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Mikhail Zygar is a journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news TV-channel, Dozhd (2010–2015), which halted operations on 3 March 2022. Under Zygar's leadership, Dozhd provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel's coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012 as well as the war in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia's national television stations. Zygar is also the author of several bestsellers. All the Kremlin's Men (2017), the history of Putin's Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin's inner circle. The Empire Must Die. Russia's Revolutionary Collapse (2017) Non-fiction novel about Russian society in the early 20th century, the years leading up to the revolution. His books have become best sellers in many countries. They've been translated to many languages like English, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Swedish, Polish, Ukrainian etc. Founder of the creative studio Future History specializing in digital education. Winner of the CPJ International Press Freedom Award (2014). TED Fellow (2018). In February, 2022 authored a petition against the invasion to Ukraine co-signed by Russia’s most prominent writers, artists and scholars. In March, 2022 organized the only interview of President Zelensky for the independent Russian media. Currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Columnist for Der Spiegel and host of a weekly show on OstWest TV-channel (series of interviews with global thinkers like Francis Fukuyama, Yuval Harari, Stephen Pinker, Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder etc - about the perspectives of the post-war future).
