Galina Timchenko

Galina Timchenko is a journalist and editor who helped establish Meduza in Riga in 2014 with former colleagues from Lenta.ru. She previously worked at Kommersant and joined Lenta.ru in 1999, becoming its editor-in-chief in 2004. After her dismissal in 2014, she developed Meduza as an independent publication based outside Russia. In 2022, the Committee to Protect Journalists recognised her work with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.

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