What do I do?
I'm an independent journalist with a degree in anthropology,
working in human rights advocacy in the occupied West Bank.
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My life story in short
I grew up in St Petersburg, Russia. I decided to quit school when I was 14 and studied on my own, finishing the last four grades in two years. I finished school at 16 and went to Scotland to finish British A-levels to apply to a university there.
I spent my gap year in the Shaolin Monastery in China, learning about Buddhism and training kung fu for 9 hours a day. I returned to the UK to study Anthropology at University College London. I focused on the Political Anthropology of the post-Soviet space. For my dissertation, I went to Transnistria to study the formation of national identity in an unrecognised state.
Finishing that, I interned in Social Media Marketing at Arrival, started working at Alma Mater Foundation. Wrote for Meduza, Novaya Gazeta, Discours, DOXA and other publications designated as extremist by the Kremlin.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, I moved to Tel Aviv. In 2023 I co-founded the activist collective Kompas, and started actively working in human rights advocacy in the occupied West Bank.
That's me in the West Bank
That's the Independence Day in Transnistria
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