[1][2][3][4] In 1982 she graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

In 2000–2002, she was an expert at the Soros Foundation on programmes related to the development of law, the judiciary and the topic of human rights in Russia.

[8] She published articles in the newspapers Kommersant, Russian Telegraph, Obshchaya Gazeta [ru], Novaya Gazeta, Moskovskiye Novosti, Ogoniok, Itogi, Yezhenedelny Zhurnal [ru], as well as in French-language publications: Ouest-France, France Soir, La Dépêche du Midi, Le quotidien (Luxembourg).

[12] In September 2014, she signed a statement from the December 12 Round Table demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.

[15] 2011 — Innocent Found Guilty (Russian: Признать невиновного виновным) documentary novel.