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Yevgenia Albats (Template:Lang-ru; born 1956) is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host.

Life

She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1980. She received the Golden Pen Award in 1989. She was a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993.

In 2004 Albats received her PhD degree in political sciences from Harvard University. She is currently a Professor in the Moscow Higher School of Economics and works at the radio station Echo of Moscow. She also writes for Moscow Times. She was a columnist for the government owned Izvestia newspaper.

She was a researcher on KGB subjects, assigned by the Russian Parliament in 1991 to examine the archives after the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.

Some of her findings

Evgenia Albats described collaboration of American Senator Edward Kennedy with KGB that has been established through Western financier and KGB agent David Karr. In 1992, she published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that Karr was “a competent KGB source” who ‘‘submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries.”

She cited KGB correspondence about money payments to Rajiv Gandhi and his family This is consistent with Mitrokhin archives which described how suitcases with KGB money traveled to Indira Gandhi office.

She confirmed that Russian Patriarch Alexius II was KGB agent DROZDOV. This has also been reported by Vasili Mitrokhin and dissident priest Gleb Yakunin who was given access to KGB archives.

Arutunian scandal

In October 2006 Yevgenia Albats confronted a journalist Anna Arutunian on air of Echo of Moscow. Earlier, Arutunian wrote an article in the Moscow News criticizing Anna Politkovskaya's deed. Arutunian wrote that Politkovskaya was more an activist than a journalist and that her articles were full of "inaccuracies". Albats invited Arutunian on the air on show dedicated to the role of the mass media. When Arutunian appeared on the show, Albats abruptly chaged the theme of program.

Yevgenia Albats drawed nation-wide criticism and rebuke when it was leaked that after the show she approached Arutunian and demanded her 'to leave the profession', threatened her with connections in the US, and pledged she 'would be looking after her therefrom'. Many viewed Albats behaviour as extremly uncivil, undemocratic and rude.

The Livejournal entry of Arutunian blog where she told the real story of what happened on the show instantly became the most rated entry in the Russian blogoshpere for months.

An observer for the magazine Expert Oleg Kashin reported about internet users flashmob campaign under a slogan "Put Albats off air" (Альбац, вон из эфира!). According to Kashin, Albats fraudulently obtained her Higher School of Economics professorship with the help of rector Yaroslav Kuzminov.

References

  1. Bureaucrats and the Russian transition: The politics of accommodation, 1991-2003. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2004. - 343 p.
  2. The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold, The New York Times, by Glenn Garelik, November 27, 1994
  3. Senator Edward Kennedy Requested KGB Assistance With a Profitable Contract for his Businessman-Friend, Izvestia 24 June 1992, 5.
  4. ^ Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5.
  5. Can Corrupt Politicians Preserve Freedom?, by Rajinder Puri (it claims that KGB chief Victor Chebrikov in December 1985 had sought in writing from the CPSU, "authorization to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi." )
  6. ^ Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7
  7. Does Russian society need a fourth estate?, a talk show by Yevgenia Albats, Echo of Moscow, 22 October 2006 (in Russian)
  8. Journalist Murder a Conundrum By Anna Arutunyan, Moscow News, №39, 2006.
  9. ^ Full Albats by Oleg Kashin, business newspaper Vzgliad, October 26, 2006 (in Russian)
  10. ^ Boorishness as a World View by Yelena Kalashnikova (in Russian)

Her books

  • Bureaucrats and Russian Transition: Politics of Accommodation. Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-18104-7.

External links

English

Russian

Some of her articles (English)

Articles about her

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