Sevgil Musayeva ( uk, Севгіль Хайретдинівна Мусаєва, , Sevhil Khairetdynivna Musaieva, crh, Sevgil Hayretdın Qızı Musaieva) is a Ukrainian journalist from Crimea, Ukraine, chief-editor of internet publishing ''

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukra ...

'' and an initiator of creating th
Krym_SOS
web portal.

Biography

Born on 18 June 1987 in Juma near

Samarkand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top: Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zi ...

, Sevgil returned with her family to

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a p ...

in 1989 when the restrictions against the

Crimean Tatars , flag = Flag of the Crimean Tatar people.svg , flag_caption = Flag of Crimean Tatars , image = Love, Peace, Traditions.jpg , caption = Crimean Tatars in traditional clothing in front of the Khan's Palace ...

in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

were abandoned. They settled in

Kerch Kerch ( uk, Керч; russian: Керчь, ; Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ; Ancient Greek: , ''Pantikápaion''; Medieval Greek: ''Bosporos''; crh, , ; tr, Kerç) is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of ...

Crimean Oblast During the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, different governments existed within the Crimean Peninsula. From 1921 to 1936, the government in the Crimean Peninsula was known as the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republi ...

. In 2004-2010 she studied at the Journalism Institute of

Kyiv University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. During that period Musayeva also worked for various business news agencies and publishers such as ''Ekonomichni novyny'', ''

Delo ''Delo'' (russian: Дело) is a business oriented online media in Ukraine, belonging to ekonomika+ media holding. ''Delo'' was the first daily in Ukraine, publishing its real print circulation (13.000 - 15.000) and trying to introduce Western e ...

'', ''Vlast deneg''. From June 2011 to August 2013 she worked as a correspondent for "Forbes Ukraine" until it was bought by

Serhiy Kurchenko Serhiy Vitaliiovych Kurchenko ( uk, Сергі́й Віта́лійович Ку́рченко; born 21 September 1985) is a Ukrainian businessman and founder/owner of the group of companies "Gas Ukraine 2009" specializing in trading of liquefi ...

. With the start of

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

, Musayeva was its activist and was creating reports for the project Hubs in

facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin ...

. In February 2014, she launche
Hubs
as a separate business news web portal becoming its chief-editor. After

annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia ...

, she also became one of the founders of internet project Krym_SOS. Since October 2014 Musayeva is a chief editor of ''

''.Tomasz Fiala became the new owner of Ukrainska Pravda

(26 May 2021) In 2016, Sevgil was nominated on the Top 30 under 30 award by the ''

Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...

''. She is one of Time magazine's top 100 most influential people of 2022.

References

External links

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womenua.today {{DEFAULTSORT:Musayeva, Sevgil 1987 births Living people People from Juma, Uzbekistan Uzbekistani emigrants to Ukraine University of Kyiv, Journalism Institute alumni Ukrainian women journalists Crimean Tatar journalists Ukrayinska Pravda Crimean Tatar independence activists 21st-century journalists