Elena Milashina is a Russian investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta.
10 Facts About Elena Milashina
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Elena Milashina was born on October 28,1977 in the city of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai.
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Elena Milashina studied at a school in the city of Amursk.
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In 1997, Milashina began working as a reporter and journalist for Novaya Gazeta, while studying at the same time.
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In 2000, Elena Milashina published a series of materials on the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster, for which she received the Golden Pen of Russia award from the Journalists Union of Russia in the Journalistic Investigations category.
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The areas of professional interest of Elena Milashina include corruption, human rights violations in the North Caucasus and Chechnya, in particular, the investigation of the 2004 Beslan school siege, the 2006 assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, and the 2009 abduction and murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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In October 2009, Elena Milashina became the laureate of the annual prize of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
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Elena Milashina continues investigations started by her colleague Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in Moscow in 2006, and her own independent investigations into occurrences in the North Caucasus.
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In 2013, Elena Milashina was given an International Women of Courage Award.
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Novaya Gazeta reported on February 8,2022 that Elena Milashina had been forced to leave Russia due to threats against her.