Family and early years Osetinskaya was born in Moscow in 1977. Her father Nikolay Iosifovich Osetinskiy was a professor in the
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. She graduated from Moscow public school №1543 in 1994. Osetinskaya is an alumna of the
MSU Faculty of Economics, graduating in 1998. During her students years, in 1995 she started reporting for
RBC.
Career Between November 1999 and April 2011 Osetinskaya worked for
Vedomosti. She started as a correspondent and gradually rose to editor-in-chief position. In 2005 she obtained an
MBA in a joint program of
RANEPA and the
Kingston University; in the same year she started as a radio host on ‘
Echo of Moscow’. Between May 2011 and December 2013, Osetinskaya was the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of
Forbes. In January 2014 she started as the editor-in-chief of
business-news conglomerate RBC, which included the
television network, the website, the daily newspaper, and the magazine. On 13 May 2016, together with two more editors of the RBC Information Systems, she was fired with immediate effect. It is believed that this was a consequence of the publication about the
Panama Papers and their connections to Vladimir Putin. Earlier that year, she was named a 2016–17 International
John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at
Stanford University. In the same year, she also received a scholarship to the Investigative Reporting Program at the
University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, she returned to Russia and launched
The Bell, a six-person media start-up, independent of oligarch or state money. In December 2017, Osetinskaya launched her own Youtube show ‘Russkie Norm’ (trans. ‘Russians are Okay’) where she interviewed successful Russian scientists and businessmen, living abroad. In July 2020, she signed a letter in support of journalist , who was accused for state treason by the Russian authorities. == Crackdown ==