Our Story

Gleb Drobkov

Gleb is a data scientist and entrepreneur of Russian and Ukrainian heritage living in Verona, New Jersey. He studied at Cornell, worked at BCG, co-founded Charles River Data, and later served as Chief Strategy Officer at Neptune Flood. He lives with his wife Lily and their two children.

A family across borders

Gleb’s parents met while working at Pravda. His family emigrated from Moscow to Washington, DC, in 1991. His mother later opened Olympus, a Saturday Russian school where children from across the former Soviet Union grew up together. That shared experience, and the divisions the war has brought to families, inform this project.

Kris Borovik

Kris was born in New York to parents who grew up in Kyiv and Moscow. He graduated from Boston University in 2021 with degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. His family’s journalism background and his experiences reporting in Donbas inform his interest in the human consequences of the war.

Why this project exists

We have Russian and Ukrainian family ties. Our aim is to make different views visible, clarify disagreements, and encourage open discussion about ending the war. Our personal opinions are separate from the sourced history and from participants’ answers.