Steshin Dmitry

Steshin Dmitry Date of Birth

12 September 1972

Steshin Dmitry Citizenship

Russia

Steshin Dmitry Professional field/official position

Special Correspondent of the Komsomolskaya Pravda Politics Department

Steshin Dmitry biography

STESHIN Dmitry Anatolyevich (b. 1972) graduated from the North-West Academy of Public Administration. He began his career in the St. Petersburg Five Corners newspaper. Then he was the editor of Kaleidoscope magazine, where he has been published since 1994. His cooperation with Komsomolskaya Pravda began in May 2000.

In 2001-2003 he was the chief editor of the Komsomolskaya Pravda office in St. Petersburg. Since 2004, Dmitry Steshin has been working together with his partner Alexander Kots. Together, they covered events in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya, the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, Georgia, as well as in Ukraine from the point of view favorable to the Kremlin.
In 2011, they were captured by rebels in Libya, who accused them of spying for the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. After the intervention of the Russian authorities, they were released. Among other journalists loyal to the Kremlin, Steshin was awarded a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for “objectivity in reporting on events in Crimea” on April 21, 2014, by decree of Putin. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has declared him persona non grata in Ukraine as an accomplice of terrorists.

Steshin Dmitry crimes

Dmitry Steshin, one of the full-time Russian propagandists specializing in covering international conflicts from a point of view complementary to the Kremlin. He covered the events of the anti-corruption revolutions in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Moldova, the armed invasion of Russia into Georgia in 2008. In 2013, he spoke at the Seliger Youth Forum before novice pro-Kremlin journalists.