Irina Borogan

Irina Borogan

Irina Borogan (Russian: Ирина Петровна Бороган, born in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian investigative journalist.

Irina Borogan started her journalistic career in 1996 as correspondent of Segodnya newspaper. For Segodnya she covered 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Taiwan earthquake, situation in refugees camps in Ingushetia before the Second Chechen War.

In September 2000, then in Izvestia, Irina Borogan covered law enforcement agencies and criminal activity. With Andrei Soldatov she was cofounder of the project Agentura.Ru. Since then Andrei Soldatov is editor and she is deputy editor of Agentura.Ru.

In June 2008 The Moscow Times has written in article "Journalist Enjoying A Security Monopoly"

"In 2000, Soldatov and his partner working on the site, journalist Irina Borogan, decided to try to fill the gap in public knowledge about terrorism and those who fight it by setting up Agentura.ru to collect and present all the information about Russian security forces that was publicly available in a systematic manner. ".

2002-2004 - correspondent of Versiya (weekly newspaper). Covered Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2004 she joined weekly Moscow News, covered Beslan siege for Moscow News. From January 2006 until November 2008 she worked for Novaya Gazeta.

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