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Mendel bought a Kyiv-based 48.5-square-meter flat worth almost US$45,000 in late 2018.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's spokeswoman Yulia Mendel declared UAH 935,000 (US$35,019) in income in 2019.
The relevant assets declaration has been published in the state register of declarations by persons authorized to perform state functions or local government.
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Mendel received UAH 77,900 (US$2,918) on the average per month. Her annual salary at the President's Office amounted to UAH 370,000 (US$13,858); the World Bank (a former job) paid her UAH 298,000 (US$11,161). She also received UAH 267,000 (US$10,000) from her professional activities (she worked as a journalist for international publications).
In late 2018, Mendel bought a Kyiv-based 48.5-square-meter flat worth UAH 1.2 million (US$44,944). She borrowed UAH 785,000 (US$29,401) from the Bank for Investments and Savings (Bisbank).
UNIAN memo. Mendel, 33, was born in the town of Henichesk, Kherson region. She studied journalism at Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National University, has a Candidate of Philology degree. She worked on Ukrainian TV channels, such as ICTV, Espreso TV, Inter, 112 Ukraine. For several years, she has contributed to The New York Times.
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Mendel was also a contributor to Forbes Ukraine and POLITICO (U.S.), and worked for VICE News, CNBC, New Eastern Europe, World Affairs Journal, and Spiegel Online. In an article for the Ukrainian TSN.ua news service, she said a training trip for journalists at Yale University, the USA, had become a turning point in her career in 2016. According to Mendel, she acquired important contacts there and understood how to interact with international newsrooms.
The year before, in 2015, under an International Press Institute program, she and nine other journalists from different countries visited the main U.S. media editions, namely The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CNN.
She became the first Ukrainian journalist who was granted a World Press Institute fellowship. She worked as a Communications Consultant for the World Bank. Mendel also underwent training abroad as part of the Lech Walesa Solidarity Program, graduated from the Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA).