One of the most brilliant Russia’s journalists and member
of YABLOKO Boris Vishnevsky has become laureate of the highest
award of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
On February 12, 2010, journalist of Novaya Gazeta Boris
Vishnevsky was announced to win Russia’s Golden Pen award.
He has become the first journalist from St.Petersburg who
was awarded the prize. Chairman of the Union of Journalists
Vsevolod Bogdanov handed Vishnevsky the award for “a series
of publications in the federal and regional papers on the
building of the [scandalous] Gazprom’s skyscraper in St.Petersburg”.
“I am very glad to receive this award for my publications
against building of the Okhta-Centre,” Vishnevsky told to
his colleagues journalists. “I shall be happy if my and
many other publications will help to stop building of this
skyscraper. We shall not allow them to spoil St.Petersburg!
If we hit this goal, this would mean that all that I’ve
been doing has not passed in vain,” he said.
The laureates of the prize in the previous years were Anna
Politkovskaya, Yury Rost, Otto Latzis, Pavel Gutiontov,
Elvira Goryukhina, Yulia Kalinina, Irina Petrovskaya, Ludmila
Telen, Eugeni Kiselyov, Pavel Voschanov, Viktor Shenderovich,
Zoya Eroshok, Alexander Minkin, Andrei Kolesnikov and Natalya
Gevorkyan.
Vishnevsky, 54, is candidate of science, author of over
100 academic works and six inventions.
He has been in journalism since 1990. Vishnevsky is member
of the Union of Journalists, Professor of the Chair of Journalism
in the Institute of Television, Business and Design and
published over 5,000 articles in the mass media.
Vishnevsky is also a member of the PEN-Club and International
Human Rights Society.
He is an author of five books: YABLOKO in St.Petersburg
(1999), The Russian Elite (2000 together with Viktoria Rabotnova
and Oleg Davidiv), Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: a Double
Star (2003), Towards Democracy and Back (2004) and There
Were Worse Times (2008).
He has two sons.
Ñ 1988 ãîäà Áîðèñ Âèøíåâñêèé – àêòèâíûé ó÷àñòíèê äåìîêðàòè÷åñêîãî
äâèæåíèÿ â Ëåíèíãðàäå. ßâëÿåòñÿ îäíèì èç àâòîðîâ ïàðòèéíîé
ïðîãðàììû «ßÁËÎÊÀ», â êîòîðîå âñòóïèë â àïðåëå 1994 ãîäà.
Vishnevsky is member of the Bureau of the YABLOKO party.
In 2009 Vishnevsky for the fourth time became finalist
of the Andrei Sakharov prize “For Journalism as a Deed”.
