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Josh Silberman has been a freelance producer/director in Los Angeles for the last 12 years. A graduate from UW-Madison, Josh has produced some of television’s most popular TV shows such as: Fear Factor, Ice Road Truckers, Deal or No Deal, America’s Got Talent, Dancing With the Stars and Deadliest Catch. Josh has always been on the front lines of docu-series television whether risking his life on the Bering Sea, the Ice Roads of the Dalton or in Alaska’s Frozen skies. In 2011 Josh won Producer of the Year while working on Deadliest Catch.

Paula Slier is RT’s Middle East Bureau Chief. She has worked in broadcasting for over 20 years as a foreign correspondent, war reporter, anchorwoman and news editor, and has received numerous awards for her work. Her assignments have taken her across the globe and she's been acknowledged for reporting live under fire in Tripoli while Gadaffi's forces were on the offensive and for crawling through a tunnel with Hamas smugglers in Gaza. Paula has been with RT since its inception in 2005 and can often be seen reporting from the frontlines in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine and her native South Africa. She has filed a number of exclusive interviews for RT, including with Israeli president, Shimon Peres, Lebanese president Emile Lahoud, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniye and South African president Jacob Zuma. Before joining RT, Paula was a senior reporter and anchored breaking news and special events for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Her work has also appeared on CNN, Reuters and several leading South African networks.

Aleksey Yaroshevsky is a roving reporter for RT. From October 2009 to November 2012 Aleksey was stationed in Kiev, Ukraine, as a bureau chief reporter in Eastern Europe for RT. At the end of 2013, Aleksey was among the first global media journalists to cover protest rallies in Kiev which culminates three months later in bloody shooting and ousting of Ukraine's president. Aleksey found himself in the thick of the action and was lucky to dodge a bullet when his crew was shot at by a sniper inside a hotel room. In 2006, Aleksey filmed a documentary on North Korea against the backdrop of increased tensions with the West. Shortly after, he spent a month in Iran, where he reported on the country's nuclear program. Alexey had also recorded an in-depth feature about life in Myanmar before the Nargis storm, becoming the first western journalist in many years to be allowed to film extensively in the country. He speaks Russian, English, Mandarin, Spanish, Ukrainian and Afrikaans.

As RT’s war correspondent, Maria has covered many conflicts around the world. In 2010, she reported on ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan, in 2011 she was in Libya, first when Tripoli was controlled by Gaddafi forces, and then again when the National Transitional Council took charge. She went on to cover confrontation between Serbian forces and NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo, spending several nights at the barricades together with Kosovo Serbs, and being subject to a pepper spray attack. Even though she burned her hand and almost completely lost her voice, Maria kept doing her job. In 2012 she reported from the scene of riots in Cairo, then travelled to Syria and Lebanon, spending nearly three months between Damascus, Aleppo, Al-Qamishli, Homs, Daraa, Al-Zabadani, Ma’loula and Beirut. Maria investigated the information warfare and the misrepresentation of the events in Syria by the mainstream media, and risked her life to cover Operation Damascus Volcano, the fiercest battle of the conflict to date.

Margaret Howell grew up in rural southern Kentucky, She graduated from The George Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and went on to receive her master’s degree from the GWU’s Graduate School of Political Management, with a focus on Legislative Politics. She started out in TV broadcasting by doing stints as a script writer, eventually joining RT America as an anchor and correspondent in Washington, DC covering North America news. She has been based with RT International since fall of 2013.

Peter Oliver is RT’s Berlin-based political correspondent. Born and raised in the North East of England, he studied Film and English Literature at the University of Northumberland and Georgia State University. One of the old guard at RT, Peter has worked with the channel since its launch in 2005. In that time he has reported on events all across Russia and the world, particularly covering a range of diplomatic negotiations involved in most of the major global incidents in recent times. Some of the areas he has reported from on the ground included the Second Kyrgyz Revolution, the uprising in Egypt and the crisis in Ukraine. His spare time is devoted to the guitar, cricket, Sunderland football club and love of history.

