Boris Lozhkin

Borys Lozhkin
Борис Ложкін
Lozhkin in March 2011
Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine
In office 10 June 2014 – 29 August 2016
Preceded by	Serhiy Pashynskyi (acting)
Succeeded by	Ihor Rainin
Personal details
Born	(1971-10-23) October 23, 1971 (age 45) Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Spouse(s)	Nadezhda Shalomova
Children	Anastasia (b. 1994)

Borys Lozhkin (Ukrainian: Борис Євгенович Ложкін; born on October 23, 1971 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). Secretary of the National Investment Council (pro bono), deputy Head of the National Reform Council (pro bono), Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine(June 10, 2014 – August 29, 2016), the head of the Chairman of the Board and President of UMH group, a multimillionaire, and a media manager. He ranks among the top-30 of the most influential media managers in the CIS countries (according to RBK and is a member of the board of WAN-IFRA.

On 29 Aug 2016 Ihor Rainin replaced Lozhkin as Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

Lozhkin was born on October 23, 1971 in Kharkiv (Ukraine, former USSR country). In 1985 (at the age of 14) concurrently with education started journalistic career as a string correspondent in "Leninskaya smena" and “Vecherniy Kharkov” newspapers. In 1989 he launched his own entrepreneurial activity by creating in Kharkiv of a newspapers and magazines sales network. In a year, he invested his first significant capital into the commercial newspaper "ATV", became its publisher and editor-in-chief.

In the spring of 1994, Lozhkin gathered editorial stuff and started preparations for the publishing of "Telenedelya" newspaper, its first edition was issued in Kharkov on October 27, 1994. The publication became the first TV-guide newspaper in Ukraine. Currently celebrity magazine "Telenedelya" ranks among TOP-10 major printed media brands in ex-Soviet space (#1 in Ukraine, No. 6 in Russia in terms of sales ratings) with an audience of 5.2 million readers.