Pavel Kanygin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yurievich and the family name is Kanygin.

Pavel Yurievich Kanygin (Russian: Павел Юрьевич Каныгин, IPA: [ˈpavʲɪɫ ˈjʉrʲɪ̯ɪvʲɪt͡ɕ kɐˈnɨɡʲɪn]; born 30 January 1987) is a Russian journalist and media-manager. Former investigative journalist,^[1] special correspondent,^[2] and executive producer^[3] of Novaya Gazeta. From 2022, editor-in-chief of the Prodolzheniye Sleduyet ("To Be Continued") media.^[4]

Pavel Kanygin
Павел Каныгин
Kanygin in 2017.
Born	(1987-01-30) January 30, 1987 (age 37) Neftekamsk, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University

Biography

Kanygin was born on 30 January 1987 in Neftekamsk, Bashkir ASSR.^[5] He started his journalistic activity in the weekly regional newspaper Vecherniy Neftekamsk in the high school. In 2004, he moved to Moscow, studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and worked in the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti^[6] and Moskovsky Komsomolets.^[5] He has been a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta since October 2004.^[2]

Kanygin interned at the Harriman Institute as a Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellow in 2016.^[7] He won a Nieman Journalism Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University in 2019.^[8]

On 14 April 2023, Kanygin was deemed in the list of foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice.^[9]

Awards and recognition

• December 2018: Redkollegia award for "Khachaturyan. Pistol Dance"^[10]
• July 2017: Redkollegia award for "I believed we weren't there in Ukraine.".^[11]
• 2017: Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Deed".^[12]
• 2016: Paul Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellowship at the Harriman Institute.^[13]
• 2015: "Journalist of the year", by Chernovik newspaper.^[14]
• 2014: Tamirlan Kazikhanov Award "For Courage and Professionalism" of the Russian Union of Journalists.^[15]

References

1. "Russian journalist freed after police abruptly drop charges". AP News. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
2. Павел Каныгин | спецкор. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
3. Это абсолютно невероятно". В "Новой газете» поздравили Муратова с Нобелевской премией мира | Журналист Каныгин поздравил Муратова с Нобелевской премией мира. 360tv.ru (in Russian). 8 October 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
4. "Сажусь первым я, а ты меня защищаешь" Один из арестованных адвокатов Навального | Алексей Липцер. Его близкий друг, журналист Павел Каныгин, рассказывает, почему Липцер не уехал из России, хотя понимал, что за ним придут. Meduza (in Russian). 17 October 2023.
5. Павел Каныгин: "Страшно видеть, как живые люди на твоих глазах превращаются в животных" | Журнал "Журналист". Moskovskie Novosti (in Russian). Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
6. Кровь нужна постоянно. Moskovsky Novosti. 17 September 2004. Archived from the original on 29 November 2005.
7. "Pavel Kanygin". Harriman Institute. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
8. "Nieman Foundation announces named fellowships for the class of 2020". Nieman Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
9. Минюст признал Семена Слепакова и Фонд Карнеги иностранными агентами. RBC (in Russian). 14 April 2023.
10. Хачатурян. Танцы с пистолетом | Редколлегия (in Russian). 20 December 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
11. "Я верила, что нас там нет, на Украине" (in Russian). 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
12. "Двоих журналистов «Новой газеты» наградят премией им. Сахарова "За журналистику как поступок"" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
13. "Pavel Kanygin | 2016 Khlebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellow". Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
14. Цена свободы (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
15. Лауреаты премий Союза журналистов России (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.