Ekaterina Sokirianskaia lived 17 years in North Caucasus, researching political situation. From 2003 to 2008, Sokirianskaia was a team of the Memorial Center in Ingushetia and Chechnya, monitoring and researching human rights conditions and during war conflicts as well as Ossetian–Ingush Conflict, her projects were "Database of missing residents of the Chechen Republic" and "Countering falsification of criminal cases in the framework of counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus". From 2004 to 2006 she taught in the History Faculty of the Grozny State University. From 2008 to 2011, she was program curator at the Memorial Centers in Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan, researching situation with human rights violations, work at settlement of new offices of the Memorial in Nalchik and Makhachkala.