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Michael Nacke

Personal Information

Full Name: Michael Sydney Nacke

Born: December 25th, 1993 (29 years old)

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Nationalities: Russian, American

Place of Residence: Vilnius, Lithuania

Occupations: Journalist, Political Scientist, Videographer, Streamer

Years Active: 2015- now

YouTube:

Channel: Michael Nacke

Date of Creation: June 20th, 2012 (11 years ago)

Video Genres: Politics, Social Activities

Subscribers: 1.37 million (August 2023)

Views: 610.2 million (August 2023)

Michael Sydney Nacke (born on December 25th, 1993, Moscow) is a Russian journalist,

political scientist, and videographer. He is the author of a YouTube channel also called

Michael Nacke.

Biography
Michael Nacke was born on the 25th of December in Moscow. His father was an American citizen, his grandfather was an artist, his great-grandfather was a nuclear physicist, and his mother was Russian. In his own words, he was three years old the last time he was in the USA and remembers nothing from his American life. His knowledge of the English language is "very average", and his native language is Russian.

He studied at Moscow School No. 1553 named after Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskyy.

Between 2011-2016, he studied at the Higher School of Economics on the faculty of social sciences. He then graduated with the 'bachelor of political science' qualification and his diploma was devoted to the problem of corruption.

In January of 2015, he took part in the student "Winter School of Anti-Corruption Politics" organized by Transparency International, later, he completed an internship at the Russian branch of Transparency International.

In the summer of 2015, he completed an internship at the "Echo of Moscow" radio station. From 2015 to June of 2020, he worked at the radio station leading political debates, as well as programs such as: "Blog-out", "Status", "One", "Well, a day", "Special Opinion", and "U-Turn".

Since April, 2019, he has led a social-political video blog on YouTube. From April of 2019 to January, 2023, with a former colleague at the "Echo of Moscow" radio station. Alexander Plushev conducted streams, of which the guests at different times were: Sergey Guriev, Viktor Shenderovich, Alexei Navalny, Mikhail Khordokovsky, Oleg Kashin, Yekaterina Shulman, and others.

In one stream of his, he shared his own "Theory of Doubled Time".

On the 12th of June, 2021, it became known that Nacke left Russia and moved to Georgia. From August until December of 2021 he co-hosted the program "What to do?" on the TV channel "Rain" with Sergey Guriev.

Immigration to Lithuania
In March, 2022, he immigrated to Vilnius (Lithuania). For some time, he hosted the YouTube channel known as "Popular Politics". On the 16th of March, 2022, the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Nacke under the article regarding the discreditation of the Russian army (Article 207.3 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and put him on their wanted list. Nacke is a defendant in the criminal case with the Conflict Intelligence Team's founder, Ruslan Leviev, with whom his releases practically daily reports on the progress of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. On May 24th, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Michael Nacke in absentia. On August 29th, 2023, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Michael Nacke in absentia to eleven years in prison.

On September 9th 2022, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Nacke to the list of "international agents".

Personal Life
On February 20th, 2021, he married Nino Rosebashvili, a journalist from the radio station             known as "Echo of Moscow".