Ekaterina Mereminskaia is a financial and investigative journalist based in Tallinn.
Ekaterina is a reporter at Delovye Vedomosti (Äripäev, Tallinn), where she has worked since 2022, covering Estonian, international and Russian economic affairs. At the same time, she is editor of the Economics department at The Insider (theins.ru) and hosts the YouTube programme "Пушки или масло" ("Guns or Butter") for The Insider Live. She was previously a reporter at Vedomosti, VTimes, Meduza, The Important Stories and the The Moscow Times.
She specialises in the Russian war economy, sanctions evasion, energy markets and the impact of the war in Ukraine on business and economics in Estonia and the wider region. She also researched climate policy in Russia for Klimareporter (Berlin). She writes long-form analysis and investigations, combining fact-checking, data work and on-the-ground reporting, often translating findings between Russian and Estonian audiences. In 2026 Russia's Ministry of Justice designated her a "foreign agent."
She has been nominated three times by the Union of Media Enterprises of Estonia for the Best Investigation or Issue Article in the Russian language, and won the award for best story in Russian in Estonia in 2023 and 2025.
