Irina is originally from Mstislavl in the Mogilev region, but spent much of her life in Moscow. In 2011, she graduated from the Humanities Department of the Moscow Finance and Law Academy (MFLA) with a degree in advertising.
Irina has long worked as a content manager, editor, and media monitoring specialist. She has worked on website content creation, photo and video archives, and social media analytics.
Irina wrote on social media that she lived in a private house in the Moscow region, worked from home, and periodically traveled to Belarus to visit her parents. She was detained , presumably during one of these trips to Belarus.
