Alexey[a] Andreevich Kovalev[b] (Russian: Алексей Андреевич Ковалёв) is a Russian journalist, translator, media manager and commentator.[1][2] He is the head of investigative desk at Meduza, former editor-in-chief of Russian Coda Media and former editor-in-chief of inoSMI.[3]
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Born | 26 April 1981 Moscow (Soviet Union) |
Education | master's degree |
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Occupation | Journalist, translator, media manager, pundit |
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Alexey Kovalev was born in Moscow in a family of art historians. He graduated from the Faculty of PhilologyMoscow State University and later from the Faculty of Journalism of City, University of London.[4]
ofIn London, he was writing articles for Wired and The Guardian and has been a correspondent for the Snob magazine since March 2011.[5]
Kovalev moved to Moscow and from 1 March 2012 to 9 December 2013 was the editor-in-chief of the inoSMI website,[6] which publishes translations of foreign media articles.[5][7] inoSMI is part of RIA Novosti, a Russian state-controlled news agency, and formally Kovalev was the head of the department at RIA Novosti. He was fired as a result of the formal liquidation of RIA Novosti and news agency's transfer under the control of Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-controlled media group.[7]
In September 2014, Kovalev launched The Noodle Remover project (Russian: Лапшеснималочная), which fought against fake news.[8] Also, until 1 March 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Coda Media website.[9]
Since March 2019, he has been the head of the investigative desk of the Meduza website. By this time, The Noodle Remover became inactive.[10]From 2023 is not an employee of the Meduza.
Kovalev has also written for The Moscow Times and The New York Times.[2][3]