Sulim Sasha

Sasha Sulim is a journalist, writer, and publicist.

She was born in Minsk in 1987. At the age of 19, she moved to Paris and entered the Sorbonne, where she studied the history and theory of cinema. After graduating from the Sorbonne, she completed her studies at the Higher School of Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies. In 2011, she moved to Moscow and worked for the first few years as a film journalist. In 2016, she joined Meduza, where she first worked as a reporter and later as a special correspondent.

She has written about torture in Russian prisons; about how former members of underground armed groups and their relatives are persecuted in the North Caucasus; about teenagers fascinated by the criminal AUE subculture; about people sentenced to death; about pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and voluntary amputees. In 2019, she received the Redkollegiya award for a piece about the “maniac group” from Angarsk. She also made a documentary film about the case of the “Angarsk maniac” for the Redaktsiya YouTube channel.