Andrzej Zaucha (reporter)

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Template:Short description Andrzej Zaucha (born 1967) is a Polish journalist and writer.

Born in Zakliczyn near Tarnów, southern Poland, Zaucha has reported as a journalist in Russia and Chechnya. Since 1997 he has been based in Moscow as a correspondent for the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza", private radio station RMF FM, and television network TVN.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2003 Zaucha published "Moscow: Nord-Ost" regarding the terrorist attack on Moscow's Dubrovka Theatre in October 2002.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He has also reported for TVN and TVN24 stations on, among other things, Russian presidential and parliamentary elections, political demonstrations in Moscow, the Polish Tu-154 crash in Smolensk<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Russia's annexation of Crimea.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March 2022, after the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine and the adoption by the Russian parliament of a law that harms the media (providing for up to 15 years in prison for “untrue” - from the Kremlin's point of view - information about the actions of the Russian military), it was withdrawn from Russian territory.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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