Meduza
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Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek mythological figure Medusa) is a Russian and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media.
Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Meduza
- Newspaper.logo
- Meduza logo.svg
- Newspaper.type
- News website
- Newspaper.owners
- Galina Timchenko
- Newspaper.founder
- Galina Timchenko, Ivan Kolpakov, Ilya Krasilshchik
- Newspaper.publisher
- Galina Timchenko (since 2019)
- Newspaper.general_manager
- Galina Timchenko
- Newspaper.chief_editor
- Ivan Kolpakov
- Newspaper.managing_editor
- Kevin Rothrock
- Newspaper.news_editor
- Eilish Hart
- Newspaper.language
- RussianEnglish
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Riga, Latvia
- Newspaper.website
- Russian: English:
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Funding
- Structure
- Audience
- Censorship
- Criticism
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek mythological figure Medusa) is a Russian and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media.
== History == In 2014, Galina Timchenko was fired from her job as chief editor at Lenta.ru by oligarch Alexander Mamut, a supporter of Vladimir Putin, after she had interviewed Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. She launched the new webpage Meduza on 25 October 2014. Several former journalists of Lenta.ru joined the new online site.
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