Beautiful pics with a touch of photoshop.
Yes, take nothing away from her, except the impression that she is a novice. I suspect she used a Lensbaby for the "Lomography" effect, a style any Russian would be well familiar with, and that she used something beside than the camera's built in flash. Her separation of her subject from the background by her control of depth of field tells me she used more than a kit lens. My guess is that we are looking at a 50mm prime at f1.4 or maybe even f1.2.