Zoya Feliksovna Svetova (Russian: Зоя Феликсовна Светова; born March 17, 1959) is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty (Russian: Признать невиновного виновным).
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Biography
In 1982 she graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.
In 2000–2002, she was an expert at the Soros Foundation on programmes related to the development of law, the judiciary and the topic of human rights in Russia.
In 2008–2016, she worked at the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) of Moscow. In 2016, she was nominated to the Mordovian PMC, but was not included in its composition.
Work in the media
1991—1993 — Family and School magazine
1993—2001 – columnist for the Russkaya mysl newspaper
1994—1999 – assistant to the correspondent of the Moscow bureau Radio France
1999—2001 – assistant correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the Libération newspaper
2001—2003 – correspondent of the Man and Circumstances section of the Novye Izvestia newspaper
2002—2004 – representative in Moscow of the Reporters Without Borders organisation
2003—2004 – special correspondent of the policy department of the Russkiy Kurier daily newspaper
2004—2005 – editor of the department of internal policy of Russkiy Kurier
since December 2009 – columnist for The New Times magazine
She published articles in the newspapers Kommersant, Russian Telegraph, Obshchaya Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta, Moskovskiye Novosti, Ogoniok, Itogi, Yezhenedelny Zhurnal, as well as in French-language publications: Ouest-France, France Soir, La Dépêche du Midi, Le quotidien (Luxembourg).
She worked as a producer on the France 2 TV channel.
Political position
In September 2014, she signed a statement from the December 12 Round Table demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. In November 2019, she signed a collective appeal in support of Gasan Gusejnov.
In September 2020, she signed a letter in support of protest actions in Belarus.