Veronika Belotserkovskaya

ABOUT VERONIKA BELOTSERKOVSKAYA

Russian journalist, media manager, blogger, TV presenter, publisher and entrepreneur, author of popular cookbooks, and founder of the magazine Sobaka. She has 1.2 million followers on Instagram.

She attended the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, and later the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. She was involved in television advertising and was co-owner and general director of the Trend St. Petersburg.

She owned the Moscow and Saint Petersburg versions of Time Out before selling them to "C-Media" in 2014. In March 2022, she became the first individual charged by Russian authorities under the "fake news law" in absentia. Her response: "I was officially declared a decent person." She took to social media to speak out against the war in Ukraine in 2022.

She was born Veronika Borisovna Belotserkovskaya in Odessa to an engineer and a teacher of Russian. She was first married to artist Yan Antonyshev, with whom she has a son. Her second husband was businessman Boris Belotserkovsky, with whom she had two sons before divorcing in 2017.

She and Natasha Kravchuk are popular Ukrainian-born food bloggers.