Irina Borogan

Irina Borogan

Irina Borogan ( _ru. Ирина Петровна Бороган, born 9 September 1974 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian investigative journalist.

Journalism

Irina Borogan started her journalistic career in 1996 as correspondent of Segodnya newspaper. For Segodnya she covered 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Taiwan earthquake, situation in refugees camps in Ingushetia before the Second Chechen War.

In September 2000, then in Izvestia, Irina Borogan covered law enforcement agencies and criminal activity. She was cofounder of the project Agentura.Ru. Since 2000 she is deputy editor of Agentura.Ru.

In June 2008 The Moscow Times has written in [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/368345.htm article "Journalist Enjoying A Security Monopoly"]

"In 2000, Soldatov and his partner working on the site, journalist Irina Borogan, decided to try to fill the gap in public knowledge about terrorism and those who fight it by setting up Agentura.ru to collect and present all the information about Russian security forces that was publicly available in a systematic manner. ".

2002-2004 - correspondent of Versiya (weekly newspaper). Covered Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2004 she joined weekly Moscow News, covered Beslan siege for Moscow News. Since January 2006 she works for Novaya Gazeta.

Borogan covered for Novaya Gazeta 2006 Lebanon War from Lebanon and tensions in West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine).

Pressure of the FSB

In November 2002 Irina Borogan was interrogated twice by FSB officers because of forthcoming article on the storming of the Moscow theatre and freeing of the hostages there on 26 October.

Works

In December 2005, Irina Borogan published with Andrei Soldatov the book "New patriot games. How secret services have been changing their skin 1991-2004".

External links

* [http://www.agentura.ru Agentura.Ru website] ru icon
* [http://www.agentura.ru/dossier/russia/people/borogan/ Irina Borogan page at Agentura.Ru] ru icon
* [http://www.agentura.ru/english/ Agentura.Ru English website] en icon
* [http://www.novayagazeta.ru/ Novaya Gazeta website]


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