Yevgenia Albats
Advisory Board
Yevgenia Albats was the first Soviet journalist to investigate the Soviet political police, the KGB, when the communist regime was still in control. She is the author of The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia. In 1989, she received the Golden Pen Award, the highest journalism honor in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. Albats also freelanced for several publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and the CNN bureau in Moscow. She has a PhD in political science from Harvard University. Albats is the author of four books and currently is a deputy editor in chief and political editor of the Moscow-based political weekly, The New Times, one of the few independent media outlets in the current Russia. She is a talk show host at Echo Moskvy Broadcasting and international Russian language TV network RTVI. She is also a professor of political science at the Moscow-based University, The Higher School of Economics.
