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Galina Viktorovna Timchenko (; born 8 May 1962) is a Russian-born Latvian journalist and the CEO, publisher and owner of Meduza.
On 12 March 2014, the owner, Alexander Mamut, fired Galina Timchenko and replaced her with Alexey Goreslavsky. 39 employees out of the total 84, including Director-general Yuliya Minder, including 32 correspondents, all 5 photo-editors and 6 administrators resigned as a result.
The employees of Lenta.ru issued a statement that the purpose of the move was to install a new Editor-in-Chief directly controlled by the Kremlin and turn the website into a propaganda tool. In October 2014, Timchenko together with several former journalists of Lenta.ru launched a new media based in Riga, named Meduza. Timchenko told Forbes that the decision to base Meduza in Latvia was made because "it is possible to establish an independent publishing house in Latvia, while in Russia it is impossible". In 2022, she received the Committee to Protect Journalists' (CJP) Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award as Meduzas CEO and publisher for "extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom".
In 2023, her phone had been hacked with spyware Pegasus while she was in Germany. According to investigators, the attack could have come from Russia or a European Union state. Investigation finds Russian journalist Galina Timchenko targeted by Pegasus spyware, by Committee to Protect Journalists.
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