Elena Milashina

Elena Milashina
Elena Milashina
Елена Милашина
	Milashina in 2013
Born	1977 (age 47–48)
Occupation	Journalist, human rights defender, writer, investigative journalist
Awards	International Women of Courage Award (2013); Golden Pen of Russia (2001); Free Media Awards (2016); Redkollegia (2017); honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2019); Journalism as a Profession (2017);

Elena Valeryevna Milashina (Russian: Елена Валерьевна Милашина, romanized: Yelena Valeryevna Milashina; born 1977) is a Russian investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta. She has received multiple awards for her work.

Milashina has been threatened and attacked over her work multiple times over the course of more than a decade. In 2023, she was severely beaten while covering a trial in Chechnya.