RIAC Holds Foreign Affairs Journalists Contest Awards Ceremony

On February 1, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted the award ceremony for the 5th Russian Contest of Young International Affairs Journalists organized by RIAC together with the “International Affairs” journal and the Russian Union of Journalists. The winners of the contest are as follows.

On February 1, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted the award ceremony for the 5th Russian Contest of Young International Affairs Journalists organized by RIAC together with the “International Affairs” journal and the Russian Union of Journalists. The winners of the contest are as follows.

Best Analytical Article on International Relations:

Mikhail Korostikov – Under High Pressure of Co-development

Aleksei Tokarev – Border Issue: how the Anniversary of Minsk II is Celebrated in Minsk and Donetsk

Best Interview on International Relations:

Alexei Churikov – Dilma Rousseff: I will not Give up!

Best Report on International Relations:

Victor Feschchenko – Nation of Procrastination: Latvia, its Reforms and Hidden Creative Class

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The Jury withheld the prize in this nomination

Novice foreign affairs journalist

Natalia Konovalova – Foreign Policy Game Theory

The contestants were judged by the Jury chaired by RIAC President Igor Ivanov. Other members included Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs journal and President of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal; Vsevolod Bogdanov, Chairman of the Russian Union of Journalists; Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs;  Mikhail Komissar, Director General of Interfax Information Agency; Dmitri Gornostaev, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Director of News at RIA Novosti; Pyotr Stegny, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation; Galina Dudina, Diplomatic correspondent at Kommersant newspaper; and independent journalist Tatiana Dvornikova.

RIAC congratulates the winners and wishes them professional achievements.