hannover and Valencia. In 2011 he interned as staff photographer with

the german daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2012 he is represented by

Laif photo agency.

// Hanno Gundert

Managing director, n-ost, Berlin

Hanno Gundert is Managing Director of n-ost since 2010. Before that he did

project development, consulting and training for numerous clients from Eastern

and Western Europe. From 2002 to 2006 Hanno was manager of the German-

Russian Exchange in St. Petersburg. He studied history, politics and German

language and literature in Freiburg, Dublin and Berlin. After seven years in Russia

Hanno moved back to Berlin with his wife and two children in 2008.

// Hrant Galstyan

Editor, Hetq, Yerevan

Hrant Galstyan is a journalist from Armenia. He acquired a B.A. in journalism and

a M.A. in media studies from Yerevan State University. Now he is working at

Hetq, a media outlet of Investigative Journalists NGO. He is mostly interested in

media, culture, and technology.

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// Igor Burdyga

Reporter, Vesti.Reporter newsmagazine, Kyiv

Igor Burdyga was born in in Kherson, South Ukraine. At the local university he

studied economics and computer science. In 2007 he moved to Kyiv and began his

career as a journalist in Interfax-Ukraine news agency, where he covered mainly

business news. On the same subject he has worked for the daily newspaper

Kommersant since 2011. In 2013 he started to work in the Vesti.Reporter

magazine, where he thoroughly covered Euromaidan, military conflict in the East

of Ukraine and European refugee crisis in in 2015.

// Igor Zintulin

Head of strategy of Calvert 22 Foundation, London

Igor Zinatulin is head of strategy at London-based Calvert 22 Foundation and

former deputy editor of The Calvert Journal - an online guide to contemporary

culture from the new East with a small suitcase.

// Ilker Abay

Filmmaker, Berlin

Ilker Abay is a filmmaker, actor, and director. Seven years ago, he left Istanbul

and hitchhiked to Berlin with a small suitcase.

// Ingrid Brekke

Correspondent, Afterposten, Berlin

Ingrid Brekke is a Norwegian journalist, working in the foreign news department

of Aftenposten. She was a Berlin-correspondent in 2010-12, covering Central

Europe. She has also published a book about 1989 and about what happened

afterwards in Poland, Germany and Hungary.

// Irina Roldugina

Blogger, Moscow

Irina Roldugina is a trained historian, feminist, LGBT activist and violinist. She is

trying to keep her balance and is positive that whereas television and press are

under state control, the direct speech is the best way to communicate with

society and each other. Ira is usually blogging (via facebook) about protest actions

in Moscow, feminist and LGBT events and of course she is not the only one who

does it, but this is exactly the aim - to erode official discourse, which is extremely

strong in Russia, by a numerous examples of personal experiences and opinions.

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// Istvan Deak

Editor, mariustuca.ro, Brasov

Istvan Deak currently works for one of the most innovative independent media

projects of Romania in the past few months, mariustuca.ro, where he has

explored, written and edited on topics including national and international

politics, foreign affairs, sports, vulnerable groups, media and other topics relevant

for the civil society in Ronia.

As the editor at Jurnalul National Daily (2010-2015), he was a member of the

team, which consisted of reporters, editors, photographers and designers from

around the country who realized articles that reached high visit rates in the recent

years.

// Ivan Gayvanovych

Freelance journalist, Kyiv

Ivan Gayvanovych studied psychology and Ukrainian philology at the Mykolaiv

Pedagogical Institute as well as Public Administration at the National Academy of

Public Administration in Kyiv. He has worked as a reporter, editor, political

commentator and host for television (Mykolaiv Regional Television, Novyi Kanal),

online media (ForUm, Ukrainska Pravda, Eurasian Home etc.), and radio

(Deutsche Welle, Ukrainske Radio (The National Radio Company of Ukraine). He

is a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

// Ivan Yakovina

Analyst, Novoye Vremya/hromadske.tv, Lviv

Ivan Yakovina is a journalist and analyst focusing on international affairs.

