Anastasia Puschkarewa has been implementing various non-formal educational, sociocultural and exchange projects between Eastern and Western Europe since 2007. Since 2019, she has been working for CISR e.V. and coordinating civil society projects to support, train and network urban initiatives, activists, artists and media makers, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, the EU Erasmus+ programme, the European Solidarity Corps, the EVZ Foundation, etc.
She studied German language and literature at the Pedagogical University in Omsk, Russia. As part of her interdisciplinary Master's degree in East-West-Studies at the University of Regensburg, she explored questions of European integration, intercultural relations as well as political cultures and civil societies in Central, (South)Eastern and Western Europe.