Ukrainian Media Monitoring on EU Issues

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Ukrainian Media Monitoring
on EU Issues
The Project is funded by the EU
Ukrainian regional media: overview
by:
International NGO Internews-Ukraine
with support by:
Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine
Kyiv, 2012
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Contents
Ukrainian regional media: brief overview of the major regions ..................................... 10
Donetsk region ........................................................................................................................... 11
Lviv region .................................................................................................................................. 16
Crimea ......................................................................................................................................... 21
Kharkiv region ............................................................................................................................ 26
Lugansk region .......................................................................................................................... 37
Mykolaiv region .......................................................................................................................... 42
Odesa region.............................................................................................................................. 48
Zakarpattia region...................................................................................................................... 52
Detailed overview of Ukrainian regions by key media outlets........................................ 58
Autonomous Republic of Crimea............................................................................................ 59
TV channels................................................................................................................................ 60
TV channel “Chernomorka”.................................................................................................. 60
TV and Radio Company “Devkom”..................................................................................... 61
TV and Radio Company “Мorion” ....................................................................................... 62
Newspapers................................................................................................................................ 62
“Krymskaya Pravda”.............................................................................................................. 62
“Sevastopolskaya Gazeta” ................................................................................................... 63
“Golos Cryma”........................................................................................................................ 64
“Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”.................................................................................................... 65
“Sudakskiy Vestnik”............................................................................................................... 66
On-line resources ...................................................................................................................... 67
The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska”............................................................... 67
News Agency “E-Krym” ........................................................................................................ 68
Cherkasy region .......................................................................................................................... 69
TV channels................................................................................................................................ 70
TV company “Vikka”.............................................................................................................. 70
TV company “Uman’” ............................................................................................................ 71
Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’) ................................................ 72
Newspapers................................................................................................................................ 73
“Vechirni Cherkasy”............................................................................................................... 73
“Dilova Cherkashchyna” ....................................................................................................... 74
“Sil’ski Obrii” ........................................................................................................................... 75
“Cherkas’kyi Kray” ................................................................................................................. 76
“Ot i Do”................................................................................................................................... 77
Internet project “Press Center” ............................................................................................ 78
Media group “Antena” ........................................................................................................... 79
Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a” ............................................................................................. 80
Chernigiv region .......................................................................................................................... 81
TV channels................................................................................................................................ 82
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company.......................................................... 82
TV channel “TV–Pryluky” ..................................................................................................... 83
TV and radio company “Obriy” ............................................................................................ 84
Newspapers................................................................................................................................ 85
“Chernigivski Vidomosti”....................................................................................................... 85
“Chernigovskaya nedel’a”..................................................................................................... 86
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“Chernigivskyi Visnyk” .......................................................................................................... 87
“Sivershchyna” ....................................................................................................................... 88
“Visti”........................................................................................................................................ 89
Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor” .......................................................................................... 90
Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal .................................................................................... 91
Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val” ....................................................................................... 92
Chernivtsy region........................................................................................................................ 93
TV channels................................................................................................................................ 94
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy” ................................................................................... 94
TV and radio company “AS” ................................................................................................ 95
Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)............................................ 96
Newspapers................................................................................................................................ 97
“Bukovina”............................................................................................................................... 97
“Molodyi Bukovynets”............................................................................................................ 98
“Chernivtsy” ............................................................................................................................ 99
“Chas”.................................................................................................................................... 100
“Chernivtsy city plus”........................................................................................................... 101
On line resources .................................................................................................................... 102
Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”.......................................................... 102
Web-page of newspaper “Doba” ....................................................................................... 103
Dnipropetrovsk Region............................................................................................................ 104
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 105
TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”................................................................................ 105
TV and Radio Company “STERH”.................................................................................... 106
TV channel “Avtor TV” ........................................................................................................ 107
TV and Radio Company “ETIS” ........................................................................................ 108
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 109
“Dnepr Vecherniy” ............................................................................................................... 109
“Dneprovskaya Nedel’a” ..................................................................................................... 110
“Dneprovskaya pravda” ...................................................................................................... 111
“Nashe misto” ....................................................................................................................... 112
“Nova Gazeta”...................................................................................................................... 113
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 115
“Sovremennik”...................................................................................................................... 115
“Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version).......................................................................... 116
Donetsk Region.......................................................................................................................... 117
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 118
TV company “Stirol-TV” ...................................................................................................... 118
TRC “Ukraina” ...................................................................................................................... 119
TV and Radio Company “UNION” .................................................................................... 121
TV company “TV-7”............................................................................................................. 123
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 124
“Vecherniy Donetsk”............................................................................................................ 124
“Donetskie Novosti” ............................................................................................................. 126
“Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”.............................................................................................................. 127
“Donechchyna”..................................................................................................................... 128
“Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa” .......................................................................................... 129
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 130
“Novosti.dn.ua”..................................................................................................................... 130
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Ivano-Frankivsk Region ........................................................................................................... 132
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 133
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company ............................................ 133
TV and radio company “3-studiya”.................................................................................... 134
TV and radio company “Vezha” ........................................................................................ 135
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 136
“Vpered” ................................................................................................................................ 136
“Halychyna” .......................................................................................................................... 137
“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk” .......................................................................................................... 138
“Vilnyy Holos” ....................................................................................................................... 139
“Halytske Slovo”................................................................................................................... 140
News agency ifPortal.net.................................................................................................... 141
“PIAR”.................................................................................................................................... 142
Kharkiv region............................................................................................................................ 143
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 144
“TV company “ATN” ............................................................................................................ 144
Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ........................................................... 145
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 146
“Slobids’kyy Kray”................................................................................................................ 146
“Vecherniy Kharkov”............................................................................................................ 147
“Novyy Den’”......................................................................................................................... 148
“Vremya” ............................................................................................................................... 149
“Sobytie”................................................................................................................................ 150
“MediaPort” ........................................................................................................................... 151
“Status quo” .......................................................................................................................... 153
“Gorodskoy Dozor” .............................................................................................................. 154
Kherson region .......................................................................................................................... 155
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 156
“Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company) ...................................... 156
TV and radio company “TOP”............................................................................................ 158
TV “Vita” ................................................................................................................................ 159
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 160
“Bulava” ................................................................................................................................. 160
“VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”.................................................................................................... 161
“Gryvna” ................................................................................................................................ 162
“Novyi Den’”.......................................................................................................................... 163
“Vestnik priazov’ya” ............................................................................................................. 164
Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city...................................................................................... 165
Khmelnytskyi region ................................................................................................................ 166
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 167
Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company ................................................. 167
TV and radio company “Contact” ...................................................................................... 168
“Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”.......................................................................................... 169
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 170
“Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”..................................................................................... 170
“Khmelnychchyna”............................................................................................................... 171
“Podils’ki visti” ...................................................................................................................... 172
“Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”..................................... 173
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“VSIM” ................................................................................................................................... 174
News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”.......................................................................... 175
Media corporation “Ye!” ...................................................................................................... 176
Kirovograd region ..................................................................................................................... 178
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 179
TV and radio company “KTM” ........................................................................................... 179
Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company ..................................................... 180
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 181
“Kirovogradska Pravda”...................................................................................................... 181
“21 kanal” .............................................................................................................................. 182
“Narodne Slovo”................................................................................................................... 183
“Nova Gazeta”...................................................................................................................... 184
“Silskyy Visnyk”.................................................................................................................... 185
Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd” ....................................................................................... 186
On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk ................................................................ 187
Kyiv region .................................................................................................................................. 188
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 189
“Maidan-TV”.......................................................................................................................... 189
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 190
“Hromads’ka Dumka” .......................................................................................................... 190
“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”.............................................................................................. 191
“Yagotyns’ki Visti” ................................................................................................................ 192
“Peremoga”........................................................................................................................... 193
“Kyiany – Obozrevatel” ....................................................................................................... 194
“Khreshchatyk” ..................................................................................................................... 196
Lugansk Region......................................................................................................................... 197
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 198
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”).............................................. 198
TV and radio company “STV” ............................................................................................ 199
TV and radio company “IRTA”........................................................................................... 200
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 201
Vecherniy Lugansk.............................................................................................................. 201
“Vesti Regiona” .................................................................................................................... 202
“Luganskaya Pravda”.......................................................................................................... 203
“Nasha Gazeta”.................................................................................................................... 204
“Novyny Luganska” ............................................................................................................. 205
“Rakurs Plus”........................................................................................................................ 206
“Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”...................................................................................... 207
Lviv region................................................................................................................................... 208
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 209
Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company.................................................................. 209
NTA........................................................................................................................................ 210
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 211
Vysokyi Zamok..................................................................................................................... 211
Lvivs’ka Hazeta.................................................................................................................... 212
Argument Gazeta ................................................................................................................ 213
Ratusha ................................................................................................................................. 214
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Subotn’a Poshta .................................................................................................................. 215
News Agency “LvivNews” .................................................................................................. 216
ZIK.......................................................................................................................................... 217
Zaxid.net ............................................................................................................................... 218
Mykolaiv region.......................................................................................................................... 219
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 220
Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ......................................................... 220
TV and radio company “Mart”............................................................................................ 221
TV channel “35 kanal”......................................................................................................... 222
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 223
“Vecherniy Nikolaev” ........................................................................................................... 223
“Vestnik Pribuzhya” ............................................................................................................. 224
“Shchotyzhn’a” ..................................................................................................................... 225
“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”...................................................... 226
“Yuzhnaya Pravda”.............................................................................................................. 227
Internet media “Mukola.net”............................................................................................... 228
Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua” ...................................................................................... 229
Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua” ...................................................................................... 230
Odessa region ............................................................................................................................ 231
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 232
Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company........................................................... 232
Media group “Glas”.............................................................................................................. 233
TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”................................................... 234
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 235
“Odesskiy Vestnik”............................................................................................................... 235
“Gazeta po-odesski”............................................................................................................ 237
“Vechern’aya Odessa” ........................................................................................................ 238
“Delovaya Odessa”.............................................................................................................. 239
“Chornomors’ki novyny”...................................................................................................... 240
News Agency “Reporter” .................................................................................................... 241
Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti” .................................................................. 242
“Misto” (Odessa News web-page) .................................................................................... 243
Poltava Region ........................................................................................................................... 244
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 245
Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”) ........................................... 245
TV channel Misto................................................................................................................. 246
TV channel “Astra” .............................................................................................................. 247
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 249
“Zor’a Poltavshchyny” ......................................................................................................... 249
“Vechirnia Poltava” .............................................................................................................. 250
“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti” ................................................................................................................ 251
“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk” ............................................................................................................. 252
“Visnyk Kremenchuga” ....................................................................................................... 253
Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny” ......................................................................................... 254
Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”............................................................................................ 255
Rivne region................................................................................................................................ 256
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 257
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Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company .............................................................. 257
LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”.............................................................................. 258
TV and radio company “Rivne-atom” ............................................................................... 259
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 260
“7 dniv”................................................................................................................................... 260
“Vil’ne Slovo” ........................................................................................................................ 261
“Visti Rivnenshchyny” ......................................................................................................... 262
“Volyn’” .................................................................................................................................. 263
“Rivne Vechirn’e” ................................................................................................................. 264
Regional portal “Rivne” ....................................................................................................... 265
Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne” ................................................................................ 266
Portal of the publishing house “OGO” .............................................................................. 267
Sumy region................................................................................................................................ 268
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 269
Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company .............................................................. 269
TV and radio company “Vikidion”...................................................................................... 270
“Telecom Service” ............................................................................................................... 271
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 272
“Slobids’kyy Visnyk” ............................................................................................................ 272
“Domashnya Gazeta”.......................................................................................................... 273
“Sumschina” ......................................................................................................................... 274
“Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany” ................................................................................... 275
“Narodna Trybuna” .............................................................................................................. 276
Informational web-site sumy.net.ua.................................................................................. 277
Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua .................................................................................. 278
“Panorama”........................................................................................................................... 279
Ternopyl region .......................................................................................................................... 280
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 281
Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company .......................................................... 281
“TV-4”..................................................................................................................................... 285
TV channel “TTS” ................................................................................................................ 286
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 287
“RIA plus” .............................................................................................................................. 287
“Visnyk Ternopolyan” .......................................................................................................... 288
“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta” ............................................................................................... 289
“Podil’ske Slovo” .................................................................................................................. 290
“Ternopil Vechirniy” ............................................................................................................. 291
“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”.................................................................................................. 292
“I-plus” ................................................................................................................................... 293
Vinnytsia Region ....................................................................................................................... 294
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 295
TV and Radio Company “Lada” ........................................................................................ 295
TV and Radio Company “Pilot”.......................................................................................... 295
TV and Radio Company “TODOR” ................................................................................... 296
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 297
“Vinnytska Hazeta” .............................................................................................................. 297
“Vinnychyna” ........................................................................................................................ 298
“Pivdennyi Bug”.................................................................................................................... 299
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“Trybuna Praci” .................................................................................................................... 300
“Shargorodshyna”................................................................................................................ 301
“Misto”.................................................................................................................................... 302
“33 kanal” .............................................................................................................................. 303
Volyn Region............................................................................................................................... 304
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 305
Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company............................................................... 305
TV and radio Company “Avers”......................................................................................... 307
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 308
“Visnyk i Ko” ......................................................................................................................... 308
“Viche” ................................................................................................................................... 309
“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”........................................................................................ 310
“Volyn” ................................................................................................................................... 311
“Dzvony Volyni”.................................................................................................................... 312
“Volynska Pravda” ............................................................................................................... 313
Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy” ................................................... 314
Zakarpattia Region .................................................................................................................... 315
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 316
“Tisa-1” .................................................................................................................................. 316
“M-studio”.............................................................................................................................. 317
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 318
“Zakarpatska Pravda” ......................................................................................................... 318
“Novyny Zakarpattia”........................................................................................................... 319
“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”......................................................................................................... 320
Zakarpattia on-line............................................................................................................... 321
Zaporizhia region....................................................................................................................... 322
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 323
TV company “TV-5”............................................................................................................. 323
“Aleks TV” ............................................................................................................................. 324
TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”........................................................................ 325
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 326
“Zaporizka Pravda”.............................................................................................................. 326
“Gorozhanin” ........................................................................................................................ 327
“Nashe Vremya Plus”.......................................................................................................... 328
“Region” ................................................................................................................................ 329
“Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama” .................................................................... 330
“Prospect” ............................................................................................................................. 331
Zhytomyr region ........................................................................................................................ 332
TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 333
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company ........................................................ 333
TV and radio company “VIK” ............................................................................................. 334
TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”............................................................................ 335
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 336
“RIA-Tyzhden”...................................................................................................................... 336
“Ekho” .................................................................................................................................... 337
“Zhytomyrshchyna”.............................................................................................................. 338
“Slovo Polissya” ................................................................................................................... 339
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Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”....................................................................... 340
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Ukrainian regional media: brief overview of the major regions
Ukrainian regional market reflects general situation at Ukrainian central media
market. They continue to be subject to considerable political influence, which is even
stronger than political influence at the national level. In each region competition
between key political and economic stakeholders is projected to competition between
media outlets / holdings owned by these stakeholders.
This creates a significant setback in development of independent regional journalists
in Ukraine.
Despite this trend, it would be unjust to underestimate potential of Ukrainian
regional journalism, including its interest to EU-related information. Regional
journalists are normally more enthusiastic, less cynical, and more open to new
information, including that coming from the EU. They know especially well situation
in their regions and their economic and social needs, therefore cooperation with them
is extremely important for the EU and its diplomatic missions.
Another interesting element of the Ukrainian regional press market concerns
distribution techniques.
In contrast to European national distribution markets, dominated usually by a limited
number of delivery companies, the Ukrainian distribution market is over-fragmented
and dominated by big media holdings.
About 200 media distribution companies are acting throughout the whole country;
many of them are closely linked to owners of media outlets. This creates a double
setback: the distribution market is over-fragmented, and no clear tool to objectively
measure the number of copies really published by each particular media outlet is
available.
Some Ukrainian regions are dominated by monopolist distribution companies,
usually linked to one or two leading media holdings, which in turn are linked to
leading economic, financial or political groups of the region. This creates another
monopolist trap, as distribution companies remain major information source about
rating and coverage of a media outlet, which enables dominating holdings manipulate
figures, attract advertisers, and in this way increase their influence on public opinion.
This constellation creates a tricky situation for any media monitoring research, as
Ukraine still lacks a nationally recognized certifying or monitoring company able to
objectively assess the number of copies which really reached out to the audience.
Now this report will make a brief overview of 8 key Ukrainian regions, in order to
provide more narrative information about key regional players on Ukrainian media
market. The report is prepared by local journalists, knowing the situation in the
region on the grassroots level, specially for this report. More detailed analysis of each
media is provided in region-focused chapters of this paper.