// Jan Opielka

Freelance correspondent (n-ost, Berliner Zeitung), Gliwice

Jan Opielka is 38 and for ten years a freelance journalist working for print media in

Germany and Poland. He is mainly writing as a correspondent from Poland, the

topics are diverse, ranging from politics and society to economy and religion.

Especially he is interested in the correlation between social development and

politics, and the underlying historical or religious background.

// Jasna Zajcek

Freelance correspondent, Berlin

Jasna Zajcek has been working in the Middle East since 2004, where she met her

syrian colleague Yahya Alaous (s. below), so they reported together about

trafficked girls and women. In 2007, the Goethe Institute chose her to participate

in the project "Living Globality" where European and Arab opinion leaders

discussed and worked on the different cultural approaches of mass

communication. She has written two books and works as a freelance journalist in

Berlin, now mostly covering immigration.

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// Jeremy Druker

Executive director / editor in chief, Transitions, Prague

Jeremy Druker is the executive director and editor in chief at Transitions (TOL), a

Prague-based NGO with a mission to strengthen the professionalism,

independence, and impact of the news media in the post-communist countries of

Europe and Eurasia. He is also the founder of Press Start, a soon-to-be-launch

crowd funding site that will assist reporters in countries where freedom of the

media is severely limited. He has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2010. Jeremy is

also an adjunct professor at New York University's Prague campus. where he

teaches a course on social media.

// Joanna Itzek

Editor, n-ost, Berlin

Joanna Itzek is an editor at n-ost since December 2014. She is responsible for the

article service and ostpol.de. Previously, she worked as an editor and reporter for

taz, die tageszeitung. Joanna studied Cultural Studies and Journalism in Leipzig,

Oslo and Jerusalem. Her writing and research have taken her around the world

and brought her a grant from the International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP).

After the scholarship in Norway in 2013, Joanna worked as a correspondent from

the Nordic Countires. She is a guest lecturer at Knowmads International Business

School, Amsterdam.

// Judith Fiebelkorn

Editor euro|topics, n-ost, Berlin

Judith Fiebelkorn joined euro|topics as an editor in February 2014. She studied

politics and sociology in Hanover and then completed a cross-media training

course at the Protestant School of Journalism (EJS) in Berlin. Prior to her work at

euro|topics she was a news editor with the online editing team of Der

Tagesspiegel. She trained as an intern with the Frankfurter Rundschau, the

Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Bayerische Rundfunk, among other media

// Julia Vernersson

Operations manager, Sourcefabric, Berlin

Julia Vernesson currently works for Sourcefabric, as an Operations Manager. She

has a past in the NGO sector, where she has been busy with international projects

related to youth, freedom of speech, media and do-it-yourself culture.

// Jutta Sommerbauer

Reporter, Die Presse, Vienna

Jutta Sommerbauer is editor and reporter at Die Presse daily, Vienna

(www.diepresse.com). She is reporting on Ukrainian crisis and Eastern European

affairs.

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// Kateryna Malofieieva

Freelance journalist (Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC News, RFE/RL), Donetsk

Kateryna Malofieieva is Ukrainian, and divides her life on "before" and "after" the

war. Before the war during 6 years she was occupied with volunteer work,

building civil society in Eastern Ukraine. At the beginning of the conflict in

Donbass she successfully started working as a producer. Almost for a year she has

been working with BBC, CBC News, Al Jazeera and other famous news channels

and media outlets. Since May 2015 she films on her own for RFE/RL.

// Kateryna Serhatskova

Freelance reporter (Hromadske TV, Ukrainian Pravda), Kyiv

Kateryna Serhatskova works as journalist, reporter, TV-presenter. In April 2015 by

a presidential decree she became a citizen of Ukraine. Mainly she is working for

Ukrainian Pravda, Hromadske.tv, Focus, Esquire, Colta.ru, BBC, Meduza.io.

