Sonya Koshkina

Kseniia Mykytivna Vasylenko (; born July 8, 1985), better known by the pen name Sonya Koshkina , 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.

Career She served as a correspondent of the newspaper The Day ("Den") (2003–05). 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.

Koshkina claimed she was being persecuted by a staff member of the Presidential Administration, Andriy Portnov. In May 2015, the High Administrative Court overturned that decision.

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 PhD dissertation in KNU, where she taught journalism.

Koshkina is affiliated with the YouTube 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.