The awards ceremony for the winners of the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest took place at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency. The contest was held December 22, 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
Andrei Stenin went missing in early August 2014 while on an editorial assignment near the city of Snezhnoe in the Donetsk Region where Kiev-led forces conducted a military operation against Donbass independence supporters. On September 3 Rossiya Segodnya’s Director General Dmitry Kiselev said, citing the Russian Investigative Committee, that the journalist was killed when convoy came under fire by the Ukrainian military. The car he was in was shot at and torched. Andrei Stenin was buried at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow near three other Russian journalists also killed in Ukraine in 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to award the journalists with the Order of Courage (posthumously) for bravery and heroism while performing their professional duties.
Above: Drutskoi Georgy Nikolaevich, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.
