What is the blogger Alexandra Mitroshina known for and how she earns millions?

Blogger Alexandra Mitroshina became a defendant in a criminal case on tax evasion in the amount of over 120 million rubles. The Investigative Committee is investigating the case. The 28-year-old girl is one of the most famous bloggers in the Russian information space. How Mitroshina became famous and reached a million—dollar income - read in the Izvestia article.

Alexander Mitroshin — biography

Alexandra Mitroshina was born on June 27, 1994 in Petrozavodsk. The girl's family soon moved to Moscow, and the future blogger's childhood years were mostly spent in the capital.

After graduating from high school, the girl enrolled in the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University (MSU), and then at the Higher School of Economics, majoring in Media Production. She gained her first media experience working for radio Moscow FM.

By Mitroshina's own admission, she invested almost all of her salary in her Instagram blog (the social network belongs to the Meta organization, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation). The girl created a social network page back in 2011, the year the online platform was founded, but for a long time she failed to develop an account and gain a large number of subscribers.

Since 2013, Mitroshina has made blog promotion her main goal: she tested various page management strategies, watched popular people on the social network and invested in promotion. The attempts bore fruit, the audience of Alexandra's page expanded, and the girl shared her successes in the development of the blog with subscribers.

This is how the Instalogia project appeared, in which Mitroshina collected her observations and experience on Instagram strategies in the form of courses. The blogger published a book about the promotion of personal pages on the social network, gave consultations and starred in the main role in the film "Gone to be a blogger."

In addition to helping novice bloggers, Mitroshina also conducts her own fitness projects, is engaged in public activities, in particular, she actively participates in the movement against domestic violence. The audience of her blog currently reaches more than 4.2 million subscribers, and the cost of courses is up to 500 thousand rubles.

Alexandra Mitroshina — criminal case

According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, income from the sale of Mitroshina's courses has long exceeded the limit for the simplified taxation system used by the girl. At the same time, she did not switch to the general system, thereby avoiding paying VAT and personal income tax. In an attempt to circumvent tax legislation, the blogger allegedly organized the transfer of money from her business account directly to affiliated and controlled sole proprietors.

Thus, in the period from October 2020 to May 2022, Mitroshina's tax evasion exceeded 120 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened under the article "Tax evasion".

Investigators, together with employees of the GUEB and the PC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, are conducting searches at the place of registration of the blogger and other persons involved in the commission of the crime.

At the same time, Mitroshina herself admitted last year that she had problems with the tax. The girl wrote that the court charged her with 200 million in debt, but assured her that she had never hidden her income and would resolve the situation in accordance with the law.

According to preliminary data, Mitroshina is in Dubai, UAE, where she purchased an apartment. The girl has not yet commented on the initiation of a criminal case.

The case against Mitroshina is the second criminal trial among Russian influencers in the last month. On March 7, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against blogger Valeria Chekaleniy (Lerchek) and her husband for non-payment of taxes of more than 300 million rubles. On March 16, another criminal trial was initiated against the spouses in the case of money laundering, and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of a ban on certain actions.