Nicolas Miletitch
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Nicolas Miletitch was the Editor-in-Chief of the Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...

 (AFP) from 2006 to June 2009.

He joined the AFP in 1977. In 1978-81, he served as a correspondent in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 from where he was expelled owing to his connections with dissidents. Later, he was a director of the AFP office in Belgrade
Belgrade
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 (1988–94) and Moscow (1994–2001). In 2003, Miletitch became Editor-in-Chief for Europe & Africa, and since 2006 has been Editor-in-Chief of the AFP.

In 1998, in his book Trafics et crimes dans les Balkans, he published his study of organized crime in the Balkans
Balkans
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In 2008, he, along with Jean Crépu, made the television documentary L'Histoire Secrète de l'Archipel du Goulag. The documentary covers events related to creation and publication of The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp...

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...

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TV documentary

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