Yevgenia Volunkova

Yevgenia Volunkova worked for many years as a journalist in Karelia, Russia’s northern republic that borders Finland. Then she moved to the Volga region and worked for four years as the editor of the most popular paper in Samara. Since 2017 she has been working as a special correspondent for the online publication, Takie Dela (“How Things Are”). She lives in Moscow but travels frequently around Russia, writing about people living in remote regions. She also writes about Russia’s social issues and doggedly maintains that high-quality journalism can change the world for the better.