Lola Tagaeva is the founder and publisher of independent Russian media organisation in exile Verstka, based in Prague. She founded it in 2022. Previously, she was the organizer from 2020 to 2022 of Moscow FemFest, the biggest annual educational festival dedicated to gender equality and feminism in Russia. She also worked from 2015 to 2018 as managing editor of news at independent Russian television station TV Rain, and at independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta from 2009 to 2011.
