The MSU Faculty of Journalism is a faculty of the Moscow State University. It is situated on the Mohovaya, 9, in downtown Moscow, approximately one block away from the Kremlin. The dean of the MSU Faculty of Journalism is professor Elena Leonidovna Vartanova. The president is professor Yassen Nikolayevich Zassoursky. Zassoursky was the dean of the Faculty of Journalism since 1965 till 2007. The Department of Journalism was established in 1947 (1947) at the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow State University. In 1952 it was reorganised as the independent Faculty of Journalism. About 15,000 mass media specialists who work in different editorial boards, television and radio stations, and news agencies in Russia and abroad have been educated at the Faculty. More than 600 foreign students from Europe, Asia, Africa, and America have graduated from the Faculty of Journalism. Source: Wikipedia (en)