MIKHAIL VIKTOROVICH ZYGAR is a Russian-born journalist, writer, and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of the Russian news TV channel Dozhd (2010–2015), which halted operations in March 2022. Under Zygar’s leadership, Dozhd provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel’s coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012, as well as the conflict in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia’s national TV stations. Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin’s Men (2017), a history of Vladimir Putin’s Russia based on interviews with Russian politicians from his inner circle.
