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Oleksandr Yefremov
Oleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov ( uk, Олександр Сергійович Єфремов, russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ефре́мов) is a Ukrainian former parliamentarian and politician. A former governor of the Luhansk Oblast, from 2010 until 2014 he was Party of Regions's faction leader in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). On 14 February 2015 Yefremov was detained on suspicion of "abuse of power under aggravating circumstances".Ex-head of Regions Party faction Yefremov detained on suspicion of abuse of power under aggravating circumstances |
Interfax-Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English & German. The company owns a 50-seat press centre. The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022) History Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Modern history of Ukraine#Independent Ukraine (1991 to present), Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv. In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv. References External links * News agencies based in Ukraine Mass media in Kyiv 1992 establishments in Ukraine {{Ukraine-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. The newspaper, which went online in 1997, serves Ukrainian and expatriate readers with a general interest mix of political, business and entertainment coverage. The 50-member staff is a team of mainly Ukrainian journalists, numbering 35 editorial team members and 15 in the commercial division as of Jan. 10, 2020, including 40 Ukrainians. Historically, the editorial policy has supported democracy, Western integration and free markets for Ukraine. It has published numerous investigative stories, including coverage of the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, in which ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is a prime suspect; the 2004 Orange Revolution, in which a massive public uprising blocked Viktor Yanukovych from taking power as pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interfax Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English & German. The company owns a 50-seat press centre. The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022) History Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv. In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat .... References External links * News agencies based in Ukraine Mass media in Kyiv 1992 establishments in Ukraine {{Ukraine-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition Bloc
russian: Оппозиционный блок , colorcode = , logo = Opposition Bloc.png , logo_size = 240px , leader1_title = Chairman , leader1_name = Rinat Akhmetov (one wing)Dmytro Firtash & Yuriy Boyko (one wing) , leader2_name = , foundation = , dissolution = 13 December 2018 , merger = , successor = Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development (Akhmetov's wing)Opposition Platform — For Life (Medvedchuk's and Boyko's wing) , headquarters = Kyiv , ideology = , european = , international = , colours = Blue White , seats1_title = 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Regions (2015) , seats1 = , website = , country = Ukraine The Opposition Bloc ( uk, Опозиційний блок, Opozitsiyniy blok, russian: Оппозиционный блок, Oppozitsionniy blok) was a Russophilia, pro-Russian Political parties in U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency. On 8 April 2014 RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency. RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow. The chief editor is Anna Gavrilova. Content RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014; starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or sign a redundancy contract. On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with its ria.ru website. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Ukrainian
BBC News Ukrainian ( uk, BBC News Україна) is the Ukrainian service of the BBC which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Ukraine and the world. It started broadcasts in 1992.Бі-Бі-Сі – зрозуміти світ BBC Ukrainian Its headquarters are in , . The first BBC Ukrainian program was aired on 1 June 1992. It featured |
Donbass
The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed from "Donets Basin", an abbreviation of "Donets Coal Basin" ( uk, Донецький вугільний басейн, Donetskyi vuhilnyi basein; russian: Донецкий угольный бассейн, Donetskii ugolnyi bassein). The name of the coal basin is a reference to the Donets Ridge; the latter is associated with the Donets river. There are numerous definitions of the region's extent. It is now most commonly defined as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The historical coal mining region excluded parts of these oblasts, and included areas in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Southern Russia. A Euroregion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election
Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Poroshenko hopes for early parliamentary elections in Ukraine this fall - presidential envoy Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014) The July breakup of the ruling coalition gave him the right to dissolve the parliament, so on 25 August 2014 he announced the early election. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, after a long series of protests in support of closer ties with the European Union by diverse civil-society groups in response to his rejection of the Ukrainian-European Association Agreement. From 2006 to 2007 he was the prime minister of Ukraine; he also served in this post from November 2002 to January 2005, with a short interruption in December 2004. He currently lives in exile in Russia, where he has lived since his removal from office in 2014. Yanukovych served as the governor of Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, from 1997 to 2002. He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 21 November 2002 to 7 December 2004 and from 28 December 2004 to 5 January 2005, under President Leonid Kuchma. Yanukovych first ran for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)
The People's Democratic Party ( uk, Народно-демократична партія, translit=Narodno-demokratychna partiya; abbreviated NDP) is a political party in Ukraine established on 24 February 1996. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 30 May 1996. The party is Russophone. History The People's Democratic Party was established at its constituent congress in Kyiv. The party was created through a merger of three political parties (The Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine, the Toiling Congress of Ukraine, and the Union of Support for Republic of Crimea), two public organizations (The Union of Students of Ukraine and the New Wave) and two political clubs (New Ukraine and the Association of Young Ukrainian Politicians and Political Scientists). Anatoliy Matviyenko was elected party chairman./(website has automatic Google Translate option)''Small biography of Anatoliy Matviyenko LIGA At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party gained 5% of the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky
Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (Oblast, province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta River, Alta and Trubizh River, Trubizh rivers some south of the nation's capital Kyiv. From 1943 until 2019 the city name was Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi (or ''Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy''; uk, Перея́слав-Хмельни́цький).Rada renamed Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Ukrayinska Pravda (30 October 2019 Rada Renames Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Of Kyiv Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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