“It’s Important for the Russian Word to Be Heard in California” [Video]

Slavic Sacramento is participating in the ambitious California Local News Fellowship program at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2023, UC Berkeley launched the California Local News Fellowship, a multi-year state-funded initiative to support and strengthen local news reporting in California, with a focus on underserved communities.

“At the end of the day, this is about serving communities and making sure that communities are informed,” said Vitaly Ataev Troshin, the fellow selected to work at Slavic Sacramento. “This is what I really care about. I want to get people excited about journalism again.”

Ataev-Troshin, born in the Moscow area during the final years of the Soviet Union, spent summers with his grandmother in central Ukraine. Early on, he developed a strong interest in activism and journalism, writing critical pieces directed at local authorities. By age 14, his articles were published in Moscow newspapers. In 2014, he established two media outlets in …