Mikhail Zygar

Mikhail Zygar
Михаил Зыгарь
Zygar in 2023
Born	Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar (1981-01-31) 31 January 1981 (age 43) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Known for	TV Rain
Notable work	All the Kremlin's Men
Spouse	Jean-Michel Scherbak

Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Зы́гарь; born 31 January 1981) is a Russian born journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news channel TV Rain (2010–2015). Under Zygar's leadership, TV Rain provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel's coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012 as well as the conflict in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia's national television stations.^[1] Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin's Men (2017), the history of Putin's Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin's inner circle.