Vladlena Funk (Russian: Владлена Функ; born 1977) is a Russian- American free-lance reporter, who was held captive by the Belarusian KGB for over a year in a high-profile US-Belarus hostage crisis, together with a well-known American lawyer Emanuel Zeltser, who heads American Russian Law Institute, a non-for-profit non-governmental public policy research and advisory organization.