Pavel Kanygin

Pavel Yurievich Kanygin (Павел Юрьевич Каныгин; born 30 January 1987, Neftekamsk) is a Russian journalist and media-manager. Former investigative journalist, special correspondent, and executive producer of Novaya Gazeta. From 2022, editor-in-chief of the Prodolzheniye Sleduyet ("To Be Continued") media.

Biography
Kanygin was born on January 30, 1987 in Neftekamsk, Bashkir ASSR. He started his journalistic activity in the weekly regional newspaper Vecherniy Neftekamsk in the high school. In 2004, he moved to Moscow, studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, worked in the newspapers Moskovskie Novosti, and Moskovsky Komsomolets. Since October 2004, he has been a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta.

In 2016 he interned at the Harriman Institute as a Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellow.

In 2019 he won a Nieman Journalism Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University.

On April 14, 2023, he was deemed in the list of foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice.

Awards and recognition

 * December, 2018: Redkollegia award for "Khachaturyan. Pistol Dance"
 * July, 2017: Redkollegia award for "I believed we weren't there in Ukraine.".
 * 2017, Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Deed".
 * 2016, Paul Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellowship at the Harriman Institute.
 * 2015, "Journalist of the year", by Chernovik newspaper.
 * 2014, Tamirlan Kazikhanov Award "For Courage and Professionalism" of the Russian Union of Journalists.