Redkollegia (‘I can do whatever I want to you’, 2022)
Alexey[a] Andreevich Kovalev[b] (Russian: Алексей Андреевич Ковалёв) is a Russian journalist, translator, media manager and commentator.[1][2] He is former the head of investigative desk at Meduza, former editor-in-chief of Russian Coda Media and former editor-in-chief of inoSMI.[3]
In London, he was writing articles for Wired and The Guardian and has been a correspondent for the Snob [ru; hy] magazine since March 2011.[5]
Kovalev moved to Moscow and from 1 March 2012 to 9 December 2013 was the editor-in-chief of the inoSMI website,[6] which publishes translations of foreign media articles.[5][7] inoSMI is part of RIA Novosti, a Russian state-controlled news agency, and formally Kovalev was the head of the department at RIA Novosti. He was fired as a result of the formal liquidation of RIA Novosti and news agency's transfer under the control of Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-controlled media group.[7]
In September 2014, Kovalev launched The Noodle Remover project (Russian: Лапшеснималочная), which fought against fake news.[8] Also, until 1 March 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Coda Media website.[9]
Since March 2019, he has been the head of the investigative desk of the Meduza website. By this time, The Noodle Remover became inactive.[10] From 2023 is not an employee of the Meduza.
in June 2017 for the article "Who and how is sawing millions on the deception of Muscovites" (Russian: Кто и как распиливает миллионы на обмане москвичей);[11][12]
in January 2021, together with Lilia Yapparova, Denis Dmitriev and Mikhail Maglov, for the article "It's good to be the president";[13][14][15]
in April 2022, together with Anastasia Chumakova, Damir Nigmatullin, and Liliya Yapparova, for the article "I can do whatever I want to you".[16][17]
References
^Sometimes transcribed to English as Alexei, Aleksei or Aleksey
^"Алексей Ковалев" [Alexey Kovalev]. vmestemedia.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
^Yapparova, Lilia; Dmitriev, Denis; Kovalev, Alexey; Maglov, Mikhail (29 January 2021). Igumenov, Valery; Kovalev, Alexey (eds.). "It's good to be the president". Meduza. Abridged translation by Sam Breazeale and Kevin Rothrock. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^Anastasia, Chumakova; Nigmatullin, Damir; Yapparova, Liliya; Kovalev, Alexey (18 April 2022). "'I can do whatever I want to you'". Meduza. Translated by Sam Breazeale. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
