Since the return of Vladimir Putin to Kremlin in 2012 Russia’s media have been confronted with the heavy pressure from the authorities. Life has become much harder for the few independent media outl...
Karén Shainyan
Karén Shainyan is a staff writer for slon.ru, a leading online business publication in Russia. He mostly covers the health, science and business beats. Karén graduated from the Russian State University of Medicine in 2005 and received his Masters degree in journalism at University of Mississippi in 2009. He worked as a staff writer and contributing editor to Kommersant (Russia’s leading daily), Snob.ru, the Vokrug Sveta magazine of the Russian National Geographic society and Radio Liberty. His areas of interest include investigative writing on money and policy in healthcare, evidence-based medicine, live science and the environment. He appears regularly on TV RAIN.