Yanina Sokolova

In 2020, Yanina Sokolova launched the author's project "Shame on you!" (Ukrainian: "Як вам не соромно" ) on the TV channel "Ukraine 24", which premiered on 19 March 2020. After three issues of the program, the TV channel temporarily stopped its production, citing the quarantine in Ukraine. However, a week later, Sokolova relaunched the project on her YouTube channel, but under the new name "Shame!" (Ukrainian: "Соромно!" ). Since 21 April, the project is also released on Channel 4.

In March 2020, Yanina Sokolova founded the "Varto Zhyty" foundation, which aims to find and accumulate charitable funds raised from businesses and individuals through transparent distribution between social initiatives and projects that are just starting their activities or are already active and implementing their projects in the field of oncology.

In May 2019, Sokolova announced the multimedia project "Ya, Nina" (Ukrainian: "Я, Ніна" ), based on real events from her life. The goal of the project is to help cancer patients realize the value of life and start fighting for it. The project will consist of a book, a song and a full-length feature film, which will play Valeriya Khodos and Valery Kharchishin, and the main role will be played by Sokolova.

In 2019, Yanina Sokolova took the first place in the rating of the most popular bloggers in Ukraine, according to the readers of the ICTV website. In the same year, she was included in the rating of the 100 most influential women in Ukraine by Focus magazine.

In April 2018, the premiere screening of the documentary "We are soldiers" (Ukrainian: "Ми — солдати" ) was held in Kyiv, one of the producers of which was Yanina Sokolova.

In September 2018, the international book festival in Dnipro hosted the presentation of an interactive book "Shevchenko for every day", in which 53 videos were shot, in which Yanina Sokolova recites the poet's poems.

In October 2018, she became the host of the author's YouTube project "Evening with Yanina Sokolova".

In 2018, Yanina Sokolova supported the appeal of the European Film Academy in defense of Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia.

Since 2011, she has worked as a host of the program "Cinema with Yanina Sokolova", "Time of News", and, since 2015, the program "Rendezvous" on Channel 5. This is a project of personal interviews with top politicians, businessmen, artists, etc.

In May 2010, she married Volodymyr Litvin, a banker. The couple has two sons: Mykola and Myron.

In 2009, she hosted the program "Morning on the Fifth" on Channel 5.

In 2006, Sokolova returned to television industry, she starting working as a presenter and journalist in the morning show "Morning on Inter". In the same year, she began acting in films. In 2007—2008, Yanina Sokolova was the host and journalist of the program "Breakfast with 1+1".

In 2004, she was an actress at the "Free Theatre" and "Dakh Theatre", at the same time she worked as a model and starred in films.

In 2003, Sokolova was the host of the program "All the money in the world" on the Luhansk regional TV channel "Lot TV".

In 2000, she worked as a correspondent for the newspaper "Zaporizhian Sich". At the age of 18, she trained on the Zaporozhian channel "TV5", and in 2001 she worked as a weather forecast presenter there.

Yanina Mykhailivna Sokolova (Ukrainian: Яніна Михайлівна Соколова ; 6 March 1984, Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian journalist, television presenter and actress. She works as the host of the "Rendezvous" and "Cinema" programs on Channel 5, "Shame!" program on Channel 4 and YouTube, as well as on the "Evening with Yanina Sokolova" channel on YouTube. She is the author of the multimedia project "Ya, Nina", based on real events from her life. She is the founder of the "Varto Zhyty" foundation.