Announced the long-list of the Politzesvet Prize

© Politzesvet Alexander Arkhangelsky, member of the Prize Council: “This season, the Politzosvet Award is in an even more difficult situation than last year. The field of political journalism and journalism continues to compress rapidly. It is pleased that despite these circumstances, diversity and professionalism are preserved - and our long list demonstrates this "

Today, April 3, the jury of the Politzosvet Prize announced 25 applicants for the title of best political publicist.

Long List-List Politsosvet-2014 Prize:

Ilya Azar - a series of interviews ( Lenta.ru )
Arkady Babchenko - publications ( colta.ru , "Echo of Moscow")
Leonid Burshid - columns ( Snob.ru , Slon.ru , Forbes )
Dmitry Bykov - publications ("profile")
Mikhail Gelfand, Andrey Zazakin, Kirill Mikhailov, Sergey Parkhomenko, Andrey Rostovtsev - the Dissernet project (articles cycle)
Olesya Gerasimenko-Publications (Kommersant-Vlast, Esquire )
Lev Gudkov - publications ("Russian Planet", "Echo of Moscow")
Ivan Davydov - publications ( slon.ru )
Denis Dragunsky - speakers ( Gazeta.ru , "Echo of Moscow")
Vitaly Dymarsky - publications ("Echo of Moscow")
Andrey Zubov - publications ("Vedomosti")
Alexander Kynev - publications ( Forbes , Gazeta.ru , Slon.ru , Vedomosti)
Andrey Loshak - Publications ( colta.ru )
Fedor Lukyanov - publications ("Kommersant", "Russia in global policy")
Alexander Morozov - columns ( colta.ru , slon.ru )
Dmitry Oreshkin - speakers ("New Gazeta")
Vladimir Pastukhov - publications ("New Gazeta")
Julia Polukhina - publications ("New Gazeta")
Grigory Revzin - speakers ("Kommersant", Lenta.ru )
Kirill Rogov - speakers ("New Gazeta")
Leo Rubinstein - speakers ( Grani.ru )
Georgy Satarov - Catai ("Daily Journal")
Zoya Svetova - Patha ( The New Times )
Mikhail Sokolov - programs ("Radio Liberty")
Alexander Yanov - article ( Snob.ru )

A full collection of references to publication of nominees is presented on the website of the Polit -Pesvet Prize.

The jury of this season includes an economist, scientist, publicist and public figure Yevgeny Yasin, journalist Tatyana Malkina, economist Vladislav Inozemtsev, political analyst Lilia Shevtsova, journalist Maxim Trudolyubov and 2012 Prize laureate, analyst Sergei Shpilkin. This year the chairman of the jury was the journalist, Columnist Slon.ru Alexander Baunov.

The Politzosvet competition was founded in 2011 at the initiative of Dmitry Zimin and is held annually with the support of the Liberal Mission Foundation. The purpose of the award is to attract the attention of society to journalists, publicists and bloggers who, with their work, contribute to the political education of Russians and systematically clarify the current situation in Russia and in the world.

This year, newspaper-journal, radio, television and online publications of socio-political topics were accepted for the competition. The applicants were the editorial offices of the central and regional media, public organizations and members of the jury of the prize, members of the Council of the Liberal Mission Foundation. In total, more than 100 applications were accepted, from which the jury, after a careful study of the work submitted to the competition, took 25 participants in the long-list.

On April 24, a list of five finalists of the competition will be announced, and on May 29 the laureate will be determined at the ceremony, which will receive a prize of 500 thousand rubles and read a series of lectures at the universities of Russia. The works of five finalists will be published in a collection with a DVD application and sent to the university libraries of Russia.