Arina wrote her thesis at PRIO as a master's student at the Department of Media and Communication (IMK) at UiO, on the strategic narratives and visual propaganda about Ukraine on Russian state-owned television. She also works as a research assistant at PRIO and at the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages (ILOS) at UiO.

Education:

• 2022-2025: MPhil in Screen Cultures, University of Oslo
• 2020-2022: MA in Sociolinguistics, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
• 2016-2020: BA in Philology, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

Languages:

• Native - Russian
• Fluent in English, Norwegian, and French
• Basic knowledge of Spanish