She covered the Maidan revolution in Kyiv in 2013/14. Some of her observations

became the basis of the book “Euromaidan: History in the making”, and as soon

as the focus of confrontation spread to Crimea and East Ukraine she began to

work there. She wrote reports from the territory controlled by separatists and

from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.

// Katja Gloger

Author and reporter, Stern, Hamburg

Katja Gloger studied Eastern European History, Political Science and Slavic

Studies in Germany and Moscow and got her MBA in the US. She started her

professional life as a television reporter for ARD public television and later joined

the editorial staff of Stern Magazine. For Stern, she held the positions of Moscow

bureau chief, Foreign Editor and Correspondent in Washington, D.C. Back in

Germany, she now covers mostly international affairs for the weekly magazine, as

well as political and economical issues. Author of the book „Putin’s World. The

new Russia, the Ukraine and the West“, she is a board member of Germany's

"Reporters without Borders" and a member of the Atlantik-Brücke in Berlin.

// Kostiantyn Medianyk

Journalist and blogger, Kyiv

Kostiantyn Medianyk is co-founder and journalist at the information agency

Actual Pravda, that has been created to strengthen civil society and free media

development in Eastern Europe. He is also a member of the Coordinating Council

of the public organization International Union Journalists Eastern Partnership

"Alazan Club". The organization has already integrated media workers of

progressive and democratic positions in five countries in Eastern Europe.

// Kristin Eichhorn

Project coordinator, n-ost, Berlin

Kristin Eichhorn joined n-ost in September 2015 as a project coordinator for the

media conference. She studied Social Sciences and East-European Studies in

Berlin and Prague and has worked for the German Youthpress.

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// Kristina Karasu

Freelance journalist/correspondent, euro|topics, Istanbul

Kristina Karasu is working as a freelance journalist, video editor and documentary

filmer in Istanbul, Turkey, manly for German TV, radio stations and print media.

Since February 2014 she is the Turkey correspondent of the European press

review euro|topics. Her main areas of interest include culture, migration,

education and social issues.

// Krsto Lazarevic

Freelance correspondent (n-ost, Die Welt), Belgrade

Krsto Lazarevic was born 1989 in the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. He mainly

covers news from the region for German, Austrian and Swiss media. Currently he

is working mostly on the refugee crisis and economic issues in Southeasteurope.

He works for Die Welt, Wirtschaftsblatt, TagesWoche and n-ost.

// Letizia Gambini

Head of communications, Sourcefabric, Berlin

Letizia Gambini is Head of Communications of Sourcefabric and spends her time

keeping the community of users, supporters and developers talking to each

other. Her passion lies in the intersection between technology, journalism and

society. In 2010, Letizia produced "The Caucasus Triangle" a documentary on

youth and freedom of expression in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

// Maria Stepanova

Editor in chief, colta.ru, Moscow

Maria Stepanova is a journalist, poet and essayist living in Moscow. She is the

founder and editor in chief of independent web-portal colta.ru (previously

OpenSpace.ru), a Russian daily publication covering politics and culture, with

monthly audience over 700.000 unique viewers.

// Marion Bacher

Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB),

Marion Bacher is working for the Federal Agency for Civic

Education/Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) as a project coordinator

Eastern Europe. Before that she has been working as a freelance journalist for a

couple of years: www.marionbacher.com.

// Martin Fejér

Photographer, Budapest

Martin Fejér (born 1965) has been working as a photojournalist ever since 1988.

From the very beginning he concentrated on Central and Eastern Europe and

moved from Berlin to Budapest in 1997. Today he is leading the German-French

picture agency EST&OST active all over the East.

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// Martin Krohs

Founder of dekoder.org, Berlin

Martin Krohs is the founder of new hybrid media on Russia dekoder.org, which

offers German translations of Russian independent press with encyclopaedia and

comments by scientific experts. He is academically trained as philosopher &

political economist (FU Berlin and Université de Fribourg, CH).

