Russian Studies Workshop

Davydova is an environmental journals and head of the German-Russian Office of Environmental Information (www.rnei.de). She served at UC Davis as a Humphrey Fellow during 2018-19, was a past Reuters Foundation fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University (2006).Since 2008 Davydova has been an observer of the UN Climate negotiation process (UNFCCC) and regularly publishes her work in Russian and international media (including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Conversation, Open Democracy, and Science Magazine). Davydova is also the curator of a two-year media training program, “Water Stories,” which features stories dedicated to water issues in Central Asia.

“Climate change may still have been a marginal topic in cold Russia in 2009, but over the last eleven years the topic has been elevated to a huge presence in media outlets, covered from many different angles. One of the pioneers in this effort is Angelina Davydova, our Clean Energy Wire Network Ambassador for Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. She describes this process in two chapters written for the recently published 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism'. In this blog Angelina shares an extract of her text and shares insights on the coming together of the book and the development of environmental journalism in Russia.