following graduation from moscow state university, khanga was hired by the "moscow news" and became the first russian journalist to participate in a foreign-exchange program with the american-based "christian science monitor" in 1988. through this exchange, khanga became well known in the united states for being a black woman from russia, with many americans being shocked that black people even lived in russia. khanga was the moderator of the russian television talk show "the domino effect" (). she also moderated russia's first talk show about sex, called "about that" (, "pro eto"), from 1997 to 2000, which tackled such matters as hiv/aids, homosexuality and workplace sexual harassment; she later commented that the effect of the show "was like a bomb went off".