Alesya Marokhovskaya is a Russian investigative and data journalist based in Prague.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of Important Stories (IStories), an independent Russian media outlet specialising in large-scale investigations and research, since September 2024. For the last five years, she led the data journalism department at IStories.
Her areas of interest include corruption, abuse of power by authorities, arbitrariness of the judicial and law enforcement systems, and social issues in Russia. Previously, she worked in the data department of the Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta and collaborated with OCCRP, Meduza, Transparency International Russia, and other investigative projects. She is a two-time winner of The Sigma Award (with OCCRP in 2020 and Important Stories in 2022) and won the European Press Prize in 2021 in the Investigative Reporting category for her work with Important Stories.
In August 2021, the Russian authorities labeled Marokhovskaya as a "foreign agent." In February 2022, her work with Important Stories became criminally punishable by the Russian authorities after they declared Important Stories an "undesirable organization."
