| Alexandra Ageeva | |
| Birth Date: | 26 March 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Sverdlovsk, USSR |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | journalist, founder Sota.vision |
Alexandra Ageeva (Russian: Александра Агеева; born March 26, 1986, in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian opposition journalist and the founder of the publication Sota.vision. In February 2022, she was recognized as a foreign agent.[1] [2]
In 2014, Ageeva started working for the publication Grani.ru. She was first detained by the police while covering a rally in support of Nadezhda Savchenko.[3] [4] She continued to document the actions and pickets of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarnost", which advocated against the war in Ukraine.[5] She filmed the noteworthy performance by activist Ekaterina Maldon and produced a documentary about participants of the Euromaidan movement.
She also covered media events related to the preparations for the "Spring March" in 2015. Ageeva captured footage of Boris Nemtsov and reported on Ilya Yashin's pre-election campaign in Kostroma.[6]
On December 31, 2015, she officially registered her own publication, Sota.vision (abbreviated as Sota),[7] and began working as a journalist and editor under her own media outlet.[8] She created videos and reports that gained widespread attention through online media and social networks. Aleksandra played an active role in the production of the documentary film "Nemtsov",[9] and her name appeared in the credits.[10]
Her project has grown. Today Sota.vision has dozens of employees, who cover a variety of public events in support of political prisoners, especially Alexey Navalny, as well as people of Ukrainian.[11]
On February 11, 2022, Aleksandra Ageeva, mentioned under her married name Aynbinder, was added to the list of "foreign agents" by the media.[12] As a result, in March 2022, she made the decision to leave Russia.[13] Currently, she resides in Riga, Latvia.[14]
Ageeva extensively covered the trial of Ildar Dadin's case[15] and was detained by the police while preparing a report near the building of the Constitutional Court in St. Petersburg.[16] Her report on the Moscow rally in support of protests in the region of Khabarovsk gained over 1.7 million views. Additionally, she reported on the environmental protests in Shiyes railway station, Arkhangelsk Oblast.
In January 2023, Channel One aired a detailed report that accused both Aleksandra Ageeva and her media platform, Sota.vision, of spreading what they called "fake news." Interestingly, the episode of the program was falsely labeled as being from February.
In her L’Expess interview Alexandra Ageeva stated that she was accused of receiving 200 roubles from Belarusian activists, which is a price of a cup of coffee, and money from YouTube monetization of her materials. The absurdity of those accusations points to the fact that the authorities would use any excuse to silence the alternative point of view in Russia.[17]