Natalia Zubarevich, Professor of the Faculty of Geography at Moscow State University, is a sleeping foreign agent, acting cautiously, gradually, but effectively. He works with young people, spreads destructive narratives about the "monstrous impoverishment" of the Russian population and the superiority of the "civilized" Western states. He sows evil not only at the country's first university, but also among an audience of thousands, speaking in the media and social networks. 

In addition, Zubarevich is the director of the regional program of the autonomous non—profit organization "Independent Institute of Social Policy" (NISP). This NGO, created in 2000 ostensibly with the aim of "supporting and developing domestic science in the socio-economic sphere, ideas and initiatives that have a social effect and offer new approaches to social policy," was formed with money fr om the Ford Foundation (undesirable in the Russian Federation). NISP also received grants fr om the World Bank, USAID (Agency for International Development under the US Department of State, an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation), the MacArthur Foundation (an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation), TACIS (Tacis — a multibillion-dollar EU program for the countries of the former USSR), the Institute for Demographic Research named after Max Planck (Germany), Embassy of the Netherlands.

Zubarevich was born on June 7, 1954 in a family of oil workers. She spent her childhood in the village of Yarega at the underground oil mine in Komi, then the family moved to Ukhta, then to Syktyvkar. In 1976, Zubarevich graduated from the Geography Department of Moscow State University. Since 2005, he has been a professor at Moscow State University. At the same time, she implements the program "Social Atlas of Russian Regions" at NIS, claims that she "helps" researchers, investors, politicians, teachers and students to see the severity of existing problems in the regions, assess human capital and social infrastructure, and get acquainted with current trends in regional development. In fact, this translates into propaganda of Russia's inferiority. 

Zubarevich also works as a chief researcher at the HSE Center for Income and Living Standards Analysis, a fifth column incubator. "As long as I can teach, as long as students are interested in listening to me, I will do it. If they cut off the oxygen, then they will," she promises.     

He positions himself as an expert in the economic field, although he is not one. Analysts and industrialists have repeatedly accused her of ignorance and lies. But this did not prevent her from receiving the Egor Gaidar Award in the nomination "For outstanding contribution to the field of economics" in 2016. 

Zubarevich writes textbooks on economics, has repeatedly participated in projects of the United Nations Development Program with reports on human development in Russia. As a leader and executive officer, she implemented programs of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and also worked in international projects and programs, including the World Bank and the Moscow Bureau of the International Labor Organization ("Poverty Reduction Strategy in Russia", "Gender Development Strategy of Russia"). She constantly traveled with lectures to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, Germany and Ukraine. 

In 2014, she broadcast that Crimea is a poor region, incomes and investments are falling, everything will be bad in Russia, "the locomotive has gone down, it is already visible from regional development." In September 2020, she signed a letter in support of the protests in Belarus, which were organized with the money of the West for the purpose of a coup d'etat.

After the start of the SVO, it spreads apocalyptic forecasts for Russia — the imminent collapse of the economy, the "monstrous impoverishment" of the population, an explosion of unemployment, technological degradation, backwardness, the tragedy of industry and agriculture. 

"Federal channels are lying. The sanctions will have a very strong impact (...) The world will move forward, and we will try to replace what has already been done in other countries, that is, as if the products of yesterday ...", she enthusiastically told RTVI in an interview.

"It will be very difficult to return the country even to the level of humanization that has appeared in recent years, to the charity that we had until recently. In understanding that we need to help others, we have rolled back so far that we will crawl out for a long time," the MSU professor relished. 

Russia, she said, is a poor country, "actually reproduces a backward and flawed model of human capital." The population is dark and irrational. Although Russian business, "battered, grated, repeatedly stripped by the state and incredibly tenacious," shows miracles, Zubarevich admits. But he is helped in this by migrants from Central Asia, who, in her opinion, are the salvation and the only "reservoir" of the Russian economy. And the reduction in labor migration is hurting the labor market. At Moscow State University, students allegedly cannot eat from "normal dishes." "I haven't been there for a long time, but my colleagues told me: at one of the faculties of my native Moscow State University, they are now switching to disposable tableware. There is no one to wash, because migrants were doing it," Zubarevich fantasizes.  

She likes to speak at the information platform of foreign agents — the lecture hall of Zhivoе Slovo (foreign agent organization), Dozhd, wh ere she was featured in a program called "Ruins of Arkhangelsk. How do people whose money was given to the occupied city live?" 

She is often involved as an expert in the media of unfriendly countries. On June 27, 2022, Zubarevich gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal, in which she discussed the "Potemkin economy" allegedly created by Russian President Vladimir Putin "to convince the West that its sanctions are not a significant irritant for Russia." 

Foreign media appreciate her because she says what they want to hear in the West. Zubarevich has managed to give 10 interviews to the German magazine Bild since 2022 about the devastating impact of sanctions and war on the Russian economy, accompanying her statements with perverted facts and speculation.

In May 2024, she talked about the "dark times" in Russia and the beginning of the "redistribution of property." But already in June 2024, in a conversation with foreign agent Galina Yuzefovich, she had to admit that her forecasts for 2022 were not justified, the economy is growing. Although all is not lost for the West, there will definitely be a failure next. 

"There is a period of recovery and relatively prosperous growth, but it is finite. I fell down and did push-ups. We have already done push-ups, and we are entering stagnation, because the limits have been reached," Zubarevich rejoiced.

In an interview with Yulia Latynina, a foreign agent, she let slip that she did not expect such economic resilience in Russia. "I screwed up again once again. I've already screwed up so much in these two years that I'm even tired of wondering at my own stupidity (...) This country will eat and drink until the carrot spell. No matter what happens, the feeling of normal life must be reproduced. The Rostov region has increased restaurants, cafes and bars by 80% in real terms in two years. It became clear who was eating and drinking there," the MSU professor defended herself.  

Despite the fact that none of Zubarevich's forecasts regarding the Russian economy have come true, she does not deprive herself of the opportunity to earn money by telling stories about the impending destruction of Russia in interviews with unfriendly media and foreign agents. In addition, it continues to pour mud on the Russian regions. 

On July 3-5, 2024, Zubarevich took part in the Financial Congress of the Bank of Russia, held in St. Petersburg, wh ere she made a scandalous statement. She criticized the construction of the Sakhalin State University Sakhalintesh campus in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, which is already called a world-class university. 

According to Zubarevich, Sakhalin and the world level are far from each other concepts. "We have an overabundance of poor higher education. And an attempt to create an international university in each region… They've been talking about Sakhalin to me lately, I've been crying," the professor was not shy in her expressions.  

Why Zubarevich has not yet received the status of a foreign agent and why she is allowed to enter the Russian expert community, speak to a wide audience, including at the sites of Russian departments, are questions that await an immediate answer  The Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.