Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap ( uk, Дмитро Володимирович Гнап, Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap; born 19 December 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and
Hromadske.TV
Hromadske ( uk, Громадське; lit. ''Public'') is a digital broadcasting station in Ukraine that commenced operations on 22 November 2013. The station was announced in June 2013 by 15 journalists, before commencing operations on 22 Novemb ...
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[ His work focuses on corruption and crime.][
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Biography
In 2014, he and other journalists collaborated to preserve documents found at the Mezhyhirya Residence
The Mezhyhirya Residence ( uk, Межигір'я, Mezhyhiria, , russian: Межигорье, Mezhigor'ye) is an estate in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych lived when he was Prime Minister and then President of Ukraine and is now a museum displayin ...
after President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine.[ Hnap won the main award at the 2015 Mezhyhirya Festival for his investigative work.][
In April 2016, a libel lawsuit was filed against him by Oleksandr Korniyets, one of the Ukrainian top prosecutors dubbed the "diamond prosecutors", previously suspected of taking bribes in what has been described as a witch hunt against many Hromadske journalists launched by ]Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...
's supporters.
On 25 June 2018, Hnap announced he was leaving journalism to start a political career. He said he would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, and in primaries for a single liberal opposition candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election
The 2019 Ukrainian presidential election was held on 31 March and 21 April in a two-round system.
There were 39 candidates for the election on the ballot. The 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblast an ...
. He officially became a presidential candidate on February 8, 2019, nominated by the party Power of the People
Power of the People ( uk, Сила людей, Syla Lyudey, SL) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian liberal political party registered by the Ministry of Justice on 20 August 2014. On 8 February 2019, Dmytro Gnap was nominated as the party's candidate for the ...
. Hnap continued to hosts his own political talk show "Right to the Truth" on "24 Channel".[Occupation of the TV: Why do politicians become TV presenter]
Ukrayinska Pravda (12 February 2019) On 1 March he withdrew his candidacy in favour of supporting fellow candidate Anatoliy Hrytsenko. The following day Power of People officially withdraw Hap's candidacy. In the election Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes.[Results of the presidential election in 2019. The first round]
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(31 March 2019)
References
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1977 births
Living people
Writers from Donetsk
Politicians from Donetsk
21st-century journalists
21st-century Ukrainian politicians
Ukrainian journalists
Male journalists
Hromadske.TV people
Candidates in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election