// Martina Kaiser

Program Coordinator, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin

// Mathias Becker

Freelance journalist, Stuttgart

Mathias Becker works as author of reportages, features and portraits for several

magazines and newspapers (like Stern, Cicero, Focus) with a slight focus on

Eastern Europe. Furthermore, he authors Corporate or NGO publications

(Lufthansa magazine, Menschen für Menschen and others. As part of the agency

"Zeitenspiegel" he also is editor for books, magazines and exhibitions (like

"Wunden der Welt" and "Odysee Europa", two exhibitions of MAGNUM

photography).

// Medea Kavelashvili

Blogger and journalist, Tbilisi

Medea Kavelashvili is a freelance journalist, media-monitor, blogger and social

media specialist from Tbilisi, Georgia. She is representative and coordinator of

Youthmedia Georgia, which unifies young Georgian journalists and media-

makers. Furthermore, she work as media-monitor for Georgian Journalistic

Charter of Ethics. The main themes of her blogs and articles are media

development in Georgia and issues related to Georgian youth.

// Merlin Nadj-Torma

Photographer, Berlin

Merlin Nadj-Torma was born in 1979 in Hanover, Germany. She studied

photography at the University of Applied Arts before moving to Berlin and

working as a freelance photographer there. Being the daughter of migrants from

Serbia, she is interested in human rights issues, migration and religion.

// Michał Kokot

Editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw

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// Mihail Popsoi

Blogger, MoldovanPolitics.com, Chișinău

Mihai Popsop is associate Expert with the Foreign Policy Association of Moldova;

Freelance political analysts and avid blogger at MoldovanPolitics.com.

// Mikolai Vdovenko

Editor and Social Media administrator, Culturemeter, Odessa

Mikolai Vdovenko worked 2 years in the social coworking Impact Hub Odessa

(international network Impact Hub), learning creation of various social projects

and social entrepreneurships. This has inspired him to create the Сulturemeter –

the citizen journalism project. Now it is a popular web-portal devoted to cultural

and social life in Odessa. Сulturemeter was created to provide informational

support to cultural and art projects in Odessa. Currently he is working on this

project as an editor and social media administrator, as well as doing photography.

// Miloš Đorelievski

Reporter, Mondo, Belgrade

Miloš Đorelievski worked as a reporter at Beta News Agency, Belgrade, from

2002 to 2014. Since 2015 he is reporter for Mondo (www.mondo.rs). He covers

mainly politics, then judiciary, trials, organized crime, LGBT issues, and the

process of European integrations. Additionally he worked for local media clipping

service Ebart and as a night reporter for Kurir daily.

// Moritz Gathmann

Freelance journalist (Spiegel Online), Berlin

Moritz Gathmann is reporter for various German magazines and newspapers

(Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Brandeins, Neon) with a focus on post-Soviet

countries.

// Natalia Pisarenko

Program coordinator "Perspektivy", Thomson Reuters Foundation, Moscow

Natalia Pisarenko is a media events manager with over 13 years experience in

press-centers in Russia. She worked for Interfax information agency, RIA Novosti,

Thomson Reuters. Her main topics and interests include: regional authorities

policy, government and business development including oil and gas sectors, PR in

charity and CSR. Currently she is a program coordinator in Media Development

Department of Thomson Reuters Foundation, responsible for "Perspektivy"

program.

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// Nenad Sebek

Spokesperson, Regional Cooperation Council, Sarajevo

Nenad Sebek is Spokesperson for the Regional Cooperation Council (www.rcc.int)

having previously served as Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and

Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (www.cdrsee.org) for 12 years. Before that, he

was a journalist for 26 years. He spent his last two years as Moscow

Correspondent for the BBC and before that for 4 years as a Balkans

Correspondent. Working for the BBC, he covered the Balkans through the

tumultuous 1990s. He started his career at Radio Belgrade. Sebek is also lecturing

atp ostgraduate courses in Human rights at Vienna University.

