 He graduated from the journalism department of Lviv University in 1983, and worked as an investigative journalist and editor for "Boyevaya Vakhta (Battle Watch)", the in-house newspaper of the Russian Pacific Fleet.He worked with Japanese journalists from the NHK TV network and the "Asahi Shimbun" national daily newspaper.He had disclosed the dumping of nuclear waste by the Russian Navy in the Sea of Japan in 1993.