Svitlana Kryukova (; 28 February 1984, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian journalist and first deputy editor-in-chief of the Strana.ua online publication. She is creator of the books “Setka”, “Diary of Euromaidan”, “Revolution through the Eyes of Reporter's Journalists, and Chronicles of the Revolution”. Also she known as the author of paintings in the genre of political satire. She is included in the top 100 most influential women in Ukraine according to Focus magazine. Early life She was born February 28, 1984, in Kyiv. She graduated from the philological department of the specialized Kyiv lyceum Naukova zminna. In 2001—2006 she studied at the Kyiv National Economic University (the faculty of finance and economics). Master of Finance. Journalist career She began her career in journalism as an economic journalist specializing in public finance and economic policy. At the end of 2004, the first Ukrainian business daily, Ekonomicheskie Izvestiya, launched in Ukraine, where Kryukova began her career as an intern in the Public Policy department. She worked there for three years as a correspondent, columnist, and special correspondent. In 2006 she began working for the newspaper Komentarii. In the same period she began working with the Ekonomichna Pravda and Ukrayinska Pravda newspapers as a freelance journalist. Afterwards she briefly interrupted her career and went to the United States to work in fashion projects. During the same period he is interning in New York and Washington within the program “Journalism of the Digital Future”. Since 2009, she has been a special correspondent for the magazine Expert-Ukraine, published under license of the Russian magazine of the same name. In 2010–2012, she was deputy editor-in-chief of Expert-Ukraine magazine and editor of the Economic Policy section. From 2013 to 2015, she headed the “Economics” section of Vesti Reporter, part of the Multimedia Invest Group holding. The journalist left the publication in the summer of 2015 following the resignation of the head of the holding and head of the Vesti newspaper Ihor Guzhva, who called himself the owner of the media holding. One of the reasons for her departure was the magazine's failure to publish her report about the electoral struggle in Chernihiv between Hennadiy Korban and Serhiy Berezenko, which was later published on the website of Ukrayinska Pravda. The chief editor of the magazine Gleb Prostakov explained the non-issue by the fact that the editor's article was public relations. According to Kryukova, the material was not published in