Pavel Kanygin is a contributing editor for independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, founded by Dmitry Muratov, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. He has covered the Russian-Georgian and Russian-Moldovan conflicts, as well as the Ukrainian crisis since it began in 2013. He won the Andrei Sakharov Prize for journalism and twice received the Redkollegia Award for Journalism Excellence, which recognizes independent journalism in Russia. He was a 2020 fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation.