[7] Since mid-October 2009, he was appointed Deputy General Director of United Media and, concurrently, the position of chief editor Bfm.ru.

[9] Born to a Jewish family consisting of writer Boris Nossik and philologist of Polish Victoria Mochalova,[10] his father was elected as an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2011.

[9] He graduated from medical school (Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry), but he was better known for his role in pioneering the beginning of Russian online news.

[15] In March 2013, Nossik took part in a series of pickets for the liberation of two members of Pussy Riot: Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

[17] Nosik was a strident critic of the Russian government's moves to crack down on internet freedoms in recent years with harsh legislative regulation.

Speaking to AFP in 2014, he warned that "Russia's shift to the North Korean model of managing the internet will have far-reaching consequences for the country's economy and public sentiment.

[25] Nossik died from a heart attack in the night of 9 July 2017 at the age of 51 in Pirogovo, Mytishchinsky District, Moscow Oblast, in the summer house of his friends.

[26][27][28][29][30] Since his death, Russian bloggers, journalists, and media personalities have shared their memories of Nossik, whom they remember as a dogged worker who built the RuNet from the ground up, helping turn it into, in his own words, Russia's only territory of unlimited free speech.