Marina Kortunova is a Moscow-based journalist and TV producer. Since 2004, she has been working in Moscow as a news editor, producer and a TV reporter. Kortunova has reported extensively on the international relations and the foreign policy agenda of the Russian Federation.

She has been working for Press TV since 2014 as a correspondent and became Press TV’s Moscow Bureau Chief in 2019. Kortunova covered numerous trilateral talks on Syria between the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey in Astana, congresses of the leaders of the BRICS and Eurasian countries, the high-level summit meetings as well as reports from the Russian Arctic, the Urals and the Caucasus.

She took part in the launch of RT Arabic TV channel and worked as a reporter for several West Asian television channels, such as KSA2, and AP Middle East.

Kortunova studied Sociology, Political Science and International Relations in one of the leading universities in Moscow.  While finishing postgraduate studies, she specialized in the courses of TV and radio broadcasting. Born into a family of historians, she considers journalism, West Asia and the world politics as the main interests and passions in her life.