Sonya Koshkina

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykytivna and the family name is Vasilenko.
Sonya Koshkina
Соня Кошкіна
BornKseniia Mykytivna Vasylenko
Ксенія Микитівна Василенко
(1985-07-08) July 8, 1985
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Occupation
  • journalist
  • editor-in-chief
NationalityUkrainian
Alma mater

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.

Early life and education

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]

Notes

  1. ^ National romanization: Sonia Koshkina, alternate romanizations]]: Sonja Koškina and Soni︠a︡

References

  1. ^ Кошкіна, Соня (16 February 2011). "Киев. Родина нежная". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Кошкіна, Соня (16 February 2011). "Киев. Родина нежная". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Кошкина, Соня (24 September 2009). "Цель личного обогащения передо мной не стоит". Telekritika (in Russian). Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Главред „Левого берега" Соня Кошкина стала кандидатом наук!". Дуся. Телекритика. 2012-05-17. Archived from the original on 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  5. ^ "СОНЯ К. КАНДИДАТ ПЛАГИАСТИЧЕСКИХ НАУК". Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  6. ^ "СОНЯ КОШКИНА НЕ КАНДИДАТ НАУК, А ОБЫЧНЫЙ ПЛАГИАТОР". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Соня Кошкіна відстоюватиме наукове звання в апеляції". Телекритика. 2012-11-16. Archived from the original on 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  8. ^ "Єдиний державний реєстр судових рішень". reyestr.court.gov.ua. Retrieved 2025-07-22.
  9. ^ "Кошкина ушла из "Обозревателя" на "Левый берег"". Telekritika (in Russian). 17 July 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Соня Кошкіна пішла з "Оглядача"". Telekritika (in Russian). 17 September 2009.
  11. ^ Холоденко, Олена (2019-07-02). "Соня Кошкина: «Я прохожу туда, куда большинству журналистов доступ намертво закрыт. Это моя фишка»". detector.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  12. ^ a b "SPEAKERS. Sonya Koshkina Editor-in-chief and co-owner of the news portal Livyi Bereh". womenua.today. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Соня Кошкіна народила доньку – культурне життя України Depo.ua". www.depo.ua (in Ukrainian). 24 May 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  14. ^ "LB.ua's Sonya Koshkina among top 100 most influential women in Ukraine". LB.ua. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

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