Sonya Koshkina (

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, Со́ня Ко́шкіна; alternate Romanizations, Sonja Koškina and Soni︠a︡ Koshkina; born, July 8, 1985) is the pen name of Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko (Ксенія Микитівна Василенко), a

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, who is also co-owner and

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of the

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, (''Livyi Bereh'')

Early life and education

Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko was born in

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Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, 1985. Her father is Mykita Kimovych Vasilenko, a lecturer at

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

(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.

Career

She served as a correspondent of the newspaper ''

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'' ("Den") (2003–05). In September 2005, she started working for the online publication

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. It was then, at the suggestion of the site's editor-in-chief, Oleg Medvedev, that she took a

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. 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". 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. In October 2019, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation in KNU, where she taught journalism. Koshkina is affiliated with the

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project, "Kishkina", and the author of, ''Maydan. An Untold Story.''

Personal life

On May 23, 2019, Koshkina gave birth to a daughter named Esther.

Selected works

* ''Maydan. An Untold Story.''

Awards

* 2015, Winner of the All-Ukrainian Prize "Woman of the Third Millennium" in the nomination "Rating" * 2019, Masters category, Top 100 most influential women in Ukraine, ''Focus'' magazine

References

External links

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