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Sergey Faldin

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  • Writer, Host, Interviewer and Head of Content, Freelance
London, New York
As seen in: Medium, MSN, The Startup, The Guardian, ABC News (Australia), Al Jazeera English, Substack, El Diario, Meduza.io, Thought Catalog and
Covers:  Ukraine crisis, Brand Publishing, Creativity
Writer, interviewer. / Covering Russia & Ukraine / As seen in: The Guardian, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Meduza, and on Medium / Say hi: faldin.sergey@gmail.com

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Sergey Faldin’s Biography

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A Russian-British writer, interviewer, and journalist. Sergey self-published his first book at 20 years old. Since then, he's published books in two languages, written for The Guardian, Al Jazeera, MSN, and major Russian and international publications, as well as his Medium blog which boasts over 400K+ views.

Currently, Sergey is working as Head of Content for a fintech startup and writes journalism freelance. He lives in London.

Sergey Faldin’s Journalist Portfolio

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Russia's Only International LGBTQ Film Festival Faces "Propaganda" Ban

Russia's Only International LGBTQ Film Festival Faces "Propaganda" Ban

On December 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that significantly expands restriction…

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Fight or flight Russians living with HIV navigate mobilization and emigration - Meduza

Fight or flight Russians living with HIV navigate mobilization and emigration - Meduza

Story by Sergey Faldin for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart. According to Vladimir Putin, Russia's chaotic mob…

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Is Russia's silent majority waking up? – Al Jazeera

Is Russia's silent majority waking up? – Al Jazeera

The mobilisation has broken Putin’s longstanding social contract with the Russian population to provide stabi…

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'Putin's war is against the whole world, not just Ukraine'

'Putin's war is against the whole world, not just Ukraine'

Anton Dolin is Russia's most prominent film critic and the host of a popular YouTube show - Radio Dolin. When…

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What ordinary Russians are saying about mobilisation

What ordinary Russians are saying about mobilisation

Russia has announced a 'partial' mobilization, dragging 300,000 civilians into the war against Ukraine that n…

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The solace for young Russians like me is that Putin is also digging his own grave in Ukraine | Se...

The solace for young Russians like me is that Putin is also digging his own grave in Ukraine | Se...

he reason you don't see a revolution happening in Moscow is not that people don't care about what's happening…

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Articles

Even The Queen Makes Mistakes

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By Sergey Faldin
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‘Click, click, click, click.’ Serge Faldin · Follow 12 min read · -- Because that’s what long-term unemployment does to you. It makes you question your worth and puts you exactly where you belong. Once the savings run out and you seriously consider delivering pizzas to cover your credit card bill, any illusions of your own grandiosity magically disappear. For those who have been unemployed for a long time, I have a question. How do you do it? Where do you — forgive me for asking — get the money?
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The Purge

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By Sergey Faldin
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‘When I was eight and my parents were twenty-eight, they had had enough of being parents.’ Serge Faldin · Follow 8 min read · -- Me at 26 after growing up with my parents. There’s an episode in Rick and Morty about a planet on which everything was, in a word, perfect. There was no crime, no saluting Elon Musk, no dictators invading other countries, no child molesters, and everyone walked around with a blissfully happy smile on their lips, as if on an endless Xanax supply.
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Gender Studies

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By Sergey Faldin
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They call it zopa in Russia — literally, ‘to be on your ass.’ Serge Faldin · Follow 9 min read · -- Two weeks later, the tables would turn, and the boys handed gifts to the girls for March 8th — International Women’s Day, as it’s known in Russia. Usually, it was tulips, the flower of spring, which you could find growing in the backyards of most Moscow apartment buildings at that time of year or sold by some old witch on the street.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, but I am planning to.

How is social media changing news?

There's more noise than signal

What does it mean to be a journalist?

90% of your work is research, and 10% of your work is telling people what you've learned.