The opening ceremony of the memorial plaque in honor of the photographer MIA " Russia today " Andrew Stenina, in the performance of professional duty, will be held at the building of the Agency on the first day of the week, when the journalist would have been 34 years.

The ceremony will be held at the address Zubovsky Boulevard, building 4.

the opening ceremony invited colleagues from the editorial teams whose Employees lost their lives, doing their own professional duty during the war in the East of Ukraine, VGTRK and the First channel, and Also Authorized Rospechat and the mayor of the Russian capital.

since the Ukrainian authorities military operations in the South-East of the country lost their lives, four Russian journalist photojournalist Agency " Russia today " Andrey Stenin, Workers VGTRK Igor Korneluk and Anton Voloshin, the operator First channel Anatoly Clan. Also took the life of Italian and Ukrainian correspondents.

After the event on the first day of the week, there will be a media press conference dedicated to the launch of I, organized by MIA " Russia today ". The contest is intended to preserve the memory of the master photographer who was killed in the last month of the summer of 2014 in the East of Ukraine.

Andrey Stenin was lost in the beginning of August this year, around the town of Snow in the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainian Military carried out a special operation against the militias. The Director General of the Agency MIA " today Russia " Dmitry Kiselev 3 September announced the capture of data of the RF IC, showing that the photographer died as a result of the shelling incident Ukrainian servicemen. The journalist was buried on September 5 Troekurov cemetery very close With colleagues from RTR and the First channel, killed in June in Ukraine. The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed a decree on awarding Andrew Stenina the order of Courage for heroism in the performance of professional duty.


in the area of conducting military operations under the Donetsk disappeared two journalists of the newspaper " Crimean Telegraph Journalist Evgeny Korolev and photographer Maxim Vasilenko. In the newspaper stated that the correspondents were removed From the bus by the representatives of the " Right sector ", and that the Queen was given the opportunity to make one call, but to say exactly what the checkpoint they were tied, she could not.

correspondents MIA " Russia today ", ITAR-TASS, NTV, the First channel and part of the other Russian media came under mortar Fire in the process in Lugansk. The fire occurred on the square adjacent to the city administration. Victims among the correspondents there.

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