Olesya Gerasimenko

Olesya Gerasimenko is a Moscow based journalist and investigative reporter. She is staff writer for the Kommersant-Vlast magazine.

Scenes from an uprising: the Kopeysk revolt

A mutiny at a prison camp in the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia has just shaken the country. Olesya Gerasimenko is one of the few journalists whom its director allowed into the penal zone, and to date the only one to interview him.

By Olesya Gerasimenko

/ 4 Dec 2012

Mother’s boys: conversations with the parents of Russia’s neo-Nazis

Russia’s growing nationalist movement has alarmed many liberal commentators, who wonder how the country that defeated Adolf Hitler could have given birth to so many young men overtly sympathetic to his ideas. Journalist Olesya Gerasimenko, who has covered several neo-Nazi trials, wondered where th

By Olesya Gerasimenko

/ 2 Feb 2012