| Sonya Koshkina Со́ня Ко́шкіна | |
| Pseudonym: | Sonya Koshkina Со́ня Ко́шкіна |
| Birth Name: | Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko Ксенія Микитівна Василенко |
| Birth Date: | July 8, 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
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, (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). 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.
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.[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]
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