Irina Petrushova

January 9, 2024
Journalist

Quick Facts

Irina Petrushova
Full Name Irina Petrushova
Occupation Journalist
Date Of Birth Dec 8, 1965(1965-12-08)
Age 59
Birthplace Nizhny Novgorod
Country Soviet Union
Horoscope Aquarius

Irina Petrushova Biography

Name Irina Petrushova
Birthday Dec 8
Birth Year 1965
Place Of Birth Nizhny Novgorod
Birth Country Soviet Union
Birth Sign Aquarius

Irina Petrushova is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 8, 1965 in Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union. Petrushova was born near Nizhny Novgorod in 1965. She is the daughter of Albert Petrushov, a reporter for the Russian Communist Party newspaper Pravda. Petrushov was known for his exposés of government corruption in Kazakhstan, including a story which ended the career of Kazakh Politburo member Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev.

In 1992, Petrushova’s father suffered serious brain damage when he was struck, apparently deliberately, by a car. His manuscript for a book on Kunayev was stolen while he was unconscious.

Founded in 2000, Petrushova’s weekly Respublika focused on covering business and economic issues in Kazakhstan, and frequently published stories highly critical of president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s regime. The paper wrote about financial scandals and rampant nepotism and cronyism. Scandals exposed the paper included the granting of oil rights to one of Nazarbayev’s relatives; the disappearance of funds for an airport in the capital, Almaty; and the Kazakh police forcing tourists off a plane so that Nazarbayev’s daughter might fly alone. Respublika’s most notable story was an exposé which revealed that Nazarbayev had stashed US$1 billion of the state’s oil revenues in a Swiss bank account; the government stated that this had been an emergency fund used to rescue the national economy in 1998.

In November 2001, a government representative unsuccessfully attempted to buy a controlling stake in Respublika. In January 2002, Kazakhstani printers began to refuse to print the paper, one after a human skull was placed on his doorstep. Respublika was also ordered by a Kazakhstani court to stop printing, but evaded the ban by printing under titles like Not That Respublika.

Petrushova married a psychologist in 1984. The couple have two sons.

Irina Petrushova Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Journalist
House Living in own house.

Irina Petrushova is one of the richest Journalist from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irina Petrushova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Irina Petrushova (Russian: Ирина 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, her life was threatened and her paper firebombed. In 2002, she was awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award.

In the early 1980s, Petrushova joined a journalism program at St. Petersburg State University that would allow her to work with her father. She later stated that traveling the country with him and seeing the impact that media attention could have on life in remote villages “made me positive that this is the thing I should do with my life.”

In Moscow, Petrushova edited the Assandi Times, a publication which has reported extensively on the United States Department of Justice investigation into allegations that president Nazarbayev and his allies had accepted US$78 million in bribes from American oil companies in 2000.

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Irina Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Irina Petrushova celebrates birthday on December 8 of every year.

Top Facts about Irina Petrushova

  1. Irina Petrushova is a Russian journalist and media entrepreneur.
  2. She founded The Moscow Times in 1992.
  3. Petrushova served as the paper’s editor-in-chief until 2015.
  4. Under her leadership, The Moscow Times became a leading English-language newspaper in Russia.
  5. Petrushova also co-founded Afisha magazine and Rambler Media Group.
  6. She has been recognized for her contributions to journalism with numerous awards.
  7. In 2018, she launched Fontanka.ru, an independent news website based in St. Petersburg.
  8. Petrushova is known for her commitment to press freedom and investigative reporting.
  9. She has faced legal challenges and harassment from authorities throughout her career.
  10. Despite these obstacles, she remains a prominent figure in Russian media today.

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