South Africa-born and raised Thabang has worked in television as a director, camerawoman and producer before getting in front of the lens. After Directing a Pilot for SABC1 under the guidance of Soul City Producer, she was snapped up by Africa’s No1 Lifestyle and Entertainment show, Top Billing, becoming the show’s youngest insert director & guest presenter. She then moved to London on a full Chevening Scholarship, thereafter working at Voxafrica, Africa’s bilingual TV channel in the UK, reporting on events such as G20 Summit, UK elections and austerity protests. There she also created, directed and starred in “What Women Talk About,” a weekly lifestyle program. Thabang joined RT International in December 2011, swopping London for Moscow. In her time off from RT she runs a fashion blog What Thabi Wears, and is an official Brand ambassador for South Africa and travels.

Egor Piskunov is an international correspondent for RT. He began his reporting career during the Caucasus conflict of 2008. Since then he has covered a wide range of stories in more than 50 countries around the globe. He has reported on major diplomatic conflicts, social and economic issues in Russia and abroad, was in the heat of the action during the revolution in Kyrgyzstan and violence in Libya and Ukraine. Egor was among the first journalists on the scene when meteorite hit Russia’s city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013, which brought RT Monte-Carlo’s Golden Nymph for best 24 hour news broadcast.

Roman Kosarev is a field reporter for RT International. After joining the RT team in 2006 and spending a year working as a broadcast journalist, Roman found himself traveling all over the world as a correspondent, covering events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver and London, as well as many other global and regional competitions. When not reporting on major sporting events, Roman was sailing the White Sea, picking up Arctic travelers from the North Pole and snowboarding in Kamchatka – all in pursuit of presenting Russia to the world via leisure, sports and athletic achievement.

Ready for his next challenge, Roman underwent training to report from conflict areas around the world. It didn’t take long for him to be dispatched to shell-shocked eastern Ukraine, and the battle-torn city of Donetsk became his temporary home in the summer of 2014. Roman was one of the first English-speaking journalists to arrive at the scene of the MH17 crash and stayed in the region to cover the aftermath of the tragedy.

In his free time Roman enjoys delivering live commentary on ice hockey matches of the KHL as well as sports events for athletes with disabilities. He is fluent in Russian, English and Greek.

Irina is political affairs correspondent at RT International and has been with the channel since its inception in 2005. During her time at RT she has been a newsroom journalist, editor and an international desk producer, before finally giving into temptation and becoming a correspondent.

Since then, Irina has trekked thousands of miles, from the Siberian taiga to the Atlas Mountains in the Sahara desert. She has reported on a hundreds of stories from around the world: from the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, to the beginning of the conflict in Syria, to protests in Turkey, Spain and Ukraine, to name just a few.

A University of Washington graduate, Irina loves traveling -- something that, thanks to her job, she gets to do quite often. When not getting on or off the plane, Irina spends time in Moscow with her husband and three cats.

Bricio Segovia is an international correspondent and presenter for RT Spanish, as well as a reporter for RT International. He has worked in the media for over 15 years and his assignments have taken him across the globe. He has reported live while under fire during the Ukrainian conflict and during the Arab Spring unrest in Egypt. At the time of the Libyan uprising, he was one of the few foreign journalists to gain access to Gaddafi’s secret bunkers.

Bricio is the author of the first ever Spanish-language documentary about one of the most secretive places on Earth: Baikonur, Russia’s space center built in the middle of Kazakhstan’s steppes in the 1950s. He also filmed an investigative documentary on corruption in Bolivia’s jail system, which resulted in the dismissal of the country’s head of the prison service.

A regular contributor and commentator for many Latin American TV networks, before moving to Moscow, Bricio worked as an editor and a TV correspondent in New York, Madrid and in his home town, Barcelona. He is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian and Russian.

Harry Fear is RT’s London-based correspondent. One of the network’s freshest faces, he joined the team in the fall of 2014. Harry’s television, radio and documentary work has taken him from his native Oxford to 14 countries around the world. He is best known for his hard-hitting coverage inside embattled Gaza where he risked his life to report intensively from the heart of two Israel-Hamas wars. His independent coverage throughout the 2012 Gaza War was nominated for the Next Century Foundation International Media Award. Pioneering the use of wartime video streaming, Harry presented breaking news around the clock and amid the soundscape of drones and airstrikes. His indefatigable work in the Palestinian territories also led to his reporting appearing on the BBC, Al Jazeera and CBC. Harry is also proficient behind the camera and has a keen eye for photography. Although most passionate about reporting from crisis zones, he is generally committed to seeing alternative perspectives presented in the international news spectrum.