Genis is a columnist and a contributing writer for the main liberal Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and formerly was the host of the TV show "Alexander Genis. Letters from America," shown on Russian TV channel "Culture".
The television weekly Novaya Gazeta voted "Behind the Glass" the top program and top TV event of November 2001, as well as worst TV event of the month.
Just the previous spring, Igor Domnikov of Novaya Gazeta had been murdered while covering abuses by the Russian armed forces in Chechnya.
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Kolesnikov's letter to Medvedev and subsequent media interviews, including to Novaya Gazeta, David Ignatius of the Washington Post and Masha Gessen of Snob.ru, give the following account of what the whistleblower revealed was known to its participants as 'Project South'.
In April 2010, computers were seized from Kalinkina and fellow Narodnaya Volya reporter Marina Koktysh, as well as Charter 97 editor Natalya Radina and Novaya Gazeta journalist Irina Khalip as part of an investigation into a slander case filed by Ivan Korzh.