// Nils Bröer

Photographer, Berlin

Nils Bröer is freelance photographer and reporter with a focus on social issues,

documentary and portrait photography based in Berlin. His work has been

published in national and international newspapers and magazines. He has

travelled Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union extensively and gained

comprehensive knowledge about Central Asia during a research residence in

Almaty, Kazakhstan from 2012-2013. Nils Bröer is not afraid in the dark, prefers

film over digital and Fender amps over Marshall. He loves Fellini and Antonioni

and a has a general fondness for Modal Jazz.

// Nora Haakh

Theatre director, Berlin

Nora Haakh is a theatre director, dramaturg, and researcher.

// Oksana Yushko

Photographer, Moscow

Oksana Yushko is a freelance photographer. She started working as a

professional journalist in 2007, based in Moscow. Currently she focuses on

personal projects in Russia, Ukraine and post-Soviet countries. She has won

Award of Excelence in NPPA Contest 2015, Prix Bayeux Calvados award 2014 for

web journalism, BURN Magazine EPF grant 2013, the Grand Prize Winner of Lens

Culture IE Awards 2011, a finalist of the Aftermath Project 2010, among others.

Yushko’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Russia, France, Finland, UK, USA,

Spain, Germany, and her work has been published by media across the world.

// Oleksandr Holubov

Editor, Deutsche Welle, Bonn

Oleksandr Holubov is journalist at the Ukrainian desk of "Deutsche Welle" based

in Bonn. Predominantly he is covering the topics of Ukrainian and World Politics.

He is working for example with German Zeit Online, Russian Carnegie.ru, and

Ukrainian Fokus. He holds a M.A. in Political Science from National University

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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// Olga Kapustina

Freelance journalist (Deutsche Welle), Bonn

Olga Kapustina is a journalist in Bonn. She works for Deutsche Welle and various

German radiostations. She writes about politics and life in the former countries of

the Soviet Union, especially in Belarus and Russia. Homepage: www.kapustina.de

// Oliver Bilger

Freelance journalist (Zeit Online, Cicero), Moscow

Oliver Bilger is a German freelance journalist in Moscow. His articles have been

published in Zeit Online, Cicero, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt and other

newspapers, magazines and online media. He received his journalistic education

at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. He studied political science and

communication studies in Mainz, Zurich and London. He has been travelling

Russia and CIS countries since 2004.

// Oliver Trenkamp

News Editor / Managing Editor, Spiegel Online, Hamburg

Berliner living in Hamburg, missing Istanbul.

// Orhan Cem Çetin

Photographer, Istanbul

Orhan Cem Çetin is recognized for his focus on a conceptual and interdisciplinary

approach. He is an artist, a photographer, a consultant on photography and

photographic technology, and a lecturer, currently teaching at Galata Academy

of Photography and Bahçeşehir Uni. Dept. Of Photography and Video.

// Paul Katzenberger

Editor, SZ.de, Munich

Paul Katzenberger is Arts and Media Editor of SZ.de, the website of foremost

German national daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. He covers mainly cinema and

photography and is writing film reviews, exhibitions reviews, festival reports, and

is exploring new forms of online journalism. He works for SZ.de since 1999. Due

to his interest in Eastern Europe he joined the board of the n-ost network in 2012.

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// Pavel Lokshin

Freelance journalist (Spiegel/Spiegel Online), Moscow

// Petrut Calinescu

Freelance photographer (Panos), Bucharest

www.petrut-calinescu.com

// Piotr Markelau

Blogger at Intermarium, Minsk

Piotr Markelau is leading "Intermarium" — the youth wing of Belarusian NGO

Movement "For Freedom". He does campaign-like blogging as a part of youth-

directed political campaigns. So far he got two, local council electoral campaign

of political satire "Piotr the Candidate" and election observation campaign

"# 87percents " (facebook.com/candidatpiotr).

He enjoys new experiences in all manner of forms.

// Piotr Skwieciński

Deputy editor in chief, wSieci, Warsaw

Piotr Skwieciński graduated in history from the Warsaw University. He works as a

journalist since 1990. During this period he has worked for several media – daily

papers, TV and a press agency. He was a foreign correspondent in Moscow. His

interests include Russia (and other former Soviet Union countries), history

(mainly Polish and Russian), and Polish politics. Being currently a deputy editor in

chief of wSieci weekly (the biggest right-of-center Polish printed media) he works

on a daily basis on those three subjects.

