Elena Milashina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elena Milashina

Russian journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1978

Place of Birth: Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia

Profession: writer, reporter, contributing editor, human rights activist, journalist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Elena Milashina (Russian: ????????, ????? born 1978) is a Russian investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta.
In October 2009, she was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism.
She continues investigations started by her colleague Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in Moscow in 2006, and her own independent investigations into occurrences in the North Caucasus.In the early morning of April 5, 2012, Milashina, along with her friend Ella Asoyan, was attacked by two unknown assailants in the Balashika neighborhood of Moscow.In 2013, Elena Milashina was given an International Women of Courage Award.