Boris Nemtsov Summer School of Journalism in Prague – Page 2 – Интенсивная программа обучения молодых журналистов, блогеров и медиаактивистов

The Boris Nemtsov Summer School of Journalism and Cultural Studies is the annual expenses-paid program for a new generation of Russian-speaking journalists and researchers. It is a joint project between the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. The study program incorporates various session styles — lectures, workshops, film screenings, and site visits. Classes are taught by leading experts in their fields.

Media Projects

Hey Queer, Speak Czech

Alena Agadzhikova, alumna ’18 (Moscow, Russia) learned about LGBT people who were forced to flee their countries for the Czech Republic. Alena’s feature was published by “Current Time”

Civic Education in Russian Schools

Ilya Kosygin, alumna’18 (Vladimir, Russia) authored a multimedia report on civic education in Russian schools. Ilya talked to teachers, schoolboys and students. His report appeared on Deutsche Welle website.

Denis Denisov: Political comics in the Czech Republic

Denis Denisov, alumna’18 ( Krasnoyarsk, Russia) wrote a piece on the political comics in the Czech Republic. Part one of an extensive review was published in the group in VKontakte

Roman Moshensky: “WestEast: From Leninogorsk to Europe and back”

Roman Moshensky, alumna’18 developed a series of video portraits of young people who live in an oil-rich province of Tatarstan that suffers poverty and lack of career opportunities

Dmitry Okrest: “Inside Perestroika”

Dmitry Okrest, alumna’18 launched a video project about political developments in Russia in 2000s. How Putin came to power - a brief story in this video

Svetlana Cunningham: How Daily Russian Propaganda is serving Kremlin reality

Svetlana Cunningham, alumna’18 (Washington D.C., USA) explored the amount of daily propaganda poured on the heads of Russians. Her journalistic research appeared on Stop Fake online platform

Anna Tenditnaya: How the Russian science survives outside of Moscow

Anna Tenditnaya, alumna’18 (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) interviewed Russian physicists working in Nizhny Novgorod. The report appeared on DW. https://p.dw.com/p/3Budm

Alexei Yurtaev: “The Story of a Cigarette Butt”

Alexei Yurtaev, alumna’18 (Samara, Russia) tells the story of a fire at the police headquarters of the province of Samara that occurred 20 years ago. 57 people died in the blaze.

Dmytro Horeyvoy – Turmoil In The Orthodox World: What’s Going On?

Dmytro Horeyvoy, alumna’18 (Lviv, Ukraine), worked on the video that explains the main religious terms related to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that has recently got its independence

Dmytro Horeyvoy – Will Greece recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and how does Moscow oppose this?

Dmytro Horeyvoy, alumna’18 (Lviv, Ukraine), explores Russia- linked agents of influence on the Greek Church