| Sevgil Musayeva | |
| Birth Date: | 18 June 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Juma, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Other Names: | Sevgil Musaieva |
| Occupation: | journalist |
Sevgil Musayeva (Ukrainian: Севгіль Хайретдинівна Мусаєва|Sevhil Khairetdynivna Musaieva,[1] [2] Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish: Sevgil Hayretdın Qızı Musaieva; born June 18, 1987) is a Ukrainian journalist from Crimea, Ukraine, chief-editor of internet publishing Ukrainska Pravda and an initiator of creating the KrymSOS web portal.
Born on 18 June 1987 in Juma[3] near Samarkand, Sevgil returned with her family to Crimea in 1989[4] when the restrictions against the Crimean Tatars in the Soviet Union were abandoned. They settled in Kerch, Crimean Oblast. In 2004-2010 she studied at the Journalism Institute of Kyiv University. During that period Musayeva also worked for various business news agencies and publishers such as Ekonomichni novyny, Delo, Vlast deneg.
From June 2011 to August 2013 she worked as a correspondent for "Forbes Ukraine" until it was bought by Serhiy Kurchenko.[5] With the start of Euromaidan, Musayeva was its activist and was creating reports for the project Hubs in facebook. In February 2014, she launched Hubs as a separate business news web portal becoming its chief-editor. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, she also became one of the founders of internet project Krym_SOS. Since October 2014 Musayeva is a chief editor of Ukrainska Pravda.[6] [7]
In 2016, Sevgil was nominated on the Top 30 under 30 award by the Kyiv Post.[8]
She is one of Time magazine's top 100 most influential people of 2022.[9]