Irina Borogan

About the Author

Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist in exile.

Borogan reported on terrorist attacks in Russia, including hostage takings in Moscow and Beslan. In 1999 Borogan covered the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, in 2006 she covered the Lebanon War and tensions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She chronicled the Kremlin’s campaign to gain control of civil society and strengthen the government’s police services under the pretext of fighting extremism.

She is co-author with Andrei Soldatov of The New Nobility (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web (PublicAffairs, 2015), and The Compatriots (PublicAffairs, 2019).

She lives in London.