Irina Petrushova

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Albertovna and the family name is Petrushova.
Irina Petrushova
Born1965 (age 60–61)
near Nizhny Novgorod
Occupationjournalist
OrganizationRespublika
AwardsCPJ International Press Freedom Award (2002)

Irina Albertovna Petrushova (Russian: Ирина Альбертовна Петрушова; born 1965) is a Russian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Respublika in Kazakhstan. After a series of stories exposing government corruption in Kazakhstan, her life was threatened and her paper firebombed. In 2002, she was awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award.

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