Denis Dmitriev

Denis Dmitriev has won the 2021 European Press Prize Investigative Reporting Award with ‘Kirill and Katya: Love, offshores, and administrative resources. How marrying Putin’s daughter gave Kirill Shamalov a world of opportunity.’

Denis Dmitriev has been a journalist for news outlet Meduza since its foundation in 2014. Before that, he worked at the news site Lenta.ru for eight years. As an explanatory journalist he tries to clarify different various complex and confusing issues like the recent amendments to the Russian Constitution.

Denis is experienced in data journalism and occasionally takes part in investigative reporting. His areas of interest cover the Russian legal system, internet censorship, personal cybersecurity and Russian electoral system (especially the Moscow blockchain voting system). Denis currently resides in Riga, Latvia.