Sinodov Yury Sergeyevich

Russian Internet journalist, creator of the website Roem.ru.

Biography

Was born on December 30, 1981 in Podolsk.

Worked in the project about the health of "Medmedia" affiliated with Lenta.ru Also the Interview was the anchorman ". Net" on Vesti-24 channel.

Worked as the deputy chief editor of the Webplanet edition.

2007: Start of the website Roem.ru

At the end of 2007 started the website Roem.ru and became his Chief Editor.

2011: An incident with the employee of FSB

On April 28, 2011 the 30-year-old journalist Yury Sinodov was called by the employee of the Information Security Center (ISC) of FSB. Sinodov is an owner and the Chief Editor of the website Roem.ru specializing in publicizing of the market of the Internet companies and social networks, and the employee of FSB asked it to open data of one of authors of the website writing about the internal conflict in Odnoklassniki.

Already asked Sinodov such questions in 2007, and this time he decided to demand official confirmation. Soon he received it — in the form of a request with the coat of arms of FSB from the address cybercrime@fsb.ru, signed by the head of one of divisions of TsIB of Sergey Mikhaylov.

Then the Synods appealed to Department of Internal Security of FSB to check whether such attention to authors of its website is legal. Affirmed as the answer of the first deputy of Operational management of TsIB A. Lyutikov that the request is legitimate and has help character.

The synods on it did not stop and asked the same question to the State Office of Public Prosecutor. The answer was absolutely unexpected: the carried-out inspection set violation of the law "About investigation and search operations" the staff of TsIB, and it is already specified to the management of TsIB about inadmissibility of violations of the law.

After that the Synods with clear conscience laid out the correspondence with FSB and the State Office of Public Prosecutor on the website.

According to him, the interest of FSB is explained by the fact that officers, most likely, were used by the staff of private companies which wanted to find out where there was a leak of the restricted information:

"It seems to me that the company ("Odnoklassniki") mentioned in a post channels of leak of unofficial information on them are very interesting, at the same time it on nothing is not necessary to TsIBu. It is not a question of the state value, it is a problem of the company"^[1].

• In February, 2012 transferred a position of the Chief Editor of Roem.ru to the ex-spouse Lyudmila Kudryavtseva and became the development director of the project.

2015: Transition to Travel.ru

In July, 2015 it became known that Yury of the Synods resigns from the post of the Chief Editor of Roem.ru, remains in edition as the publisher.

Since July 1 the Synods works in Travel.ru which in the summer of 2013 was redeemed by Oktogo company of Marina Kolesnik. Its area of responsibility will include just integration of Oktogo and Travel.ru.

Anastasia Shmatkova became the new editor-in-chief of Roem.ru. Yury of the Synods so explained shift:

"I have such volume of work now out of Roem.ru (in the winter-spring there was RBC, now I work in Travel.ru) that it is dishonest to combine it with the editor-in-chief post in relation to Nastya who actually and executes these duties of the editor-in-chief".

Kolesnik explained why she of the Synods will be engaged in the project:

Yura came with the interesting ideas and experiment on development and commercialization of the content projects. We developed specific plans, but for obvious reasons, would not like to sound them publicly.

Family

Till 2012 he was married to Lyudmila Kudryavtseva.

Awards

At tender POTOP-2008 the website took the second place in the Opening of Year nomination, and Yury of the Synods is recognized by the journalist and the editor of year.

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