Snejana Farberov

Background

Snejana Farberov is an early morning reporter at the New York Post, specializing in breaking news, national crime and court stories, and the Ukraine war coverage. She has worked as a journalist in New York City and Long Island for 14 years. A native of Russia who grew up in the family of an army officer, she earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism and Italian from St. John's University in 2007, followed by a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University School of Journalism in 2008. Snejana speaks four languages, loves to travel and enjoys cooking and baking.

Latest Articles

protesters

San Fran's DA cuts loose anti-Israel protesters who blocked Golden Gate Bridge

April 18, 2024 | 6:25pm

More than two dozen anti-Israel protesters who snarled traffic on San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge were freed from jail Tuesday -- because the city’s top prosecutor doesn't have enough...

A surveillance video from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showed the moment Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes brought her dead uncle, Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, by a rideshare cab (left) to a bank to sign loan documents (right)

Footage shows woman who used dead uncle to 'sign' bank loan arriving by taxi -- with driver helping move body

April 18, 2024 | 1:06pm

Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes claimed she didn't know her uncle was dead.

A collage featuring Hanuman Beniwal among various people and a fire.

Israel 'badly miscalculated' how Iran would respond to assassination of top general, US officials claim

April 18, 2024 | 9:09am

The Israelis initially did not think Iran would lash out in response to the airstrike, according to a report.

Madden Hein fell at the Club House Hotel & Suites in Sioux Falls, SD. on Saturday and died at a local hospital two days later

1-year-old boy dies in fall from third-floor hotel room window: 'A tragic accident'

April 18, 2024 | 7:52am

Madden Hein became an organ donor and will help save others.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) brushed aside allies' calls for restraint as his government mulled how to respond to Iran's attack, declaring that "Israel will do whatever is necessary to defend itself"

Netanyahu dismisses calls for restraint over Iran attack, vows Israel will 'defend itself'

April 17, 2024 | 2:22pm

Benjamin Netanyahu responded to allies' repeated calls for restraint.

Ismail Yusaf Baz (right), commander of Hezbollah’s coastal sector, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his car (left) as it was traveling on a road in Lebanon

Senior Hezbollah field commander killed in Israeli drone strike on moving car, IDF says

April 17, 2024 | 1:03pm

Ismail Yusaf Baz was accused by the IDF of masterminding terrorist attacks against Israel.

Patrick Hurst, 47 (right), who allegedly claimed to be a "sovereign citizen" not bound by US laws, was killed in a shootout with Texas deputies after allegedly driving away from a traffic stop. Hurst was on livestreaming to Facebook at the time of his confrontation with the cops (left)

'Sovereign citizen' who doesn't respect US laws is killed after shooting at police while livestreaming on Facebook

April 17, 2024 | 12:35pm

Patrick Hurst, 47, who allegedly claimed to be a "sovereign citizen" not bound by US laws, was killed in a shootout with Texas deputies after allegedly driving away from a...

Brazilian woman brazenly wheels elderly man's corpse into bank to co-sign a loan for her: 'Uncle, are you listening?'

April 17, 2024 | 9:30am

In a mind-boggling scene straight out of "A Weekend at Bernie's," a Brazilian woman reportedly wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank Tuesday to...

A Jewish New York subway rider recorded and shared on social media a distressing video showing anti-Israel protesters swarming a subway car and chanting hateful slogans

Disturbing moment anti-Israel protesters swarm NYC subway chanting, 'Iran, you make us proud'

April 17, 2024 | 8:04am

"Iran, you make us proud!" the group yell in a call-and-response chant as a young woman stares wide-eyed in horror during the vile scenes said to have been filmed Monday

Shaun Arnold (left), a convicted felon, was wearing a police uniform and a ballistic vest with his name on it (right) when he allegedly tried to pull over undercover deputies in Houston

Serial cop impersonator in ballistic vest and with body camera busted trying to pull over real deputies: cops

April 16, 2024 | 4:42pm

Shaun Arnold was driving a car with emergency lights and sirens which looked remarkably like a police cruiser.

Kyle Turner, 30 (left), a Brooklyn-based author, was arrested and charged with defacing a Park Slope subway station with "Free Palestine" graffiti, as he recounted in an X thread (center)

Anti-Israel protester and NYT freelancer busted for subway graffiti — then whines he had no idea it was illegal

April 16, 2024 | 3:44pm

"I sincerely didn't know graffiti in the subway (which i see all the time) was an arrestable offense,'' the Brooklyn writer said. "But I also can't believe our tax dollars...

An anti-Israel protester was seen waving a flag associated with the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah during a day of protest in New York City.

Anti-Israel protesters wave Hezbollah banner, set American flags on fire during NYC unrest: 'Death to America'

April 16, 2024 | 9:51am

A right-wing activist confronted the Hezbollah flag waver.

Pennsylvania plane crash

Pilot fell out of experimental plane mid-flight and hit tail, causing crash that killed 2: NTSB

April 16, 2024 | 8:48am

Pilot Ronald Snyder may have been trying to observe an issue with the tail.

San Francisco, Oakland and Chicago protesters

Anti-Israel protesters block highways near O'Hare Airport, shut down Golden Gate Bridge

April 15, 2024 | 10:42am

Anti-Israel protesters shut down San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in both directions for hours Monday while also creating traffic jams for drivers trying to reach Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. "Golden Gate Bridge is closed...

Elica Le Bon (left), a British-born, American-educated attorney and TikToker, said in a video that Iran's hardliner regime and its supporters are trying to drag the peace-loving people of Iran into a war with Israel

'We want peace': Iranian-American lawyer blasts supporters of Islamic regime calling for war with Israel

April 15, 2024 | 9:39am

An Iranian-American lawyer and popular TikToker is bashing Iran and its clueless defenders clamoring for war with Israel — arguing everyday Iranians know what ruthless Tehran is really like and...

Joe Biden accused of 'sleepwalking' US into 'catastrophic war' as IDF threatens retaliatory strike against Iran

Biden's inaction may spawn 'catastrophic war,' expert says, as IDF mulls retaliatory strike against Iran

April 15, 2024 | 6:13am

President Biden, 81, is facing mounting pressure to silence critics who claim he's allowed tensions in the region to escalate.

Lorenza Ramirez, 80, a "consecrated laywoman" dressed in a nun's habit, was caught on video wheeling a suitcase containing the body of her friend 58-year-old Erica Fernandez, who had died a year ago

Haunting moment 'nun' wheels suitcase containing body of fellow sister in death 'pact'

April 12, 2024 | 2:27pm

Officials said two "consecrated laywomen" made a pact to take care of one another after death.

Paul Flores, 47 (left), Kristin Smart (right)

Kristin Smart's convicted killer Paul Flores stabbed in prison, 9 months after he was slashed by inmate

April 12, 2024 | 12:57pm

The violent attack comes less than nine months after Flores was slashed in the neck by a fellow inmate at the same prison.

Samuel Woodward (right), 26, is on trial for the suspected hate crime murder of Blaze Bernstein (left), his gay, Jewish former classmate, who was found savagely stabbed after flirting with his killer on Tinder

Gay Jewish teen met up with his accused neo-Nazi killer because he thought having sex with him would be 'legendary': court docs

April 12, 2024 | 10:34am

Blaze Bernstein was stabbed 28 times in the face and neck.

A friend of Riley Strain's (left) family friend (top right) said the last known person to speak with the University of Missouri student the night he vanished had given a statement to the police about what happened to the 22-year-old

Last known person to speak with Riley Strain comes forward to cops: This is 'huge'

April 12, 2024 | 7:23am

Raily Strain's family do not believe he fell into the river.