Daria’s research interests include perpetrator studies, social and cultural history of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on Ukraine. She is currently finishing her first book, Stalin’s Activists. The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor, on the identifiable and memorial traces of the rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine. Daria frequently writes and comments for the media, including CNN, BBC, Daily Telegraph, Politico, L’Express, Lokalna Istoria, i24news.