Ekaterina Barabash

Ekaterina Yurievna Barabash (; born 26 April 1961 ) is a Ukrainian and Russian journalist who is currently living in exile in France.

Early life Barabash was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. When she was five, her father, became the deputy editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta and moved the family to Moscow, Russia. She also contributed to Radio France Internationale.

She later worked for Republic.ru, a Russian media outlet that was banned in 2022, after the fullscale Russian invasion of Ukraine began. She said she crossed the border out of Russia on 26 April, her birthday.

In May 2025, she arrived in France after fleeing Russia with the assistance of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in what the RSF director described as "one of the most perilous operations" that RSF had been involved in since the beginning of the fullscale invasion. During her escape, she traveled 2,800 kilometers and at one point needed to go fully offline, losing all contact with RSF.

Personal life Barabash has a son and grandson, who both live in Kyiv. Her daughter-in-law is Lyuba Yakimchuk.