Sonya Koshkina
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Ксенія Микитівна Василенко
July 8, 1985
- journalist
- editor-in-chief
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| Born | Kseniia Mykytivna Vasylenko Ксенія Микитівна Василенко July 8, 1985 |
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Kseniia Mykytivna Vasylenko (Ukrainian: Ксенія Микитівна Василенко;[1][2] born July 8, 1985), better known by the pen name Sonya Koshkina (Ukrainian: Со́ня Ко́шкіна),[a] is a Ukrainian journalist, who is also co-owner and editor-in-chief of the online publication, LB.ua.
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]
Career
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 May 2012, she defended her dissertation at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv titled "Online publications as a factor in the formation of democratic and political culture," earning the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences.[4] In October, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court, following a lawsuit by Serhii Rudenko, Deputy Dean for Research at the Faculty of Philosophy of the same university, annulled the degree due to detected plagiarism.[5][6]
Koshkina claimed she was being persecuted by a staff member of the Presidential Administration, Andriy Portnov.[7] In May 2015, the High Administrative Court overturned that decision.[8]
In June 2009, leaving Obozrevatel, she became the editor-in-chief and co-owner of the Livyi Bereh online publication.[3][9][10]
In October 2019, she defended her PhD dissertation in KNU, where she taught journalism.[11]
Koshkina is affiliated with the YouTube project, "Kishkina", and the author of, Maydan. An Untold Story.[12]
Personal life
On May 23, 2019, Koshkina gave birth to a daughter named Esther.[13]
Selected works
- Maydan. An Untold Story.[12]
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[14]
