[2][3][4] Duma was born on 10 March 1985 in Surgut, Russian SFSR, shortly after her family moved there from Ukraine.

[8] She moved into freelance writing, working for magazines including Vogue, Tatler, ForbesWoman and Glamour (Russian versions).

[citation needed] Duma founded Buro 24/7 in 2011, a website for art, architecture, cinema, fashion, music and style.

[3] In 2018, Duma was removed from the board of The Tot and Buro 24/7,[12] after she shared a note on Instagram from fashion designer Ulyana Sergeenko containing a racial slur,[13] and after a video was released of her making transphobic comments.

[21] Miroslava has featured as a keynote speaker and a panelist at Web Summit, Founders Forum, Slush, Financial Times Business of Luxury, Alibaba Global Women Entrepreneurship Forum in China, St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, DLD conference in Munich, Vogue Fashion Festival in London, Nikkei Pioneers Asia in Japan, and New York Academy of Sciences: The Change Fashion Challenge.