High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yelena Maglevannaya (Russian: , born 15 December 1981) is a Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, Free Speech, in Volgograd. She has requested a political asylum in Finland on May 2009. Maglevannaya has focused on cases of persecution against Chechens. Maglevannaya published an article of a Chechen Zubayr Zubayraev (Russian: ), detained in Volgograd since 2007, in Civitas.ru, Svobodnoye Slovo and later on the web page of the Islamic Committee of Russia. The article criticized the conditions and ill-treatments in prisons. On February 18, 2009, the administration of Volgograd set a suit against Maglevannaya for honour and business reputation protection , accusing her of spreading disinformation on torture of Mr. Zubayraev. Court of Volgograd ruled that Maglevannaya had spread false information, and ordered to pay 200,000 rubles (about 4,600 euros) as a compensation for moral damage to the administration of Volgograd prison colony LIU-15.