Olga Romanova was born on March 28, 1966, in
Lyubertsy, Russia. In 1988 Romanova graduated from the
Moscow Institute of Finance, the Finance Department. 1988-1991 she was working as a journalist at the news agency "IMA Press". 1991 - 1994 Romanova worked as a Moscow correspondent for the Institutional Investor Magazine. 1994 - 1997 - Economy commentator in the newspaper "[Today]" (
Сегодня). 1997 - 1999 - co-author and a host of analytic TV program "In Reality" (На самом деле) on the TV-Center Channel (
ТВ Центр). Editor of the program "Big Money" (Большие деньги) on the NTV (
НТВ) Channel. 1999 - 2002 - author of a weekly column in the newspaper "Vedomosti" (Ведомости), author and co-owner of a weekly magazine "FAS" (ФАС). 1999 - 2005 - host of the analytic TV program "24 with Olga Romanova" on
Ren-TV. Since 2005 - host of "Echonomics" (Эхономика), "Big Watch" (Большой Дозор), and "Special Opinion" (
Особое Мнение) on
Echo of Moscow. 2007 - 2008 - editor of the Economics department of The New Times. 2007 - 2008 - chief editor of the BusinessWeek magazine. Since 2007 - Professor at the Faculty of Media Communications, Department of Journalism at the
National Research university - Higher School of Economics. 2008 - following the arrest and imprisonment of her husband, Aleksey Kozlov, Romanova published his jail diary in her blog. In 2010 Romanova turned it into a book "Butyrka" (Бутырка). The same year Romanova founded a non-profit group "Russia Behind Bars" (Rus Sidyashaya) that documents the mistreatment of prisoners in Russia. 2009 - 2010 chief editor, contributor to Slon.ru. In 2017 Romanova fled to Germany after claiming she was falsely accused of embezzling state funds. ==References==