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The Paul Klebnikov Fund

Internships in Russia

 

 

The Fund provides an opportunity for journalism students and recent journalism school graduates to work as interns with Moscow-based, Western news organizations. The interns are exposed to many facets of contemporary Western newsgathering and learn how to build accuracy and fairness into their work using advanced research techniques and working closely with top Western journalists. Interns have frequent opportunities to conduct interviews and co-report stories. They are encouraged to seek out and develop story ideas on their own, and to search official documents and reports.

To date, the Fund has supported the following internships for Russian journalism students:

  name university internship year
Tasia Bochkaryova Novgorod State University Washington Post 2012
Anastasia Sadovskaya Petrozavodsk State University, Karelia New York Times 2012
Olga Solovyeva Pskov State University Moscow Times 2012
Vladimir Tyurin Pomor State University, Archangelsk Moscow Times 2011
Nataliya Ghincul Voronezh State University New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2011
Elena Sorokina Moscow State University Washington Post, Moscow Bureau 2011
Oxana Andrienko Moscow State University Moscow Times 2011
Ivan Aslanov Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad Washington Post, Moscow Bureau 2011
Olga Slobodchikova Moscow State University New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2011
Timothy Protski Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2011
Anna Tikhomirova Moscow State University New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2010
Valentin Ivanov Vologda State University New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2010
Alina Usmanova Moscow State University Newsweek Russia 2010
  Aleksandr Tsymbal Murmansk State Pedagogical University Washington Post, Moscow 2010
Aleksandra Taranova Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad Moscow Times 2010
Karen Apriyants Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2010
Viktor Khanevich Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2009
Stepan Serdyukov Moscow State University Moscow Times 2009
Denis Belsky Immanuel Kant State University, Kaliningrad New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2009
Aleksandr Velikanov Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok Moscow Times 2009
  Anna Baydakova St. Petersburg New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2009
  Alexey Lipnitsky Forbes Russia, Moscow 2008
Katya Lapina Pomor State University, Archangelsk New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2008
Yegor Kiselyov Pomor State University, Archangelsk New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2008
  Sergei Vasilyev World Wildlife Fund, Vladivostok Office Moscow Times 2008
Aleksandra Fedorova New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2008
Pavel Rumyantsev New York Times, Moscow Bureau 2007
Alexei Korsunsky St. Petersburg CBS News, Moscow Bureau 2006

The Fund has also so far supported the following types training in Russia for established journalists: 'Real-Time' documentary training and Media Business School for representatives of Biznes i Zhizn (Ekaterinburg); Orlovskaya Pravda (Orlov); and Alfa-Teleport (Blagoveshchensk).