// Radina Koleva

Freelancer, Sofia

Radina Koleva is a Sofia University graduate and Bulgarian journalist with 6 years

experience. She is currently covering foreign affairs with focus on

macroeconomy, central banks, and commodities. Her interests are human rights,

minorities, the Balkans and ex-communist countries.

// Rahma Janetzke

Media program coordinator, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin

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// Ramin Mazur

Photographer, Chisinau

Ramin Mazur was born and raised on left bank of Dniester in the Moldavian

Soviet Republic, which became an unrecognized state of Transnistria after 1991.

He graduated from Journalism Department of Moldavian State University and

started to work with different print media in his country as photo reporter. The

local media’s lack of understanding what photojournalism actually is, led him to

start working on his independent projects. After attending the “Human Rights

Magnum Foundation Scholarship” he focused mostly on independent

storytelling, based on observation of his own and nearby countries in their time of

transition.

// Ramona Westhof

Intern, n-ost, Berlin

Ramona Westhof is an intern at n-ost. She studies Media in Bielefeld and has

worked and studied in Romania and Croatia.

// Ruslan Moldovanov

Blogger, Rostov-on-Don

Ruslan Moldovanov is a PhD-student of Southern Federal University. He has

participated in many student programs in Eastern Europe and chose to study this

region at a professional level. At the present time he runs a little blog about

Eastern Europe and he wants to make it very popular in the Russian segment of

social networks. In his opinion, despite the closeness of these countries there is

information vaakum about the life and culture of each other in their media

sphere, which he wants to overcome with his blog.

// Sarah Portner

Editor euro|topics, n-ost, Munich

Sarah Portner has been working as an editor for the euro|topics press review since

2012. Besides, she likes writing about cultural and historical topics. She has spent

one year as a volunteer in Moscow, worked as a city chronicler in Tallinn, the

European Capital of Culture 2011, and was granted the IJP scholarship Marion

Gräfin Dönhoff to discover Kaliningrad in 2014. And still doesn’t get enough of

it…

// Saken Aymurzaev

Senior editor, Radio Vesti, Kyiv

Saken Aymurzaev studied foreign languages and linguistic at Moscow State

Pedagogical University. Since 2006 he has been working as journalist, and from

2008 to 2013 he was correspondent for Radio Echo of Moscow in Ukraine.

Currently he is senior editor at Radio Vesti in Ukraine.

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// Sergii Pishkovtsii

Blogger and editor in chief, Inspired, Kyiv

Sergii Pishkovtsii is editor in chief of one of the biggest Ukrainian online

magazines, called Inspired. Inspired is about design, culture, urbanism, traveling

and many other things that can make our world better. The biggest aim of

Inspired – to motivate people to do good things, to believe in themselves and be

the right place in internet where you can find good content.

// Siarhei Kazlouski

Blogger, Global Voices, Moscow

Siarhei Kazlouski was born in Belarus, but now lives in Moscow. Since 2011 Siarhei

works as a journalist. In his blog on Global Voices he writes mostly about Internet

in Russia and Belarus. His field of interests is business, economics, cenzorship.

// Silja Schultheis

Freelance journalist (ARD, Czech radio, n-ost), Prague

Silja Schultheis is a freelance journalist, living and working in Prague since 2001.

She contributions mainly to German public radio (ARD), to Czech radio, n-ost and

other Czech and German media. Tematically her work is focussing on the

situation of minorities (Roma) in Czech and Slovak Republic and, lately, on the

position of the Visegrad states in the European debate about refugees.

// Silviu Mihai

Freelance Correspondent, Berlin

Silviu Mihai is a freelance journalist and Southeastern Europe correspondent for

leading German speaking newspapers and magazines. He studied Politics and

Philosophy, travels throughout the region and published features, analysis and

background reports.

