Galina Arapova

Galina Arapova (; born 16 June 1972) is a Russian jurist, director and senior media lawyer of the Mass Media Defence Centre in Voronezh. She is an expert on Russian media law.

Education Galina Arapova studied law at Voronezh State University. She has a law degree and post-graduate degree in world economy and international relations, graduated from Institute of European Law (Birmingham, UK).

Career In 1995 she went to work at Glasnost Defense Foundation. In 2015 the organization became a "foreign agent".

Galina Arapova is a member of EHRAC's International Steering Committee.

She is a member of the International Media Lawyers Association and of the Voronezh City Public Chamber.

Galina Arapova is a Russian national expert on the admissibility of the Council of Europe’s HELP programme (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals).

Awards

Special FOE protection award from Russian Union of Journalists in 2011. Anna Politkovskaya prize "Camerton" in 2015. IBA Human Rights Award in 2016.