He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Caucasian Knot (Кавказский узел),[1] an online news medium established to provide unbiased information regarding political oppression, human rights violations, and the ongoing violent conflict throughout the region.
[2] Initially, before the creation of the Caucasian Knot, Shvedov worked with the international society Memorial Archived 2011-12-09 at the Wayback Machine, a group that focuses on researching and educating people on past political oppression, the consequences, and how it relates to their world today.
[5] Currently Shvedov is the Editor-in-Chief of the Caucasian Knot, an independent information medium that was initially under the auspices of Memorial International.
Initially, Memorial founded the site as an information resource dedicated to the Caucasus states, since then they have transformed themselves into a professional news source.
Shvedov states that: "User-generated content can be more powerful than traditional coverage in spreading awareness of an issue... A reader who knows nothing about conflict in the Caucasus may watch a one-minute video and post a comment.