According to the qualifications of the international expert community, journalism is considered one of the most dangerous areas of activity. Journalists die and get injured in the performance of their professional duty. The biography of Oleg Kashin is a vivid example of this.
Starting conditions
Acting in films or leading a political party can easily become a popular person. There is another way to achieve fame - to cover political events in the press and on TV. Journalists today, although not the fourth power, but the people are very influential. The bright representative of this workshop is Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin. The future journalist was born July 17, 1980 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents lived in the city of Kaliningrad. My father worked as a mechanic on the ships of the fishing fleet. Mother taught literature in college.
Oleg grew up a calm and balanced child. He studied well at school. How many boys in the coastal city dreamed of becoming a sailor. In high school, he composed poems, and studied in the studio of young journalists. After school, Kashin entered the Baltic State Academy of the Fishing Fleet. During the training period, he went on long trips twice on the famous sailing ship Kruzenshtern. In 2003 he graduated, and received a diploma of specialized higher education. By this time, he had been working with the editorial board of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for several years.
Professional activity
A graduate refused to go to sea, and took up journalism. In 2005 he moved to Moscow, where he was offered the position of correspondent for the newspaper Kommersant. By this time, an opposition movement had formed in the capital, whose leaders periodically led discontented people to the streets. Kashin specialized in covering events of this kind. He watched the participants in rallies and solitary pickets live and act. Articles and reviews signed by him were not only admired, but also sharply displeased by the reading audience.
Kashin's journalistic career developed quite successfully until the tragic day of November 6, 2010. That evening, he was brutally beaten at the entrance of his own house. According to the estimates of the attackers, Oleg was supposed to die from his injuries. However, the fearless journalist survived. It took more than a year to fully recover. The operational-search measures did not bring any results. Numerous appeals to law enforcement and supervisory authorities did not add clarity to the investigation, although the President of the Russian Federation personally gave an oral order to find the criminals.
