She presented the programme "The Week" which was reported as the last independent TV news source in Russia when it was stopped in 2014.

[1] In November 2005 REN TV fired Olga Romanova, the anchor of its daily 24 news flagship.

[2] Despite much publicity around the incident, her manner of reporting was continued by Maksimovskaya presenting "Week" for REN TV.

In 2010 Maksimovskaya was presenting evidence that coal miners were not only blocking methane detectors on her programme "Week".

The mine owners were offering bonuses and the build-up of methane was leading to the deaths of miners.