Alesia Batsman

Alesya Leonidovna Batsman was born on October 3, 1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In 2007 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology (Department of Journalism) of Kharkiv National University. Vasily Karazin with a red diploma. She entered graduate school, but did not finish it, taking academic leave .

From the second year she worked in the Kharkiv socio-political newspaper "Vremya" and Sergei Potimkov's author's television program "Komendantsky Chas", which was then broadcast on "Channel 7". In 2005 she held the position of editor-in-chief of the Kharkiv youth newspaper Zebra.

In 2006 she moved to Kyiv and worked for six years with Savik Schuster, the editor of his program. The journalist said that for five of the six years she "sat in Savik's" ear "on all his broadcasts." While working on Schuster's program, she was a freelance correspondent for the weekly Gordon Boulevard and the Mirror of the Week.

Batzman said that she met her future husband, journalist Dmitry Gordon and Schuster, at the same time - in the fourth year of university, when she came to interview them.

"At the end of my fourth year, during a business trip to Kyiv, I interviewed three people: Savik Shuster, Dmitry Gordon, and Yuri Falesa. The interviews turned out good. I can judge this only because all three offered me a job."

Since November 2013, he has been the head of the GORDON online publication.

In July 2017, Batsman began to host the author's program "Batsman Live" on NewsOne, and in September moved to the channel "112 Ukraine", where her program changed its name to "Batsman" . The presenter invited famous politicians, public and cultural figures for interviews. The journalist said that she was not an employee of these TV channels and did not receive a salary there.

"Cooperation is very simple: coming to the channel, I give him an interesting product and rating - the most important thing. The channel is interested in cool speakers and a great product. And the channel gives me a platform, access to the TV audience and plus the technical component: studio, cameras, directors and so on" .

According to Batsman, both on "NewsOne" and "112 Ukraine" she independently chose guests for broadcasts, she formulated topics and questions - this was one of the conditions for cooperation.

In May 2019, Batsman announced that he was terminating cooperation with Channel 112 Ukraine due to the influence of Viktor Medvedchuk, the former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and the godfather of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She called the continued stay on the channel counterproductive and harmful to herself. In February 2021, it supported the blocking of 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZIK TV channels in Ukraine, which are officially owned by Medvedchuk's closest ally, Taras Kozak, an MP from the Opposition Platform For Life.

"This situation is not about journalists and freedom of speech, it is about how a group of people controlled from Russia and living on Russian money had in their hands the most powerful information weapon with which they struck the brains of Ukrainian citizens, and so every day suffering from war with Russia ... Do not take money from the aggressor and sleep peacefully" .

Batsman stated that she would now develop her own YouTube channel, Alesya Batsman. In January 2021, the journalist's channel received a "Silver Button" from YouTube - the number of its subscribers exceeded 100 thousand.

Alesia Batsman is wife of journalist Dmitry Gordon.

Married to Ukrainian journalist, TV presenter, writer Dmitry Gordon. The couple has three joint children:

- Santa (2012);

- Alice (2016);

- Liana (2019).