Taisia Bekbulatova

Taisiya Lvovna Bekbulatova is a Russian journalist. In 2019 she founded her own on-line magazine Holod Media which won awards. In 2020 she was arrested on the same day as Ivan Safronov. She was declared a foreign agent in Russia and she moved herself and her fellow journalists out of Russia when "fake" news became illegal. In 2022 she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women.

Life Bekbulatova studied journalism at Moscow State University. She was an intern at the Kommersant Russian daily newspaper in her fourth year. Her journalism professor, Lyudmila Resnyanskaya, encouraged her to be a political journalist.

In 2012 she began working as a correspondent for the politics department at Kommersant. In 2017 she became a special correspondent for the online publication Meduza, The "Road to Askiz" story was published in August 2019 and it won Holod's first award from Redkollegia. She soon gathered a team of other journalists. At the end of 2021 she was labelled as a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice and she moved to Tbilisi.

In 2022 the BBC included her with two other Russian women in their 100 Women. The BBC cited her coverage of women's rights and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was quoted saying "...And women's rights are usually the first to vanish."