Fatima Tlis or Tlisova (Adyghe: Фатима Тлисова; born 1966) is a Russian-American[1] investigative journalist, researcher and expert on Russia.

[2] Fatima Tlis graduated from Stavropol State University [ru; ce; it; ka; uk], Russia, with a Master of Arts degree in Russian language and literature.

A few months earlier, they had challenged the firm's majority shareholder Ali Kaitov, nephew of the Republic president Mustafa Batdyev.

They included Rasul Bogatyrev, a deputy in the state legislature; the family of the murdered raised vigorous protests, and the case drew considerable attention in the international press.

Subsequently, a large rally protesting the local government overcame teargas and reinforced police lines to take over the presidential palace.

[9] Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (Federal Security Services, FSB) agents then took her to a nearby forest and extinguished cigarettes on the fingers of her right hand, "so that you can write better".

The fact that a drunken policeman can drag an innocent young man into a police station in broad daylight and put him on such a list - I didn't want that to happen to my son.

On 2007-06-28, Tlisova and Bagrov, along with the Committee to Protect Journalists, met the Congressional Human Rights Caucus chaired by Representative Tom Lantos.

In a press release on the event, the CPJ said "This spring, unable to continue their work unobstructed, Bagrov and Tlisova were granted political asylum, and they resettled in the United States."

[7] In her interviews about moving to the United States, Tlisova said that while welcoming the security it gave her family, she also felt that she could not remain silent about the violence in her homeland.

[15] The asylum for the dissident journalists gave rise to speculation that the United States and its allies were taking a hard line with Russia, especially when shortly afterwards, four Russian diplomats were expelled from the United Kingdom, after Russia refused to extradite FSB agent Andrei Lugovoi, who is suspected of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko.