Laura Starink is a Dutch journalist. After 20 years as correspondent in Moscow for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, she was appointed editor-in-chief of Magazine M, its weekly supplement. She is also the author of two (as yet untranslated) books on Russia: Een land van horen zeggen (A Land of Hearsay, 1992) and De Russische kater (The Russian Hangover, 2008).