She studied in Kharkοv V.N. Karazin National University. She holds degrees in ‘Russian Philology’, ‘Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language’ and ‘Economics’ (specialized in Political Economy). She also holds two postgraduate titles from the same university in ‘Russian Language and Literature’ and ‘Economics’.
She has taught Russian language, Russian literature, translation and Russian for Specific Purposes at the Institute for Balkan Studies, the Greek National School for Tourist Guides, the University of Macedonia (participated in the ‘Telemathos’ teleconferencing project), J.P.P.S. “Conference Interpreting and Translation” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Master’s Degree in History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South−Eastern Europe and the Department of Slavic Studies of the School of Philisophy, National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been teaching in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies since 1999.