Produced for television
News happens in fragments. Producing means turning those fragments into accurate, coherent coverage under pressure. At CNN, Uliana Pavlova reported, wrote and produced coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian politics and the Wagner mutiny. Her work included research, verification, reporting and editorial coordination across television and digital platforms.
CNN
Russia Producer, International desk
Covered Russia and CIS news for CNN’s International desk across television and digital platforms.
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2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Produced CNN coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, working with exclusive footage as it arrived and helping turn it into digital storytelling that documented the war’s early stages in real time. The work sat between the field and the desk: establishing what material showed, what could be said about it, and how it should reach audiences on television and online.
- Contribution:
- Reporting, research, verification and editorial coordination.
- Platform:
- Television and digital
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2021 – 2022
The military buildup
Covered the Russian military buildup along the Ukrainian border in the months before the full-scale invasion — a period in which the central editorial problem was distinguishing signal from noise, and describing what was verifiable at a moment when very little was.
- Contribution:
- Reporting and research for television and digital coverage.
- Platform:
- Television and digital
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June 2023
The Wagner mutiny
Produced coverage of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny as it unfolded over a weekend in which the direction of the Russian state was genuinely uncertain — the kind of story where the production task is to keep coverage accurate at the speed of a live event.
- Contribution:
- Live editorial production, research and verification.
- Platform:
- Television and digital
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2021 – 2024
Russian domestic politics and the crackdown
Covered internal Russian politics and the tightening of the state’s grip on opposition figures, independent media and civil society — coverage that ran alongside her own reporting on the same subjects for CNN’s digital platforms.
- Contribution:
- Reporting, writing and production.
- Platform:
- Television and digital
Selected segment credits
Broadcast producer credits are rarely published alongside the segments themselves. These are listed from Uliana Pavlova’s own record of her work, and link to the broadcaster’s own posting of each segment.
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CNN · Frederik Pleitgen
‘Remarkable’: CNN reporter spots major Russian tank movement
Reporting from the Russian side of the border at Belgorod in the opening days of the invasion, as heavy armour moved towards Ukraine.
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CNN · Frederik Pleitgen
Russian tanks roll past CNN reporter as they appear to head towards Ukraine
Filed on the first day of the full-scale invasion, as rockets flew overhead and armour moved out of Belgorod towards the Ukrainian border.
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Sky News · Diana Magnay
Migrants caught in standoff between Belarus and the EU
Field production in Belarus for Sky News foreign correspondent Diana Magnay, including a segment on people crossing the border into Poland as the migration standoff on the EU’s eastern frontier escalated.
Team recognition
Her credited work contributed to CNN coverage recognised with a News & Documentary Emmy and a 2023 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.
The Emmy and duPont-Columbia honours below recognised CNN’s collaborative coverage. Uliana Pavlova is named in the official credits as one of the producers on that coverage — she was not a sole recipient.