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Egor Prosvirnin
Egor Aleksandrovich Prosvirnin (Russian: Егор Александрович Просвирнин; 3 April 1986 – 27 December 2021), also known by his pen name Egor Pogrom (Russian: Егор Погром) was a Russian right-wing opinion journalist, political commentator and activist, best known as the founding editor-in-chief of the online outlet Sputnik and Pogrom, which was active from 2012 to 2018. He began his writing career in video game magazines and on the blogging platform LiveJournal before launching Sputnik and Pogrom in 2012, where he published articles on history, politics, and culture. Through his work in the 2010s, Prosvirnin became a prominent voice within Russia's nationalist and national-democratic movements, later shifting toward monarchist views.
A committed nationalist who was frequently critical of many state initiatives, Prosvirnin became, from 2014 onward, one of the most ardent supporters of Russia's annexation of Crimea and of comprehensive Russian backing for the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine. However, in 2015, a criminal investigation was launched over a number of extremist statements published on the Sputnik and Pogrom website, Prosvirnin was named as a witness in the case. In 2017, the site was blocked within Russia, and the publication was shuttered for good in 2018. Following the closure of Sputnik and Pogrom, Prosvirnin continued his career as a blogger and commentator, hosting livestreams on his YouTube channel Czar where he discussed major socio-political issues. On 27 December 2021, Prosvirnin died after falling from the balcony of an apartment building in Moscow.
In the wake of his death, a number of authors described him as one of the most talented Russian opinion journalists of the 2010s, praising the literary craft and stylistic flair of his prose, even as assessments of his ideological positions remained sharply divided.
Egor Prosvirnin was born in Vladivostok. His mother was a theater artist and set designer, while his father, was a theater actor and stage director.
Prosvirnin described himself as "a bookish homeboy who was given a thick children's encyclopedia at the age of seven". After his family moved to Reutov, he enrolled in the Philological Faculty of the Russian State University for the Humanities but did not graduate, what he later claimed he never regretted. He began building his journalism career by contributing to various magazines on a wide range of topics, including video game coverage. His work appeared in gaming publications such as Strana Igr, Igromania, PC Gamer, and others. He said he was raised on the "elitist" magazine Game.EXE, which he believed stood out for publishing articles on culture and politics and for its disdain for mainstream tastes.
In 2008, he became the editor-in-chief of the inflight magazine for the airline Aeroflot, where he commissioned journalist Oleg Kashin to conduct interviews with decorated Russian pilots and famous passengers (such as opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya), as well as to write pieces on the history of various professions and trades. He ran a popular LiveJournal blog under the handle nomina_obscura, contributed to Russian Journal, Literaturnaya gazeta, and Kommersant, and published a science fiction novel online titled Georges Dunaev (2006). Overall, Prosvirnin spoke negatively about his time working in gaming media, hinting at rigid censorship.
An active blogger on LiveJournal, Prosvirnin gained a reputation in the mid-2000s for writing whose tone and subject matter largely foreshadowed the future content of Sputnik and Pogrom. Notably, Prosvirnin's LiveJournal blog was once promoted by Anton Nossik, a pioneer of Runet, who praised it for having "original thoughts, a solid grasp of the material, a decent sense of humor, and fair winds".
Prosvirnin identified himself as part of the Moscow middle class that had "traded political rights to the authorities in exchange for prosperity", though at some point he was forced to reassess his views on life. On 13 April 2007, Prosvirnin took part in the Dissenters' March organized by Eduard Limonov's The Other Russia party and was detained (among 250 others arrested that day). In 2011, he participated in the mass protests on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, standing amid a crowd he described as "skinheads". In 2012, he made his first and only appearance at the Russian march in Lyublino, declaring a year later that he did not support the event and would not participate again. However, according to politician Dmitry Demushkin, despite Prosvirnin's refusal to attend, he assisted in creating promotional materials (including graphics) for the Russian march.