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Donetsk region
By Olexandr Larin
Key media owners
Financial and economic group SCM, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, is, beyond doubt, the
biggest media owner in the region. In Donetsk oblast Media Group Ukraine, owned by
SCM, owns TV channel Donbass ; horizontal web-portal tochka.net (managed by Digital
Ventures that belongs to Media Group Ukraine). Segodnya Multimedia, an SCM’s
company managing its print media business, manages newspapers Donetskie novosti
(Donetsk news), Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk), Segodnya-Donbas. SCM, through
these companies, controls majority of the media outlets of the region.
Other big media owners are not that transparent. Non-state TV and radio company
Union was ranked 13th (out of 42) in the rating of Ukrainian channels broadcasting in
the region (according to data published by GfK Ukraine). According to unofficial
information, the TV channel was linked to former mayor of Makeevka Vasyl Dzharty
(until recently the Prime Minister of the Crimean autonomy who died in August, 2011)
who even after moving to Simferopol did not lost his influence on Makeevka TV (reports
from Crimea were often broadcasted on Union). Due to Dzharty TV channel Union was
quite successful in its municipal tender bids : in 2010 it won the tender of the municipal
council on TV services, worth more than UAH 1,5 million (about EUR 130 thousand). TV
channel also has beneficial contracts with the municipal council on coverage of regional
news.
Anatoliy Blyznuk, now the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, is also one
of the most influential media owners in the region. Regional newspaper Zhyzn (Life),
unofficially called a « Blyzniuk’s newspaper », during Yushchenko’s presidency was
financed from the budget of Donetsk regional council (regional authority elected on the
ground). When Yushchenko lost his presidential race to Yanukovych, Blyznuk was
appointed the head of the regional state administration (regional institution appointed
by the central authorities), and the paper Zhyzn received funds from the
administration’s budget. The paper’s case is one of the numerous examples in Ukraine
how much Ukrainian regional press depends on regional authorities, on a possible
controversy between central (or Kiev-appointed) and regional (regionally elected)
authorities, and how pubic money is used to represent and advocate a biased political
position.
Political influence
Most media outlets in the region are vehicles to communicate ideas of the Party of the
Regions. However, outlets also actively seize an opportunity to earn on political
« jeansa » (paid materials). For example, Donetskie novosti were advertising
Yanukovych during the latest presidential elections. However, despite sympathy to
Yanukovych, this newspaper also advertised Yulia Tymoshenko, unpopular in the region,
in articles apparently written in Tymoshenko headquarters and advertising her
achievements under the mask of an objective journalist report. The same articles were
published by other media outlets of the region.
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After Yanukovych won the presidential elections, materials about the opposition have
become mostly full of mockery, while actions taken by the Yanukovych’s team are now
mostly welcomed. Bulk of the pro-Yanukovych articles, whose authors express their full
support to Yanukovych, are written by unknown political experts, economists or
journalists. Sometimes articles published in some newspapers, are word-by-word
reproduced in articles published by other papers.
Newspaper Zhyzn earlier balanced between pro-Yanukovych (Anatoliy Blyznuk) and proYushchenko (Volodymyr Lygvynenko, head of the Donetsk regional council, appointed by
Yushchenko) camps; but after Yanukovych’s victory at the latest elections, it fully
supports Yanukovych.
Latest trends of the media market
Closure of once popular newspaper Salon Dona i Basa has been one of the key events on
the Donetsk regional media market. The newspaper was published on Tuesdays (40
pages) and Fridays (92 pages), in 9-15 thousand copies. The newspaper was owned by
Segodnya Multimedia holding (SCM) but recently the holding decided to merge its
regional newspapers with the central office (newspaper Segodnya), saying the merger
will cut costs in the group’s media business. On January, 21st, 2011, newspaper Salon
Dona i Basa was officially closed.
In February, 2011, Ukraine’s National TV and Radio Broadcasting Council refused to
prolong broadcasting licenses to two affiliated Donetsk regional TV companies : CATplus and Vostok-plus. The Council said that the companies spend bulk of their
broadcasting time to rebroadcast other channels’ products, primarily TV channel TVi. As
TVi is one of the key opposition TV channels in Ukraine, this ban was seen by many as a
political move.
Key media of the region
Press
Donetskie novosti (Donetsk news) – weekly social and political magazine-format
newspaper. Published in 52 pages, including chapters focused on advertising, thematic
pages (Sports, Discovery, Donbass history, Show business, etc). Outreach : 20-28
thousand copies. The paper is a part of the media holding Segodnya Multimedia, owned
by Rinat Akhmetov.
Segodnya-Donbass (Donetsk regional supplement to newspaper Segodnya, published in 4
pages daily, which includes regional news and announcement of the upcoming events) –
daily social and political newspaper, published by the media holding Segodnya
Multimedia, owned by Rinat Akhmetov.
Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk)¸ a regional newspaper focused on the older-age
audience, who remember « Vecherka » as the key Soviet-time municipal newspaper (the
same phenomenon was present in Kyiv, in which Soviet municipal newspaper Vechirniy
Kyiv maintained its audience long after dissolution of the Soviet Union). Newspaper
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publishes 16 issues per month, in about 20 thousand copies. Owned by Segodnya
Multimedia.
Priazovskyi rabochiy (Azov Region Worker) – daily regional newspaper based in
Marioupol but distributed by subscription throughout the whole Donetsk region.
Published in 50-65 thousand copies. Owned by Segodnya Multimedia.
Zhyzn (Life) – daily social and political newspaper of the Donetsk regional council and
Donetsk regional state administration. Published four times a week (Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), in about 25 thousand copies.
Donbas – regional newspaper. Published three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday), in 17-40 thousand copies.
Munitsipalnaya gazeta (Municipal newspaper) – official media outlet of the Donetsk city
council. Established by the Donetsk city council and the 9 regional councils. Weekly 16page newspaper, published on Fridays. No credible information about the number of
copies per issue is available.
TV
27 Kanal – is a part of the Donetsk regional TV and radio company. The channel has the
biggest territorial outreach in the region. Main chapters : “We help see the region”,
“Topical interview”, “Vector of economy”, “Personal focus”, “Tourist Donbass”,
“Donbass education”, “Miners’ horizons”, “My land”, “Meeting the people”, “All about
medicine”. News (10-15 minutes) broadcasted three times a day.
First municipal channel – is a part of the Advertising agency “Zolotoy gramophon”. The
channel broadcasts in Donetsk and its suburbs. Key programs: “Kult-Tura”,
“Psychology”, “PostFactum”, “Health formula”, etc. The channel also issues 12-15minutes news blocks.
Union – regional information channel. The channel is believed to be the key channel of
the Makiivka town, but also covers Donetsk, Horlivka, Khartsyzk, Yenakievo and some
other cities of the Donetsk region.
Donbas – twenty-four-hour TV channel oriented on audience of the Eastern region. The
channel has a political talk show “A question of power” broadcasted live. The TV
channel covers Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasynovata, and a network of cable operators
throughout the Donetsk region. Owned by SCM (Rinat Akhmetov).
Radio
Donetsk regional radio («Radio Centre») – a 24-hour radio station. The station
broadcasts 3-5 minute news blocks four times a day, from Mondays through Saturdays.
Integrated into the Donetsk regional state TV and radio company.
Wired radio – 12 radio organizations with wired radio broadcasting are working in the
Donetsk oblast. Their broadcasting activity fluctuates from 28 minutes per week
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(« Radiokompania » of the Yenakievo municipal council) to 28 hours and 52 minutes per
week (Donetsk regional state TV and radio company).
FM-radio stations – 13 FM radio stations (most of them broadcast 24 hours per day) are
active in the Donetsk region. Almost all of them broadcast their products under the
aegis of the Russian FM stations : Radio Klass, Russkoie radio, Radio Alla, Mega-Radio,
Kiss-FM, Radio Chanson etc. News are imported.
Internet
«OstroV» (http://www.ostro.org) – a web-site of the Research Centre on Donbass Social
Prospects. In April 2011 the web-site was registered in the Justice Ministry as a news
agency. The site implements its projects under grant support from the National
Endowment for Democracy; US Embassy’s Foundation on Ukrainian media development;
International Renaissance Foundation. Besides, the news agency tries to commercialize
its activities and provides advertising services. The site does not have any clear political
preferences. It is visited by 10-13 thousand unique users daily.
KID (http://zadonbass.org) – the site does not disclose information about its publishers
and owners. However, it full supports current authorities and ideology of the Party of
the Regions. The site’s editorial board is located in the regional headquarters and
public reception office of the Party of the Regions. The site is visited by 10-12 thousand
unique users daily.
«Novosti Donbassa » (News of Donbass) (http://novosti.dn.ua) – The site does not
disclose information about its publishers and owners. The outlet positions itself as an
opposition resource. Its editorial board is located in the headquarters of the regional
office of Narodna Partija Ukrainy (Ukraine’s People’s Party), controlled by MP Olexandr
Klymenko (NUNS). The outlet’s editor in chief Olexiy Matsuka earlier was a member of
the Regional Council (regional authority elected on the ground), representing Yulia
Tymoshenko Bloc. At the same time, despite the site’s close ties to opposition, it is one
of the leaders in publishing « jeansa » (paid news or articles), both economic and
political.
Restrictions of the media freedom
Donetsk oblast, due to mayor of Slaviansk Nelia Shtepa, was ranked 5th in the list of
« enemies of press » created by National trade-union of journalists. During 100 days of
her stay in the office, Shtepa was involved into a number of conflicts with journalists.
She, for example, could make journalists leave the official events, including sessions of
the municipal councils. She also initiated closure of the municipal newspaper Nash
Slaviansk (Our Slaviansk). She created an alternative newspaper, « Slavianska pravda »,
unofficially called in the region a « Shtepa’s newspaper ». Finally, during a press
conference she insulted a journalist (calling her a “bitch”) who asked an uncomfortable
question.
The head of Donetsk state regional administration was not ranked an « ennemy of the
press », but his style of communication with the media also deserves attention. He
advocates an idea of « positive news », arguing that journalists try to depict a black
picture of the region. He even established a media competition aimed to « create a
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positive image of the Donetsk oblast as an investment-attractive region ». Blyzniuk was
furious when western and then local journalists covered the situation of children in
Torez orphaline, saying these materials are « paid » to discredit regional authorities. A
journalist who wrote about the orphanage in the newspaper Zhyzn, was fired.
State-owned media outlets in the region mostly focus their work on coverage of
activities of the local authorities. Oleg Dzholos, the director general of the Donetsk
regional state TV and radio company did not agree with accusations of the independent
journalists that blamed the company for predetermining information broadcasted by
the TV channel and return to an old Kuchma-style work with the media (the so-called
« temniks »). Every week Oleg Dzholos distributes a detailed weekly work plan among
the journalists, covering key topics of the news and their ideological focus (« key
message of the day ») and a clearly defined content. Local measures involving the head
of the regional state administration and his deputies are considered to be the key
events of the day. These officials are considered by the TV channel as key speakers of
the news. Journalists regret that they face difficulties to get equipment and transport
to cover news outside of the « weekly plan » most focused on measures involving
regional officials.
In June 2011 Donetsk police tried to get access to data of the information agency
OstroV. The police addressed the provider of the web-hosting services and required, on
the basis of the inexistent criminal case, to provide it with access to the OstroV’s
database. Sergiy Harmash, the editor in chief of the outlet, said that the actions taken
by law enforcement services are illegal; they might be linked with an attempt of
Ukrainian MP Yuriy Ivanushchenko to delete critical materials published by OstroV.
Another important problem of the media sector of the region consists in the fact that
regional authorities try to avoid implementation of the recently adopted law « On
access to public information », trying to stamp information they want to hide as
information « for internal use ». Even after the law took effect, the regional authorities
do not reply to journalists’ questions, or refuse, without grounds, in disclosing this
information.
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Lviv region
By Dmytro Borysov
Main media outlets in the region
Print media
Dailies:
Newspaper “Express” – an interregional media outlet of general profile that is published
three times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 174,020 readers according to
the research done by the company TNS - NRS 2010/2.
Newspaper “Visokiy Zamok” (“High Castle”) – an interregional media outlet of general
profile published five times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 162,880
readers.
Newspaper “Lvivska Poshta” (“Lviv Post”) - a local media outlet of general profile
published three times a week. Data about the audience are not available.
Local daily newspapers “Express” and “Visokiy Zamok” have larger audience of one
issue than nation-wide daily newspapers.
Weeklies:
“Lvivska Gazeta” (“Lviv Newspaper”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile. The
audience of one issue constitutes 32,180 readers.
“Informator – the newspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations – a regional
media outlet specializing in journalist investigations. The audience of one issue
constitutes 20,870 readers.
Newspaper “Ratusha” (“City Hall”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile; data
about the audience are not available.
Newspaper “Noviy Pogliad” “(New View”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile,
data about the audience are not available.
Internet media:
ZAXID.NET (http://www.zaxid.net) – analytic Internet media of Lviv; 472,000 hosts
monthly according to Bigmir rating (as of July 3, 2011)
ZIK (http://ww.zik.ua) a news agency “Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” (“Western
Information Corporation”) having 519,000 hosts monthly.
Vgolos http://www.vgolos.com.ua) – an Internet newspaper; 87,000 hosts monthly.
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Gal-info (http://www.galinfo.com.ua) – an agency of regional information and analytics
having around 171,000 hosts monthly.
Television:
TV channel ZIK – an interregional information and education channel broadcasted in Lviv
and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
12th channel - a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted in Lviv
and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
News TV channel “24” – an all-Ukrainian information channel broadcasted in
Khmelnitsky and oblast, in Lviv and oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil, accessible
in cable networks and on satellite TV.
TV channel “NTA” – a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted in
Lviv and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
Radio:
Radio station “Lvivska Khvylia” (“Lviv Wave”) – a local information and entertainment
radio station in Lviv (frequency 100.8 MHz).
Radio station “Lux FM”– an all-Ukrainian information and entertainment radio station
(frequency 104.7 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station “FM Galychyna”– an interregional musical and information radio
(frequency 89.7 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station 24 – an interregional musical and information radio that plans to become a
nation-wide radio network (frequency 102.1 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station “Nezalezhnist” (“Independence”) – a local information and educational
radio (frequency 106.7 MHz in Lviv).
According to the research of 17 radio stations broadcasting in Lviv conducted on
February 19-28, 2011, the radio station “Lvivska Khvylia” has the highest rating –
116,000 listeners daily. “Lux FM” ranks second, with 79.000 listeners daily. The rating
of other Lviv radio stations is considerably lower.
Main media groups and media owners in Lviv and oblast
Media holding “Television and radio company “Lux”” (Lviv). It includes Internet-editions
ZAXID.NET, a television news service “Nash Reporter” (“Our Reporter”), TV channel
“24”; a radio network “Lux FM”, Internet projects http://football24.ua;
http://prikolchik.ua/; http://lux.fm/; http://mam.ua/. Owners of major shareholdings
of the TV and radio company “Lux”: the company’s general director Roman Andreyko, a
long-time business partner of the Lviv city mayor Andriy Sadoviy, and Katerina Kit-
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Sadova, a wife of Andriy Sadoviy. Roman Andreyko together with Oksana Andreyko are
also owners of the television and radio company “PrimeMedia Ltd” (Radio 24).
Media group “ZIK” (“Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” Ltd.) This group includes
Internet-outlet ZIK and a regional TV channel ZIK. The group is indirectly owned by the
president of the soccer club “Karpaty”, an entrepreneur Petro Dyminskiy.
Media group “Express” includes the newspaper “Express” (including regional inserts for
Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Rivne, Lutsk, Uzhgorod), a monthly newspaper
“PostPOSTUP”, a weekly magazine “TeleExpress”, a monthly newspaper “Poradnyk
Gospodaria” (“Adviser to the Owner”), a bi-weekly newspaper “Dobriy Likar” (“Good
Doctor”), a monthly magazine “Zhinochiy Poradnik” (“Women’s Adviser”), a monthly
magazine “Express Cool”, a monthly magazine “Retsepty Gospodyni” (“Recipes for
Housewife”), Internet media Expres.ua, and a polygraphic complex. The media group is
owned by Igor Pochynok, a general director of Express Media Group Ltd. and a chief
editor of the newspaper “Express”. Together with Roman Chmil, Igor Pochynok is a coowner of the network of newsstands “Interpress” (“Interpress Ltd.”)