// Simon Kamm

Freelance journalist/correspondent, euro|topics, Lisboa

Simon Kamm is an experienced multilingual journalist now working freelance

between Lisbon and Berlin. He began his journalism career at the Portuguese

News Agency LUSA (International & Africa desk), in Lisbon, where he spent eight

years variously covering real-time news from Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa,

particularly on Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola & Mozambique)

and Brazil. Now he is working as a sole news correspondent in Portugal for

euro|topics.

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// Simon Shuster

Correspondent, TIME Magazine, Berlin

Simon Shuster is correspondent for TIME Magazine, based in Berlin since 2013,

mostly covering politics, conflict and social issues in Europe and the former Soviet

Union. Previous posting includes seven years in Moscow (2006-2013), writing for

TIME, Foreign Policy, Slate, the Associated Press, Reuters and The Moscow

Times.

// Sonja Volkmann-Schluck

Editor, n-ost, Berlin

Sonja Volkmann-Schluck is editor at the n-ost article service. Before coming to n-

ost, she worked as business editor at SWR and RBB Inforadio. She studied

Journalism as well as political science and European Studies in Munich and at the

London School of Economics, and attended the German School of Journalism in

Munich. Sonja has worked as guest editor at the Polish Radio and the weekly

magazine Polityka in Warsaw.

// Stefan Günther

Photo editor, n-ost, Berlin

Stefan Günther has been in charge of n-ost's photo section since the start of 2011.

After design and photography studies in Potsdam he worked as a freelance

photographer in Berlin. Between 2005 and 2010 Stefan helped with organization

and image processing in the studio of an internationally active photographer.

// Stefan Schocher

Editor, Kurier, Vienna

Stefan Schocher is an editor for the austrian daily Kurier, specialized on Ukraine,

Belarus, Moldova as well as the Middle East and Afghanistan/Pakistan. He

conducted frequent research-trips to theese regions – but recently he is mainly

occupied with Ukraine.

// Steffen Neumann

Freelance correspondent (Sächsische Zeitung, Freie Presse), Dresden

Steffen Neumann is print journalist. He works as correspondent for the

newspaper Sächsische Zeitung and other media in Czech republic.

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// Susanne Kiefer

Strategic Communication Expert, East StratCom Task Force,

EEAS, Brussels

Susanne Kiefer works in the EU's East StratCom Task Force, having worked in EU-

related communications for ten years. This follows studies at the Universities of

Oxford, Munich and Bonn.

// Tamina Kutscher

Editor and project leader, n-ost, Berlin

Tamina Kutscher is editor and project leader at n-ost since May 2010, realizing

a.o. media conferences, international publishing projects, and trainings. After

finishing a journalism school she studied history and Slavic studies in Regensburg,

Kazan, and Berlin, and has been working as a freelance journalist and project

manager for international organizations and festivals. Tamina is a guest lecturer

at Humboldt-University, Berlin.

// Tibor Rácz

Editor, HVG, Budapest

Tibor Rácz is a 34 years old investigative journalist from Budapest, Hungary.

// Timur Olevskiy

TV-Reporter (TVRain, Current Time), Prague

Timur Olevskiy is a journalist working in the project "сurrent time", Radio Liberty.

He was a television reporter and worked at Echo of Moscow. He worked in

Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Syria and Ukraine.

// Tom Gebhardt

Freelance journalist/correspondent, euro|topics, Bunyola

Tom Gebhardt is a freelance German journalist, based in Spain. He is the Spanish

correspondent for eurotopics.net and freelanced for several German newspapers,

magazines and travel guides in Spain. He studied Journalism, Political Science

and Philosophy in Germany and Bolivia. From 2002 to 2005 he teached German

at the Goethe Institut in La Paz, Bolivia.

// Tsveta Stoeva

Journalist and blogger, Sofia

Tsveta Stoeva is a freelance journalist, human rights activist and award-winning

writer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She works for the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee,

the country's largest and most influential human rights organization, as well as

for liberties.eu - an independent watchdog that informs and mobilises citizens for

the protection of human rights. For both organizations, she writes and translates

articles and study cases on human rights topics. Tsveta Stoeva has a B.A. in

Psychology and an M.A. in Clinical and Counselling Psychology from Sofia

University.

