Marichka Padalko


Maria Volodymyrivna "Marichka" Padalko is a Ukrainian television journalist, well known for her feminist opinions. She is married to Ukrainian politician Yehor Soboliev with whom she has three children.
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Biography

She was born in Kyiv on February 26, 1976. Her father is an English translator and her mother is a foreign language teacher. Graduated from a specialized language school.
She is a linguist by training. In 1998, she graduated from Kyiv Linguistic University with a degree in English and German.
As a student, she studied at the University of Florida's School of Journalism under the U.S. Government's Freedom Support Act exchange program. It was there that she gained her first journalistic experience at a local newspaper. In 1999, she spent several months interning at the BBC Ukrainian Service in London. In October 1999, she made her first appearance on television.