Elena Servettaz

Elena Servettaz (born 1983) is a Russian-French journalist and a news anchor at Radio France Internationale, where she covers international relations and French and Russian politics, with an emphasis on the Russian opposition movement and high-profile political cases, including those of Sergei Magnitsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Navalny and Pussy Riot. She is also the Paris correspondent for the Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy.

A graduate of Moscow State University and the French Press Institute (Paris), Servettaz began her journalistic career at the age of 18 on the political talk show "Freedom of Speech" on Russia's NTV television channel. She was also the parliamentary correspondent and special reporter for Moscow Channel 3. She has contributed to several media organizations, including Le Figaro, ELLE, The Interpreter, France 24, and the BBC, as well as to the Russian television channel TV Rain and Kommersant FM radio. In 2012, Elena served as deputy editor-in-chief of the high-end Russian-language magazine Russian Riviera published in France by RR Editions.

In 2013, Elena Servettaz published her first book, "Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law", a collection of essays in support of the adoption of EU visa sanctions against Russian human rights abusers. World famous politicians such as John McCain, Benjamin Cardin, Boris Nemtsov took part in Elena’s book project.

In 2017, Elena Servettaz was invited to join the Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s team. Elena then created and launched the Open World project – media on social medias platforms such as Facebook, VKontakte, Instagram and YouTube. The Open World – Otkrytyi Mir – decided not have a home page as its audience mainly based in Russia.