In November 2021 she was detained by police in Moscow for her single person protests in Pushkin Square in support of the Russian human rights organisation Memorial.

[1] Ivleva was the recipient of a 1992 World Press Photo of the Year award in the Science & Technology category for her series of photographs taken on 1 January 1991 of the Chernobyl plant.

[2] Ivleva said of her photographs of Chernobyl that " ... just a tiny sunbeam breaking through the sarcophagus – that bit of nature – can change the most ugly creation of human beings".

If we had a normal government, the first thing we'd do would be to stop the war, get down on our knees before them for what we did to them, pay them reparations, and ask them for forgiveness" and that she felt it was " ... so obvious that Ukraine is weaker and it's their land".

[1] Ivleva was detained by police in Moscow in November 2021 for her single person protests in Pushkin Square in support of the Russian human rights organisation Memorial.