Sergey Parkhomenko

Sergey Parkhomenko is a Russian journalist, publisher, and founder of several projects aimed at developing civic activism and promoting liberal values in Russia.

He founded and was the first editor in chief (1995–2001) of Itogi (Results), Russia's first current affairs weekly, published in cooperation with Newsweek. He also served as editor in chief of several publishing houses producing translated fiction and nonfiction and of Vokrug Sveta (Around the World), Russia's oldest monthly magazine.

Parkhomenko is one of the founders of Dissernet, a network community dedicated to fighting plagiarism in Russian science and academia, as well as the founder and coordinator of Last Address, a movement to commemorate the victims of mass political repression in the Soviet Union and Russia.

Parkhomenko is the leader of the Redkollegia project, a prestigious professional award created to support independent journalism in Russia. Since November 2017, he has been senior advisor at the Kennan Institute and head of the Russian Newsroom Project, which aims to support independent Russian journalists and foster professional contacts between the Russian journalistic community and their colleagues in Europe and the United States.

Since August 2003, Parkhomenko has been the author and presenter of Sut' Sobytyi (Crux of the Matter), a weekly program on Radio Echo of Moscow. When the radio station was shut down by the Kremlin immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, he became the host of his own YouTube channel under the same name.