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Irina Prokhorova
Russian historian & critic (born 1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova (born 3 March 1956) is a Russian philologist, literary critic and cultural historian, chief editor of the New Literary Observer [ru] publishing house and of the literature academic journal of the same name, co-founder of the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation [ru]. In 2012, she helped her billionaire brother Mikhail Prokhorov in his presidential run, heading his political party Civic Platform from 2013 to 2014.