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Petr Igorevich Kovalenko Mr.Kovalenko was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation in 1977, where he finished secondary school with honors and upon tight competition received the FLEX Program grant to for an exchange program in the US in 1994-1995. (http://exchanges.state.gov/education/citizens/students/eurasia/flex.htm). Upon return to his homeland he entered the Department of Journalism of Rostov State University in 1995. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Journalism with a minor in law in 1999 and worked as a correspondent, columnist and editor in the Rostov-on-Don city daily newspapers and magazines. In 1998 he started cooperation with the BBC World Services teaching seminars for media professionals. Since 1997 he has been conducting research on online communication in its impact on society. In 2000 he won highly prestigious competition for the full scholarship from the Open Society Foundation (Soros Foundation www.osi.org) to graduate level studies at the department of Sociology, Central European University (University of Lancaster, UK accredited teaching site) Warsaw, Poland. In 2001 Mr.Kovalenko was accredited a Degree of Master of Sciences in Economy and Society with Merit from the University of Lancaster, UK. His Master’s thesis was titled “The Functions of interactive tools in online newspapers”. In 2001 Mr.Kovalenko entered the Graduate School of Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. (http://www.sns.edu.pl) In 2003 Mr.Kovalenko participated in the First Summer Doctoral Programme at the Oxford Internet Institute 'a leading world centre for the multidisciplinary study of the Internet and society, focusing on Internet-related research and teaching, and on informing policy-making and practice' where he worked under the guidance of Professor Steven Coleman and Professor Bill Dutton (http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk) Peter Kovalenko’s scientific advisor is formet Minister of Education and Sport, Professor Tomas Goban-Klas. Since 2001 Mr.Kovalenko has started his teaching career at the Department of Journalism Rostov State University. As a Civic Education project (www.cep.org) nominee (2001-2003) and representative he has been involved in the development of the civic education in Journalism. Among the courses he taught were Internet Marketing for Media, Online Journalism and History of Mass Communication. Parallel with his academic activities Mr.Kovalenko has written award-winning subject-oriented college English textbooks ”English for Students of Economics” and “English for Students of Psychology” (in cooperation with Dr.Igor Agabekian). At the moment English for PR practitioners” is being published at the www.prospekt.org publishing house in Moscow, Russia. At present time Mr.Kovalenko is in the process of doctoral dissertation defense, which will take place at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. His doctoral thesis is titled "Structural dynamics of the public sphere in post-soviet Russia. Online political forums as an alternative public-private space." (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/texts/en/kovalenko.htm) Since 2005 Mr. Kovalenko works for the only English-language daily in the Russian Federation “The Moscow Times” covering business, real estate and Hi-tech. Since March 2006 Petr Kovalenko started his career as a PR-Director of the New Media and Entertainment holding “World Media Ventures working on media relations strategies for the www.islava.ru and www.bu.ru projects. In 2006 Petr Kovalenko has been nominated by the Fulbright Commission for a 10-month in-residence program at the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Among the goals of his research are updating curricula in Public Relations and Media and Communication Research, completion of the monograph on methods of online communication research, and writing a monograph on PR in online communication in political campaigning based on US presidential election campaigns.