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// Tural Ibadov

Blogger, Baku

Tural Ibadov has been working as journalist since 2005. He participated in

different trainings, seminars and conferences to improve his knowledge. The

media ethics, media law, reporting, extremely reporting, medial journalism, and

other related trainings are a few of them. He used to be as a trainer in NGO

projects several times, mainly in trainings related to media law. He also taught

the topics registration of Azerbaijan TV and Radio companies, work with

information sources and so on.

// Ulrike Christl

Editor, euro|topics, Berlin

Ulrike Christl joined n-ost as an editor for euro|topics in November 2014. Before

she wrote for Tagesspiegel, heute.de, Deutsche Universitätszeitung and Cicero

Online. She worked as a news editor at the German press agency and in the

online editorial office of Tagesspiegel. She studied journalism and political

science in Leipzig.

// Ulrike Gruska

Press Manager, Reporters Without Borders, Berlin

Ulrike Gruska works in the press department of Reporters Without Borders

Germany since 2012. Before, she was a freelance correspondent for German print

media and found her stories in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia and the

Southern Caucasus (www.ulrikegruska.de). Ulrike holds a degree in Political

Science, Eastern Europe Studies and Journalism of the University of Hamburg.

She worked as an editor for German newspapers in the Wolga region and for n-

ost, the Network for Reporting in Eastern Europe in Berlin.

// Vitalii Atanasov

Freelance journalist (Focus Magazine), Kyiv

Vitalii Atanasov is an Ukrainian journalist and media activist, and coordinator of

media education projects in Center for social and labor research (Kyiv). He

contributes to Focus, Commons, Political Critique (Ukraine), Osteuropa

magazines. He is the author of reports from former Yugoslavia, Russia, Belarus,

Crimea during the annexation and Eastern Ukraine. He authored the research

documentaries: Kherson Machine-Building Plant (2011), and Voices of Protest

(2014).

// Vitaliy Leybin

Chief editor, Russian Reporter, Moscow

Vitaliy Leybin is media manager and reporter. From its beginning in 2007 until

now he is the chief editor at Russian Reporter magazine. He was born in Donetsk

and is a Ukrainian citizen, but live in Moscow. In the time of recent conflict he has

worked as reporter on both sides. He is an expert in Russian and Ukraine politics

and society.

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// Vlada Ciobanu

Blogger and project manager, Chișinău

Vlada Ciobanu believes in the power of people and communities and she has been

involved in many projects that proved that. She had a blog for almost 8 years,

where she writes about politics, community, culture and other topics. Also, she is

am program manager with four years of experience in developing projects to

increase community’s participation in political and decision-making processes.

// Vytautas Bruveris

Political commentator, Lietuvos rytas, Vilnius

Vytautas Bruveris graduated university as historian, but turned to journalism and

has gained journalistic expierence in the main medias of Lithuania for 18 years

now. For the last 11 years he is the political commentator of biggest Lithuanian

daily newspaper "Lietuvos rytas" and one of the main internet news portals

lrytas.lt. Issues he deals with are Lithuanian domestic political life and policies,

international relations and topics – especially Russia and Ukraine, problems of

postsoviet "transition societies", historical memory of 20th century and political

and ideological problems related to it.

// Yahya Alaous

Freelance journalist and female rights activist, Berlin

Yahya Alaous left Damascus in Syria, where he was operating a website for

women affected by violence. He also was working as a political correspondent for

a large daily newspaper. He came to Germany in April 2015 with the help of

"Reporters without Borders". He recently started writing and reporting for

Handelsblatt's Berlin office, covering immigration.

// CONTACT

Tamina Kutscher (project leader)

Kristin Eichhorn (project coordinator)

[email protected]

Phone: +49.(0)30.259 32 83-22

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