Simon Ostrovsky

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Simon Ostrovsky, 2016

Simon Ostrovsky (born February 2, 1981 in the Soviet Union ) is a television journalist with Israeli and US citizenship. He gained international fame through his coverage of the war in Ukraine for the Canadian media company Vice .

Career

From 2001, Simon Ostrovsky initially worked as a print journalist in the states of the former Soviet Union for The Moscow Times . He then worked for AFP in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Then he reported u. a. as a reporter for the BBC about child labor on Uzbek cotton plantations and North Korean temporary workers in Russian forest companies .

In 2013 he produced a video for Al Jazeera about corruption in the Russian Orthodox Church . In 2013 and 2014, he was a producer on VICE on HBO , when it won an Emmy . He was nominated for an Emmy in 2015 for his subsequent reporting during the Crimean crisis and the war in Ukraine.

In 2017 Ostrovsky worked for CNN in the investigative journalism department , where he did research on Paul Manafort , among other things .

Since 2018 he has been contributing to the news program PBS Newshour and the media start-up Coda Story.

hostage taking

Ostrovsky accompanied the Ukraine war since the protests on the Maidan , u. a. for VICE and CNN . Specifically, in the days before his hostage-taking, Ostrovsky conducted research into the involvement of Russian citizens in the operations of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, which at the time was still uncertain and was concealed.

While working for the Documentation series Russian Roulette it took pro-Russian separatists under the command of Vyacheslav Ponomarev on 21 April 2014 in Slavyansk at a vehicle control temporarily as a hostage . Ponomaryov told the Moscow Times : “We need prisoners. We need bargaining money. ”Ostrovsky was held in a basement, where he said he was handcuffed, beaten, interrogated and threatened before more prisoners were brought into the room.

He was released on April 24 after his hostage-taking attracted international attention. Rebel leader Ponomarev later said he was temporarily arrested for spreading false information.

Withdrawal of accreditation in Russia

In the spring of 2015, Ostrowsky followed the path of a Russian soldier to the combat zone in Ukraine using photographs on the VKontakte social network . Then he found him on his return home in Siberia . In response to the film, the stripped him Russian government the accreditation as a journalist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC report on North Korean forest workers in Russia
  2. ^ BBC report on child labor in Uzbekistan
  3. ↑ Orthodox corruption? Al Jazeera, February 7, 2013
  4. ↑ Vice on IMDB
  5. ↑ VICE News Nominated for Four Emmy Awards news.vice.com, July 22, 2015
  6. ^ Simon Ostrovsky: Proud to be joining the fine team of reporters at @ CNN's new expanded investigative unit. Send me your leads! Http: //www.npr.org/2017/01/30/512457231/cnn-beefs-up-investigative-reporting… In: @SimonOstrovsky. February 2, 2017, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Simon Ostrovsky: Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort wanted for questioning in Ukraine corruption case. In: CNN. March 19, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2019 (American English).
  8. ^ Simon Ostrovsky | Author. In: PBS. Retrieved June 11, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ Simon Ostrovsky Joins Coda Story as Investigations Editor. In: Medium. January 29, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ CNN: Dramatic confrontation at Russian checkpoint in Crimea, Simon Ostrovsky reports (March 11, 2014). In: Youtube. March 12, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b VICE News: Simon Ostrovsky Describes His Kidnapping: Russian Roulette In Ukraine (Dispatch 31). In: Youtube. April 28, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber: Kidnapped US Journalist Is 'Bargaining Chip' in Ukraine The Moscow Times, April 23, 2014
  13. ^ Luke Harding: US journalist Simon Ostrovsky held by pro-Russian militia in Ukraine. In: The Guardian. Retrieved June 23, 2014, June 10, 2019 (UK English).
  14. ↑ Brett LoGiurato: Pro-Russian Militia Have Kidnapped A Vice Reporter - US 'Deeply Concerned'. In: Business Insider. April 23, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Simon Ostrovsky, US journalist held in Ukraine, now free. In: CBC. April 24, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 (Canadian English).
  16. ↑ Detained Jewish journalist released in Ukraine. In: Times of Israel. April 24, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  17. ^ Separatists free American-Israeli journalist Simon Ostrovsky. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency. April 24, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Selfie Soldiers: Russia Checks in to Ukraine , Vice, June 16, 2015
  19. ↑ Stefan Huijboom, Separatists try stamping out 'bad news' about Donbas , Kyjv Post, July 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ostrovsky, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American and Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Soviet Union