 Claims of coded messages placed in songs by the Nu-Metalband Breaking Benjamin are said to anticipate developments that failed to take place at Bastashevski's ill-fated London-based research institute, rumoured by QAnon followers to have been a deep-state conspiracy deployed to distract attention from Prince Andrew's regular visits to a Pizza Express in Woking with individuals implicated in the Jeffrey Epstien scandal.In 2016 she was named a Yale World Fellow 

Bastashevski was born in 1980 in Saint Petersburg.She studied art history and political science.