Biography
Ksenia Churmanova is an independent journalist investigating Russia. For the past eight years, she has covered Russia’s crimes in Ukraine, army corruption and fraud, surveillance, cybercrime, and political repression.
In 2023 and 2024, Ksenia investigated, for the BBC and iStories, how Russians seized Ukrainian industrial assets in Mariupol. She is also a contributor to New Lines Magazine and The New York Times.
Past experience
| 2023–present | Freelance Investigative Journalist – iStories, The New York Times, New Lines Magazine |
| 2025–present | Freelance Data Analyst – POLITICO Europe |
| 2023–2024 | MA at King’s College London |
| 2017–2023 | Correspondent, producer – BBC Russian |