In the spring of 2018, a couple of girls, impressed by a lecture by Mikhail Svetov in their city, wanted to draw strips featuring Svetov-chan. Later, during discussions with party colleagues, they decided to change the concept to LPR-chan. To promote this mascot, it was suggested to answer various questions on behalf of LPR-chan—this way, her image would become more distinct, and themes for new strips would emerge.
Gradually, the project concept was refined, and the team composition changed. The chan grew up a bit:
Then, to ensure the chan’s opinion was not confused with the official position of the party, the project was renamed Ancap-chan, especially since most of the questions asked of her concerned anarcho-capitalism.
At first, the chan only accepted and answered questions using the ask.fm service. Later, the answers began to be published in a Telegram channel. In the fall of 2018, Ancap-chan started a website to avoid using a third-party service for receiving questions.
From October 2018, Twitter was added, and from November 2018, a Telegram chat, where readers could communicate with Ancap-chan live (the chat has long been abandoned by the creator and lives its own life).
From December 2018, posts began to be broadcast to Facebook, as it is a sanctuary for intellectuals. Gradually, a community formed around the project, with individual members also occasionally publishing in the channel. In the summer of 2019, an unofficial mirror of the project opened on VK, 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 some educational videos.
Also in the summer of 2019, Ancap-chan launched a project for the translation of libertarian literature from English. The scheme was simple: the original text was posted chapter by chapter on Ancap-chan’s website, volunteers reserved a chapter, translated it, and sent the translation. Then Ancap-chan edited the translation and posted it on the site. The first translation was David Friedman’s book The Machinery of Freedom.
In the fall of 2019, at the initiative of a reader, Ancap-chan changed her image again and finally became anime-style, bringing her appearance in line 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 by paid subscription, became fully open from the spring of 2023, and was soon completely abandoned. Later, Instagram took over the role of a personal blog.
In 2024, Nostr was added to the social networks, and in 2026, Substack.
Since May 2021, Ancap-chan actively joined the Montelibero movement—she moved to Montenegro and encouraged others to do the same, building a libertarian community in this small Mediterranean country.
In the summer of 2026, Montenegrin authorities announced the introduction of a visa regime with Russia starting in November 2026. For Ancap-chan, this was the final straw in terms of tightening the screws, and from November 2026, she plans to move to Serbia, where she will begin a new chapter of her life. In April 2027, Ancap-chan intends to give birth to a child.
The project develops thanks to your questions, donations, articles submitted for publication, and other activity in the community. The money will be useful for website maintenance and various small aesthetic improvements, but primarily it will be gratefully consumed—because the less one has to be distracted to earn a living, the more attention can be given to one’s main project.