Ph.D. in history, researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Department of Israel). Author of "Jerusalem: three religions, three of the world" (Moscow, 2003), "Secrets of Jerusalem" (Moscow, 2007), as well as of several articles on the history of Israel and the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In 1971 she graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Russian Federation. In 1974-1980 worked at UNESCO in Paris. In 1989, she defended her PhD thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. For several years she had been working in Israel, then in the Sultanate of Oman.