Media group “Vysokiy Zamok” (“High Castle”). The group includes the newspaper
“Vysokiy Zamok” with regional inserts and a bi-weekly newspaper “Dobriy Gospodar”. A
network of newsstands that uses a trade mark “Vysokiy Zamok” is also related to this
group. A chief editor of the newspaper “Vysokiy Zamok”, Natalia Baliuk, and her
husband, an MP, member of the BYuT faction in the parliament, Stepan Kurpil, are the
owners of major shareholdings of this media group.
Media group “Dubnevichi” (“Energy Consulting Ltd.”) This group includes a weekly
“Lvivska Gazeta” (“Lviv Newspaper”) and a radio network “FM Galychyna”. The group is
owned by entrepreneurs, brothers Yaroslav and Bogdan Dubnevich, deputies of the Lviv
oblast council, members of the faction “Vidrodzhennnia” (“Renaissance”). Yaroslav
Dubnevich is also a representative of Ukrainian Railroad Company in Verkhovna Rada.
Media group Prominfo (integrates a number of companies). This group includes
specialized media outlets: newspapers “Derevoobrobnyk” (“Woodworker”),
“Elektrotema” (“Electro themes”), “Metals. Technology & Equipment”, “Budekspert”
(“Building Expert”), “Harchovyk" (“Food Industry Worker”), "Meat Industry", "Bakery and
Confectionery", "Print "magazine", “Furniture technologies”, “Own Business”, “Real
HOME”, "Angelyatko" (“Small Angel”) as well as a number of industry portals. Publisher
is Vasil Masyuk. Owners: Vasil Masyuk and minority investors.
Political influence on media
The media holding “TV and radio company Lux” is close to the city mayor of Lviv,
Andriy Sadoviy (non-partisan, in 2010 was nominated by the Republican-Christian
Party). The wife of Andriy Sadoviy owns shares of “TRC Lux”. Another owner of these
shares is a long-standing business partner of Andriy Sadoviy, Roman Andreyko.
The media group ZIK is subject to the influence of personal political sympathies of
Petro Dyminskiy who sympathizes with the Party of Regions. In 2010, during the
elections of a city mayor of Lviv, he supported the main rival of Andriy Sadoviy – an MP,
member of the faction of the Party of Regions, entrepreneur Petro Pysarchuk.
Therefore, ZIK supports the head of the Lviv oblast state administration, Mykhailo
Tsymbaliuk, Petro Pysarchuk, politicians from the party “Svoboda” (“Liberty”, leader –
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Oleh Tiahnybok), and is biased towards Andriy Sadoviy. The former candidate for the
Lviv mayor, Petro Pisarchuk, is affiliated with the weekly newspaper “Informator” – a
newspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations.
The media group “Vysokiy Zamok” is influenced by the political activity of a husband of
the chief editor of the newspaper “Visokiy Zamok”, Natalua Baliuk – an MP Stepan
Kurpil, a member of the BYuT.
The influence of the brothers Dubnevich is now notable only on the “Lvivska gazeta”
(“Lviv newspaper”). Currently both brothers are deputies of Lviv oblast council. They
were nominated by the party “Vidrodzhennia” (Renaissance).
The Lviv oblast state television and radio company is traditionally controlled by the
oblast state administration.
Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, selfcensorship, administrative pressure, jeansa, persecution of journalists.
The wide-spread violations of journalism standards (first of all, “jeansa” – paid
materials) constitute the biggest problem of media in Lviv and oblast. Political “jeansa”
prevails in the run-up to elections, during election campaigns, while in other periods
the level of economic and political “jeansa” is comparable. “Jeansa” is inherent to all
types of media – print, Internet, television. Owners of the media outlets that are not
self-sustained directly or indirectly encourage management to publish “jeansa”. In
2008-2011, “jeansa” in Lviv media was monitored by experts Oleg Onysko, Borys
Potyatynnyk and Anatoliy Romaniuk. Oleg Onysko, an executive director of the
infographics agency Ukrainian Media Service and a former editor-in-chief of the
newspapers “Postup” and “Lvivska Gazeta”, says: “For those media that publish
“jeansa”, this is a question of survival. No media outlet in Lviv is rich. Regrettably,
position of commercial directors and advertising managers that media can earn money
only through “jeansa” and the expansion of their advertising markets has prevailed. But
this is harmful for media outlets themselves and for their reputation”.
Censorship is used only towards state or communal media or media outlets that are
dependent on the Lviv oblast state administration. In particular, in November 2010, the
TV channel ZIK complained about the pressure from the then-head of the Lviv oblast
state administration Vasyl Gorbal who wanted to get leverage on the channel, and his
assistant demanded to cover the activity of local authorities in a positive way.
In contrast, self-censorship is typical for private media. According to Oleg Onysko,
“self-censorship is rather a loyalty of journalists to media’s owner, a duty to take into
account the owner’s political sympathies and his/her political associations. Loyalty has
both ideological and business parameters. But journalists are free to be unbiased
towards the owner’s opponents”. In the case of the newspaper “Express”, this rule is
only partly true since both the owner and chief editor are not politicians. Therefore,
journalists have to take into account only business interests of the owner.
Lawsuits from civil servants and politicians represent an important potential instrument
of pressure on media and journalists. Today these instruments are not used
systemically. In December 2010, the Galytskiy district court of the city of Lviv
supported the lawsuit of the head of Lviv railroad, Bogdan Pikh, against the TV channel
ZIK. As a result, it was prohibited for ZIK to broadcast on December 15, 2010 the
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program “Who lives here?” where Pikh was a main protagonist. In 2010, then-prosecutor
of Lviv oblast, Oleksiy Baganets and a deputy of Lviv oblast council, Yaroslav
Dubnevych, sued the company – publisher of the newspaper “Express”. Yet, in this
particular case there were grounds to believe that there was a hidden motivation in the
publications of “Express” – the protection of interests of the newspaper’s owner and
destruction of the opponent’s reputation.
Main problems of media in the region
The main problem of local media is a small advertisement market congested with media
outlets of general profile. Vasyl Khomin, a publisher of Internet edition on Lviv media
“Press Center” says: “The market is too congested. We have Internet media
ZAXID.NET, ZIK, ”Vgolos”, “Gal-info”, “Lvivskiy portal”, “Mediastar”. The same holds
true for newspapers – they all work on a quite small market of advertisement where
they landed because of ambitions of their owners, editors and journalists. It is almost
impossible to survive there. Some start to understand this and look for niches for
themselves. For example, “Informator” has its unique content – journalistic
investigations. “Lvivska gazeta” starts to experiment with infographics. Internet
projects of the media holding “Lux” have also appeared in promising sectors.”
The audience of print media is shrinking not only because of the spreading of Internet
and its easy accessibility. Oleg Onysko comments: “The problem of Lviv newspapers is
not that their audience runs away to Internet but in their content. They have
increasingly low-quality, unprofessional content. Only “Express”, “Ratusha”, “Noviy
pogliad” have original content. Those newspapers that have original content will have
the future in Internet. Lviv also has a place for new online media, but they have to
produce their own original content”. Vasyl Masiuk from the “Prominfo” group says:
“We also have the leakage of the audience of print media, but not to Internet. The
reason is that editors do not fully understand readers’ needs and fill their editions with
knowledge that is useless for readers. At the same time, the audience is becoming more
demanding, asking for more specific knowledge that satisfies its needs and does not
want to read everything. For example, our newspaper “Derevoobrobnyk”
(“Woodworker”) that used to work for 2-3 audiences is compelled to publish separate
editions for narrower segments of the audience. If we make a separate product for
them, these narrow audiences grow, and we give them more specific knowledge”. Oleg
Onysko adds to this point: “Abundance of information results in the fact that media
outlets look for original news less often, resorting to copy-paste from each other. As a
result, there is nothing to read, though there is seemingly plenty of news”.
Media in Lviv region work blindly – they do not conduct own research of their audiences
and do not order any surveys from experts. This holds true for most of print media with
the exception of “Express” and “Vysokiy Zamok” and for all TV channels except news
channel “24”. The statistics of all Lviv Interned media in the Bigmir rating is closed
which casts doubt on the reliability of statistical data.
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Crimea
By Polina Markova
Crimean media landscape is influenced by the fluctuating political sentiments and
frequent changes of media owners, especially after elections and change of power.
Key media groups, owners and their political affiliation
In 2010, the market for conventional media groups in the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea has changed dramatically following the results of the presidential and local
elections.
Namely, Lev Mirimskiy (a deputy of the Verkhovna rada (Supreme Council, the Crimean
parliament, and a leader of the party “Soyuz”) who for years had owned influential
local media, including a popular newspaper “Crimean time”, left the circle of large
media tycoons. Mirimskiy ran for a mayor of Sevastopol in 2010 and was defeated by a
candidate from the Party of Regions, Viktor Ageev. Soon afterwards he left the media
business and sold most of his media to a deputy of the Crimean parliament, Aleksandr
Melnik. Today Melnik controls such media as TV channel ITV, a Crimean editorial office
of the country-wide newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today), and newspapers “Krymskoe
vremia” (“Crimean time”) and “Crimean Telegraph”.
The newspaper “Krymskaya Pravda” (“Crimean Truth”) can be named the least
politically engaged among the local print media. Its chief editor, Konstantin Baharev,
for years was a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yet, last year he was
appointed a deputy Head of the Crimean parliament. As a result, Baharev started to
gravitate to the politics of the Party of Regions, and the newspaper has become more
politically biased.
Rustam Temirgaliyev, a head of the “KrymMediaHolding” and a deputy of the Crimean
parliament, is another important actor on the market of media owners. His holding
includes a TV and radio company “Neapol”, a radio station “Trans-M-Radio” and one of
the leading regional information agencies “e-Krym” ("e-Crimea"). Earlier the holding
also included a newspaper “Glavniy prospect” (“Main avenue”), but it was closed during
the economic crisis of 2009. In 2010-2011, the holding has actually become an affiliate
of Aleksandr Melnik representing the Party of Regions. Today Melnik is the largest figure
on the Crimean media market, and his influence is actively expanding.
Ukrainian MP from the opposition, a member of the electoral union “Batkivschyna”
(Yulia Tymoshenko’s party), Andriy Senchenko, is another influential personality in the
Crimean media environment. He owns the radio station “Assol” and the TV Channel
“Black Sea Broadcasting Company”. In the run-up to almost any election, this TV
channel used to come under pressure and intimidation, was threatened to be deprived
of its license and faced other obstacles from the politicians who are opposite to BYuTBatkivschyna.
In 2001, the state television and radio company “Krym” has been gradually passing on
to the Prime Minister of the Crimea, Vasiliy Jarty and becoming a “mouthpiece of the
Council of Ministers of Crimea”.
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Main regional media and their profile
NEWSPAPERS:
Krymskoe vremia (Crimean time) - Crimean socio-political newspaper; circulation –
about 20,000 copies.
Krymskie izvestiya (Crimean news) - newspaper of the Supreme Council of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It has been published since October 18, 1991, 5 times
a week. Weekly circulation: 22,349 copies.
Krymskaya pravda (Crimean Truth) - socio-political newspaper that has been published
since 1918.
Pervaya krymskaya (First Crimean) – and informational and analytical newspaper;
circulation - 40,000 copies. It is a part of the JSC “Kartel”.
Sobytiya (Events) - Crimean socio-political weekly; circulation – 40,000 copies. Is has
been published since December 2005 on Fridays. The newspaper is distributed across all
the Crimea, including Sevastopol.
Krymskiy telegraph (Crimean Telegraph) – Crimean socio-political weekly that has been
published since 2008; circulation - 40,000 per month.
Komsomolskaya pravda v Krymu (Komsomol truth in Crimea) - Crimean socio-political
newspaper. The circulation of daily edition – 7,000 – 15,000 copies; of Friday's edition –
20,000-35,000.
ONLINE MEDIA :
News agency "e-Crimea" (http://e-crimea.info/) – one of the leading regional news
agencies, a part of the KrymMediaHolding. Has operated since 2008 and has around
30,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "KIA" (http://www.kianews.com.ua/) - Crimean news agency. Has
operated since 1998 and has up to 40,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "Context Krym" (“Context Crimea”) (http://vastinfo.crimea.ua/) and its
media product - "Portal of Crimean news" (http://context.crimea.ua/) that was created
with the support of U-Media program of Internews Network in 2009. The Portal has
around 3,000 unique visitors daily.
“Novosty Kryma” (“News of the Crimea”) (news.allcrimea.net) - Crimean online news
service. Average attendance constitutes 6,000 visitors daily. "News of the Crimea" grew
out of the Yalta city newspaper "Yaltinskie vesti" (“Yalta news”) that is still being
published. The newspaper has been published since 1995 and is presented in Internet
since 2002. "News of the Crimea" is a component of an Internet portal “Virtual Crimea”
(http://allcrimea.net/)
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"Noviy Region - Krym" (“New Region Crimea”) – Crimean office of the Russian news
agency (http://www.nr2.ru/crimea/). Has operated since 2004 and usually generates
radical “pro-Russian” news.
Portal "V gorode Krym" (“In the city of Crimea”), crimea.vgorode.ua, a part of
"Yuzhnoukrainskiy media holding” (South-Ukrainian media holding). Has been actively
expanding in Crimea since 2011.
Komsomolskaya Pravda Krym (crimea.kp.ua), a part of "Yuzhnoukrainskiy media
holding” South-Ukrainian media holding. Internet-version of the website exists since
2008.
Crimean Information Center "INFO KRYM" (icrimea.org). Has operated since 2000.
The most popular media among Crimean Tatars is the news agency "Crimean News"
(http://qha.com.ua/).
TV COMPANIES:
CHTRK (Black Sea Broadcasting Company) - was established in December 1993. It is the
only TV channel in the Crimea that openly demonstrates its opposition political views.
The Black Sea Television is “de facto” owned by a Ukrainian MP, a member in of the
“Baktkivschyna” (“Motherland") political bloc, Andriy Senchenko.
STRC "Crimea" – was established in 1959. Prior to 1992, it was called the Crimean
Committee of Television and Radio broadcasting. A state-owned TV channel founded by
Ukraine’s State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting. STRC "Crimea"
broadcasts in seven languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Crimean Tatar, Armenian, Bulgarian,
Greek and German.
ITV television and radio company was established on April 23, 1996. As of today, it is
“de facto” owned by a Member of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Alexander Melnik.
TV Channel "Neapol” (“Napoli")
is a part of
(“CrimeaMediaHolding”) owned by Rustam Temirgaliev.
the
"KrymMediaHolding"
ATP - an independent Crimean Tatar channel that has broadcasted since 2006. This
spring it has started twenty-four-hour broadcasting. A media holding that includes the
ATP is in ownership of a businessman Isa Haybullaev who is considered close to the first
deputy chairman of Majlis, Refat Chubarov.
RADIO (REGIONAL RADIO STATIONS):
Trans-М-Radio – information and musical radio, a part of the "KrymMediaHolding".
Established in 1992, it is now the largest radio station in FM range in the Crimea.
Assol – a structural unit of CHTRK (Black Sea TRC) and a single opposition radio station
in the region. Broadcasts mainly rock music.
Meidan - a first independent Crimean Tatar radio station that has broadcasted since
2005. Together with ATP channel, it belongs to a media holding of Isa Haybullaev.
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Latest trends on the media market in 2010-2011. New projects
- Throughout 2010, the influence of the news agency “Context Krym” has been
weakening, while the news agency “e-Krym” has upheld its leadership.
- “Segodnia” (“Today”), one of the largest and most popular Ukraine’s newspapers,
continues its expansion across Ukraine. It has recently established its printing and
distribution point in the Crimea through the establishment of a local editorial office.
- In 2010, national minorities in the Crimea have moved closer to multimedia. In
particular, this year saw the emergence of a project "crimeantatars.org" that was
created with the support of the U-Media program of Internews Network. The website
represents a first and quite successful attempt to gather multimedia content about the
life of Crimean Tatars, including videos from the TV Channel “ATP”. It is also planned
to start an online radio “Meidan”.
- 2011 saw the emergence of a new local media outlet – a weekly newspaper
“Respublika” (“Republic”). The newspaper has started with the publication of openly
critical materials about local officials and exposure of major corruption deals. Its
political affiliation is not clear.
Restriction on the freedom of speech in local media.
- “Jeansa” (paid, and therefore clearly biased, materials) remains the most common
negative trend in the work of Crimean media. The monitoring conducted in April 2011
by the Institute of Mass Information and its regional partners has confirmed this fact.
- The newspaper “Sobitiya” showed jeansa symptoms more often than others.
- Political “jeansa” in Crimean media is most frequently attributed to Tyhypko and
Symonenko.
- The newspaper “Krymskoe vremia” more often than other media violates the
standards of the balanced coverage of opinion of different parties.
- Most Crimean media do not label advertising materials as such.
