Tanya Lokshina is a human rights researcher, journalist, and writer from Russia.
13 Facts About Tanya Lokshina
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Tanya Lokshina is director of the Russia program at Human Rights Watch.
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Tanya Lokshina was born in the City of Moscow on June 17,1973.
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Tanya Lokshina lived together with parents in the United States since 1990 where she studied journalism.
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Tanya Lokshina later returned to Russia where she was working as a journalist.
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Tanya Lokshina's articles, dedicated to Human Rights, were published in many newspapers like the Guardian, Le Monde, the Moscow Times, Novaya Gazeta, the Washington Post.
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Tanya Lokshina worked for the human rights organization the Moscow Helsinki Group since 1998, where her researches were mostly about the second Chechen war, that began that time; Tanya Lokshina documented the Chechen war's abuses, interviewed witnesses and victims of the war.
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Tanya Lokshina travelled to Chechnya and Dagestan several times for her human rights work.
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Tanya Lokshina was under threat attack in 2012, when she began to systematically receive telephone messages with text detailing events of her private life.
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Tanya Lokshina published her observations in the article "Chechnya: Choked by Headscarves".
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Snowden asked Tanya Lokshina to come to the Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, find there an airport staff person with "G9" sign in the airport guest hall, and when she did that, there were many reporters around.
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The only journalist who attended the Snowden meeting at Sheremetyevo was Polonca Frelih who wrote that Tanya Lokshina "spoke more like a representative of the US Embassy and conveyed their message to Snowden that if he returned home, he would not be considered a traitor to state secrets, but only a violator of the law".
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Tanya Lokshina wrote, cooperated in, and edited several books, such as.