anastasiiamorozova

My first job for printed press and how I learned InDesign in one day

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100

A Sankey diagram tracing thirty years of Polish political party history, built from Wikipedia election data scraped into Flourish and exported as SVG, then refined in Illustrator and InDesign for print — published in Pismo magazine. Below is how it came together.

About

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:57:52 +0100

Hugo, the world's fastest framework for building websites

When the deadline is yesterday

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100

An interactive scrollytelling piece built with custom JavaScript injected into a CMS that didn’t support it. I added a moving-camera effect to guide readers through a dense network of names and connections across several countries. Named Innovation of the Year in media by Wirtualne Media in 2026. Read the full story.

How I created an ML model to uncover drug-trafficking on Telegram

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I scraped 500,000 messages from 1,500 Telegram channels using Telethon and a snowballing method, then built a Doc2Vec classifier trained on 300 manually labeled drug ads to identify advertisements at scale. The investigation showed that Poland’s online drug market runs on Telegram, InPost parcel lockers, and BLIK — the full story is here, and below is how I built it.

Mapping Russia's War Machine on NATO's Doorstep

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

We used high-resolution satellite imagery to map Russian military base activity along NATO’s eastern border. GRU special forces in Kaliningrad are being trained for sabotage operations, and new nuclear weapons infrastructure is taking shape in Belarus.

From sketch to viz

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0100

In this presentation, I share how I come up with ideas and what inspires me. It’s basically about how things never quite go the way I expect them to.

How safe are you in Sumy during an air raid alert?

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I used QGIS and official shelter location data from local authorities to map how well protected residents of Sumy region’s largest cities actually are during air raid alerts. Visualized in Illustrator and published on Instagram. Made for my home region in Ukraine, dedicated to Kordon.Media.

KREMLIN LEAKS: how Putin turned the Red Cross into a tool of propaganda and war

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

As a child, I dreamed of going to the famous Artek camp in Crimea — a legendary summer camp. Vacations there were among the most expensive in Ukraine, and you could only get in for achievements in school or sports. Every kid in my class envied those who got to go — there was a water park, hiking in the mountains, trips to the cinema, even the chance to get a branded backpack. Regular summer camps couldn’t compare.

ANDROMEDA: Ukrainian puzzle

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100

We tracked the yacht Andromeda, suspected in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, by cross-referencing satellite imagery and AIS vessel tracking data. On-ground OSINT reporting led us to a Kyiv businessman whose company had rented the boat.

FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOOD

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

We mapped a network of pro-Russian and alt-right disinformation sites operating across Central and Eastern Europe. Using network analysis, we showed how these sites cross-reference each other to amplify Russian narratives and spread conspiracy theories in local languages.

See Minsk and die

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

We traced financial flows linking companies in the Lukashenko regime’s orbit to migrant smuggling networks bringing people from the Middle East into Europe. OSINT and on-ground reporting uncovered direct ties between the regime and the traffickers.