Elena Vladimirovna Chernenko (Russian: Елена Владимировна Черненко) is a Russian journalist and antiwar activist. She is a special correspondent and head of the foreign desk at the Moscow daily newspaper Kommersant.
Chernenko holds a PhD from Moscow State University. She has worked for Russian Newsweek, the Voice of Russia and the Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung.[1]
On 24 February 2022, as Russia invaded Ukraine, Chernenko launched an anti-war petition, gathering over 100 journalists' signatures.[2]