The Ukrainian News Agency ( uk, Інформаційне агентство "Українські Новини"; ''Informatsiyne ahentstvo "Ukrayins'ki Novyny"'') is a
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 ...
-based
news agency
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. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, as well as a popular
photo
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reporting service. Since February 2008 the company is part of the Inter Media Group Ltd., formerly U.A. Inter Media Group, which itself is a subsidiary of the Russian-based company
GDF Media Ltd. GDF may refer to:
* Civic Democratic Forum (''Građanski demokratski forum''), a political party in Serbia
* Gaz de France, a defunct French energy company
* General Data Format for Biomedical Signals
* Geographic Data Files
* Geological disposal f ...
Inter Media Group Limited also owns 61% of the Ukrainian TV channel
Inter.
Founded in 1993,
by
Mykhailo Kolomiets and Volodymyr Hranovskiy
the agency now used by about 10,000 clients daily. The agency offers 27 information and analytical products in
Russian,
Ukrainian and
English. Ukrainian News is the only agency in Ukraine that translates 100% of its products into English.
Valery Khoroshkovsky held a 50% stake of Ukrainian News because Mykhailo Kolomiets 50% stake was nominal and the other 50% stake was held by the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies (AHT) (russian: Агентство гуманитарных технологий (АГТ)) which lists
Viktor Pinchuk as its owner. Maxim Karizhsky, the general director of AHT, however, stated that Pinchuk is not the owner of AHT. AHT signed an agreement with the United States public relations firm
Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey (BKSH) for the period of 1 January 2001 to 30 September 2001. Volodymyr Granovsky established Humanitarian Technologies agency.
On 18 November 2002, the body of founder Mykhailo Kolomiets was found dead hanging from a tree near
Molodechno,
Belarus
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, after being missing for four weeks.
[ He met with Volodymyr Hranovskiy just before he deleted all files on his computer and left for ]Minsk
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on 22 October 2001.[ On 30 October 2001, his body was found and he was buried two weeks later as unidentified.][; born 1966 ]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 ...
, Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
, Soviet Union
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) received a philosophical degree in Moscow and returned 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 ...
to advise World Bank
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or Svitovy Bank ( uk, Світовий банк) and the . He co-founded Ukrainian News. He worked with the channel Inter until 2006 but allegedly received $2 million from the Party of Regions on 8 June 2012 for channel Inter. Hranovskyy is very close to Dmitro Firtash and co-founded the Ukraine Modernization Agency (russian: Агентство модернизации Украины) in 2015. In 2017, he began working with NewsOne. On 10 June 2021, he became the general producer of the Yevhen Muraev owned NASH ( uk, НАШ).press conference
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hall.[
The agency has its own building. It is located just outside Palats Sportu subway station in central ]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 ...
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Notes
References
External links
Ukrainian News Agency online (English)
Ukrainian News Agency online (Ukrainian)
News agencies based in Ukraine
Mass media in Kyiv
Ukrainian brands
1993 establishments in Ukraine
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