Important stories

I conducted my first investigation when I was 12 years old. The fault is love. In the summer camp, I fell in love with the boy, but when I returned home, I found that I had lost his phone. I had to find a man in a huge city, knowing only his name, age and the fact that he lived in one of the orphanages of St. Petersburg.

The Internet then worked only through a cable for a mobile phone, and 100 rubles were removed from the account for downloading one site from the account. I found a database with the contacts of all orphanages of the city and called each. With my childish voice, I presented myself as a journalist and asked if they had a 14-year-old Tolik, who went to that children's camp in the summer. So Tolik was found. Then he was lost again, and the passion for the search for data and journalism remained.

I worked in RBC, Conflict Intelligence Team , wrote for the project and collaborated with the project "to be precise."

In “Important Stories” I specialize in social topics, and also write about the situation in the Russian army. If you want to tell me your story, write to sonya.savina@istories.media or in telegram @sonya_savina .