[3] Alexey Kovalev was born in Moscow in a family of art historians.

[4] In London, he was writing articles for Wired and The Guardian and has been a correspondent for the Snob [ru; hy] magazine since March 2011.

[5] Kovalev moved to Moscow and from 1 March 2012 to 9 December 2013 was the editor-in-chief of the inoSMI website,[6] which publishes translations of foreign media articles.

He was fired as a result of the formal liquidation of RIA Novosti and news agency's transfer under the control of Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-controlled media group.

[7] In September 2014, Kovalev launched The Noodle Remover project (Russian: Лапшеснималочная), which fought against fake news.