Irina Ilovaiskaya

Irina Alekseevna Ilovaiskaya-Alberti (Russian: Ирина Алексеевна Иловайская-Альберти) (born 5 December 1924, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia - died 4 April 2000, Königstein im Taunus, Germany) was a journalist of Russian descent and campaigner against communism who edited La Pensée Russe, a Russian-language weekly newspaper published in Paris.

As a student at a Russian religious school under Metropolitan Anastasius, she spent years studying religion and maintaining the altar.

She developed close friendships with a number of leading intellectuals and religious figures, including Academician Andrei Sakharov, Alain Besançon, Pope John Paul II, Malcolm Pearson, Baroness Caroline (Caroline) Cox, Vladimir Pribylovsky, Georgy Chistyakov and Natalia Solzhenitsyn.

Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian Thought garnered a broad readership throughout the world and especially in Russia.

It dealt with world events and Russian life, particularly focusing on political, social, religious and cultural aspects.