Alena Doletskaya

Russian journalist, translator, and editor-in-chief of Interview Russia since its launch in December 2011 and Interview Germany, and editor-in-chief of VOGUE Russia from 1998 to 2010. Member of the jury of the national Big Book Award since 2006. Participant in the Snob project since December 2008. Alena Doletskaya graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. There she defended her candidate’s dissertation on the topic “Comparative Rhetoric of Public Russian and English Speech” in 1982. After graduating from Moscow State University, Doletskaya taught there and translated Anglo-American literature. She translated books by William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, and several Australian and New Zealand authors. She then worked as a consultant for De Beers until 1994, collaborated with BBC radio and the German television channel RTL Television, and was the director of public relations for the British Council in Russia. In 1998, she became the first editor-in-chief of VOGUE Russia, leaving the post of her own accord in 2010. In 2011, she launched Interview magazine in Russia and Germany; in both editions, Doletskaya served as editor-in-chief. In 2012, she recorded 75 original episodes of Breakfasts with Alena Doletskaya on the Dozhd TV channel; in 2013, she launched a program of her own called An Evening with Doletskaya. She is the off-screen voice on Dozhd. In 2013, 2014, and 2016, Doletskaya published three cookbooks: Morning. 50 Breakfasts, Sunday Lunches, and About Jam, respectively.