Anastasia Kirilenko is a Russian independent investigative reporter and radio journalist. Kirilenko graduated from Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management in 2006 with a degree in International Relations, and earned a Masters in Journalism in 2007 at the French-Russian joint Master of Journalism at Moscow State University/French Institute of Press. In 2008 she worked as translator at the Human Rights Centre "Memorial". From 2009 to 2015, Kirilenko was a reporter at the Russian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where she published a number of journalistic investigations on corruption in Russia. Kirilenko has also contributed to investigative films for BBC Panaroma, PBS, CBC, Radio Canada and other media. Since 2016 member of the expert group "Fighting transborder" corruption under the umbrella of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum