Ostashko Ruslan Professional field/official position
Editor-in-chief of PolitRussia.ru
Ostashko Ruslan biography
OSTASHKO Ruslan (b. 1979 in Donetsk) grew up in Ukrainian Sevastopol and moved to Moscow in 1996. In 2003, he graduated from the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB with a degree in law. Since 2005, he has been heading the OST Media company, which initially created websites, did advertising on the Internet, and organized celebrations.
- In 2012, during a surge of protest activity after the so-called Medvedev-Putin “castling” and rigged elections, the Presidential Administration took care of monitoring and regulating the Internet, which had previously remained free from government interference and censorship. That year, Ostashko founded a “Regional public organization for the development of civil society “I am a citizen,” which analyzed and monitored public opinion on the Internet with government grants.
- In 2014, Ruslan Ostashko founded the “patriotic” Internet portal PolitRussia. Since 2016, he has been an expert at the Internet Development Institute, created on the initiative of Putin and led by the adviser to the president German Klimenko. In 2016, he unsuccessfully participated in the primaries of the ruling United Russia party in the annexed Sevastopol on the eve of the State Duma elections.
