[2] Yanina started her career in the press, she worked in the Zaporozhian publishing house "Telecity", where she wrote the column "Alone with...".

[6] In April 2018, the premiere screening of the documentary "We are soldiers" (Ukrainian: "Ми – солдати") was held in Kyiv, one of the producers of which was Yanina Sokolova.

In May 2019, Sokolova announced the multimedia project "Ya, Nina" (Ukrainian: «Я, Ніна», transl.

(Ukrainian: "Як вам не соромно") on the TV channel "Ukraine 24", which premiered on 19 March 2020.

After three issues of the program, the TV channel temporarily stopped its production, citing the quarantine in Ukraine.

In 2019, Yanina Sokolova took the first place in the rating of the most popular bloggers in Ukraine, according to the readers of the ICTV website.

[15] Yanina Sokolova is one of the top three people most influential on Ukrainian youth in social media, according to the International Research & Exchanges Board.

In 2018, Yanina Sokolova supported the appeal of the European Film Academy in defense of Ukrainian Director Oleh Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia.

[20] In March 2020, Yanina Sokolova founded the "Varto Zhyty" foundation, which aims to find and accumulate charitable funds raised from businesses and individuals through transparent distribution between social initiatives and projects that are just starting their activities or are already active and implementing their projects in the field of oncology.