If not a doctor, then who?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:49 am
In the eighth grade, I wrote in my school application that I wanted to be a journalist. It was some kind of distant dream. I thought it would be great to become a journalist, although I didn’t know any other way of life except for being a doctor. I easily, somehow naturally entered the medical institute, at the very end of the 80s, the beginning of perestroika. And I went into political activity. The Democratic Union of Youth, hunger strikes, pickets, the fight for students’ rights. All this captivated me so much that I started writing. At first, I put medicine aside for a while. I thought I’d come back in a year or two. But I never came back.
Did you work as a journalist?
A correspondent for the largest weekly. Then she worked usa mobile phone numbers database on investigative journalism, reports, and at the same time she wrote a society column – a completely new genre at the time.
Did you have a personal life?
Of course. When I got married at 22, I was already a fairly popular journalist in the city. Vecherniy Novosibirsk wrote about my marriage — it wrote and distorted it. They made up that my dress had pearls, but in fact I was wearing a green dress bought in a subway. But the newspaper couldn’t print that! I didn’t even have a wedding as such, but distant relatives read it and were offended, they believed the newspaper…
Is your husband also a journalist?
Anton is the son of a very famous actor in Novosibirsk, whom I also knew as the legendary chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of Siberia, from such a very correct, very traditional school, from the golden intellectual youth, but in the 90s all of them, the young and perestroika ones, became "new businessmen", with all the consequences. Anton was four years older than me and at 26 seemed incredibly mature and sophisticated to me.
Did you work as a journalist?
A correspondent for the largest weekly. Then she worked usa mobile phone numbers database on investigative journalism, reports, and at the same time she wrote a society column – a completely new genre at the time.
Did you have a personal life?
Of course. When I got married at 22, I was already a fairly popular journalist in the city. Vecherniy Novosibirsk wrote about my marriage — it wrote and distorted it. They made up that my dress had pearls, but in fact I was wearing a green dress bought in a subway. But the newspaper couldn’t print that! I didn’t even have a wedding as such, but distant relatives read it and were offended, they believed the newspaper…
Is your husband also a journalist?
Anton is the son of a very famous actor in Novosibirsk, whom I also knew as the legendary chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of Siberia, from such a very correct, very traditional school, from the golden intellectual youth, but in the 90s all of them, the young and perestroika ones, became "new businessmen", with all the consequences. Anton was four years older than me and at 26 seemed incredibly mature and sophisticated to me.