Mikhail Viktorovich Sygar

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Mikhail Sygar

Mikhail Viktorovich Sygar ( Russian Михаил Викторович Зыгарь ; born January 31, 1981 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian journalist , editor-in-chief (2010-2015) of Doschd , the independent television broadcaster in Russia, author of the bestseller “Endgame - The Metamorphoses of Vladimir Putin ”.

biography

Sygar studied international journalism at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations . For almost ten years (2000–2009), Sygar reported as a war reporter for the Russian daily Kommersant. He has made reports on wars in Iraq , Lebanon , Palestine , upheavals in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan , the Andijon massacre , and unrest in Serbia and Kosovo . In 2007 his book War and Myths was published, which has collected his war reports.

In 2009 and 2010, Sygar was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Russian edition of Newsweek .

From 2010 to 2015, Michail Sygar was editor-in-chief of Doschd , the independent television broadcaster in Russia that often criticizes the government. Doschd's audience reached up to 20 million people per month. Under pressure from the Kremlin, the TV channel almost collapsed in 2014 and now only exists online with a subscription system. In 2015 Michail left Sygar Doschd at his own request to work on his books and his new project "Free History".

1917. Free history

In November 2016, Michail Sygar initiated a multimedia project “Free History”, a new genre: an online series in the form of social media . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution , a team of more than 30 historians and journalists is using authentic documents such as diaries , memoirs and letters to imitate a social network from 1917. The project is financially and technologically supported by the Russian web portal Yandex , the bank Sberbank and the Russian social network VKontakte . The digital version has also inspired offline partnerships: exhibitions in Moscow, a virtual reality film in a Moscow Sberbank branch and a play in the Moscow theater “Gogol Center”.

Books

War and Myth (2007). A collection of war reports.

Gazprom: The Business With Power (2008). A work about the Russian natural gas company , written together with Valeri Panjuschkin.

Endgame. The Metamorphoses of Vladimir Putin (2015). The book is about the political history of modern Russia, Putin's path “from reformer to man whom the world fears”. Sygar describes Putin's metamorphoses through memories of the politicians and those in power who witnessed them. In total, Sygar conducted almost 20 interviews with top politicians and oligarchs. The book quickly became a bestseller in Russia. Nobel laureate in literature Svetlana Aleksijewitsch calls it “the first convincing description of what has happened in Russia in the last 20 years. An important book and an opportunity ”. According to Green Party politician Werner Schulz , who attended the “Endspiels” presentation in Berlin , the book is “required reading for Kremlin astrologers”. For Christian Esch from Frankfurter Rundschau, the style of the book resembles that of the American television series House of Cards .

The book has been translated into English, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Chinese and Romanian.

All the Kremlin's Men (2016). The book, writes the Guardian , deals with the entourage in the Kremlin, which tries in advance obedience to guess the wishes of the president. At the same time he describes Putin as a guarantor of their enrichment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michail Sygar: Russian media: The citizen hero . In: The time . April 30, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 22, 2017]).
  2. ^ Spiegel Online, Hamburg Germany: Kremlin Expert: "Putin has no master plan" - Spiegel Online - Politics. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michail Sygar: Russian media: The citizen hero . In: The time . April 30, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 22, 2017]).
  4. ^ Roman Berger: Journalism between the fronts. In: Infosperber . July 12, 2015, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ A Russian social-media site is reliving 1917. February 4, 2017, accessed on February 22, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Gazprom. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  7. ^ Endgame - Michail Sygar - Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Putin - the man who doesn't even exist . In: stern.de . October 6, 2015 ( stern.de [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
  9. ^ Endgame - Michail Sygar - Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ News article- www.memorial.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 23, 2017 ; accessed on February 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.memorial.de
  11. ^ Mathias Bölinger: The Metamorphoses of Vladimir Putin. In: Deutsche Welle . October 6, 2015, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  12. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: The collective Putin. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 5, 2016, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  13. ↑ literary agency Galina Dursthoff. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin - review , The Guardian, October 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Sygar, Mikhail Viktorovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union