Svetlana Sorokina

Svetlana Sorokina, associate professor of media at the Higher School of Journalism and Economics (HSE), will not renew her contract with the university, where she has been working since 2007. Sorokina announced her decision after the appointment of the presenter of the Vesti program (All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation), Ernest Mackevicius, to the head of the media department of the HSE. He will replace Oleg Solodukhin as professor.

— journalist commented on her date on Facebook*.

A group of college students opposed Mackevicius – the students organized a collection of signatures demanding the appointment of a person with a specialized education or a media researcher to a new leadership position.

Svetlana Sorokina hosted the Vesti program from 1991 to 1997. Later he worked for NTV (“Hero of the Day” and “People’s Voice”), TV-6, TVS, Channel One (“Basic Instinct”) and “Echo of Moscow” (“In the Circle of the World”). ). She also served on the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Human Rights, but withdrew from the Council after the 2011 State Duma elections.

In March, the YouTube channel “Tell Gordeeva” published an interview with a journalist, in which Sorokina condemned the actions of the Russian authorities in Ukraine.

Previously, HSE had closed the “Human Rights and Democratic Governance” specialization.

* Facebook is owned by Meta, a recognized extremist organization in the Russian Federation.