Maria Borzunova

23 in the city of Podolsk, and in 2016, she completed her studies at the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

[3] As she reported in 2019, the Russian media demonstrated the tendency to divert viewers' attention from Russia's inherent problems by focusing on similar conflicts, possibly distorted or taken out of context in the West.

[5] In 2021, she received death threats from the far-right Male State group after she interviewed a same-sex couple.

[6] In March 2022, due to the closure of the Dozhd channel offices in Russia after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she moved to Istanbul and later to Riga.

[16] Maria Borzunova has twice been a laureate of the Redkollegia media award for her articles on the Belarusian political immigrants published in January and August 2021.