The “Journalism As A Profession Awards2025” competition is nearing its finale. It is an annual event where journalists, editors and other prominent figures from the media community come together to celebrate the best of Russian-language journalism. The Expert Council of the Journalism as a Profession Awards reviewed all works submitted to the competition and has come up with a short list. As usual, experts selected in each category five entries from a total of 340 submissions. The jury has begun its work and will select the winners from among the nominees. The full list of finalists is below.

I congratulate each and every one of the nominees. The competition was fierce!

Nomination “Analysis”:

Alexandra Arkhipova and Yuri Lapshin, ReRussia, with the article “Stalin’s Shadow: Why and How a New Memorialization of the Tyrant Is Happening in Russia”

Alexander Baunov, Meduza, with the article “Putin has finally emerged from diplomatic isolation and met with the leaders of China, India, and North Korea.”

Sergey Vakulenko, Carnegie Politics, with the article “Oil and Construction: Why Gazprom is Swinging from Record Losses to Huge Profits”

Daniil Fedkevich, PROVERENO.MEDIA, with the article “Only Verified Fakes. How Joke News Became Used for Propaganda”

Georgy Chentemirov and Denis Zagorje, The Barents Observer, with the article “A Dictionary of Traditional Values: How the Kremlin is Rewriting the Russian Language”

Nomination “Country”:

Vasilisa Pavlyuchenko, New Tab and Glasnaya, with the article “Once Upon a Time, Now No More: How a Witch Hunt in a Siberian School Left Children Without Estonian Lessons and a Math Teacher Without a Wife”

Olga Mutovina, People of Baikal, with the article “A Girl Lies in a Cold House. Why Don’t People Leave an Arctic Village Where Relatives Couldn’t Bury Their Child for 17 Days?”

Vladimir Sevrinovsky, New Tab, with the article “Here, Neither Morals nor Principles Matter”

Siberia.Realities with the article “Hugging Coffins. Four Children Perished in a Fire; Their Mother Was Visiting Her War-Wounded Husband”

“Regional Aspect” with the article “Ashes, Party, PR”

Nomination “Interview/Portrait”:

Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Eto Osetinskaya! with the article “‘We Need to Live Today.’ Oleg Tinkov and Michael Calvey on the Rise of the New Fintech Startup Plata”

Natalia Nekhlebova, Takie Dela, with the article “Girl in Prison”

Yuri Dud, vDud, with the article “From Voronezh to Hollywood: Salaries, TV Series, Lady Gaga”

Katerina Gordeeva, Tell Gordeeva, with the article “Alla Pugacheva: A Big Interview with ‘Tell Gordeeva'”

Vladimir Raevsky, YouTube Vladimir Raevsky, with the article “Nazis, Germans, and the Russian Blizzard / Interview with August Diehl”

Nomination “Story/Reporting”:

Alexey Yablokov, Takie Dela, with the article “We Can’t Fly into Space Without the Gray Toad”

Anna Ryzhkova, Verstka, with the article “‘Tell Mom I Love Her’: How a Ukrainian Child Returned to His Homeland”

Vladimir Sevrinovsky, Takie Dela, with the article “The Less They Are Needed, the More They Go to War”

Sofia Krylova, Elena Dymova, Dmitry Shvets, and Elizaveta Nesterova, Mediazona, with the article “The Case of the 24. How Ukrainian Captives from Azov were Tortured, Tried, and Exchanged”

Sonya Savina, Yegor Feoktistov, Important Stories, with the article “He Forged His Own Path to Heroism Until He Died While Traveling in Eastern Europe”

Nomination “Video Document”:

Ekaterina Fomina, Dozhd, with the article “‘Zeroing’ and ‘Meat Assaults.’ How Russians are disappearing at the front, and the authorities are lying about it.”

Oksana Karpovich, Documentary, “Intercepted”

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Konstantin Goldenzweig, Current Time, Artdoc.Media, with the article “30 Years Since the Start of the First Chechen War. A Film by Konstantin Goldenzweig”

Mikhail Kozyrev, Dozhd, with the article “How the Kremlin’s eminence grise tried to buy stars: BG, Zemfira, Bi-2, Agatha Christie”

Nomination “Investigation”:

Irina Dolinina, Important Stories, with the article “‘I Admit I Deceived You.’ How a Well-Known Russian ‘Human Rights Activist’ Falsified Her Biography and Gained Access to Information That Threatens Those Persecuted by the Russian Authorities”

Ivan Zhadaev, Olesya Gerasimenko, Rina Richter, Ivan Smurov, Verstka, with the article “The Zeroers. ‘They don’t care who they zero out.’ How they execute in the Russian army.”

Svetlana Reiter and Sergei Goryashko, BBC Russian Service, with the article “Only about money and property. Why Prosecutor General Krasnov was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia.”

Dmitry Borisov and Alexander Shurshev, Chronicles.Media, with the article “Brands without a Visa: How Samokat Brings Apple and Lego Halfway Around the World”

Nomination “Digital Channels”:

Kirill Nabutov ( Youtibe / Telegram )

Ksenia Luchenko, “Orthodoxy and Zombies”

Alexey Novoselov, “Minute by Minute”

Irina Vorobyova, Viktor Vakhshtayn, and Zhivoy Gvozd present “Sociology of Literature – Part 1. Concepts with Viktor Vakhshtayn* and Irina Vorobyova”

Ksenia Turkova, American Accent – Insider, with the article “Shenderovich on censorship in the US and Russia. Trump accuses Obama of treason. And Epstein again.”

Nomination “Multimedia/Podcast”:

Ekaterina Geis, T Invariant, with the article “A Mosquito Won’t Undermine Its Nose. Russia’s Role in the Collapse of a Crucial Scientific Project in Africa”

Sonya Groysman, Olga Churakova, Independent Podcast “Hello, You’re a Foreign Agent,” with the special season of the “Hello, You’re a Foreign Agent” podcast, “Sisters. Love”

Arkady Ostrovsky, Next Year in Moscow Podcast, with the article “The Trial”

Activatica with the article “Prisoners. The System of Terror”

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Important Stories, with the article “The Life and Death of Alexander Yakushchenko, a Teenager Taken from Ukraine to Russia and Who Committed Suicide in His Foster Family”