Career
As of 2008 she is the head of the non-governmental organization Mother"s Right Foundation, which she founded, and which works to expose the inhumane conditions that have led to the deaths of Russian servicemembers in peacetime, as well as to help families of the dead get compensation and to punish those guilty of deaths. lieutenant also presses for an end to hazing and bullying. This non-governmental organization is mainly funded by foreign grants.
Marchenko has also worked on the journal Yunost.
In 1986 she was on the show "12th Storey", broadcast by Soviet Central television, and she was in the International Youth Movement "Next Stop Soviet" (1987-1990). She also received a 2009 International Women of Courage Award.
