Galina Viktorovna Timchenko (Russian: Гали́на Ви́кторовна Ти́мченко; born 8 May 1962) is a Russian-born Latvian[1][2] journalist and the CEO, publisher and owner of Meduza.

In 1999, she moved to the newly created online edition Lenta.ru, having risen from the monitoring officer to chief editor.

In 2010, Harvard University conducted a study of the Russian blogosphere, and recognized Lenta.ru as the most widely quoted in the Russian-language blogs news source.

On 12 March 2014, the owner, Alexander Mamut, fired Galina Timchenko and replaced her with Alexey Goreslavsky.

[3] 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.