Yevhen Fedchenko
 Yevhen Fedchenko    (Deep state operative, journalist, political scientist) | |
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| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Kiev-Mohvla National Academy of Sciences |
| Founder of | StopFake |
| Member of | DisinfoPortal, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Leaders, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Netherlands, StopFake |
| Interest of | Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Netherlands |
Yevhen Fedchenko is a journalist, political scientist and teacher who hosts the Ukrainian anti-news organization Stopfake.org. He is connected to the Dutch Cluster of the II.[1]
Early career
Fedchenko enrolled at the prestigious Kiev-Mohvla university in the 1990s, received his Bachelor degree in 1996 and his master in 1998. Aaart from Russian, English & Ukrainian he also learned Spanish and French. During his study he became a foreign news editor for STB-TV the leading Ukrainian cable-TV station since the 1990s. He hosted the program "Windows into the World" on STB from 1998 to 2002.
He was also the correspondent for the Eastern Economist Weekly in 1994, and was part of the Reuters Foundation Journalism Program receiving a certificate after finishing the course along with a "risk assessment course on hostile environments for journalists" during the exchange to London, and achieving an US Grant from the Department of State as an international visitor to Washington D.C regarding "Television Broadcasting in the U.S".
Media Mogul
After finishing university Fedchenko joined a Ukrainian nation-wide program set-up by the government in cooperation with the OSCE, DFID and other NGOs under Leonid Kuchma. He was appointed a official in "teaching reporting skills". Fedcehnko became the co-founder of Digital future of journalism in 2007, an post-graduate organization for journalists to educate them on new media-techniques and their handling, such as the internet. Rinat Akmetov is a rich Ukrainian billionaire, king of Ukrainian Oil and a steel and heavy industry head-figure, being member of the 300th most richest man in the world. The Rinan Ahkmetov foundation employs multiple prolific journalists and professors form the U.S, UK and Spain, and gives public lectures with at least 25 students being selected for national and international media companies. Their main U.S partner appears to be CNN.
In 2008 Fechenko was member of the editorial board for the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine for a year, chairing on the editorial board.
Fedchenko has visited a US a few times, being research fellow at the University of Southern California and being professor for 3 years at Ohio University receiving US grants for them.
From 2011 to 2013 Fedchenko was a member for the Ukrainian National Media Regulator and member of the Ukranian Fulbright Society, one of the 300 chapters in the world of the alumni project by Bilderberger J. William Fulbright, during his tenure ended he went to Spain in 2008 heading the PhD program on Mass Communication and remained there until 2016. Fedchenko became a notable Ukrainian speaker on Russian and Ukrainian topics, appearing on TV and radio for the BBC, RTE, the NPR, CBC and Sky News.
Russia
In 2015 Yevhen Fedchenko joined the Russian Language Infosphere Project working group, funded by the European Endowment for Democracy, a group advocating more democracy in Eastern-Europe and beyond. He started the site Stopfake.org Calling the site a volunteer project ignited by the Euromaidan in 2014 when Viktor Yanukovych came under fire for rejecting an cooperative EU-treaty. The goal of stopfake.org was to "refute disinformation and propaganda about events in Ukraine, which were disseminated by Russian media", "study the influence of propaganda on Ukraine" and more regarding propaganda.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Halifax International Security Forum/2022 | 18 November 2022 | 20 November 2022 | Halifax Nova Scotia Canada | Spooky conference in November 2022 |
