Ilya Sergeevich Klishin (born September 4, 1987 in Tambov) is a Russian journalist and publicist. He served as the chief editor of the website of the television channel "Dozhd" from 2013 to 2016 and as the head of the digital editorial office of the international television channel RTVi from 2016 to 2019. He is also a co-founder of the media consulting agency KF Agency.

Early Life and Education

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Klishin was born on September 4, 1987, in Tambov. He studied in the United States in 2003-2004 and later graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He also studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Career

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In December 2011, Klishin created pages on social networks to organize protests for fair elections on Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue. In January 2012, he reported about the attention of law enforcement agencies to his parents.

Klishin collaborated with the RIA Novosti news agency, portals such as OpenSpace.ru, Newsru.com, Slon.ru, and was a columnist for the newspaper "Vedomosti", the magazine "Snob", and the Carnegie Center. In 2011, he sold the Epic-Hero.ru website, which he co-founded, to the editorial staff of OpenSpace.ru. The youth website W-O-S.ru was created based on Epic-Hero.ru.

In 2011, the newspaper "Aktsiya" named Klishin as one of the young people of the year.

From March 2013, Klishin served as the chief editor of the website of the television channel "Dozhd". In January 2014, during a crisis involving a controversial question about the siege of Leningrad on the channel's website, which led to the removal of Dozhd from most of Russia's major cable operators, Klishin managed the situation and publicly apologized.

In June 2015, the influential British newspaper "The Guardian" included Klishin in its list of 30 promising Muscovites under the age of 30.

In August 2016, Klishin left Dozhd and became the head of the digital division of the RTVI channel. He was one of the authors of the term "infoshum" - for the eponymous rubric on the channel's website.

In July 2019, he left his position as the digital director of the international television channel RTVI and started media consulting with media manager Roman Fedoseev.

In 2022, Klishin stated on social networks that he had moved to Vilnius.

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Category:1987 births Category:People from Tambov Category:Russian journalists Category:Russian publicists Category:TV Rain Category:Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni Category:Russian emigrants to Lithuania