About Sascha Roslyakov
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Sascha Roslyakov is a Foreign Affairs reporter and a 2025 Fellow of the International Journalists' Programmes.
This summer, he is writing for Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 2024 he was a Schibsted Media-Fojo Media Institute Fellow at Svenska Dagbladet and Omni.se. Before moving to Sweden in 2021, Roslyakov worked full-time as a Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press and as a Russia producer for ITV News.
Between 2011 and 2021, Roslyakov covered every news event in the region for major Western outlets. This included the oil workers' uprising in Kazakhstan, the 2014 Maidan revolution, the Russian invasion of Donbas, and the decade-long crackdown on the Russian opposition.
Roslyakov's interests today include global security, the European Union, LGBTQ rights, and culture.
In his journalism career, Sascha has also been involved in managerial and editorial tasks, with experience supervising teams of journalists in the field and the bureau, as well as facilitating the hiring and training of journalists.
Roslyakov is the recipient of a prestigious 2021 Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals and a 2022 Middlebury College Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace.
Before starting his first paid shift, he founded the award-winning student-led news website The Main.