Aleshkovsky, Dmitry Petrovich

Journalism

Aleshkovsky worked in the media since he was 14 years old, starting with a minor position in the Polit.ru publishing house. Most journalistic careers are associated with professional photography. In 2004 he went to work as a photojournalist in the newspaper " Vzglyad ". At various times, his works were published in Forbes , Newsweek , Hello, Psychologies , Kommersant , Big City , Expert , Novaya Gazeta , The New Times , Izvestia , and several other publications. Aleshkovsky also collaborated with foreign Media - Associated Press , EPA , Reuters ^[1] .

Aleshkovsky regularly in an interview mentions that he has an active civil position. He was associated with several lawsuits, including in the media environment. So, in August 2012, during the criminal proceedings against Pussy Riot , Aleshkovsky was not allowed to go to court either as a witness for the defense or as an accredited photojournalist ^[5] . But in January 2013, the management of the Investigative Committee called him as a witness at a rally in Bolotnaya Square , where he worked on instructions from ITAR-TASS ^{[6] [7] [8]} . In March 2013, Mitya Aleshkovsky, his colleague for the charitable foundation Sergey Gubanov and the LGBT blogger , portal Yuri Gavrikov, were arrested at the Pulkovo airport during a recording of an interview. They were charged with unauthorized video filming and altercations with police officers, but the St. Petersburg and Moscow court found all three innocent. In turn, Aleshkovsky’s defense filed a complaint with the ombudsman in St. Petersburg against the actions of the police ^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} . In September 2013, a protest was held in the country against the arrest of Denis Sinyakov , a Greenpeace photographer. Aleshkovsky suggested that the Russian media close the photos on the websites with plugs in solidarity with Sinyakov, the action was supported by the publications Lenta.ru , Svobodnaya Pressa , Russkaya Planeta, Novaya Gazeta, Echo Moskvy radio station and Dozhd TV channel ^{[ 14]} .

Among the partner media projects, in which Aleshkovsky participated, there was a program about sensitive charity on Ekho Moskvy radio, which he conducted from October 2014 to January 2016 together with Lesia Ryabtseva . In January, Aleksey Venediktov pushed him off the air, refusing to change his co-host because of disagreements, although the idea of ​​the program belonged to Aleshkovsky. Ryabtseva, in turn, insisted that she was the only leading, and Aleshkovsky - a permanent expert ^{[15] [16] [17]} .

In 2017, Lentach Publishing House and Such Cases media portal, together with the LavkaLavka company, launched a YouTube show about the development of the Far Eastern hectare . Mitya Aleshkovsky with a farmer and entrepreneur, Boris Akimov, led a video diary about a trip to Khabarovsk to show by example that the most remote areas could be used for the benefit of themselves and agriculture by building a successful business ^{[18] [19]} .

In 2018, Aleshkovsky posted a number of negative publications about Aeroflot in his blog. As a result, the company has deprived it of platinum status and accumulated miles. In November 2018, Aleshkovsky apologized to Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Savelyev for insulting him. In May 2019, the Presnensky Court of Moscow rejected Aleshkovsky’s claim to Aeroflot, demanding the return of platinum status and accumulated miles ^[20] .

Charity

Organization of assistance in the flood in Krymsk

Aleshkovsky helped to extinguish forest fires in the Nizhny Novgorod region in a group of volunteers back in 2010 ^[21] . In 2012, a flood occurred in Krymsk . At the same time, the festive meeting of journalists at the “Tomorrow” club was to take place in Moscow, at which they decided to help the victims as much as possible. A humanitarian aid collection point was organized at the MSU viewing platform . Aleshkovsky came there with medicines, stayed to help, and gradually led the gathering process with Maria Baronova . With the Sparrow Hills in the end sent 150 tons of cargo. Aleshkovsky was engaged in the search for transport for people and goods: “The first wagon was given by a man who killed relatives in Krymsk. Then we started to rent trucks for money, we collected cash . ” He also came to Krymsk to coordinate the work of the Dobry volunteer camp on the spot. Deputy Ilya Ponomarev noted that during that journalistic campaign about a million dollars had been raised to eliminate the consequences ^{[22] [23] [24] [25]} .

Project “Need help. Ru”

The experience and accumulated materials obtained during the Crimean incident formed the basis of the “Need for help.ru” charitable project (nuzhnapomosh.ru), which Mitya Aleshkovsky launched in September 2012. He had to leave ITAR-TASS to develop the project. It was an information portal with stories about “social heroes”, “which are important for society by their activities and who will have to wait for support from anyone but the society itself”. At the start, the project brought together 50 journalists from various media who, on a volunteer basis, created materials for the site “Need Help. Ru” and, under an agreement with their chief editor, laid them out on the pages of working media ^[27] .

The project raised sharp social issues, helped financially and legally the heroes of the materials, raised funds for charitable initiatives, including regional ones. To raise funds, Aleshkovsky joined the Foundation “Mosaic of Happiness”. In an interview of that time, he said that “I need help” - this is a temporary project name, a permanent one will be approved later ^{[28] [29]} .

A subscription form was posted on the website, and already in the first month of operation, more than 600 donations were collected totaling 600 thousand rubles, and over the three years of the project’s operation, the fund received more than 30 million rubles. Funds were distributed among 40 charitable infrastructure initiatives ^{[30] [31] [32]} .

