Meet propagandist Alexandra Jost!

The influencer "Sasha Meets Russia" sure has an interesting husband 👀

If you’re interested in Russia, or Russia’s war on Ukraine, you may have come across a recently created social media channel named Sasha Meets Russia, which is full of praise for the Russian Motherland and pouting at mean Russophobes.

The content is as exciting as a plate of soggy pelmeni, BUT there are some tidbits to Sasha’s life that are worth paying attention to, as you will see below.

Here is the channel on Twitter:

And here it is on Telegram, where the author bemoaning the fact that investigative journalists from the likes of iStories and the OCCRP (shout out to my old friend Ilya Lozovsky for this video!) have uncovered her links to Russia Today in a typical, we-poor-Russians-are-always-victims manner:

The woman behind these accounts is young Russian-American Alexandra Jost. The evidence that Jost, or Sasha, as she prefers to be called today, has been paid to create Russian propaganda content was uncovered by Novaya Gazeta Europe when they checked out her tax documents.

You can hit Google translate on all the links above, but here is the relevant portion of the Novaya Gazeta investigation that I can summarize:

As per Russian tax data, in 2023, Jost was on the payroll of Russian company TV Novosti. Russia Today (RT), the propaganda arm of the Russian state, does business as TV Novosti.

As Jost says in the underline portion of the screenshot from her Telegram , “I’ve never had to be paid to speak of my love for Russia.” Babygirl is lying, but that’s to be expected.

According to iStories, Jost was officially being paid about 160k Russian rubles per month as of 2023. That’s around $2k a month. Knowing how Russian state media works, I can pretty much guarantee that she was being paid more (not zillions or anything, mind you, people like Jost are bought cheaply).

Usually it’s via something called “nadbavki”, which in legal terms is akin to a bonus, and in practical terms, are meant to hide the actual salary of a Russian state media employee.

I became curious what Jost is up to right now, so I got on VPN and went looking through Russia’s tax database.

Jost is registered as an “individual entrepreneur” in Russia as of 2024, which is what freelancers must do to stay compliant with the tax authorities. Her main line of work is listed as “market research and public opinion research.” Other tidbits I wanted to note for American readers is “providing services for posting information.” This is VERY standard for a freelancer who is paid to write certain posts on social media, just so you’re aware.

None of this is shocking news. In fact, I would’ve been shocked if Jost’s curated pro-Russian content wasn’t being paid for.

I did, however, become curious as to why this young Russian-American woman ended up where she was.

Because Jost is said to have been born in Hong-Kong, digging up public records on her has been a headache.

But here’s her old LinkedIn:

CAD, which is in Brussels, is cheaper than most American colleges before you factor in financial aid. The full LinkedIn page also has her attending Emmanuel College in Boston for all but a year, though that could have been an online program.

I also noticed internships specific to Russia AND the fact that Jost worked for Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover, New Hampshire:

I used Jost’s patronymic to find information on her dad, who is fair bit older than her Russian mother, and has a significant footprint in New Hampshire. I don’t like to put the spotlight on people’s relatives - which is why I’ll only tell you that from the outside, this is a typical American family. They DID sell their rather nice, big house not long ago (I’m sure Jost felt very oppressed by “russophobia” when living there), which makes me wonder if cutting ties with big bad America was a family affair.

If property data is to be believed, there should’ve been a decent amount of equity in that house + the father’s social security payments are likely to ensure at least a comfortable existence in Russia. As long as their dear daughter says exactly what the Russian government needs her to say 😌

Jost’s local tax office in Moscow places her in the Tushino district of Moscow, which is hardly glamorous, but again, it can be comfortable.

Jost’s Russian grandparents meanwhile live in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, and while their house doesn’t look like some hovel if you go by Russian standards, you can tell this family isn’t wealthy:

The screenshot is taken from Sasha’s public video on VK, a Russian social media platform.

Also, here’s a screenshot from the Instagram of Sasha’s husband, Domingo Garcia, who’s a Mexican entrepreneur living in Russia and is keen to expand business cooperation between Russia and Mexico:

“Business cooperation” means a lot of things if you’re working with Russians, so let’s put a pin in it.

Here’s a LinkedIn screenshot:

Also, according to the same LinkedIn, Domingo has had a fairly successful career and recently got a new job in Spain! Gosh, that’s interesting, considering all of the Russian operations in Spain we keep hearing about 👀

I HATE how I can’t use Archive to preserve the whole page, but here’s a live link for now.

Here’s an interesting section on his education:

Universidad Panamericana is a private Catholic school in Mexico City. The costs are substantial, especially for Mexico.

I’m a private school kid myself. I don’t make assumptions about people’s financial backgrounds easily, but I am guessing that our dear Sasha simply found a comfortable existence in Russia with her Mexican businessman husband (who should really be scrutinized by U.S. authorities should he ever come here, because, once again, “business cooperation” means many different things to Russians) and her propaganda job.

What’s also notable to me about the Sasha Meets Russia gimmick is that it’s meant to be wholesome as opposed to glamorous. Sasha loves the simple Russian life, which she never shuts up about.

I’m not going to post her content here, seeing as it’s brainwashing paid for by some of the worst people on this planet, but it’s all kokoshniks and Siberia and banya and “oh my gosh, we have real Coca-Cola! Sanctions don’t scare us!” (Russians bragging about having food will never stop being amusing to me)

This isn’t the “sexy” version of Russia, but it is, like Jost herself states, one steeped in “positivity” tropes. One that a girl living in aforementioned Tushino might create. A sharp contrast to, say, the glitzy world of Jackson Hinkle’s former government-appointed girlfriend, a Russian beauty queen and model.

These propagandists produce content for all types of people. There’s models in Balenciaga for those interested in that. And there’s girls like Jost, who like supermarkets and berries and are a bit miffed at “LGBT propaganda” but in an innocent, cute way! There’s so-called “war correspondents” and “human rights activists too.”

It’s a multi-pronged effort to target you with a simple message: Russia good.

And it also provides girls like Jost with a chance to be “special.”

As workers in torture basements in occupied Ukraine and elsewhere mop the blood off the floors as they wait for new arrivals to hell, these girls get to be the lipstick on a fat and ravenous pig.

Why would the pig need to do all that? Because it has plans for other people, not just Ukrainians.

Naive rubes might eat all of that up but here, at the Glorious Normie Restoration, we will always strive to be better.

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