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Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov was arrested on June 6, 2019, in central Moscow. He was charged with attempting to sell narcotic substances. Meduza’s editorial board as well as representatives of the Russian and international journalism communities believe that Ivan is being persecuted due to his investigative work. The pieces Ivan researched and wrote for Meduza contain information that is highly significant for contemporary Russian society, and the individuals he wrote about may have been involved in his persecution. Therefore, we are opening access to Ivan’s work (published before June 13, 2019) under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. This means you may reprint the stories below in your own publication, on your own website, on your own blog, or on any other platform without requesting our permission. Just indicate that they were written by Ivan Golunov, a correspondent for Meduza’s Department of Investigative Reporting, and include the names of their translators and co-authors, which are listed at the end of each piece.

Before joining Meduza, Ivan Golunov was a correspondent for Slon.ru (now Republic), Forbes, Vedomosti, RBC, and the television channel Dozhd. Ivan specializes in corruption investigations. He has worked at Meduza since 2016 and written more than 100 investigations, articles, and news briefs. Beginning today, they are all available for redistribution under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Please note that this license does not apply to photographs credited to anyone but Ivan Golunov. It does apply to infographics.

Ivan Golunov’s most important investigations for Meduza

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“Moscow City Hall has been planning its supposedly ‘grassroots’ resettlement and demolition project since 2014” Golunov discovered that Moscow’s massive 2017 demolition project for Khrushchev-era apartment buildings had been in planning stages for three years and that its specifics were presented to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin as early as August or September 2016. It was then-Vice Mayor Anastasia Rakova who had the idea to turn the renovation into a political project featuring building-wide polls to allow residents to vote for demolition as well as a large-scale media campaign. That publicity grab led Sobyanin and his deputies to pretend in 2017 that the initiative for the demolition project had come from below. (Full text in Russian available here.)

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The rest of Ivan Golunov’s bylines and contributions on Meduza. You can (and should) republish them too:

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