Generally, notorious incidents of the harassment or attacks against journalists are not
typical for the Crimea, except of the case when a correspondent of the newspaper
"Zarya Tarkhankuta" (Dawn of Tarkhankut), Sergiy Antipenko, was beaten with iron
bars. He has worked on disclosing illegal dealings with land and budget by a village
head.
In 2010, the human rights activists who had provided media with the information on
living conditions of psychiatric patients in hospitals of the Crimea faced pressure and
intimidation. In particular, Andrey Fedosov from the organization UZER was threatened
and urged not to disclose to media the results of his journalistic investigations about
living conditions of patients in local psychiatric hospitals.
The main trend among Crimean media is self-censorship in favour of the owner of a
media holding to which this media belongs.
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In the run-up to elections, Crimean media usually massively resort to “black PR”
(discreditation of the opponents) and politically engaged materials. There is hardly any
exclusion to this rule.
Main problems and challenges in the Crimean media space
1. Independent local media are de facto absent in Crimea. The newspaper “Kafa” in the
Eastern Crimea (editorial office is based in Theodosia) is relatively independent, but it
manages to survive due to self-censorship. The economic failure of the Crimean media
market makes it impossible to create truly independent media. Political actors are the
primary media customers in the region.
2. After the presidential elections in 2010, the media business in Crimea is still going
through the process of restructuring.
3. Periodicals of Crimean national minorities are published in their ethnic languages,
while bilingual print media are mostly absent. Therefore, the media of ethnic minorities
enjoy only a very small audience. At the same time, such media often become
dependent on their national elites and focus on their problems, turning into a
mouthpiece of propaganda.
4. According to the data of the NGO “Crimean Center of Legal Initiative”, violations of
journalist ethics in ethnical issues constitute a serious problem of the Crimean media.
More than 100 Crimean journalists have been questioned, and 73% of respondents have
identified the lack of tolerance among journalists as a main problem of ethnic relations
in the press.
Answering the question «What influences lack of ethnic tolerance in the Crimea?”, 64%
of respondents blamed political ambitions. Also journalists emphasized that they had
not always professionally covered the issue of multi-ethnic situation in the Crimea,
having given preference to one of ethnic groups and having condemned the others.
Suggesting how to cope with this situation, 67% of respondents claimed that education
should start from with kindergartens and schools, and 30% believe that it is necessary to
change the policy and the division of the society into the “dominant” and non-dominant
nations. Only few respondents expressed an opinion that there was a need to create
such conditions that hostile publications would cost a lot for a journalist.
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Kharkiv region
By Mykola Sukhomlyn
In Kharkiv oblast the media situation has been changing almost every year. Some media
projects die, losing sponsors or political support; others emerge, backing businessmen
or politicians dominating at that moment.
Despite the fact that Kharkiv is an educated city, often referred to as Ukraine’s
« cultural capital », efforts to launch business or social and political daily newspapers
or magazines regularly failed. At the same time, entertainment and infotainment
outlets, like Telenedelia or Art-Mosaika continue to be very popular in the region.
Every year some media projects emerge or die in the region. The following outlets were
closed recently : Sobytie (Event : a weekly close to former director of the Kharkiv
aviation plant Pavlo Naumenko), Sobytija (Events, close to the Republican Party),
Kharkovskie vedomosti (close to former governor of the Kharkiv oblast Evgen
Kushnariov), Megapolis (a newspaper of Andriy Shantarovich, opposition Belarusian
journalists who left his home country), regional versions of newspapers 24 and 15
minut. Weekly MediaPost (established by Zurab Alasania, a well-known local journalist)
was also closed, but then reemerged in the online version. Newspaper Novyi den
financed by Viktor Subotin, head of board of the Megabank (that supported Olexandr
Moroz’ Socialist party) was also closed.
The reason for this « short life » of Kharkiv social and political newspapers is simple :
Kharkiv is generally indifferent to social and political outlets. It is indeed rarely when a
weekly or a daily newspaper is published in more than five thousand copies. Newspaper
Vremia (http://timeua.info), controlled by former Tymoshenko-loyal politician
Olexandr Feldman, is perhaps the only exception from the rule. Vremia, a rebranded
heir of a soviet-time newsppaer Krasnoie znamia, maintained many of its subscribers
and outreach. A media holding was established on the basis of the outlet, a web-site
was also launched.
Another
newspaper
with
Soviet
roots,
Vecherniy
Kharkov
(http://vecherniy.kharkov.ua), linked to Olexandr Kaganovsky (son-in-law of Evgen
Kushnariov, former governor of the oblast, who mysteriously died at a chase), has been
less successful.
Slobidskyi kray is another post-Soviet newspaper (http://www.slk.kh.ua) called
Sotsialistychna Kharkivshchyna (Socialist Kharkiv region) during USSR, controlled and
financed by the reigonal budget. The paper is oriented on country dwellers, rayon state
administration, village councils, big agricultural enterprises. Citizens subscribe to this
newspaper often under pressure from regional authorities. Some years ago Slobidskyi
kray was the only Ukrainian-language newspaper in the region. After Party of the
Regions won on the Ukrainian elections, the paper was reorganized and started
publishing Russian- and Ukrainian-language articles mostly aimed to advocate policies of
the Party of the Regions.
Another newspaper – Kharkovskie izvestia – is a toy in the hands of the Kharkiv city
council and the city’s mayor Gennadiy Kernes. After Mikhail Dobkin and Gennadiy
Kernes came to power in the region, the newspaper of the city executive committee
Sloboda was closed and its place was taken by Kharkovskie izvestia. A relevant news
service was created on 7th TV channel.
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Special place in the region is occupied by newspaper « Glavnoe » (the title can be
translated as « Main information ») and internet portal http://glavnoe.ua. Both
resources belong to Arsen Avakov.
Distribution remains one of the biggest problems of the region. The number of
newspaper booths has been recently significantly reduced, but instead a new network
was established. City authorities explaining the action said the company (Pressa
Kharkova) owning the network and close to the former governor of the oblast Arsen
Avakov did not have necessary documents to run the distribution business; however,
external observers say a real fight for Kharkiv media market is behind the scenes.
A paradox situation exists on 7 Kanal, the region’s biggest TV channel. The channel is
owned jointly by the former (« orange ») governor of the oblast Arsen Avakov and
Kharkiv mayor Gennadiy Kernes. A permanent conflict between the two led to a specific
situation, when the channel has two separate news programs, produced by Avakov-close
news company ATN and Kernes-close Kharkovskie izvestia (produced by mayorcontrolled « Independent news service ») respectively. The two news services report
with opposing perspectives and construct two different virtual worlds aimed to achieve
different communication tasks.
Interestingly, this situation is not an exception in the region. Many channels also
communicate contradictory messages, depending on the forces which are behind
particular programs or news services. For example, state-owned OTB gives its prime
time to TV company R-1, linked to Mr Kaganovsky, a politician and businessman from
the Party of the Regions. Above-mentioned ATN (broadcasting on the 7 kanal), also
rebroadcasts its news on TV channels ATVK, Fora and Favorit-novosti (all three
companies are linked to Mr Avakov); and Kharkovskie izvestia had its service
broadcasted on ATVK and Favorit until 1 July, 2011, when this TV channel ceased to
exist (however, a part of the Kharkovskie izvestia’s editorial team will work on the
reorganized TV channel ATN, now enlarging and preparing new projects).
A special position in the region is held by Media Group « Objektiv » created on August
31st 2000, on the basis of the information service of a Kharkiv-based TV channel
« Simon ». The objective of the new group was to integrate four information areas : TV
and radio broadcasting, internet and print media. The TV channel and the media group
are owned by a millionaire Olexandr Davtian, sympathizing to Arseniy Yatsenuk, one of
Ukraine’s opposition politicians.
Kharkiv region practically lacks radio stations providing platform for social and political
debate. The only exception – official regional radio focused on audience listening to it
by attachement datign from Soviet times) and « Novaya volna » (New Wave) owned by
former head of the Kharkiv regional state administration Arsen Avakov.
Those who want more fresh news, more objective and balanced coverage, go to
Internet. Web-site MediaPort (http://www.mediaport.ua) is widely said to be the most
popular, having its place in the top-30 of Ukrainian information web-sites. Until May
2006 it was known as a web-site of the Media Group « Objective » but after a conflict
with the group’s founder Olexandr Davtian (a businessman close to Arseniy Yatsenuk),
the web-site needed to rebrand itself.
MediaPort is owned by Kharkiv well-known journalist, former director of the Kharkiv
regional state TV and radio company Zurab Alasania.
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Internet is also a place for more scandal-focused journalism. A number of scandalfocused web-sites specializing on Kharkiv emerged recently. There are also two more
news projects called Gorodskoy Dozor (City Watch) and Nastoyashchiy Dozor (Real
Watch): although they earlier constituted a single project, a conflict between its
owners - brothers Protas (local businessmen) and city authorities (Mikhail Dobkin and
Gennadiy Kernes) - caused a split between the two. Gorodskoy Dozor now mainly
criticizes Dobkin and Kernes, while Nastoyashchiy Dozor is focused on critique of
« orange » politicians of the region, primarily Avakov, Feldman and others. Main
objective of both « Dozors » consists in propaganda, instead of information ; therefore
both web-sites often use insulting of the political opponents and misinterpretations in
their information activities.
An important role in the Kharkiv media area is played by an information agency «Status
Quo» http://www.sq.com.ua and by a Gorshenin Institute project « Most-Kharkov »
http://most-kharkov.info.
Party of the Regions’ victory at the latest presidential elections led to important
transformations in the regional media area. TV channels showed a clear drift to more
loyalty to the new authorities. Disappearance of Vasyl Klimentiev, editor in chief of the
newspaper Novyi stil (August 11, 2010 ; the journalist was not found since that date)
was an event that raised concern both in Ukraine and abroad. According to Kharkiv
journalists, disappearance of Klimentiev is directly linked to a number of very critical
materials (journalist investigations) related to corruption of the local officials and law
enforcement services.
Brief summary of the structure of the Kharkiv media area:
TV news produced by :
«ATN » (Agency, TV, News): close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Kharkovskie izvestia »: close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Objectiv-Novosti»: close to Olexandr Davtian, Front of changes (Arseniy Yatsenuk)
«Kharkovskie vesti»: close to Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Novosti OTB »: close to Mikhail Dobkin, the Party of the Regions
«Novosti R-1»: close to Olexandr Kaganovsky, the Party of the Regions
Print media
«Vremia» : Olexandr Feldman, formerly close to Tymoshenko, « orange » political
forces
«Vecherniy Kharkov » : close to Olexandr Kaganovsky, the Party of the Regions
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«Slobidskyi kray » : controlled by the
administration, the Party of the Regions
Regional
council
and
Regional
state
«Kharkovskie izvestia» : close to Gennadiy Kernes, the Party of the Regions
«Glavnoie» : close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Gazeta po-Kharkovski » : owned by a Kyiv-based holding, close to « orange » political
forces
«Objectiv-No» : close to Olexandr Davtian, Front of Changes (Arseniy Yatsenuk)
What do Kharkiv dwellers read and watch ?
According to opinion polls1, 23,7% of the respondents consider Kharkiv local newspapers
as an important source of information. 17% of the respondents say the same about the
national newspapers ; 4,3% - Russian newspapers and weeklies.
The following table also shows the distribution of active and non-active readers in
Kharkiv (% from the total number of respondents, N = 997)
30
25
27,8
26
22,5
18,2
20
15
10
5
2,5
0
Reading
regularly
Reading
occasionally
Rading rarely
Not reading
Difficult to say
What do the Kharkiv dwellers read in local newspapers and magazines ?
(% from the total number of respondents)
Types of information
% from the total number
Information about the poll are based upon a report prepared by Regional Policy Research Instittue of the
Kharkiv National Karazin University ; information provided by the company MediaUkraine ; information
provided by a company Ukrainian Sociological Standard.
1
30
of respondents
Local political news
37,6
Ukraine’s political news
31,6
World’s political news
14,6
Activities of the regional and local authorities
13,7
Economic news of the city and of the region
25,5
Ukraine’s economic news
18,9
World’s economic news
9,5
Science news (popular version)
12,2
Criminal news
17,3
Sports
19,5
Celebrities and show business
11,1
Entertainment (jokes, cross words...)
14,2
Health, family, advice
17,5
TV program
11,7
Advertising
5,8
Weather
19,6
Sex, intimity news
3,0
Abnormal phenomena
8,3
Culture, art, cinema
18,0
Other
1,6
Difficult to say
17,8
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What do the Kharkiv dwellers read in national newspapers and magazines ?
(% from the total number of respondents)
Types of information
% from the total number of
respondents
Local political news
15,4
Ukraine’s political news
43,1
World’s political news
19,0
Activities of the regional and local authorities
7,2
Economic news of the city and of the region
11,9
Ukraine’s economic news
26,6
World’s economic news
14,5
Science news (popular version)
11,3
Criminal news
14,1
Sports
18,8
Celebrities and show business
11,4
Entertainment (jokes, cross words...)
12,6
Health, family, advice
14,0
TV program
6,8
Advertising
4,2
Weather
13,7
Sex, intimity news
2,6
Abnormal phenomena
7,6
Culture, art, cinema
18,5
Other
1,8
Difficult to say
21,2
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RATING OF NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
(% of the total number of respondents, N = 932)
0
5
10
15
Argumenty i
fakty
18,8
16,2
Art-mozaika
12,9
Telenedelia
11,5
Fakty
Segodnia
10,6
Vecherniy
Kharkov
10,5
Komsomolskaya
pravda
9,8
Premier
9,8
Semen
8,5
Kharkovskyi
kurier
7,8
Vremia
Kharkovskie
izvestia
Gazeta poKharkovski
What do Kharkiv dwellers watch ?
20
6,4
5,2
3,6
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Rating of TV channels in Kharkiv media area (% from the total number of respondents,
N=978)
N
п/п
TV channel
%
1.
Inter
70,1
2.
1+1
56,3
3.
ICTV
28,3
4.
Russian TV channels (cable and satellite)
27,5
5.
STB
23,9
6.
Noviy Kanal
23,3
7.
TRC Ukraina
21,0
8.
7 Kanal
14,6
9.
Western (European and American) channels (cable and satellite)
9,6
10.
А/TBC
9,1
11.
5 Kanal
8,6
12.
Simon
8,6
13.
UT-1 (Ukraine’s 1st National TV channel)
6,6
14.
К-1
5,6
15.
М-1
4,5
16.
Fora
4,2
17.
Kharkiv (regional TV) – OTB – R1
4,1
18.
Favorit
3,0
19.
S-tet
1,5
20.
TBi
0,5
21.
Other
9,1
22.
Difficult to say
1,5
Rating of the national and local TV news
34
(% from the total number of respondents, N=978)
News TV programs
%
1.
Podrobnosti (Inter)
57,4
2.
TSN (1+1)
32,9
3.
Fakty (ICTV)
24,3
4.
Vikna-novyny (STB)
15,0
5.
Novosti (TRC Ukraina)
10,9
6.
Reporter (Noviy Kanal)
7,1
7.
Novyny (UT-1)
5,7
8.
Other news
5,1
9.
Chas Novyn (5 Kanal)
4,5
10.
Svidok (NTN)
3,8
11.
Odyn den (К-1)
1,7
12.
Segodnia (TBi)
0,6
13.
Not watching the news
8,0
14.
Difficult to say
2,6
Rating of regional news programs on Kharkiv local TV channels
N
п/п
Regional TV programs
%
1.
«Novosti ATN» (7 Kanal, Fora, Favorit)
32,3
2.
Kharkovskie izvestia (7 Kanal)
20,7
3.
Kharkovskie novosti (А/ТVC, Fora, Favorit) – no longer broadcasts from 1 18,0
July, 2011
4.
Objectiv-Novosti (Simon)
12,6
5.
Kharkovskie vesti (Fora, Favorit)
7,2
6.
Novosti OTB (OTB)
5,8
7.
Novosti MediaPort (S-tet, Fora)
3,1
35
8.
Novosti R-1 (R-1)
1,2
9.
Not Watching news programs
23,5
10.
Difficult to say
10,8
Rating of Ukrainian and world’s web-sites in Kharkiv
(% of total number of respondents, N=143)
Web-site
%
1.
www.korrespondent.net
38,5
2.
Russian sites
25,2
3.
www.obozrevatel.com
24,5
4.
www.ukr.net
24,5
5.
www.segodnya.ua
15,4
6.
www.unian.net
13,3
7.
www.interfax.com.ua
12,6
8.
Other Ukrainian sites
11,9
9.
www.for-ua.com
11,2
10
.