Flooding in the Far East and the project "Amur'13"

In August 2013, Aleshkovsky again announced the collection of volunteers to eliminate the consequences of flooding in Blagoveshchensk and agreed with the airlines on the transport of people and humanitarian aid to the Far East ^{[33] [34]} . The joint volunteer operation, created on the basis of the organization of work in Krymsk, was named Amur'13 . In order to increase interest in the program, Aleshkovsky wrote down for the site of the appeal of famous people, among them were the actors Gosha Kutsenko , Konstantin Khabensky , Alexander Filippenko , Pyotr Krasilov , Andrey Merzlikin , Danila Kozlovsky , Nikolai Baskov , Sergey Svetlakov , musicians Evgeny Kissin , Svyatoslav Vakarchuk , Veronika Dolina , journalists Tina Kandelaki and Leonid Parfenov ^{[35] [36]} . The program raised 5 million rubles and more than 150 tons of humanitarian aid, which was delivered to 25 localities. The funds received, including the feldsher-midwife center in the village of Kasatkino , which suffered the most from floods, were restored ^[37] . In 2014, Amur'13 was recognized as the project of the year during the presentation of the annual report on the state and development of charitable foundations in Russia ^[38] .

In 2014, Aleshkovsky collected humanitarian aid for victims of floods in the Balkans ^[39] .

Foundation “Need Help” and “Such Affairs” media

In 2013, the Need for Help fund was established, its mission is the systematic development of philanthropy in Russia. Since the launch of the first project, the number of donors has ceased to grow, it was required to involve a new audience. May 25, 2015 Aleshkovsky announced the opening of the media portal "Such things." The press release stated that the portal “is actively interacting with both regional and federal NGOs, collecting stories about charitable projects that for some reason did not come into the view of other media ^[40] ”. The site takiedela.ru is divided into two co-dependent parts: a magazine that serves as a crowdfunding platform, and a section on the fund. The slogan of the new media was “to return a person to journalism” ^[41] .

Aleshkovsky, as a media manager and publisher, invited the former NTV journalist Andrei Loshak to the position of editor-in-chief. At the time of launch of the media, 18 people worked in the fund, eight people in the team of Loshak, Tamara Adelman acted as the editor of the editor ^[43] . After Loshak, Pavel Pryanikov, the former chief editor of the Russian Planet, and Valery Panyushkin , a journalist, were in the position of editor in chief ^{[44] [45]} . At the moment, the editor-in-chief of “Such Affairs” is the leading journalist of the project Anastasia Lotareva, who previously worked at RBC and on the portal “ Orthodoxy and Peace ” ^{[46] [47]} .

According to the reporting of the fund, through the platform from 2015 to August 2018, it was possible to collect almost half a billion rubles, the money goes to support about 100 funds, which in turn help more than 80 thousand people ^{[48] [49] [50]} .

For 2018, “Need Help” and “Such Affairs” are also engaged in research, educational activities, organize grant competitions, run the educational program “Charitable tours”, shoot short films and launch various interactive special projects, translate and publish popular books about how charity ^{[51] [52]} .

Other initiatives

In 2014 and 2015, Aleshkovsky participated in the Moscow Marathon , collecting donations from the subscribers for the “Help me on the Run” and “Do Not Spill the Water” programs of the Our Children charitable foundation ^{[53] [54]} . In 2016, he was among the teachers of the media school "Choir" of the center "Mosvolonter" ^[55] . Included in the organizing committee of the Forum of National Repentance and Revival ^[56] .

In 2018, the Old Age to Joy , Vera and Zhivoy foundations, together with the Svyato-Filaretovsky Institute, launched the first program in Russia to train social coordinators who are specialists in helping lonely and seriously ill people. Aleshkovsky took part in the development of the principles and competencies of this profession ^[57] .

• Aleshkovsky is on the list of 100 outstanding ^[58] people of 2018 according to the Russian Reporter magazine and 75 most respected people of the country according to the Expert magazine ^[59] , and Meduza calls him one of the most effective Russian fundraisers ^[51] .
• The project "Such things" hit the shortlist of the award " Made in Russia - 2015" ^[60] .
• In 2016, Aleshkovsky was nominated for the GQ Person of the Year Award ^[61] and for the RBC Award in the Philanthropist of the Year category ^[62] .
• At the end of 2017, the project “Such cases” was included in the list of the best independent media according to the version of the Sakharov prize “For journalism as an act” ^{[47] [63]} .
• In 2017, Aleshkovsky became the laureate of the “Media Manager of Russia” award in the nomination “For the creation of a unique social information product” under the heading “Social Responsibility of Media Business” ^{[64] [65]} . In the rating of noticeability of messages according to the version of “ Medialogia ” among the nominees for the award, he was in fifth position ^[66] .
• In 2018, Mitya Aleshkovsky, Andrey Loshak, Valery Panyushkin and Dmitry Khitarov received the Government Prize in the field of mass media for creating a new format for the support and development of charity in Russia ^{[67] [68]} .

Mama is the honored teacher of Russia, the historian Tamara Adelman , the daughter of the well-known Pushkinist Natan Adelman ^[69] . She oversaw the Citizen Observer project in the 2012 presidential election ^[70] . The father is a writer, laureate of Russian Booker Peter Aleshkovsky . His wife - film director Anna Dezhurko , was awarded the diploma of the Guild of film critics and film critics of Russia at the Kinotavr in 2018 "For the accuracy of the socio-psychological analysis of the ordinary driving situation" ^{[4] [71]} .

• Aleshkovsky's speech at the Government Prize Award
• Profile and articles on such cases
• “Change the world here and now” - Aleshkovsky video interview