Olga Romanova (journalist)


Olga Yevgenyevna Romanova is a Russian journalist and a director of the civil rights organization Russia Behind the Bars.

Biography

Olga Abramovich was born on March 28, 1966 in Lyubertsy, Russia.
In 1988 Romanova graduated from the Moscow College of Finance, the Finance Department.
1988-1991 she was working as a journalist at the news agency "IMA Press".
1991 - 1994 Romanova worked as a Moscow correspondent for the Institutional Investor Magazine.
1994 - 1997 - Economy commentator in the newspaper "".
1997 - 1999 - co-author and a host of analytic TV program "In Reality" on the TV-Center Channel. Editor of the program "Big Money" on the NTV Channel.
1999 - 2002 - author of a weekly column in the newspaper "Vedomosti", author and co-owner of a weekly magazine "FAS".
1999 - 2005 - host of the analytic TV program "24 with Olga Romanova" on Ren-TV.
Since 2005 - host of "Echonomics", "Big Watch", and "Special Opinion" on Echo of Moscow.
2007 - 2008 - editor of the Economics department of The New Times.
2007 - 2008 - chief editor of the BusinessWeek magazine.
Since 2007 - Professor at the Faculty of Media Communications, Department of Journalism at the National Research university - Higher School of Economics.
2008 - following the arrest and imprisonment of her husband, Aleksey Kozlov, Romanova published his jail diary in her blog. In 2010 Romanova turned it into a book "Butirka". The same year Romanova founded a non-profit group that documents the mistreatment of prisoners in Russia.
2009 - 2010 chief editor, contributor to Slon.ru.
In 2017 Romanova has fled to Germany after claiming she was falsely accused of embezzling state funds.