Web-sites in English (other foreign web-sites)
9,8
11
.
www.censor.net.ua
8,4
12
.
www.pravda.com.ua
7,0
13
.
www.glavred.info
5,6
14
.
www.4post.com.ua
1,4
15
.
Not visiting news web-sites
4,9
Rating of the Kharkiv-based web-sites
36
№
Web-site
%
1.
Not visiting Kharkiv news sites
30,8
2.
www.kharkovforum.com
25,2
3.
www.objectiv.tv
21,7
4.
www.dozor.in.ua
18,9
5.
www.mediaport.ua
16,8
6.
www.atn.kharkov.ru
11,2
7.
www.kharkovnews.info
9,8
8.
www.vecherniy.kharkov.ua
9,1
9.
Other web-sites
4,9
10
.
Status Quo (www.sq.com.ua)
3,5
11
.
www.dozor.kharkov.ua
2,8
12
.
www.glavnoe.kharkov.ua
1,4
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Lugansk region
By Volodymyr Lermontov
Brief statistics
According to official statistics (provided by department on press and information of the
Lugansk regional state administration), 600 newspapers and journals are registered in
the Lugansk region, as of January 2011, with the total weekly coverage of 1 million 900
thousand copies. However, only about 200 media outlets are indeed published and
reach their audience. Economic crisis has had a negative impact on the payment
capacities of the potential readers.
The most influential newspapers are published in Lugansk itself. 80% are registered and
published as bilingual newspapers.
Most print media outlets are private. 45 media outlets were founded by local
governance institutions and local executive authorities. However, these outlets are not
society-owned or public outlets but rather instruments of the party-inspired
information, controlled by the Party of the regions. The domination of the Party of the
regions is exemplified with the distribution of the seats in the Lugansk regional council :
106 out of 124 seats are taken by the Party of the regions, 13 by the Communist party,
4 by Silnaya Ukraina (Strong Ukraine, a party headed by Sergiy Tigipko) and one nonallied MP. Regional non-private media owned by territorial communities are in fact
controlled by the regional state administrations and economically dependent on them.
Journalists do not intend to refuse from the control by the authorities as, according to
Ukraine’s laws, they have a status of civil servants.
Press Market
According to a research « Information outlets rating » published by SocioLab Group,
http://sociolab.net/reyting-informatsionnyih-izdaniy/ in May 2011, 52% of Lugansk
dwellers with higher education and 56% with incomplete higher education don’t read
newspapers. 12% could not name their favourite newspaper. Local newspapers, as a key
information source, exert the biggest impact on 5% of the respondents.
Luganska pravda is published since 1917. During the Soviet period the paper was printed
daily; today it is published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The paper is
published in 44 thousand copies in total (on Thursday – more than 25 thousand copies).
The paper has not changed its format since the Soviet times: 4-6 pages in A-2 format.
Retired older people constitute the bulk of the paper’s audience: they read it because
they used to read this newspaper in their youth.
60% of the newspaper is distributed in Lugansk city, 40% in the oblast. Web-site:
www.pravda.lg.ua. The paper is de facto owned by the MP of the Lugansk regional
council (Party of the Region) Olexandr Kyseliov. In 2009-2011 its quality went down,
with original materials becoming less and less frequent, substituted by internet reprints
and advertising (including the latent advertising). Editor in chief – Volodymyr
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Mykhaylychenko (15 years in the newspaper) ; director – Olexandr Berestenko
(appointed in 2007). The two officials are in controversy with each other.
«Nasha gazeta» (Our Newspaper) – a media outlet of the Lugansk regional council. The
paper publishes legal acts of the representative and executive authorities of the region.
The paper is published 4 times a week. 16-24 pages, A3 format, in 44 thousand copies.
70% is distributed in Lugansk, 30% in the region. 80% is distributed through subscription,
among enterprises and state-owned enterprises.
Editor in chief – Nikolay Severin (joined the newspaper in early 2009); his appointment
brought more social and life-focused materials. The newspaper has a web-site
(nashagazeta.com.ua), updated irregularly. The paper is financed from the regional
budget. Salaries are a bit higher than in other outlets.
«Izvestia Luganshchyny » (News of the Lugansk region) – an outlet owned by the
regional council (regional authority elected on the ground). The paper is aimed to
communicate achievements of the regional council, of the Party of the Region and of
the head of the regional council Valeriy Golenko. The paper often published big texts
allegedly written by Mr Golenko. It is financed from the regional council budget, under
the chapter « public administration ». Published in 100-200 thousand copies.
Newspaper « Molodogvardeets » is published since 2001. The paper was established and
published by Olexandr Smetankin; earlier partly financed by the MP (Yulia Tymoshenko
bloc) Anatoliy Agoferov. Now relations between the newspaper and its earlier sponsor
became less friendly. The paper is published weekly, 16 pages, A3, in 12 thousand
copies. Editor in chief – Olexandr Belokobylskyi. The paper has a web-site
www.mgm.com.ua updated on the issue-to-issue basis. During the election campaign
the paper supported Yulia Tymoshenko. Highly critical articles, including those against
the leadership of the oblast and of the Party of the Regions, often provoked actions
brought to the court. Financial difficulties of 2010-2011 made the paper neutral, if not
friendly, to the authorities.
«XXI vek» (XXI century) – published 2 times a week. Published on Wednesdays (A3
format, 24 pages) and on Saturdays (16 pages), in 20 thousand copies in total. Yuriy
Yurov is the paper’s editor in chief and owner of the outlet. The paper often publishes
pre-paid materials ; focuses on tabloid style, loyal to the Party of the Regions.
Sometimes the paper can publish two opposing publications next to each other. Website: www.xxivek.com.ua.
Vecherniy Lugansk (Evening’s Lugansk) is a weekly newspaper published since 2001.
During ten years it changed three editors in chief. The newspaper, jointly with the news
agency Irta-FAW, TV channel IRTA and radio stations Europa Plus and Chanson is a part
of a media holding NTRK «IRTA» Ltd (owned by Ukrainian MP, Party of the Regions,
Volodymyr Landyk). The newspaper’s chapter on the « Irta-Fax » portal is not updated
regularly.
The newspaper sometimes criticizes local and central authorities. During 7 years the
paper was headed by Olexiy Bluminov. Under Bluminov’s management the paper was
published in 11 thousand copies; 8,5 thousand were usually sold ; now the paper is
published in 10 thousand copies, and barely half of the run is sold, primarily in Lugansk
(90%). In 2008 Bluminov was replaced by German Borysov; since December 2009 – by
Vita Kravtsova (Resmetova). Borysov created an alternative web-site, Novyi Vecherniy
Lugansk (New Evening’s Lugansk).
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«Zhyzn Luganska» (Lugansk’s Life) is a weekly newspaper published since 1990. The
paper was established by Lugansk city council. Director: Oleg Tkachuk, appointed in
2009. Volume: 20 pages, format A3, published in 10 thousand copies. 2-3 thousand is
distributed through subscription; however, the newspaper is badly sold in the
distribution network. The paper publishes a lot of legal documents of the city council
and non-critical laudatory articles praising city authorities and mayor Sergei
Kravchenko. City council pledged UAH 500 thousand into the budget of the newspaper
in 2011.
« Realnaya gazeta » (« Real newspaper »). The paper is owned by Ukrainian MP Natalia
Korolevska who headed the election campaign of Yulia Tymoshenko in the region. After
the elections practically all Korolevska’s projects in the Lugansk oblast were closed.
The paper was not published in spring, 2011. Editor Andrei Dikharenko was fired (he has
worked more than 5 years); a new editor, Olexandr Sukharevsky, was appointed.
Most materials are focused on Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, Korolevska herself and critique of
the authorities. Original materials are scarce. The paper is published in 5 thousand
copies. Sales are not very optimistic. Web-site www.realgazeta.com.ua is updated
when the new issue is published.
Nedelia plus (Week+), a regional weekly, established in Alchevsk. The paper is owned
by Lugansk regional council MP and businessman Kostiantyn Petrov. Web-site www.nedelya.net.ua. The paper is published in 8 thousand copies; established in
Alchevsk, it tries to reach out to wider audience in Lugansk oblast.
Weekly «Svobodnyi reporter» (Free reporter), published since 2007, in 8 thousand
copies. Editor: Anna Zhylenko. Owner: businessman Grygoriy Prygeba. The newspaper
takes an opposing position to public authorities ; Prigeba himself often participates in
actions against the authorities. Popular among the audience as people like reading
critique of the authorities http://freereporter.com.ua/
Newspaper Zhyzn regiona (Region’s life) is a paper established by regional institution of
the Party of the Regions. 8 pages, A-3 format, distributed free of charge. The paper
aims at popularizing President Yanukovych and the head of the Party of the regions
faction in the Parliament Olexandr Yefremov. Editor in chief – Andriy Kuznetsov. The
paper is published in 24 thousand copies.
« Sovetskaya Luganshina » (Soviet Lugansk Region) – a newspaper published by the
Lugansk branch of the Communist Party. The paper is financed by communist MP
Spiridon Kilinkarov. Published in 12 thousand copies. Editor in chief : Natalia
Maksymets, member of the Lugansk municipal council. Web-site : www.lugkpu.info
Radio stations
73% of Lugansk adults listen to the radio; however, as in other Ukrainian regions, these
radio stations are mostly focused on entertainment. The following radio stations are the
most popular in the region : «Evropa Plus» - 22% (of the market), «Avtoradio» - 11%,
«Chanson» - 11%, «Hit FM» - 33%, «Wire radio» — 22%.
TV
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According to a research published by SocioLab, http://sociolab. net/reytingtelekanalov/ , 87% Lugansk dwellers watch TV. The figure is 3% lower than SocioLab
data published in 2010. TV remains the most accessible information source for most of
the citizens. However, for people aged between 18 and 41 TV plays a less important
role, compared to internet. 41% of the Lugansk dwellers say that TV is for them the
most important source of information. In the rating of the “most favourite” TV channels
citizens name the following: IRTA – 34%, LKT – 16%, LOT – 12%, difficult to say - 1%. 24%
say they don’t watch local TV; 13% say they don’t watch TV at all.
«IRTA» - a TV company established in 2000. MP (Party of the regions) Volodymyr Landyk
is the channel’s honorable president. Director: Carolina Poltavska (who replaced
previous director Volodymyr Tkachenko in December, 2010. IRTA has a number of
reporter’s points in different places of the Lugansk region and in Kyiv. Audience: more
than 1,6 million people. Mostly focused on Southern (industrial) zones of the Lugansk
oblast. Web-site : http://tv. irtafax. com.ua/ IRTA is the only company having a license
on satellite broadcasting, but still didn’t launch digital broadcasting.
«Lugansk cable TV» (LCT), founded in 1991. Director general: German Kudinov. Actually
owned by the member of the regional council Olexandr Kyseliov. 24-hour broadcasting;
10 news releases daily, original program production. Audience: 1,2 million people. Website http://lkt. lg. ua/ regularly updated. Antitrust committee penalized the channel
many times because of the high prices. Key competitor: « Triolan ».
Lugansk regional state TV and radio company (LOT)
Regional channel. Audience : 89,7% of the citizens living in the region ; 2,2 million
spectators. Director General: Vitaliy Garkusha. Rodion Miroshnyk was a Director General
until 2010. Now he is a deputy governor of the Lugansk oblast on humanitarian issues. In
June, 2011, Lugansk regional TV and radio company reduced its broadcasting time from
24 hours to 18 hours ; remaining 6 hours can be put on sale by the National TV and radio
broadcasting council. The TV channel intends to go digital by 2015, according to
Ukraine’s national plans.
Internet agencies, internet outlets
Lugansk portal TOP www.top.lg.ua – the most popular (the most visited) portal of the
region. The web-resource was founded in 2000. It calls itself a « Lugansk site No 1 ». It
does not produce its own news, however, and mostly republishes news produced by
other resources. However, TOP hosts a number of blogs and forums attracting the
audience, which makes it a leading resource in the region. It has 3-4 thousand readers
daily. Despite the resource’s popularity, little information is known about the site’s
owners. MP from Lugansk city council Volodymyr Medianyk and former police general
Volodymyr Guslavskyi are said to be among the owners of the site.
Eastern-Ukrainian news agency Skhid.info — http://cxid.info/ produces own news. The
web-site aims at supporting local authorities, namely the Party of the Regions. Until
recently the outlet was directed by Mykhaylo Fedotov (in 2011 – head of the press and
information department of the Lugansk regional state administration). It has 3-4
thousand visitors daily. The outlet entered the market in 2001 supported by the
governor of the region (now member of the national parliament) Olexandr Yefremov.
Officially the outlet is owned by « Vostok Media Group » Ltd. The company is owned by
« Management Limited » registered in the British Virginia islands controlled by
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Ukrkommunbank. Rodion Miroshnyk, member of the regional council, is said to be one
of the key owners of the company.
City news — http://www.citynews.net.ua/ has been working since 2003. The site used
grant support given by the US Embassy. Owner and director – Danila Ageev who tries to
follow an independent policy line. Audience : 1,4-1,6 thousand people daily.
Web newspaper « Vostochnyi variant » (http://v-variant.lg.ua/) has been the key
breakthrough event of 2010. The web-site attracts 1,4-1,9 thousand people daily.
Affiliated with former MP Volodymyr Ivanov.
Portal «Irta-FAX» - www.irtafax.com.ua: created in 2006. Owned by Volodymyr Landik.
Editor : Evgenia Kostina. The web-site is popularized due to affiliation with TV channel
IRTA and radio stations Evropa Plus and Chanson, as well as newspaper Vecherniy
Lugansk (all of them belong to V. Landik). The web-site has 1,5-1,7 thousand visitors
daily.
«Lugansk. Kommentarii» http://lugansk.comments.ua/news/ created in 2007 as a
regional resource of the pan-Ukrainian information portal Kommentarii-proUA. Owned
by a Ukrainian national media holding Evolution media. Has 2,2 thousand visitors daily.
Director : Victor Volokita.
Lugansk reporter point of the web-site Ostrov - www.ostro.org/regions/36/ The project
has been implemented due to support of the National Democracy Endowment, Ukrainian
Media development Fund of the US Embassy to Ukraine. Head of the reporter point:
Natalia Kononova. Editor policy consists in promoting critical attitude of the society to
the local authorities. Statistics of audience is unavailable.
«Parallel media» www.paralel-media.com.ua — media outlet focused on news of
Lugansk and the region. The outlet is working since 2009. Daily audience reaches 1000
people. Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lermontov. The outlet cooperates with NGOs and
promotes civic journalism. It became a partner of many actions: Stop Censorship, Let’s
make Lugansk a clean region, cinema festivals, etc. The outlet cooperates with EU
Delegation, USAID, Polska Pomoc.
One of the key problems of the media sector of the region consists in the fact that
media outlets are gradually turned into advertising vehicles: newspapers are used to
advertise commercial goods or political parties, quite often in the articles. Free
journalists try to escape this pressure, going to internet where ambiance is a bit more
liberal.
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Mykolaiv region
By Maksym Hardus
Main media groups and media owners in Mykolaiv and oblast
Absence of large financial and political groups owning media outlets is a remarkable
feature of the Mykolaiv region. Most media outlets belong either to the state or to
publishers (who often are simultaneously editors).
Largest media owners in the region:
The Ukrainian state: controls the oblast state television and radio company, newspaper
“Ridne Prybuzzhia”
The state community of Mykolaiv: controls TV and radio company “Mart”, newspaper
“Vecherniy Nikolaev”
3. Financial and political groups
a) "Russkiy Aluminiy” (“Russian Aluminum"): owns TV and radio company “Saturn”.
b) Group of Ukraine’s MP Gennady Zadyrko: owns TV company "NIS-TV", newspaper
"KRYK” (the paper version is no longer being published, except for the pre-election
period), and the news agency “Zadira” (in fact, an Internet newspaper).
c) Group of Bogomaz-Merikov (party “Front of Changes”): owns newspaper
“Nikolaevskiy Business” (+newspaper’s website), the news agency “MIG” and a share in
“Nikvesti”
Publishers/editors
1. The group of A. Diordiev:
"PRAVDA.mk.ua"
owns internet newspapers “Biznes-novosti Nikolaeva”,
2. The group of A. Onofriychuk: owns newspaper “Nash gorod Nikolaev”, the website
novosti-n.mk.ua
3. The group of
“Prestupnosti.net”.
D.
Dmitriyev:
owns
Internet-newspapers
“Nikvesti”
and
4. All other media outlets.
Political influence on media
The Party of the Regions has the influence on the following media outlets: the oblast
state TV and radio company, TV and radio company “Mykolaiv”, radio company
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“Mykolaiv”, newspapers “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (+ newspaper’s website), “Yuzhnaya
pravda” (+ newspaper’s website), "Schotizhnya", “Yuzhniy Region”, and “PRyncyp”.
