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Yevgenia Albats, Russia, was the first Soviet journalist to investigate the Soviet political police, the KGB, when the communist regime was still in control. She is the author of The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia.

Yevgenia Albats, Russia

In 1989, she received the Golden Pen Award, the highest journalism honor in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993. Albats also free-lanced for several publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and the CNN bureau in Moscow. She has a graduate degree from Harvard and has testified before the U.S. Congress on human rights abuses during the war in Chechnya, which she covered. Albats is a columnist for the Moscow Times and an anchor for Echo Moskvy Broadcasting.

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