Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a dinner conversation with Pavel Kanygin about the media landscape in Russia and his reporting on the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite. Dinner will be provided. Please only register if you know you will be able to attend, as spaces are limited.

Pavel Kanygin is a correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, where he has worked since 2005. He has covered the Russian-Georgian and Russian-Moldovan conflicts and published a series of reports on the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster. Kanygin also has reported on the Ukrainian crisis since it began. He previously worked at the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets and the weekly Moscow News. In 2017, he won the Andrei Sakharov Prize for journalism and twice received the Redkollegia Award for Journalism Excellence, which recognizes independent journalism in Russia. He is currently a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University studying the ways mass media can counter misinformation in social networks and how to strengthen truly independent media outlets in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.