Vera graduated Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Music and Cinematography in 1996. She also received a diploma in feature film direction from the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. In 1997, she joined NTV (Russia), where she worked as a director and producer of various projects. From 2005 to 2008, she worked in Ukraine in Viktor Pinchuk's Starlight Media, and launched The Freedom of Speech with Savik Shuster on the ICTV (Ukraine) ICTV channel. In 2008 Vera joined Natalia Sindeeva in a launch of the only independent news TV Station in Russia - TV Rain (Dozhd). She is the co-founder of TV Rain (Dozhd), Russia's only surviving independent news TV station, located in Amsterdam since 2022. In 2014 Vera moved to London, UK. In 2019 she launched her UK film production company Six Days Film.