Yevgenia Albats

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yevgenia Markovna Albats (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿, born 5 September 1958) is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host. She is the chief editor of The New Times magazine. Albats started her professional work as a science observer writing about astrophysics and particle physics for the Izvestia newspaper's Sunday supplement, Nedelya. From 1986 - 1992 she worked for the Moscow News. In 1996-2006 she worked for Izvestia (led the weekly column We and Our Children) and Novaya Gazeta. She received the Golden Pen Award from the Russian Union of Journalists for exposing poor conditions in maternity wards in 1989. Albats was fired from Izvestia in 1997 after she had completed a major article exposing alleged illegal activities by the FSB. She was restored to her position by a court decision on 15 March 1997. In 2007 Albats became a deputy Chief Editor of The New Times magazine. On January 16, 2009 she replaced Irena Lisnevskaya as the Chief Editor of the magazine.