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Egor Prosvirnin
Egor Aleksandrovich Prosvirnin (Russian: Егор Александрович Просвирнин; 3 April 1986 – 27 December 2021), also known by his pen name Egor Pogrom (Russian: Егор Погром) was a Russian right-wing opinion journalist, political commentator and activist, best known as the founding editor-in-chief of the online outlet Sputnik and Pogrom, which was active from 2012 to 2018. He began his writing career in video game magazines and on the blogging platform LiveJournal before launching Sputnik and Pogrom in 2012, where he published articles on history, politics, and culture. Through his work in the 2010s, Prosvirnin became a prominent voice within Russia's nationalist and national-democratic movements, later shifting toward monarchist views.
A committed nationalist who was frequently critical of many state initiatives, Prosvirnin became, from 2014 onward, one of the most ardent supporters of Russia's annexation of Crimea and of comprehensive Russian backing for the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine. However, in 2015, a criminal investigation was launched over a number of extremist statements published on the Sputnik and Pogrom website, Prosvirnin was named as a witness in the case. In 2017, the site was blocked within Russia, and the publication was shuttered for good in 2018. Following the closure of Sputnik and Pogrom, Prosvirnin continued his career as a blogger and commentator, hosting livestreams on his YouTube channel Czar where he discussed major socio-political issues. On 27 December 2021, Prosvirnin died after falling from the balcony of an apartment building in Moscow.
In the wake of his death, a number of authors described him as one of the most talented Russian opinion journalists of the 2010s, praising the literary craft and stylistic flair of his prose, even as assessments of his ideological positions remained sharply divided.
Egor Prosvirnin was born in Vladivostok. His mother was a theater artist and set designer, while his father, was a theater actor and stage director.
Prosvirnin described himself as "a bookish homeboy who was given a thick children's encyclopedia at the age of seven". After his family moved to Reutov, he enrolled in the Philological Faculty of the Russian State University for the Humanities but did not graduate, what he later claimed he never regretted. He began building his journalism career by contributing to various magazines on a wide range of topics, including video game coverage. His work appeared in gaming publications such as Strana Igr, Igromania, PC Gamer, and others. He said he was raised on the "elitist" magazine Game.EXE, which he believed stood out for publishing articles on culture and politics and for its disdain for mainstream tastes.
In 2008, he became the editor-in-chief of the inflight magazine for the airline Aeroflot, where he commissioned journalist Oleg Kashin to conduct interviews with decorated Russian pilots and famous passengers (such as opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya), as well as to write pieces on the history of various professions and trades. He ran a popular LiveJournal blog under the handle nomina_obscura, contributed to Russian Journal, Literaturnaya gazeta, and Kommersant, and published a science fiction novel online titled Georges Dunaev (2006). Overall, Prosvirnin spoke negatively about his time working in gaming media, hinting at rigid censorship.
An active blogger on LiveJournal, Prosvirnin gained a reputation in the mid-2000s for writing whose tone and subject matter largely foreshadowed the future content of Sputnik and Pogrom. Notably, Prosvirnin's LiveJournal blog was once promoted by Anton Nossik, a pioneer of Runet, who praised it for having "original thoughts, a solid grasp of the material, a decent sense of humor, and fair winds".
Prosvirnin identified himself as part of the Moscow middle class that had "traded political rights to the authorities in exchange for prosperity", though at some point he was forced to reassess his views on life. On 13 April 2007, Prosvirnin took part in the Dissenters' March organized by Eduard Limonov's The Other Russia party and was detained (among 250 others arrested that day). In 2011, he participated in the mass protests on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, standing amid a crowd he described as "skinheads". In 2012, he made his first and only appearance at the Russian march in Lyublino, declaring a year later that he did not support the event and would not participate again. However, according to politician Dmitry Demushkin, despite Prosvirnin's refusal to attend, he assisted in creating promotional materials (including graphics) for the Russian march.