Sonya Koshkina Со́ня Ко́шкіна | |
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Born | Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko Ксенія Микитівна Василенко July 8, 1985 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) |
Pen name | Sonya Koshkina Со́ня Ко́шкіна |
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Nationality | Ukrainian |
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Sonya Koshkina ( Ukrainian: Со́ня Ко́шкіна; alternate Romanizations, Sonja Koškina and Soni︠a︡ Koshkina; born July 8, 1985) is the pen name of Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko (Ксенія Микитівна Василенко), [1] [2] a Ukrainian journalist, who is also co-owner and editor-in-chief of the online publication, LB.ua (Livyi Bereh)
Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, 1985. Her father is Mykita Kimovych Vasilenko, a lecturer at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv National University; KNU). During the period of 1998–2002, she studied at the School of Young Journalists "Yun-Press" at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth. After graduating, she taught there for two years. [3]
She served as a correspondent of the newspaper The Day ("Den") (2003–05). [3] In September 2005, she started working for the online publication Obozrevatel. It was then, at the suggestion of the site's editor-in-chief, Oleg Medvedev, that she took a pseudonym. [2]
Koshkina graduated in 2007 from the Institute of Journalism, KNU. Dissatisfied with her education, she entered the graduate school of National University Odesa Law Academy, majoring in "Philosophy of Law". [3] [2] Since 2008, she has been teaching at the Gorshenin Institute in Kyiv.
In June 2009, leaving Obozrevatel, she became the editor-in-chief and co-owner of the Livyi Bereh online publication. [3] [4] [5]
In October 2019, she defended her PhD dissertation in KNU, where she taught journalism.
Koshkina is affiliated with the YouTube project, "Kishkina", and the author of, Maydan. An Untold Story. [6]
On May 23, 2019, Koshkina gave birth to a daughter named Esther. [7]
Media related to Sonya Koshkina at Wikimedia Commons
Journalist Sonya Koshkina, who in November 2022 published defamatory statements about Bishop Nikita of Ivano-Frankivsk on her Telegram channel Sonya Koshkina (official) disassociated herself from this channel during a court hearing. As reported, this statement was made on behalf of Koshkina (real name Ksenia Vasilenko) by her lawyer during a court hearing at the Shevchenkivsky District Court on October 6, 2023. https://t.me/sonyakoshkina