Alex is CTO at Meduza. He joined the team in 2019. It was a rather crazy and brave decision to give up the job in a stable global corporation and join an independent media company in the times when it was already obvious that independent journalism is not welcome in Russia any more. Alex’s main topics of expertise: Media company digital security. Protection of both employees and infrastructure against cyber threats, government run attacks, surveillance. Circumvention tools and technologies. Practical experience of reaching the audience in state-controlled countries. Government methods and approaches against media organizations. How they discover and block “forbidden” content, legal and physical pressure, surveillance. Risk analysis and research-based forecast for the further elaboration of censorship, i.e. sovereignization, criminalization of content etc.