The following media outlets are formally and financially independent, but in fact are
controlled by supporters of the Party of the Regions:
The group belonging to a member of the oblast executive committee, Gleb
Golovchenko: “TAK-TV”, “Gubernskaya Nedelia” (a paper version is not being published
anymore, the newspaper exists only in Internet)
The group "Russkiy Aluminiy” (Russian Aluminum") - TV and radio company “Saturn”
(director A. Nedo – a deputy of the oblast council from the Party of Regions)
The group of the city mayor, a member of the Party of Regions, V.Chayka: “Vecherniy
Nikolaev” (+ newspaper’s website), TV and radio company ”Mart”
The group of D. Dmitriev: “Nikvesti”, “Prestupnosti.net”.
Party “Narodna Vlada” (“People’s Power”) (leader – Gennadiy Zadyrko)
A group belonging to a people’s deputy of Ukraine, a member of parliamentary
majority, Gennadiy Zadyrko, controls the TV and radio company “NIS-TV”, the
newspaper “KRYK”, and the news agency “Zadira”.
Party “Front Zmin” (“Front of Changes”) (leader – Arseniy Yatseniuk)
The party “Front Zmin” controls the group “Bogomaz-Merikov” owning newspaper
“Nikolayevskiy Business”, the information agency “MIG” and having its share in the
newspaper “Nikvesti”. The group of D. Dmitriyev (“Nikvesti”, “Prestupnosti.net”) is also
affiliated with the party “Front Zmin”.
Party “Tretiya Sila” (“Third Force”) cooperates with the newspaper “Nash Gorod” on
business grounds.
The group of A.Diordiev (the newspaper “Business Novosti Nikolaeva” and the website
“PRAVDA.mk.ua") and the group of A. Onofriychuk (the newspaper “Nash Gorod
Nikolaev” and the website novosti-n.mk.ua) are close to the party “Tretiya Sila”.
Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT)
The newspaper “SKIF” is close to BYuT.
Overview of the main media outlets in the region (print, online, TV, radio)
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Print media
Newspaper “Vecherniy Nikolaev” (“Evening Mykolaiv”) (www.vn.mk.ua) – a newspaper
of the Mykolaiv city council published three times a week.
Newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda” (“Truth of the South”) (www.up.mk.ua) – a sociopolitical newspaper that is published three times a week.
Newspaper “Schotyzhnia” (“Weekly”) – a weekly appendix to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya
Pravda”.
Newspaper “Tsentraliniy Rynok” (“Central Market”) – a weekly newspaper for vendors
and consumers in the Mykolaiv oblast.
Newspaper “Sobytia i Kommentarii” (“Events and Comments”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “SKIF” – a weekly independent newspaper issued by the local charity fund
“Social Project”.
Newspaper “Rodnoy Prichal” (“Home Berth”) – a weekly newspaper of the Mykolaiv
oblast organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Newspaper “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (“Native Buh Region”) (www.rp.mk.ua) – a newspaper of
the Mykolaiv oblast council.
Newspaper “Partner-inform” – a Mykolaiv independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weekly
newspaper.
Newspaper “Vzgliad” (“View”) – an independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weekly
newspaper.
Newspaper “Partner-inform” – a Mykolaiv independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Nikolaevskiy Business” – an information and analytical weekly.
Newspaper “Nikolaevskie Novosti” (“Mykolaiv News”) (www.niknews.mk.ua) – an oblast
socio-political newspaper published three times a week.
Newspaper “Nash Gorod Nikolaev” (“Our City Mykolaiv”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Gubernskaya Nedelia” – a weekly newspaper.
Internet media:
“Business-novosti Nikolaeva” (“Business News of Mykolaiv”) (www.novosti.mk.ua) –
political and economic life of the city; publisher – A.Diordiev ;
www.pravda.mk.ua – political, economic, social and cultural life of the city; publisher –
A.Diordiev;
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http://novosti-n.mk.ua/; publisher – A.Onofriychuk;
“Nikvesti” (“Mykolaiv News”) (http://nikvesti.com/); publisher – D.Dmitriev;
Prestupnosti.net (“Criminality.net”) (http://www.pn.mk.ua/); publisher – D.Dmitriev;
A news agency “Zadira” (“Bully”) (http://www.zadira.info/) ; publisher – G.Zadyrko;
http://mycity.mk.ua/; publisher - M.Popov.
Television and radio companies:
TV and radio company “Mart” (“March”) – owned by the Mykolaiv city council;
TV and radio company “NIS-TV”;
Mykolaiv oblast state TV and radio company (www.trk.mksat.net);
TV company “Nikolaev”;
TV and radio company “Saturn”;
TV company “TAK-TV” (www.kptv.in.ua);
TV and radio company “Kraevid” (www.kraevid.mk.ua);
Nikolaevskoe kabelnoe televidenie (“Mykolaiv cabel TV”) (www.nktv.mk.ua);
Radio channel “Nikolaev”.
Latest trends on the media market of Mykolaiv and oblast in 2010-2011
The launch of a personal blog of the city mayor and the appointment of Dmytro
Tochylkyn, an owner of several entertainment and commercial websites, to the position
of a staff adviser to the mayor belong to recent important events for the local media
market. The strategic purpose of these steps was to radically improve communications
of the mayor with the audience of new media and social networks.
2. The exit of a party group “Bogomaz and Merikov” from BYuT in late 2009 - early 2010
led to the removal of the BYuT influence on the media outlets controlled by these
owners. This fact had very deplorable results for the coverage of BYuT activities in the
region that had been quite modest before.
3. Transfer of a press secretary of BYuT, Yaroslav Indikov, to the “Front Zmin”, has
finally weakened the already weak position of this coalition in mass media. The quality
of press releases and press conferences has seriously deteriorated. The bloc BYuT is in
fact not represented not only in state and communal, but even in private media, with
the exception of direct advertisement.
4. Strategic convergence of the website “Nikvesti” and the popular local TV channel NIS
TV with an oblast party office of the “Front of Changes” has been also a notable
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development on the media market. The website “Nikvesti”, which has a young and
middle-aged target audience, very actively covers the activity of the party in the region
(at least 2-4 materials per week, on a paid basis).
5. Appointment of a chief editor of the newspaper “SKIF”, Borys Orel, to a press
secretary of a local party office of BYuT has secured an access to at least one popular
local media outlet for the BYuT, the largest opposition political force in the region.
6. A strategic decision of the Party of Regions to appoint the chief editor of
“Nikolaevskiy Business”, a deputy from the political party “Front Zmin”, T. Fabrikova, a
chief editor of “Ridne Prybuzzhia” has inflicted a powerful blow to the media bloc of
the “Front Zmin”, since it will be very hard to issue the newspaper of this party without
Ms. Fabrikova – an experienced media professional.
7. Dismissal of Igor Pokh (a chief editor of the newspaper "Partner-inform") from the
position of a press secretary of the local party office of “Sylna Ukraina (“Strong
Ukraine”; leader – Sergiy Tyhypko) and the stagnation of the Internet media "Nikkurer"
have led to the almost complete disappearance of the party “Sylna Ukraina” from the
local media space.
8. Appointment of D. Dmitriev (ex-supporter of the “Narodna Samooborona” (“People’s
Self-Defence”; leader – Yuriy Lutsenko) to the position of an adviser to the head of the
oblast council, a representative of the Party of Regions, Igor Diatlov, has reached a
number of important goals for the Party of Regions, in particular:
1) Seriously reinforced the Internet presence of the party that had been very weak
before. The party of Regions has received a guaranteed access to the two Internet
outlets with the highest rating: “Nikvesti” and “Prestupnosti.net”.
2) Restricted the access of opposition (BYuT and Narodna Samooborona) to the abovenoted media outlets.
3) Considerably improved the party’s professionalism in dealing with media. This was
achieved through the appointment of young journalists of the holding to press
secretaries of I. Diatlov and A. Iliuk (a head of the faction of the Party of Regions in the
city council). The frequency and positive tonality of mentioning these officials in
media, including the media not controlled by the Party of Regions, have tremendously
grown.
e) Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, selfcensorship, administrative pressure, jeansa, persecution of journalists
“Jeansa” (paid and biased materials) is a wide-spread phenomenon.
Self-censorship is also a predominant phenomenon both in state and private media.
Persecution of journalists is extremely rare in the region. In those cases when it does
happen, this is usually a consequence of business conflicts, i.e. punishment for the
ordered materials placed for money.
Main problems of the regional media area
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The main problem of media in the region is that the absolute majority of media outlets
are not self-sustained.
Most media outlets receive funds from the state or from political forces. Moreover,
often this share of funds is so big that its loss will question the very fact of the
existence of this media. In particular:
Hidden subsidies in the form of a small rent payment for the placement of the editorial
office in state/communal institutions are received by “Nikolaevskie Novosti”, “Rodnoy
Prichal”, “Yuzhnaya Pravda”, “Schotyznia”, “TAK-TV”, and “Gubernskaya nedelia”.
2. Hidden subsidies in a form of the overrated payment for “information services” are
received by “Novaya Nikolaevskaya gazeta”, “Partner-inform”, “Pravda”, “Business
novosti Nikolaeva”, and “Morskie business novosti Ukrainy”.
Few other media outlets share political views of the opposition. It is not possible to find
any truly independent media of the region.
In these conditions, the authorities do not feel any need to introduce any formal forms
of censorship. The necessary content and tonality of media is secured by media owners
and publishers without any interference of tax or law-enforcement bodies.
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Odesa region
By Sergiy Dibrov
Media landscape in Odesa oblast is characterized by diversity and a large number of
various media outlets belonging to different owners and business groups. The main
challenge faced by the local media market consists in administrative interference into
the media activity from both media owners and local authorities.
Print media
Though regional print media still retains its impact and authority, it gradually cedes its
leading positions to electronic media.
The most popular print media in the city of Odessa and Odessa oblast are the following:
newspaper “Odeskie izvestiya” (Odesa news) – a print edition of Odesa oblast council,
“Odeskiy vestnik” (Odesa bulletin) - a print edition of Odesa city council, “Vecernyaya
odesa” (Evening Odesa), “Yug” (South), “Porto-Franko”, “Slovo” (World). There is also
a large number of specialized information and advertising newspapers and magazines,
media outlets of national minorities, etc.
Until 2010, the city council subsidized the subscription to the newspaper “Odeskiy
vestnik” for low-income citizens, which automatically helped this newspaper to become
a regional leader. This year this practice ceased which negatively affected both the
media outlet’s rating and the general popularity of local media.
In the opinion of the well-known Odessa journalist Leonid Shtekel, today regional print
media have small audiences and small circulations. Still, critical publications in the
press cause public response. The relatively independent local print outlets, such as
“Vecherniya Odesa” (“Evening Odesa”) and “Yug” (“South”), try to avoid speaking
about acute public or political problems. The newspaper “Komsomolska Pravda v
Ukraine” and all-Ukrainian newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today”) that pay serious attention
to local issues of Odesa region are best selling print outlets in the region. Generally, the
media reaction to local events in Odesa is one of the factors that local authorities have
to reckon with. One of the illustrative examples consists in repeated cases when allUkrainian weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli” (Mirror of the Week) that contained critical
publication on Odesa local issues were fully sold out (most probably by the authorities)
during delivery and did not reach out to the readers through the retail trade.
Television
Broadcasting in VHF / UHF bands is carried out on 20 channels, where nationwide and
11 local TV companies operate. In addition, Odesa has extensive coverage of cable
networks broadcasting nationwide, foreign and local channels. In particular, “Chornoe
More” (Black Sea) company that is one of the largest cable television providers
broadcasts 73 channels.
Local TV channels successfully compete on the market, first due to active coverage of
local issues and discussion of local problems. Most popular TV channels of Odesa region
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– such as ATV, GLAS, RIAK, ART, “Krug”, “Novaya Odesa”, - enjoy the audience of 2030% of Odesa population. However, outside the city of Odesa, the influence and
authority of local TV stations remarkably decreases as compared to nation-wide
channels.
Given high start-up costs for TV broadcasters, the strong exposure to the so-called
“administrative resource” and the high influence of this type of media on citizens, it is
not surprising that most of Odesa TV channels directly or indirectly belong to regional
politicians or openly sympathize with them. For instance, the ATV channel belongs to a
leader of the political party “Rodina” (“Motherland”), a deputy of the city council, Ihor
Madkov. Currently ATV openly supports the city major Aleksey Kostusev, who also is a
co-owner of the TV Channel “Odesa Plus”. A number of other local TV companies
support the current city government and the mayor, in particular: TV companies ART,
GRAD and ART-24 that are influenced the former people’s deputy, Aleksey Kozachenko;
TV channels GLAS and “Strana Sovetov” (Country of Councils) belonging to the head of
the Party of Regions faction in the city council, Gennadiy Trukhanov; TV companies
“Academia” (Academy), “Zdorovie” (Health), “Reporter” that are controlled by the
people’s deputy from the Party of Regions and Head of the Supreme Council of Justice,
Sergiy Kivalov; TV companies ONT, «100%» and «Renome» belonging to the head of the
Party of Popular Trust, Andrey Azarov.
The group of TV channels supporting local politicians who are in the opposition to the
current government is much smaller and includes TV channels RIAK and “Krug” (Circle)
that are controlled by the former Odesa mayor, Eduard Gurvits, and the TV company
“Novaya Odesa” (New Odesa) which management also sympathizes the former city
mayor.
In recent years, TV companies in the Odesa region have been repeatedly subject to
administrative pressure from local authorities. In particular, Odesa authorities
demanded to revoke the license of the ATV Channel in 2009 and threatened to remove
opposition channels from the broadcasting grid of cable television. In addition, both
previous and current city authorities use administrative leverages to prevent the
activities of the opposition media. Namely, in 2009, the rent contracts of ART and GRAD
TV channels were terminated.
Radio broadcasting
Generally, radio broadcasting in Odesa region is characterized by relative independence
from political and administrative influence as well as financial independence.
Advertising budgets of the most radio stations are sufficient to support their work. Yet,
in the opinion of the head of the board of the NGO “Top-Media” Vlad Maslov, radio
journalism fails to make any palpable influence on political processes in the oblast,
since the overwhelming majority of Odesa radio stations work in a musical format with
short news programs. Radio stations that are part of the TV and radio companies (GLAS,
Grad) and some radio stations whose format is not solely musical (such as “Garmoniya
Mira” (World Harmony) make an exception from this rule. They broadcast educational
programs, political discussions, programs of Ukrainian and Russian services of Radio
Liberty, BBC and Deutsche Welle.
Internet media
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The city of Odesa traditionally occupies the second place in Ukraine (after Kyiv) both in
view of the percentage of Internet users among the population and the absolute number
of Internet users. Internet coverage in Odesa oblast is not that broad but shows the
positive dynamics.
The most popular Internet media in Odesa region include “Timer” (timer.od.ua),
“Reporter” (reporter.com.ua), “Dumskaya” (dumskaya.net), “Revisor” (revisor.od.ua),
and “Odesa-daily” (odessa-daily.od.ua). Besides, traditional media also actively master
Internet space: almost all Odesa media outlets have their own Internet sites. For
example, the TV and radio company GLAS (glasweb.com) regularly places videos of its
programs in Inernet, and the website of the TV company ATV hosts active discussion of
TV programs by Internet users. A number of Odesa radio stations, for example, “Prosto
Radio” (prosto.fm), use Internet-broadcasting and place podcasts of their programs in
Internet.
In addition to information websites, communities also play an important role in Internet
space of Odesa. The largest in Ukraine Internet forum, Odesa forum (forum.od.ua), host
more than 55,000 visitors. The importance of this forum as an instrument of electoral
campaign is illustrated by the powerful pressure on the forum’s owner, Internet
provider “Tenet”, by the local authorities in the run up to local elections. The purpose
of this pressure was to get control over contents of the forum’s political sections
through giving forum’s moderating and administrative powers to proxies of the city
council.
Absence of excessive regulation and relatively low start-up costs enable the existence
of both independent Internet media and the media that do not hide their political
engagement and affiliation. In particular, Internet resource “Dumskaya” openly
supports the deputy chairman of the oblast council Aleksey Goncharenko, and Internet
websites “Revizor” and “Timer” – to the party “Rodina”. Editorial offices of Internet
media include experienced staff members who previously worked in traditional media,
thus enabling them to successfully compete with print media.
