Sinodov Yury Sergeyevich

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

Biography

Born December 30, 1981 in Podolsk.

He worked in the Medmedia health project, affiliated with Лентой.ру. He was also the host of the Interview program. Net "on Vesti-24 channel.

He worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the Webplanet publication.

2007: Launch of the site Roem.ru

At the end of 2007, he launched the Roem.ru website and became its editor-in-chief.

2011: FSB officer incident

On April 28, 2011, an employee of the FSB Information Security Center (CIB) called 30-year-old journalist Yury Sinodov. Sinodov is the owner and editor-in-chief of the Roem.ru website, which specializes in covering the market of Internet companies and social networks, and an FSB officer asked him to disclose the data of one of the authors of the site, who wrote about the internal conflict in Odnoklassniki.

Sinodov was already approached with 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 FSB coat of arms from the address of cybercrime@fsb.ru, signed by the head of one of the divisions of the Central Security Service, Sergei Mikhailov.

Then the Sinodov appealed to the FSB's Own Security Directorate with a request to check whether such attention to the authors of its website is legal. The response of the first deputy of the Operational Department of the CIB A. Lyutikov stated that the request was legitimate and of a reference nature.

The synods did not stop there and asked the same question to the Prosecutor General's Office. The answer was completely unexpected: the inspection established a violation of the law "On operational-search activities" by the employees of the Central Security Service, and the leadership of the Central Security Service has already been indicated about the inadmissibility of violations of the law.

After that, the Synods with a clear conscience posted their correspondence with the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office on the site.

In his opinion, the interest of the FSB is explained by the fact that the officers were most likely used by employees of private companies who wanted to find out where the leak of classified information occurred:

seems to me that the company mentioned in the post (Odnoklassniki) is very interested in the channels for leaking unofficial information about them, while the CIB itself does not need this in Fig. This is not a matter of national importance, this is^[1] problem^[1] itself^[1]

• In February 2012, he transferred the position of editor-in-chief Roem.ru ex-wife Lyudmila Kudryavtseva and became project development director.

2015: Moving to Travel.ru

In July 2015, it became known that Yury Sinodov was resigning as editor-in-chief of the Roem.ru, and remained in the editorial office as a publisher.

Since July 1, Sinodov have been work in Travel.ru, which in the summer of 2013 was bought by OktogoMarina Kolesnik. His area of ​ ​ responsibility will include the integration of Oktogo and Travel.ru.

Anastasia Shmatkova became the new editor-in-chief of the Roem.ru. Yury Sinodov the rearrangement as follows:

"I now have such a volume of work outside the Roem.ru (in winter and spring there was RBC, now I work in Travel.ru) that combining this with the post of chief editor is dishonest in relation to Nastya, who actually fulfills these duties of chief editor."

Kolesnik explained why the Sinodov will deal with the project:

Yura came with interesting ideas and experience in the development and commercialization of content projects. We have developed specific plans, but for obvious reasons, we would not want to voice them publicly.

2019: Director of SMI2 Development

In May 2019, Yury Sinodov was appointed Director for Development of the news aggregator SMI2, which at that time is controlled by the E-generator Internet holding.

Family

Until 2012, he was married to Lyudmila Kudryavtseva.

Awards

At the ROTOR-2008 competition, the site took second place in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination, and Yury Sinodov was recognized as a journalist and editor of the year.

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