Elena Chernenko (journalist)
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Elena Vladimirovna Chernenko (Russian: Елена Владимировна Черненко) is a Russian journalist and antiwar activist. She is a special correspondent and head of the foreign desk at the Moscow daily newspaper Kommersant.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Chernenko.
Chernenko holds a PhD from Moscow State University. She has worked for Russian Newsweek, the Voice of Russia and the Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung.[1]
On 24 February 2022, as Russia invaded Ukraine, Chernenko launched an anti-war petition, gathering over 100 journalists' signatures.[2]