Maria Makeeva

[7][8] From the very beginning of her work at TV Rain, she anchored the main daily news programme and special broadcasts, covering important events in Russia, such as elections,[9] Russian protests,[10] the trials of Pussy Riot[11] and Alexey Navalny.

[15][16] Produced and hosted the reality project President-2042, where young people born after 1991 competed for the title of the president of the future and participated in all the events in which presidential candidates in democratic countries take part (rallies, debates, etc.).

[17] In 2015, she took the position of director of TV Rain news department and actually fulfilled the duties of the channel's editor-in-chief after Mikhail Zygar left.

[18] In 2017, after moving to Berlin, she started working as editor-in-chief at the German Russian-language TV channel: she renamed it OstWest, rebranded it, and launched dozens of new projects, including the author's weekly news and analysis programme "East-West.

[20][21][22][23][24] The Deutsche Nationalstiftung is awarded to people and organizations promoting democracy, participation and cohesion in Germany and Europe.