Journalist, Editor, and Media Strategist
Also published as Ilya Klishin · Илья Клишин
Based in Vilnius, I work across journalism, editorial leadership, and media strategy.
I write about media institutions, political communication, and information pressure. This site brings together selected articles, essays, interviews, and source-backed notes.
Current work
Previous roles
Independent references
Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Human Rights Watch, Carnegie Endowment, TEDx.
Freedom House, RAND, LSE EUROPP, JSIS Washington, Global Voices, Delfi, The Insider, The Moscow Times, Vedomosti, 7x7, Republic, Snob.
In a prescient May 2014 column for Vedomosti-published more than two full years before the 2016 US presidential election and the ensuing global scandal over Russian cyber interference-Klishin exposed the Kremlin’s nascent digital operations targeting Western democracies.
Klishin dismantled the emerging operational mindset of these state-sponsored networks.
This Carnegie essay challenges the cliche that social networks directly produce revolutions.
This essay examines how the Kremlin expanded its influence over Russian social media after the protest wave of 2011-2012.
This column deconstructs the Kremlin bot infrastructure, framing it not as potent soft power, but as a reactive domestic tactic.
This essay reevaluates the 2011 Bolotnaya protests not as a tactical failure, but as a structural inevitability.
This Carnegie essay argues that major private platforms gained political power without democratic accountability.
In this Feb 14, 2022 Moscow Times opinion piece, Ilya Klishin argues that a small factual error in foreign reporting around Putin-Macron talks exposed a larger expertise problem in commentary about Russia.
The column explains how the pandemic disrupted a carefully staged constitutional plebiscite.
Recent interviews, podcasts, and long-form discussions.
A conversation about myths around Lithuania, migrant adaptation, and the information environment.
Open material ->An episode of the Tvoya Zakladka podcast about Nabokov, emigration, and cultural optics.
Open material ->An interview for 7x7 about a Vilnius book club, reading practice, and community building.
Open material ->A conversation about relocation, the Volna project, integration in Lithuania, and reading habits.
Open material ->An interview on building emigrant media and speaking to new audiences without arrogance or noise.
Open material ->An English feature in The Fix on new Russian-language diaspora media, including Volna.
Open material ->For consulting, speaking, media requests, and research collaboration.