Kristina Kumar

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kristina Kumar

• Kristina Kumar grew up in Russia.

  

• In 2020, she moved from Moscow to India, where she started travelling to distant states in India and exploring Indian cultures, food, clothes, and languages.

• Soon, Kristina Kumar received public attention with her fluent Hindi.

• After that, she started appreciating local Indian culture on her YouTube channel, ‘Koko in India,’ which gained 8 lakh subscribers and nearly 38 crore views in 2025.

• She then began collaborating with other Indian YouTubers and content creators.

• Her followers on social media started recognising her as a cultural icon.

  

• In 2023, Kristina Kumar shared her experience with street harassment in New Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar market in one of her videos, which went viral.

• In August 2024, she started posting her videos on Instagram. She started posting general conversations with local Indians, such as tea sellers, rickshaw drivers, and school children, on the streets.

• After that, one of her videos on ‘Khatu Shyam’ went viral on social media.

• In February 2025, Kristina Kumar was invited as a guest on the Indian news channel News24.

  

• In October 2025, she came into the limelight when she claimed on social media that two women officers at the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in New Delhi harassed her during her visit.

• Kristina Kumar explained in her videos that she had been living in Delhi for one year with her Indian boyfriend. She went to the FRRO on 26 September 2025 to give her documents for visa extension.

• At that time, she had an X1 visa, which is given to foreign nationals of Indian origin, spouses and dependents of Indian citizens, and sometimes to dependents of foreign nationals living in India with valid visas.

• Kristina Kumar claimed during a media conversation that the officers asked her questions not related to her visa application. These questions made her feel uncomfortable, so she sent a message to her boyfriend during the meeting and told him that she felt uneasy. She said,

  When I visited the office last week with my boyfriend, they were polite. But on Friday, when I entered room 303 alone to submit my papers, they started asking me personal questions. They read my messages and questioned my personal life.”

  She added that the officers took her phone while she was messaging her boyfriend. She said,

  They (officials) saw me messaging and demanded to check my phone. I felt I shouldn’t refuse, so I handed over my phone.”

  Kristina Kumar said the officials started reading her personal messages. She said,

  They started to read my chats, including with a man from my gym who helps me shoot videos. They asked me, ‘Why are you talking to him when you have a boyfriend?’”

  She claimed that the officers made remarks about her income and how she lived. She said,

  The officials started telling me that they know what I do and how many hotels I have stayed in. They asked me how much I earned in a month. It made me extremely uncomfortable as the officials were indirectly implying that I am an escort.”

  Kristina Kumar said that she felt so upset that she thought about leaving India. She said,

  I was deeply disturbed, not just by the inappropriate questions, but also by the fact that they came from officials in charge of my visa extension. I even considered applying for an exit permit.”

• After that, a senior official at the FRRO said that they had not asked anything wrong from Kristina Kumar. He said that the questions were part of a normal check because there were problems in Kumar’s documents.

• The official explained that the questions were to understand her living situation and deal with issues in her visa application.

• Kristina Kumar then contacted the Russian Embassy. Later, she wrote a letter to the head of FRRO and asked for an examination of the officers’ behaviour.

• After that, she announced through social media posts that she had applied for an exit permit and was leaving India on 12 October 2025.

  

• In 2025, one of Kristina Kumar’s social media posts showed that she was taking anti-depression medicines.

  

• She is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.

  

• Kristina Kumar likes travelling to distant places, exploring Indian cuisine, painting, and cooking food.

  

• She is a fitness enthusiast and goes to the gym regularly. She often shares pictures of her gym sessions on social media.