Yevgenia Albats

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yevgenia Albats
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Sep 5, 1958(1958-09-05)
Age	66
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Virgo

Yevgenia Albats Biography

Yevgenia Albats is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on September 5, 1958 in Moscow, Russia. Albats’ father Mark Yefremovich Albats was a member a GRU military surveillance team during World War II. He resides in German-occupied Ukraine. He was injured and then discharged from the Army in 1943. He worked as an engineer in a scientific institute, creating radiolocation systems for Soviet Army. Yelena Izmaylovskaya was Albats’ mother. She was an actress as well as a radio news presenter. Albats’ older sister, Tatyana Komarova is a television anchor/host.

Albats married Yaroslav Golovanov, a journalist, writer, and science popularizer. They had a daughter Olga (b. 1988).

In 1992 Albats published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that David Karr was “a competent KGB source” who “submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries”. She cited KGB notes describing transfers of money to communist parties of United States, Finland, France, Italy, as well as “commercial dealings” of Rajiv Gandhi’s family with Soviet foreign trade. Albats learned that the KGB employed the future Russian Patriarch Alexius II as an agent under a nickname Drozdov. KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin and dissident priest Gleb Yakunin who had access to KGB archives reported the same.

In 1992 Albats was appointed a consultant for a Russian Duma commission to examine KGB involvement in Soviet coup attempt of 1991. This commission was led by Lev Ponomarev As a member of this commission she interviewed KGB officers. Albats described her findings in The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia – Past, Present, and Future in 1994. KGB chairman Vadim Bakatin gave Albats the number of KGB officers as 180,000 in a post-1991 interview. Using the “rule of thumb”, “four non-ranking KGB employees for every officer”, Albats estimated that the number of KGB employees in Russia in 1992 approached 700,000, “one [political police agent] for every 297 citizens of Russia”, as opposed to “one Chekist for every 428 Soviet citizens.”

Albats began her professional career as a freelance reporter at Komsomolskaya Pravda while she was still in high school. After graduating, Albats was able to get a job as a low paid assistant at the “letters desk” (the desk that was required to answer letters from readers) at Izvestia Sunday Supplement, Nedelya. She also began writing for the paper about astrophysics as well as particle physics. The Sunday supplement of Izvestia newspaper. She worked as a special assignment reporter for the Moscow Newsa, covering the notorious USSR political police, The KGB, from 1986 to 1992. She worked from 1996 to 2006 for Izvestia, where she was the leader of the weekly column We and Our Children and Novaya Gazeta.

Yevgenia Albats Net Worth

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

Yevgenia Martkovna Albats, Russian investigative journalist, writer, and radio host (Russian: Evgeniia Marikovna Al’bats, born 5 September 1958), is known as Yevgenia Markovna Albats. She is currently the chief editor at The New Times magazine.

Yevgenia Albats was a 1980 graduate of the Moscow State University’s Department of Journalism. Anna Politkovskaya was one of her friends and classmates. She would go on to become an investigative journalist, and was assassinated in 2006.

She received the Golden Pen Award from the Russian Union of Journalists for exposing poor conditions in maternity wards in 1989.

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Who is Yevgenia Albats Dating?

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As of 2004 Albats hosted a radio talk program at Echo of Moscow. In February 2007 she held a talk with Olga Kryshtanovskaya, director of the Moscow-based Centre for the Study of Elites. Kryshtanovskaya said that FSB members and other “siloviks” took key positions in the Russian government, Parliament and business. These members share their military background and nationalistic views. She noted that most FSB members remain in the “acting reserve” even when they formally leave the organization. All “acting reserve” members receive an FSB salary, follow FSB instructions, and remain above the law because their organization protects them, according to Kryshtanovskaya.

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Yevgenia Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Yevgenia Albats celebrates birthday on September 5 of every year.

In 2006, Albats criticized Anna Arutunyan who had written an article in the Moscow News about the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Arutunyan wrote that Politkovskaya became an activist and that her articles contained “inaccuracies”.