Problems, trends and prospects
Administrative interference into journalists’ work through both direct pressure on
journalists from media owners and the use of administrative resource of local
authorities against opposition media is the main problem of media in Odesa region. Most
of media owners, especially owners of TV channels, have their own political ambitions
or affiliations and treat their media resources solely as an instrument to realize these
ambitions. This leads to a catastrophic decrease in professionalism and neglect of
ethical standards of journalism. Repeated statements by a former chief editor of the
ATV channel Natalya Perevalova that this channel is not a media outlet, but a
mouthpiece of the party “Rodina” is an illustrative example of this deplorable situation.
As a result, local journalists have been divided into competing groups. This led to
political conflicts within the journalistic community, absence of a common position and
reaction to attempts to violate the freedom of speech. Such definitions as “progovernment” and “opposition” media that do not cause rejection of the readers’
audience anymore have firmly established in the region. Another negative consequence
from this situation consists in social indifference to the facts of interference into media
work, intimidation and even attacks on journalists. The reason is that Odesa residents
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perceive print media and TV channels as instruments of politics, and journalists – as
campaigners for one or another political party. In such context, violations of the
freedom of press are treated as a certain type of political struggle.
Probably, that is why a recent outrageous case of jeansa (paid and therefore clearly
biased materials) in Odesa did not draw a wide response. In particular, a group
“Sanitary efira” ordered the placement of a news item which had nothing common with
reality on the ATB channel. Negotiations with the management of TV company when the
fees for the production and placement of news items, special reports and journalist
research including the use of dummies fabrication of the missing materials were voiced.
This scandal has not caused any particular outrage among Odessa residents, and there
was no response from the owners of the channel in relation to dishonest employees.
Another threatening signal consisted in a record number of journalists and media
professionals (more than 50 persons) who ran as candidates to local authorities during
the elections in autumn 2010. It is remarkable that none of them won in a singlemandate constituency: only media representatives who ran on party lists became
members of the local councils.
In the opinion of the editor in chief of the largest news agency in the south of Ukraine,
“Kontext-Prychernomorye” (Context Black Sea region), an honored journalist of Ukraine
Oleksandr Ostashko, the forthcoming elections will be the last when print media will be
actively used in Odesa. Instead, we should expect the large-scale use of dirty Internet
and TV technologies that have been upgraded and have repeatedly proved their
effectiveness.
As to the long-term prospects of local Odesa media, Oleksandr Ostashko believes that
print media will gradually die out due to the lack of professionals and inadequate
“costs-effect” correlation, liberating the market for central media and new media. The
radio broadcasting field will hardly experience any significant changes except of the
emergence of new projects and formats of musical and informational broadcasting.
It is likely that we will see a series of changes in nominal founders of Odesa TV
companies or the growing publicity of their actual owners. The struggle over the control
of Odesa media may toughen in the case if the declared transition to digital
broadcasting in Ukraine will take place. This may provoke the total redivision of the
market and spheres of influence.
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Zakarpattia region
By Volodymyr Feskov
Key media outlets of the region
Newspaper RIO : 15 050 copies, published on Saturdays, in 24 color pages. Own
information constitutes about 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in 13 rayons
of the oblast.
Newspaper FEST: 7010 copies, published on Thursdays, 16 pages. Own information
constitues abot 30% of the content. The paper is distributed mostly in Uzhgorod. A part
of thecopies are distributed in Uzhgorod rayon, the town of Mukacheve.
Newspaper Evropa Centre : 2 800 copies, published on Saturdays, 8 pages. Own
information constitues abot 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in the city of
Uzhgorod and Uzgorod rayon.
Novyny Zakarpattia : published on Tuesdays (3210 copies, 8 pages), and Saturdays
(20073 copies, 24 pages). Own information constitutes about 90% of the content. The
paper is distributed in all 13 rayons of the oblast ; subscription public institutions and
organizations constitues the key part of the distribution.
Newspaper Tribuna : published on Saturdays (1800 copies, 8 pages). Own information
constitues about 70% of the content. The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod city and
Uzhgorod rayon.
Newspaper Uzhgorod : published on Saturdays (16 pages, 3000 copies). Own information
constitutes about 80% of the content. Distributed in Uzhgorod.
Newspaper Zakarpatska pravda : published on Saturdays (16 pages, full color, 18350
copies). The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod, as well as in Uzhgorodsky, Mukachivsky,
Tiachivsky, Rahivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky, Irshavsky, Mizhirsksky, Uzhgorodsky
rayons, as well as in other rayons upon subscription.
Newspaper Nedilia – published on Saturdays (13075 copies, 8 pages, partly full color).
Own information constitutes about 30% of the content. The paper is distributed in
Uzhgorod and Mukacheve.
Newspaper Stariy Zamok “Palanok” – published on Thursdays (12000 copies, 16 pages,
full colour). Own information constitutes about 90% of the content. Distributed in
Uzhgorodskyi, Mukachivsky, Irshavsky, Tiachivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky rayons. The
paper is also distributed in other rayons upon subscription.
TV channel Tysa 1 – regional state-owned television. The channel has own broadcasting
frequency ; it also broadcasts through a satellite.
TV channel M-Studio - regional TV channel. Broadcasts in Uzhgorodsky, Mukachivsky,
Berigivskyi, Irshavsy, partly Vonogradivsky, Hustsky, Tiachivsky, Perechynsky rayons.
TV channel 21 Danio – local TV channel in Uzhgorod. The channel also broadcasts in
Uzhgorodsky rayon. Broadcasts several hours per day on the M-Studio frequency.
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Radio Tysa FM, Versiya FM, Svit FM, state-owned radio – coverage on the whole territory
of the Zakarpattia oblast.
Popular internet outlets Zakarpattia online, Mukacheve net, Vsia Zakarpatska pravda,
Karpat-News, Klipnews
Key media owners in the region
Key media resources are concentrated in two key political parties: the Party of the
Regions (represented by the acting governor O. Ledyda) and the Single Centre
(represented by the Minister for emergencies Victor Baloga). Both political parties
occupy their power clusters, therefore they almost never criticize each other.
Affiliation of the newspapers:
«RIO» – affiliated with former Uzhgorod mayor Serhiy Ratushniak;
«Staryi Zamok Palanok» – affiliated with minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, head
of the regional council Ivan Baloga, MP Vasyl Petiovka;
«Zakarpatska pravda» – affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional state
administration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Novyny Zakarpattia» (newspaper of Zakarpattia regional council and administration) –
affiliated with the head of the regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda and the
head of the regional council Ivan Baloga;
«Uzhgorod» (newspaper of the city council and of the executive committee) – affiliated
with the Uzhgorod city head Victor Pogorelov;
«Nedilia» – no politician can be clearly said to influence the newspaper; however, the
outlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles);
“Sribna Zemlia Fest” – same as with Nedilia: no politician clearly influences the
newspaper; however the outlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles). The paper is
owned by its editor in chief;
«Tribuna» - affiliated with former Uzhgorod city head Sergiy Ratushniak;
«Evropa Centre» - affiliated with Eduard Matviychuk, the head of the Odessa regional
state administration
TV:
TV channel Danio is affiliated with Alla Petrova, member of the Zakarpattia regional
council from the Party of the regions;
State TV company Tysa-1 is affiliated with the head of the regional state administration
Olexandr Ledyda;
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TRC “M-studio” is affiliated with Ukraine’s minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, the
head of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP Vasyl Petiovka;
Radio:
«Zakarpattia FM », «Svit FM », «Versija FM » are affiliated with Ukraine’s minister for
emergencies Victor Baloga, the head of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP Vasyl
Petiovka;
Internet outlets:
«Vsia Zakarpatska pravda» is affiliated with MP from the Uzhgorod city council Ivan
Voloshyn;
«Karpatnews» is affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional state
administration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Zakarpattia-online» is affiliated with Oleg Dyba, who is close to Victor Baloga as he
was an member of teh Uzhgorod city council from “Nasha Ukraina”
«Mukachevo.net» is affiliated with Ukraine’s MP Igor Kril, “Single Centre” party;
«Klipnews» is affiliated with Uzhgorod’s former city head Sergiy Ratushniak
Last trends on the Zakarpattia media market in 2010-2011:
Print media outlets have their clusters, with no outlet willing to leave it.
Media materials continue to be superficial: bulk of the journalists are not interested in
issue on which they write.
Difficult period for print media: decrease of the advertising volumes, development of
internet, increase of printing costs, big dependence on the owner’s position, jeansa
(paid materials), false scandals and sensations in the outlets; many newspapers expect
“better times” since it is always difficult to renew the newspaper than to continue
publishing it;
Web-site boom which gradually enhances quality of the web media in the region;
Deficit of the high-quality media materials; rare journalist investigations; many
journalists refuse to write analytic materials on political issues, since, as they say, nonbiased material will not be published by any outlet.
Political jeansa (paid materials), published by many newspapers; clear presence of the
owner’s position or interests in the publications of media outlets that he or she owns.
Local grassroots media outlets mostly lose their fight in the battle with Uzhgorod- or
Mukacheve-based media. Newspapers of the national minorities constitute the only
exception.
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Fast development of internet, and enhanced interest to internet outlets. Increase of
the youth audience has been very dynamic, and now it has a trend to calm down;
instead, there is a clear rise of the internet audience among the 50-year-olds or older.
New stage in the development of radio and TV, due to emergence of the new creative
young people. However, this trend mainly concerns entertainment products.
National minorities-focused press does not play a leading role in the life of the local
minority communities.
Media freedom restrictions in the region
Restrictions and violations of the media freedom and freedom of expression constitute a
widespread phenomenon in the life of the region.
In May, 2011, unknown people burnt a car of the editor of a Vynogradiv weekly “Chorna
Hora”; as he says, the action was linked to his journalistic activities.
In early August, 2009, a Novyi Kanal’s reporter Vitaliy Glagola was fired by the
Zakarpattia regional state TV and radio broadcasting company, following publication of
his scandalous interview with Uzhgorod’s mayor Sergyi Ratushniak.
Self-censorship is widespread in the regional media. Most respondents of our review2
say that it is unnecessary to put the pressure over journalists since they would censor
themselves on their own. Journalists are fully aware of the fact in which media outlets
they work, who pays them, who finances the outlet, and therefore what topics,
sensitive for the owner, must be avoided.
Most young respondents say that when they applied to the job, they were informed
about the political affiliation of their outlet and the “forbidden” topics. Therefore,
while writing the material, a journalist tries to censor himself or herself.
There is no independent print outlet (the only exception – newspapers Fest and Nedilia;
however, their influence is limited, and they often publish “jeansa”), web-site or TV
channel in the region. Therefore, information that appears in these media is politically
filtered. Quite often owners or founders read the issue before it is published. For
example, a representative of the Party of the Regions comes to the office of the
newspaper “Zakarpatska pravda” every Friday to read the issue before publication.
Representatives of owners of affiliated political parties also read the upcoming issue in
newspapers “Staryi Zamok Palanok” and web-newspaper “Vsia Zakarpatska pravda”.
While earlier only political materials were censored, now almost any media material
can become filtered. Some journalists said that when they were preparing a report
about spoiled goods in supermarkets or parkings in Uzhgorod, they were banned from
publishing the message in one of the regional newspapers. In the first case, the
publication was banned since representatives of the political party owning the outlet,
also own supermarkets selling spoiled goods; in the other case, it appeared that money
from parkings go to other co-owners of the outlet. Similar cases were registered with
bans on reports about public transport in Uzhgorod or homeless dogs in Mukacheve.
2
We asked 58 local journalists from the biggest print, TV, radio and web media outlets, as well as 6 editors in chief of
the biggest print and electronic outlets.
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When an outlet is not directly controlled by an owner, where there are relatively free
conditions for work, the so-called jeansa (paid materials) becomes a widespread
phenomenon. By publishing materials paid by the client, an outlet or journalist earns
money it lacks.
Most journalists say that “jeansa” is a good way to earn some extra money. Most
editorial boards do not try to hide the fact that they published “paid material”:
everybody will decipher “jeansa” even if is well-hidden.
Key problems of the media area in the region
Apart from censorhip and jeansa, most respondents say that the key problem of the
region consists in low salaries (91% of the respondents) and lack of altarnative financial
sources (43%).
Average monthly wages of a regional journalist in Zakarpattia:
Radio: UAH 1200 (approx. EUR 110);
TV: UAH 1000-1500 (EUR 90-130)
Newspapers: UAH 1200-1400 (EUR 110-125), sometimes UAH 2000; sometimes a
journalist can earn UAH 3000 due to additional materials.
Lack of journalists’ competence: the local journalists are least informed in legal issues,
economy, justice, the work of local authorities and international relations.
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Detailed overview of Ukrainian regions by key media outlets
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Autonomous Republic of Crimea
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TV channels
TV channel “Chernomorka”
Title of the media outlet:
TV channel “Chernomorka”
(Chernomorskaya TRC)
Owners:
The channel belongs to Ukrainian MP
(Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) Andriy
Senchenko. The channel is managed by
the member of the Crimean parliament (
Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) Tetyana
Krasikova
Management:
Head of the editors’ board: Natalia V.
Kondratieva;
President: Tetyana Krasikova
Rating and coverage:
Crimean peninsula.
The channel has 6 correspondent offices,
and a special correspondent office in
Kiev.
Products:
120 own TV programs created in the last
15 years. 6 live news releases daily.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions:
Assol radio
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
4, vul. Radio, Simferopol.
(0652) 51-56-98, 22-95-27
glred@bstv.crimea.ua,
president@bstv.crimea.ua
http://blacksea.tv/
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TV and Radio Company “Devkom”
TRK “Devkom”
Cable channels Devkom inform, and
Devkom Inform Plus
Owners:
According to non-official sources, the
channel is influenced by member of the
Sevastopol city council Dmitriy Belik (the
Party of the Regions)
Management:
Director : Igor Gvozdik
Positioning:
Infotainment
Audience:
People aged between 6 and 70 years
Products:
18 hours of broadcasting daily; 50% of the
programming is broadcasted in Ukrainian.
The channel also rebroadcasts Russian TV
channels NTV, ORT, RTR.
“Telemir Devkom” (newspaper)
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
10, Khrukina st., Sevastopol
(0692) 45-49-41
abonents@sevcable.net,
jur.person@sevcable.net
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TV and Radio Company “Мorion”
TRC “Morion” (TV channel and a radio
station)
Management:
Director General : Mykola Filatov.
Producer and Development Manager:
Nadiya Rakitina
Evpatoria, Saky, Lakskyi region,
Zaozerne, etc. The radio station covers
Simferopol, Bakchisaray,
Chervonohvardiyskyi and other rayons.
Audience:
1,5-2 mln people living in the Crimea’s
South Coast
Products:
Media projects, including local news of
Evpatoria (Crimean city). The channel
also rebroadcasts Ukrainian national TV
channel 24 Kanal
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
43, Nekrasova av., 97400 , Evpatoria
(06569)3-35-41, 6-03-15 ,
fax.(06569)277-78
tv.morion@gmail.com,
tv@morion.crimea.ua
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Newspapers
“Krymskaya Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet:
“Krymskaya Pravda”
Owners:
The most circulated newspaper in
Crimea.
Editor in Chief: the member of Crimean
Parliament, member of block “For
Yanukovych!”, Kostjantyn Bakharev.
His father, the vise-speaker of Crimean
parliament, is a member of the
Communist Party of Ukraine.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Kostiantyn Bakharev
Positioning:
Social-and-political newspaper.
“Newspaper for Russians, and everybody
who feels Russian, speaks and thinks in
Russian” (citation from the newspaper’s
web-page)
5 times per week. Circulation - 50 000
copies. 80% is distributed through
subscription, 20% through retail trade.
Newspaper coverage: the whole Crimean
peninsula, including Simferopol and
Sevastopol
Audience:
Russian ethnic population of Crimea
Products:
The commission on journalism ethics in
2004 made claims that “Krymskaya
Pravda” publications on the ethnical
issues suffer from the lack of tolerance,
and sometimes stand for the direct call
for confrontation.
Contact information:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
44, vul. Generala Vasyljeva, 95000,
Simferopol
(0652) 44-69-40. info@press-contact.com,
postm@kp.crimea.com
http://www.kp.crimea.ua/
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“Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
“Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
Owners:
LLC “Poligraphia”, editor – Oleksandr
Deinega
Management:
Director – Andriy Sobolev, Editor in Chief –
Iryna Klochkova.
Positioning:
Newspaper claims to be an independent
media outlet that does not reflect
positions of power authorities or local self
government institutions, and does not
support any political party and/or
religious group.
Weekly newspaper. Circulation — 17500
copies. The newspaper is distibuted
primarily in Sevastopol
Audience:
Designed for all readers
Products:
City news and comments on the
important events
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
34, vul. Batumska, 99011, Sevastopol
(0692) 55-74-27
info@gazeta.sebastopol.ua
http://gazeta.sebastopol.ua/
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“Golos Cryma”
“Golos Cryma”
Owners:
Founders – State Committee on
Nationalities and Migration of Ukraine and
the editorial board of the all-ukrainian
weekly “Golos Ukrainy” (official
newspaper of the Ukrainian parliament).
