Katerina Gordeeva

Katerina Gordeeva is one of Russia’s ten most influential independent journalists. She began her career at the age of thirteen in a local newspaper of the city of her birth, Rostov-on-Don, after which she worked as a journalist in Moscow with the leading Russian television channels, where she became known as a war correspondent in Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 2012, she resigned from the federal television channel NTV, where she was special reporter for the “Profession – Reporter” programme, over disagreements about its programming policy. Two years later, she left Russia in protest against the annexation of Crimea and seizure of part of Eastern Ukraine. In 2020, she launched the YouTube channel Tell Gordeeva, which currently has two million viewers following her analyses and reports. She has received awards, including the Redkollegia (six times) and 2022 Anna Politkovskaya “Kamerton” prizes. Now published in Catalan, Emporta’t el meu dolor (Comanegra, 2025 – originally titled Унеси ты мое горе, Meduza, 2023), is a collection of first-person accounts of Ukrainian women and men who have been deprived of their families and homes by the Russian invasion. Their stories, told in Taganrog, Warsaw, Leipzig, Pskov, Berlin, and Brno, reveal the consequences for both sides of the conflict. In 2024, Gordeeva made her debut as a standup with “Much Personal – An Unusual Standup” which, combining immersive humour and group psychotherapy, has been presented in countries including Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, and Austria.

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