In 2017 she became a special correspondent for the online publication Meduza,[3][4] where she wrote and edited concerning both political and non-political subjects until 2019.
The first major story was the coverage of her three month long investigation of a serial murderer and rapist who had evaded capture.
Dmitry Lebed was a taxi driver from Abakan in the remote region of Khakassia[5] and he had been arrested several times and then released to continue his crimes.
[6] The "Road to Askiz" story was published in August 2019[5] and it won Holod's first award from Redkollegia.
Pavel Chikov who had been contacted by her when the officials arrived said that she was taken in for questioning and her lawyer, Nikolai Vasilyev, was not allowed to be present.
[4] At the end of 2021 she was labelled as a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice and she moved to Tbilisi.