In the spring of 2018, a couple of girls, inspired by a lecture by Mikhail Svetov in their city, wanted to draw strips featuring Svetov-chan. Later, during a discussion with their party members, they decided to rework the concept into LPR-chan. To promote this mascot, it was suggested that she answer various questions on behalf of LPR-chan—so that, supposedly, her character would become more well-defined and topics for new strips would emerge.
Gradually, the project concept was refined, and the team’s personnel changed. Tyan grew a bit older:
Then, so that the chan’s opinion would not be confused with the official position of the party, the project was renamed to Ancap-chan, especially since most of the questions asked of her concerned anarcho-capitalism.
At first, the girl only accepted and answered questions using the ask.fm service. Then, the answers began to be published in the Telegram channel. In the autumn of 2018, Ankap-chan started a website so as not to use a third-party service for receiving questions.
Since October 2018, Twitter was added, and since November 2018 — a Telegram chat, where readers could interact with Ancap-chan live (the chat has long been abandoned by its creator and lives its own life).
Since December 2018, posts have been broadcast to Facebook, as it is a sanctuary for intellectuals. Gradually, a community formed around the project, some of whose individual members are also published in the channel from time to time. In the summer of 2019, an unofficial mirror of the project opened on VKontakte, where posts are broadcast by some unknown reader.
From the summer of 2019 to the end of 2020, Ancap-chan collaborated with the YouTube channel Libertarian Band, writing scripts for individual educational videos.
Also in the summer of 2019, Ancap-chan launched a project for translations of libertarian literature from English. The scheme is simple: Ancap-chan posts the original text chapter by chapter on her website, volunteers reserve a chapter, translate it, and send the translation. Then Ancap-chan edits the translation and posts it on the site. The first translation was David Friedman’s book The Machinery of Freedom. Subsequently, the volunteers’ contribution gradually decreased.
In the autumn of 2019, at the initiative of a reader, Ancap-chan changed her image again and finally became anime-style, bringing her appearance into alignment with her name.
In the spring of 2020, Ancap-chan started a live channel on Boosty, where she began writing not about libertarianism, but about herself. The channel was initially available via paid subscription, became completely open in the spring of 2023, and was soon completely abandoned. Later, Instagram began to serve the role of a personal blog. In 2026, she finally grew tired of Instagram, and Nostr began to be used for notes of this kind.
In 2024, Nostr was added to her social media, and in 2026 — Substack.
Since May 2021, Ancap-chan has been actively involved in the Montelibero movement—moving to Montenegro and calling on others to do the same: to build a libertarian community in this small Mediterranean country.
In the summer of 2026, the Montenegrin authorities announced the introduction of a visa regime with Russia starting from November 2026. This was the last straw for Ankap-chan in terms of the tightening restrictions, and from November 2026, she plans to move to Serbia, where she will begin a new chapter of her life. In April 2027, Ankap-chan is planning to give birth.
The project develops thanks to your questions, donations, proposed articles, and other community activity. The money will be useful for website maintenance and various small embellishments, but will primarily be gratefully consumed — because the less one has to be distracted to earn a living, the more attention can be devoted to one’s main project.