The seminar’s panels concentrated on the current developments of Russian media landscape, addressing both institutional and grassroots tendencies. One of the seminar’s highlights was the roundtable “Media Literacy and Media Education in Russia Today,” which introduced the viewpoint of St. Petersburg-based journalists and media professionals to the research community.

Yana Prussakova (Fontanka.fi), Valery Nechay (Ekho Moskvy), Diana Kachalova (Novaya Gazeta) and Mikhail Tyurkin (Rosbalt) participated in the panel discussion on media and journalism in Russia.