"The intelligence agencies don't pay me", the Russian "blogger" previously suspected of espionage?

2022-08-21 11:53:35Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"The intelligence agencies don't pay me", the Russian
Svetlana Timofoeva

"We cannot say whether it is about some bloggers or foreign agents." This is what Defense Minister Niko Peleshi said on Sunday morning about the "visit" of two Russians and a Ukrainian to the Arms Processing Plant in Gramsh.

33-year-old Svetlana Timofoeva and 23-year-old Mikhail Zorin have said that they are bloggers and that they take photos and videos to share on their social media.

Svetlana is known on Instagram, where she is followed by 253,000 users, as Lana Sator and describes herself as a photographer who takes photos of 20th century heritage and abandoned buildings.

But apparently, this is not the first time that the 33-year-old Russian woman has been accused of espionage. In a post made a year ago, she clarified that her blog is not sponsored by any foreign intelligence. On the contrary, she says, the money for the tickets, travel and equipment she films with comes out of her own pocket. According to what Svetlana says, she has been doing this job for 15 years.

As Minister Pelesi said earlier in his statement, now it only remains to be finally discovered whether we are dealing with three "adventurous" tourists or something else more serious.

Svetlana Timofoeva's Instagram post, October 4, 2021

"Who is behind this blog?

Who finances all these trips? How do you find these places? Where are the next adventures and how can they be supported? Can I buy ads on your blog?

I often get questions like this – and I keep seeing my blog referred to somewhere online as “the Lana Sator Photography Project” – even though @lanasator is just one person. I travel a lot, just like that – I buy the tickets, find a place to stay, grab my backpack and hit the road! I have been doing this for more than 15 years.

My blog is not sponsored by any foreign intelligence, for which I would try to find and show various forgotten places. All equipment is mine, no one hands me the camera and tells me what to shoot.

By the way, there is a way to support my blog without reserving guides or buying prints – just tell your friends about my site. After all, you subscribed to me because it's interesting—what if it's not just for you?

If you like something here, just post or take a picture of any post in your story or on any other social network with an active link to my account. "

In recent days, she had shared pictures of abandoned buildings in Albania on her social media. 


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