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CHRISTINE BOROVKOVA
Analyst, Social Science Researcher
Experienced in social science research (desk and qualitative research), and analytical work

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Skills -​ research skills
-​ writing skills
-​ analytical skills
-​ academic research skills
-​ desk research
-​ OSINT
-​ discovering and debunking fakes (including photo fakes)
-​ fact-checking
-​ interviewing skills

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Working experience
Vhory, the Kherson media (Вгору)/ Debunking fakes
March 2023 – February 2025
- Debunking fakes about the Kherson region
Citizenship - Writing articles and explainers
Ukraine

Nauka.ua / Journalist, Cognitive Science
December 2019 – 2023, project work
Working languages - Author and host of the project “Science vs propaganda”; 12 videos about our
Russian, cognitive prejudices and how they could help Russian propaganda to spread
Ukrainian, - Writing articles:
French - Theory of lies. Why do we believe fakes and what to do with it?
- «Before it was better» How we create nostalgia and what it does with us:
- «Serves him right!». How a belief in justice world leads to the contestation of
injustice
Contacts
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section), Fake and Fact Checker, Media Literacy Trainer
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
February 2019 – 2023
- Writing articles on fake debunking and explainers
LinkedIN:
- Developing critical thinking and media literacy in Ukraine
Christine Borovkova
For GWARA:
https://gwaramedia.com/author/christine-borovkova/

Debunking fakes:
Manipulation about the Ukrainian pensions -
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Fakes about coronavirus -
https://coronafakes.com/?s=christine
Fakes about the vaccine -
 https://without-lie.info/covid-19/smy-o-vaktsyne-sovishield-v-ukrayne-kak-medy
a-pereputaly-dve-vaktsyn-y-zachem-yndus-prosyly-provesty-testyrovanye-na-se
be-ros/

Explainers:
For Inzhir Media: How Ukraine wins at the information front?
For Inzhir Media: Russia and weapon of mass destruction
For Explainer.ua: I am going crazy from the news about a possible Russian invasion.
How to deal with anxiety?

Center of Journalism Investigations/ Investigative Journalist
September 2018
“Khersonelectrotrans” and ABC of corruption
- Investigating possible corruption cases in the
Kherson municipal transport entity
- Working with open data
- Conducting interviews

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Education Kyiv School of Economics / Social Psychology
September 2023 – ongoing, Kyiv, Ukraine
Receiving the master in Social Psychology

University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France) / Master in Political Science
September 2012 – December 2013, Strasbourg, France
History of International Relations and Regional Integration Process

University of Lorraine
September 2011 – July 2012, Metz, France
International Private and Public Law

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Fellowship Democracy Study Centre, German-Polish-Ukrainian Society in
Ukraine / Research Fellow
October 2018 – June 2019, Kyiv
Research project: How Russia’s Orthodox Church Rejects Ukrainian
Autocephaly, VoxUkraine (in collaboration with Andreas Umland
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Andreas Umland, Christine Borovkova «Wie das Moskauer Patriarchat die
Scientific publications ukrainische Autokephalie negiert», Religion & Gesellschaft, 1/2020. Link