Ihor Solovei

Ihor Solovei is a journalist, media expert and international analyst. He has an extensive knowledge of the media market and its mechanisms. Between 2015 and 2016 Ihor worked with the East StratCom Task Force as a factchecker. He also contributed to the development of the book How Putin’s Propaganda Works and the guide How to Stop Kremlin’s Information Aggression. Since 2005, he has been working in the leading Ukrainian media: news agencies Ukrinform and Interfax-Ukraine, online media LB.ua and Obozrevatel. As a staff writer for Ukrinform, he spent eight years in Moscow, Russia, where observed Kremlin disinformation campaigns even before the events in 2014. As an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, he was writing about Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity. With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, he focused on the illegal occupation of Crimea and the war in the East. Ihor also worked as a reporter covering events at the Government and was in charge of foreign affairs and Ukraine’s national security.