About Sascha Roslyakov
reports on the EU, Russia, and Sweden
Sascha Roslyakov is a freelance journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden, and a 2025 International Journalists' Programmes Fellow. He was recently a Schibsted International 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.
In the ten years he worked in Russia, Roslyakov covered every major news event in the region, from the oil workers' uprising in Kazakhstan to the 2014 Maidan revolution, the Russian invasion of Donbas, to the decade-long crackdown on the Russian opposition and LGBTQ movements. His work has been published by major American, British, and European outlets. Roslyakov's interests today include the European Union, LGBTQ rights and culture, and world security.
Sascha has also been involved in managerial and editorial tasks and has experience supervising teams of journalists in the field and the bureau and 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.