Kristina Kormilitsyna
Russia
Born on 29 Dec 1984 in Moscow region, she studied journalism at the Russian State Social University, and then studied photojournalism at Moscow State University. She worked for seven years as a print journalist in regional newspaper before moving to staff photographer at the Federation of hockey of Russia. She began working at the Kommersant newspaper in 2015.
She was the winner of the photo contest "Best of Russia 2015", and placed second in the photography contest of the Orthodox "Faith and The Word" in 2016 for her film about the conflict between the republics of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. She took part in a media project in May 2016 on the deterioration of Russian-Turkish relations after the downed plane. In December 2016, she covered the Cuban people's mourning events related to the farewell of their national leader, Fidel Castro.
