Vladimir N. Oyvin

Music critic, public figure, physicist. In 1965 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in engineering thermal physics and from 1964 to 1987 worked at the All-Union Thermal Engineering Institute. After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, he resigned from the Engineering Institute and was invited to work in the All-Union Musical Society. In 1988, he joined the human rights movement and became an employee of the “Glasnost” public foundation, was elected deputy chairman of the foundation’s board. In 2002, he moved to the human rights structures of the “Yabloko” Democratic Party. He was an assistant to deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation V. Borshchev, S. Kovalev, priest G. Yakunin. One of the first professional religious journalists in the USSR and new Russia. The author of the idea and director of the first in the USSR independent information and analytical publication “Khristianskie novosti” [Christian News]. In 1993, with the assistance of the “Glasnost” Foundation, he organized the Chris­tian Information Agency KhIAG, which began to publish the information and analytical bulletin “Khristianskiy vestnik” [Christian Herald]. From March 2004 to the present, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Portal-Credo.Ru (now Credo.Press.ru). As a music critic, he publishes in the magazines “Musical Academy,” “Musical Life,” “Mu­sic and Time.” He is a columnist for Classica FM and Mu­sic­Observer.Ru sites. Member of the Expert Cou­ncil of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic.