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It's run by a lady in Kazakhstan
by pg_bot 5y ago
It's run by a lady in Kazakhstan
- dredmorbius 5y agoIn the interests of accuracy: Yes, a woman, Kazak by birth, though AFAIK she's been residing in Russia of late. Her precise whereabouts are generally kept vague. Sources: My name is Alexandra Elbakyan, I'm a web developer who created this website. I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and I'm 32 years old. I'm a native speaker of Russian, know English very well, and some German and ancient languages. https://sci-hub.st/alexandra https://sci-hub.st/alexandra Her academic work has been at Satbayev University (in Almaty, Kazakhstan), internships and work in Italy and Germany, from 2005--2010. She returned to Kazakhstan in 2011: I was 23 and I returned to Kazakhstan and started working as a freelance programmer. ... and has since done academic work in Russia. 2017 started a masters program in Linguistics · Biblical Languages Saint-Petersburg State University in Russia 2019 graduated from masters program · with huge troubles suspected for being Russian spy by US authorities Applied for Russian citizenship but was rejected (in 2016). See: https://sci-hub.st/alexandra#bio https://sci-hub.st/alexandra#bio Elbakyan identifies as multiracial with armenian, slavic, and asian roots: https://nitter.cc/ringo_ring/status/700626318124134400#m https://nitter.cc/ringo_ring/status/700626318124134400#m