Galina Viktorovna Timchenko

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Galina Timchenko (2014)

Galina Viktorovna Timchenko ( Russian Галина Викторовна Тимченко ; born May 8, 1962 in Moscow ) was editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru , one of Russia's most influential Internet newspapers , for ten years until March 2014 . There she was released for reporting on Ukraine in connection with the 2014 crisis in Ukraine . She has been running her own Internet portal Meduza in Latvia since October 2014 .

Life

Timchenko studied medicine in Ryazan , and from 1997 she was an editor for two years at the daily Kommersant, founded in 1989 . She then switched to the newly founded Internet newspaper Lenta.ru , of which she was editor-in-chief from 2004. Lenta rose to become the most cited Russian-language news source during this period. Timchenko's successor is Alexei S. Goreslawski.

In March 2014, Lenta.ru published an interview with the Ukrainian nationalist Andrei Tarasenko, the leader of the Right Sector . There was also an Internet link to a possibly falsified older page on which Dmytro Jarosch , also one of the spokesmen for the right-wing sector, allegedly asked the documentary Umarov, who was then a terrorist in Russia, for help in the fight against Russia. The Russian Internet control authority Roskomnadzor threatened to close Lenta.ru because the content of the interview was "extremist". At this pressure, oligarch Alexander Mamut , the owner of the Lenta portal , immediately dismissed Timchenko. An arrest warrant was issued against Jarosch for his statements at the time.

Out of solidarity, almost all of the 83 employees left the editorial office with her because it was falsely spread that Timchenko had voluntarily vacated the post. The political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky said that Timchenko's dismissal would increase state pressure on freedom of the press , but also blamed the journalists themselves; after all, there would be no union that could protect them from the government.

Web links

Commons : Galina Timchenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Adler : Reaction to Russian censorship. An uncomfortable journalist starts again , Deutschlandfunk , October 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Bruce Etling, Karina Alexanyan et al .: Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization , Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, October 18, 2010, p. 29 (Eng.)
  3. ↑ Editor-in-chief of “Lenta.ru” dismissed - editorial team protests against censorship ( Memento of July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Timchenko resigns as editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru , March 12, 2014 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Timchenko, Galina Viktorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тимченко, Галина Викторовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow