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Source: Gazprom – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
The award is given for significant professional achievements in the field of journalism and media.
Ilya Ushenin has been a war correspondent since 1999 and has been with NTV since 2008. Originally from Yekaterinburg, he began his career at the age of 19 on Channel Four, covering the second Chechen campaign.
He spent almost two years of his life in the SVO zone.
"We visited tank crews near Donetsk. We brought them triangle-shaped letters from schoolchildren in the Rostov region. The children's messages contained words of encouragement, such as 'Dear soldier, take care and come back.' The soldiers were taking Maryinka, having just returned from a mission—their faces and hands blackened with soot. I remember the moment vividly: the tank crewman takes the letter with trembling, dirty hands, carefully unfolds it, trying not to stain it, and reads it aloud, tears dripping from his dark face. Military personnel really appreciate it when someone from the rear supports them," Ilya Ushenin recounted about his work in the SVO zone in 2024.
Representatives of Gazprom-Media Holding companies regularly receive this prestigious award: over the past three years, 17 employees of NTV, Avtoradio, and Children's Radio have received it.
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