''Segodnya'' ( rus, Сегодня, p=sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə, t=Today, a=Ru-сегодня.ogg) was a Russian-language Ukrainian

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founded in 1997. The newspaper ceased printing in 2019.

Affiliations

While run from

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, it was linked to

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political and business groups. Its holding company,

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, was owned by Rinat Akhmetov's

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. The paper supported former Prime Minister

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for the presidency in 2004. Since the "

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", the newspaper has moderated its pro-Eastern reporting under pressure from its own

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s. The last print edition was issued in 2019. In July 2022, Akhmetov folded all his media business due to the entering into force of the anti-oligarch law. ''Segodnya'' was a member of the

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Censorship

In 2011, the paper's journalists threatened to go on strike after Chief Editor Ihor Guzhva was controversially fired, and his replacement censored certain types of stories, and dictated to journalists how certain politicians and public figures should be covered. " Olena Hromnytska is trying to implement corruption schemes for publishing paid articles ... and also to introduce censorship in the newspaper" the journalists' statement read. In particular, the statement said she ordered some stories removed from the website about Odesa Mayor Oleksiy Kostusev and presidential adviser Hanna Herman. She also mandated favorable coverage of certain politicians and public figures, the journalists say. The newspaper was even accused of publishing forged documents."Who forged the signatures on a letter to the president from the residents of Honchar Street"? (Russian)
Українська правда: Київ, 07.02.2012.

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