Head of Berlin-based NGO StraightForward, which fights against censorship and misinformation in the publishing field. Former editor-in-chief of the publishing house Individuum, which raised a bar for nonfiction writing on current affairs in Russian. Individuum covered the topics of organised crime, cyber warfare, structural inequality, mafia state, women’s rights etc. Sandalov is a laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize for his book Formation: The History of One Scene.
