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Oleksandra Koltsova'''

Oleksandra Koltsova (born May 30th 1981) is a Unrainian singer, journalist, poet and eco activist, sometimes referred to as Kasha Saltsover She has also been in band Krykhitka Tsakhes from 1999 – 2007, when the bands guitarist died, they changed the name to Krkhitka. Oleksandra was also a judge on the youth Eurovision during 2018.

Biography Oleksandra was born in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, she studied at the Kyiv National Linguistic University. In 1999 she joined the band Kryhikitka Tsakhes that was formed in Ukraine, and became the leader and main vocalist for the group that focused on Rock and Trick Hop, until she left in 2007. Between 2015 and 2017 she was the leader of the Darina Zholdak Foundation, a talent agency for teenagers. In 2017 she Oleksandra was part of a panel at CEU as part of her job at Ukraine Public Broadcaster which she was a member of until 2019. In 2018 she was heavily involved in Potrey in particular sending a poem to Oleg Sentsov and Sasha Kolchenko who had been wrongly imprisoned due to falsified terrorism charges. After being a judge on Eurovision during 2018, she joined the board that would select the participants for Eurovision from Ukraine. In 2013 Oleksandra wrote a song that would be used for the women in arts awards.

References

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Ukrainian women artists awarded on International Women's Day (no date) UN Women – Europe and Central Asia. Available at: https://eca.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2023/03/ukrainian-women-artists-awarded-on-international-womens-day (Accessed: April 25, 2023).

The role of national parliaments in improving independence and pluralism of the media (2017) Central European University. Available at: https://events.ceu.edu/2017-12-06/role-national-parliaments-improving-independence-and-pluralism-media (Accessed: April 25, 2023).

Savage, M. (2019) Ukraine's Eurovision woes deepen as more singers pull out, BBC News. BBC. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47375571 (Accessed: April 25, 2023).

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). A Letter To Sasha Kolchenko, Written By Oleksandra Koltsova. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFxMXcwuUQ [Accessed 25 Apr. 2023].

thestrip.ru. (n.d.). The most popular Ukrainian singer. Ukrainian Russian pop stars (11 photos). [online] Available at: https://thestrip.ru/en/glaza/samaya-populyarnaya-ukrainskaya-pevica-ukrainskie-zvezdy-rossiiskoi/ [Accessed 25 Apr. 2023].