Management:
Editor-in-Chef – Eldar Seitbekirov, former
member of mejlis, today opposed to its
leaders.
Positioning:
Social-and-political newspaper
Weekly newspaper, covering the whole
territory of the Crimean peninsula.
Audience:
Crimean Tatars. Golos Cryma is the most
circulated newspaper for the Crimean
Tatar audience.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
17, vul. Chehova, 95001, Simferopol
(0652) 25-81-01
seda@crimea.com
http://www.goloskrima.com/
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“Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
“Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
Owners:
Sevastopol city council
Management:
Editor – Dmytro Chumak
Positioning:
Social-and-political media outlet
The newspaper is published twice a week,
circulated in 35 000 copies in total. The
paper is distributed in Sevastopol and its
rayon. 40% of copies are distributed
through retail trade, 60% - through
subscription.
Products:
The only media outlet in Sevastopol that
prints decisions of the city council and
subpoenas. The paper also publishes
much business information, news about
social services, social, political and
cultural life of the region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
11, 3, vul. Lenina, 99011, Sevastopol
(0692) 54-34-65,
53-53-01
sev_izv@mail.ru
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“Sudakskiy Vestnik”
“Sudakskiy Vestnik”
Owners:
Sudak city council
Management:
Editor – Mukola Plyasov
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper, circulated in 2 200
copies. The newspaper covers the city of
Sudak and its rayon
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
36, vul. Zhovtneva, 98000, Sudak
(06566) 2-25-04
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On-line resources
The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska”
The portal of the newspaper “Persha
Krymska”
Owners:
One of the most circulated Crimean
newspapers that covers the whole
peninsula. Controlled by the company IFD
Capital
Management:
Editor in Chief – Lilia Budzhurova,
Executive Editor – Oleksandr Voronin
Positioning:
Analytic newspaper
The print version of the newspaper is
circulated in 32 000 copies. The paper is
distributed throughout the whole
peninsula
Products:
News and analytic reviews of the events
in Crimea. Categories: Politics,
Infrastructure, Social care, Crime, Life,
People, TV Programme. The paper also
has the following regular chapters: Your
Auto, Health, Shopping, Celebrities
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
9, vul. Plotynna, Simferopol
(0652) 60-85-82
http://1k.com.ua
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News Agency “E-Krym”
News Agency “E-Krym”
Owners:
“KrymMediaHolding” ltd.
Management:
Director: Evgen Volchenko, former head
of the Public Relations Department of a
NGO “Revival of Slavic Unity”, created
upon the initiative of the Head of
Sevastopol State Administration Sergiy
Kunitsyn and the governor of Moscow
oblast Boris Gromov
Positioning:
News Agency of the Crimean peninsula
Audience:
Media, enterprises, organizations,
politicians and civil authorities
Products:
The agency produces information on
activities of the pubic authorities, law
enforcement services, as well as about
political, cultural and social events. The
agency is mostly focused on economic
events, related to functioning of
enterprises, sectors, state regulation of
business etc.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Simferopol
(0652) 48-55-88
redactor@e-crimea.info,
ecrimea@ukr.net
http://www.e-crimea.info/
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Cherkasy region
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TV channels
TV company “Vikka”
TV company “Vikka”
Management:
Director – L’ubov Pravdina
Contact
•
•
•
•
249, vul. Shevchenka, 18000 Cherkasy
(0472) 35-05-55
vikkatv@vikka.ck.ua
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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TV company “Uman’”
TV company “Uman’”
The signal of a TV channel covers
Cherkasy region
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
10, vul. Pushkina, 20300, Uman’
(04744)3-10-65
uman.tv@mediat.com.ua
http://umantv.org.ua
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Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’)
Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio
company (Ros’)
Owners:
State Committee of TV and Radio
Broadcasting
Management:
Director General - Mykhailo Kalinichenko
The outlet covers about 70% of the
region’s population
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
35/1, vul. Vyshnyvetskogo, 18002,
Cherkasy
(0472) 45-40-15
tvros@icu.net.ua
www.tvros.org.ua
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Newspapers
“Vechirni Cherkasy”
“Vechirni Cherkasy”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Stanislav Zhurylo
Positioning:
Regional weekly newspaper, circulated in
78 000 copies
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy
(0472) 45-02-71,
gazeta@vch.ck.ua,
http://vechirka.ck.ua
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“Dilova Cherkashchyna”
“Dilova Cherkashchyna”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Saukh
Positioning:
Social-and-economic newspaper
Weekly newspaper, with circulation of
20500 copies. The paper is distributed
throughout the region
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
6/431, vul. Lazareva, 18000, Cherkasy
(0472) 45-00-00, 36-10-71
delch@ck.ukrtel.net ,
delch@ck.ukrpack.net
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“Sil’ski Obrii”
“Sil’ski Obrii”
Owners:
Rayon state administration, rayon council
Management:
Editor in Chief – Kalynovska Tetyana
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper. Circulation: 28004000 copies. Newspaper is distributed
throughout the Cherkasy rayon.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
157, vul. Engelsa, 18003, Cherkasy
(0472) 64-86-01
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“Cherkas’kyi Kray”
“Cherkas’kyi Kray”
Owners:
Regional council, Regional state
administration
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Golovkovs’kyi
Positioning:
Newspaper is distributed twice a week in
20 000 copies thoughout the Cherkasy
region.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy
(0472) 37-31-52, 37-14-15
chk@routec.net ,
reklama@chk.routec.net
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“Ot i Do”
“Ot i Do”
Management:
Editor – Sergiy Malyovanyi
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper of free of charge
advertisement and announcements
The newspaper is distributed in 10 000
copies, throughout the region.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
205, Shevchenka av., 18000, Cherkasy
otido@otido.cherkassy.ua
http://www.otido.com.ua/
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On-line resources
Internet project “Press Center”
Internet project “Press Center”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Andriy Kravets
Deputy editor in chief – Vitaliy Latyshev
Printed version of the media outlet is
distributed in Cherkasy (40%) and
Cherkasy region (60%) in 10 000 copies.
70% is distributed through subscription,
30% through retail trade.
The newspaper is a weekly media outlet
published on Wednesdays.
Audience:
Media outlet sees its audience as
composed primarily of heads of
commercial, banking and industrial
enterprises; agricultural companies;
private businesses and public authorities.
Newspaper “Press Center”
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
31/1, vul. Lenina, 18002, Cherkasy
(0472) 540-095
chief@pres-centr.ck.ua, editor@prescentr.ck.ua
http://www.pres-centr.ck.ua
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Media group “Antena”
Media group “Antena”
Owners:
LLC "NIA"
Management:
Editor in Chief – Valeriy Vorotnik
Newspaper Antena, a part of the media
group, is published weekly and
distributed in 20,000 copies, throughout
the region.
Project Antena integrates a weekly
newspaper, a web-page and an on-line
24-hour TV channel
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
220, Shevchenko av., 18000, Cherkasy
+380 472 38-21-12, +380 472 32-81-74
antenna@uch.net, nia2@mail.ru
http://antenna.com.ua/main.php
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Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Ihor Kosenko
The newspaper is distributed in 17,000
copies, throughout the Cherkasy region
Audience:
The newspaper targets both male and
female audience, with equal distribution
(self-estimation).
People aged between 25 and 44
constitute 81% of the audience, with 89%
of the readers having permanent jobs.
The audience has the following structure:
managers - 8,3%, businessmen - 6%, highskilled workers - 43,7%, low-skilled
workers - 40,6%. People with higher
education constitute 67% of the audience.
People with mid- or high income
constitute 69,2% of the audience.
Products:
Media outlet produces own news
Contact
•
•
•
•
39/211, vul. Dashkovycha, 18002,
Cherkasy
(0472)320-176
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
http://nt.ck.ua/content.php
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Chernigiv region
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TV channels
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners:
Broadcasting
Management:
Anatoliy T’ut’unnyk
Resources:
Media outlet is financed from the local
budget.
Signal of the TV and Radio Station covers
70% of the territory of Chernigiv region
and 70 % of its population.
Contact
•
•
•
•
Information:
Post address :
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
62, Peremogy av., 14000, Chernigiv
(0462) 10-13-07, 4-24-81, 65-13-07
tvodtrk@ukr.net
http://www.trk.cn.ua
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TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
Owners:
Pryluky city council
Management:
Director - V. Sak
Positioning:
Information-and-education TV channel
TV channel broadcasts in the city of
Pryluky (Chernigiv region), and neighbour
rayons
Audience:
Potential audience of a TV channel –
400 000 inhabitants.
Products:
TV channel produces local news covering
city and rayon events. 10 hours per day
(42%) are covered by own production.
Contact Information:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
190, vul. Kyivska, 17500 Pryluky,
Chernigiv region
(04637) 3-43-21
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TV and radio company “Obriy”
TV and radio company «Obriy»
Products:
TV channel produces local news of the
city Bobrovyts’a (Chernigiv region)
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
25, vul. Komunarska, 17400,
Bobrovyts’a, Chernigiv region
(04632) 21510, (04632) 21108
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Newspapers
“Chernigivski Vidomosti”
Newspaper “Chernigivski Vidomosti”
Owners:
Chernigiv city council
Management:
Editor in Chief – Iryna Mokrousova
Weekly newspaper. Monthly circulation –
27,500 copies; 65% is distributed through
subscription.
Audience:
Civil servants and workers, intellectuals
and students, businessmen and
politicians, housewives and unemployed
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
50a, vul. Kotsubynskogo, 14000, Chernigiv
(0462) 164-631, 614-687
chvidom@ukr.net
http://vid.cn.ua/
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“Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
“Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
Management:
Deputy editor – Ludmyla Parhomenko
Positioning:
Social–and-political, family newspaper
copies throughout Chernigiv region
Products:
Newspaper produces own articles in the
following key categories: City Events,
Guest room, Without taboo, Unforgotten
cinema, etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
62, Peremogy av., 14017 Chernigiv
(04622) 44007, (04622) 42300
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“Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
“Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
Owners:
Chernigiv regional state administration
Management:
Editor in Chief – Sergiy Narodenko
Weekly newspaper, distributed in 51,000
Contact
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•
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
12, vul. Priobrazhenskaya, 14000,
Chernigiv
(0462) 675-442
vistnik@cg.ukrtel.net
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“Sivershchyna”
“Sivershchyna”
Owners:
Pan-Ukrainian organization “Prosvita”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Vasyl’ Chepurnyi
Pan-Ukrainian weekly newspaper,
circulated in 11,100 copies. 90% is
distributed through subscription.
Contact
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•
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
10, Vorovs’kogo, 14000, Chernigiv
(04622) 4-92-83.
http://www.sіver.com.ua
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“Visti”
“Visti”
Owners:
Nizhyn city council
Management:
Editor in Chief – Anna Zhyglovska
Positioning:
Newspaper is published weekly,
circulated in 5,100 copies. The newspaper
covers the city of Nizhyn and its rayon.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
1/9, Lenina square, 15600, Nizhyn,
Chernigiv region
(04631) 5-37-07
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On-line resources
Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor”
Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor”
Management:
Leader of the project – Yuriy Papernyi
Audience:
The project is aimed to meet information
demand of media representatives, public
authorities, political parties, NGOs of
Chernigiv region
Products:
City news and comments on the important
events
Contact
•
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•
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
Magazine "Chernigivs’kyi Monitor"
Regional information agency active in
media monitoring, marketing and
sociological research.
• Newspaper “Vchasno”
• Internet portal
http://www.monitor.cn.ua/
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cg.monitor@gmail.com,
paperniy@gmail.com
http://www.monitor.cn.ua/
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Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Positioning:
Information portal of the city of Chernigiv
Contact
•
•
•
•
114/1, Peremogy pr., 14000, Chernigiv
8 (0462) 653-653
gorod.cn@gmail.com
http://www.gorod.cn.ua
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Management:
Founder and leader of the project – Oleg
Golovatenko
The outlet estimates itself as a “leading
regional on-line media”. It hosts about
7 000 visitors daily.
Products:
Internet media outlet aimed at providing
objective and comprehensive information
about political, financial, and cultural
life of Chernigiv region
The outlet is affiliated with TV and radio
company “Vysokiy Val”, which also
integrates an Internet-radio station
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
20/1, vul. Polubotka, 14000, Chernigiv
(0462) 611-617, 931-931
info@val.ua, savenok@chernigiv.info
http://val.ua
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Chernivtsy region
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TV channels
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
Owners:
According to non-official information, the
TV channel is controlled by city mayor
Mykola Fedoruk; majority of materials are
loyal to local government.
Management:
Director General – Genadiy Sergeev
TV and radio company covers the whole
territory of the city of Chernivtsy and its
region
Audience:
Designed for all audience categories
Products:
TV and radio station produces 24 hours of
broadcasting in total, mostly in Ukrainian.
TV channel rebroadcasts programs of Ren
TV, a Russian independent TV channel.
“Chernivtsy reports”, “Three questions to
the mayor”, “Unknown Chernivtsy”,
“Karaoke by the Fountain” are the most
popular programs of the TV channel.
The channel is affiliated with Blysk radio
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
2, vil. Eminesku, 58000, Chernivtsy
(0372)-58-52-22
http://mtrk.com.ua/
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TV and radio company “AS”
TV and radio company “AS”
Management:
Director General – Vasyl’ Fedoryak
Products:
TV and radio company, also known for
production of advertisement for local and
regional TV and Radio broadcasters.
Media outlet also recently produces news
for Ukrainian central TV channels 5 kanal
and STB.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
111, Nezalezhnosti avenue, 58000
Chernivtsy
(0372) 515444,
515 446
acc@mc.cv.ua
http://acc.in.ua/index.php?mcmd=show
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Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)
Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio
Company (BUK)
Owners:
State Committee for TV and Radio
Broadcast
Management:
Director General – Lubov Gondn’uk
Profitability:
TV and radio company is financed from
the regional budget
The signal of TV and radio station covers
up to 90% of the territory of the
Chernivtsy region.
Audience:
Designed for all age categories
Products:
The media outlet broadcasts in Ukrainian
and Romanian. It also produces own TV
projects, including programs called
“News”, “Business”, “Family of the
Bukovina”, “Improvisation”, “On the
European Wave”.
The holding integrates a TV channel
Bukovyna and a radio station Bukovyna
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
91-A, vul. Golovna, 58001, Chernivtsy
(0372) 55-06-75, 51-47-83
http://www.bukodtrk.gov.ua/
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Newspapers
“Bukovina”
“Bukovina”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Isak
Profitability:
The newspaper is financed mostly from
the regional budget
Positioning:
The paper is one of the oldest and most
popular media outlets of the Chernivtsy
region
Products:
The paper produces news about local
political, economical and social activities.
It also issues articles on particular topics,
including health, nature, etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
22, vul. Ukrains’ka, 58000, Chernivtsy
(0372) 55-32-12, 52-47-37
bukovina@gmail.com,
bukovina@sacura.net
http://bukovyna.at.ua/index/0-4
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“Molodyi Bukovynets”
“Molodyi Bukovynets”
Owners:
Owned by Bogdan Zagaiskyi, its Editor in
Chief
Management:
Editor in Chief - Bogdan Zagaiskyi
Profitability:
The newspaper is the only financially
independent and self-financed printed
media outlet in the Chernivtsy region
Positioning:
Social-and-political family newspaper
The newspaper covers the territory of
Chernivtsy region, and is circulated in
52 000 copies. Web-page of the media
outlet (http://www.molbuk.com) hosts
2 000 visitors daily
Audience:
All audience groups
Products:
The media outlet produces local news.
Articles are focused on large variety of
social topics interesting for all social
groups. The newspaper is published three
times per week with regular annexes:
Ukrainian auto market, Land and Real
Estate, Jobs, Business catalogue etc
The newspaper “Molodyi Bukovynets” is
also affiliated with an Internet portal
http://www.molbuk.com
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
(0372) 55-34-82
http://www.molbuk.com/
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“Chernivtsy”
“Chernivtsy”
Owners:
Chernivtsy city council
Management:
Editor in Chief - Vasyl Babukh
Profitability:
The newspaper is financed mainly from
the local budget
Positioning:
Social-and-political weekly newspaper
The newspaper is published once a week,
circulated in 10 000 copies, throughout
the region.
Products:
The newspaper produces news from local
authorities, coverage of local events,
history, culture, sports, and also ads and
information on services
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
2, vul. Kobylyanskoi, 58000, Chernivtsy
(0372) 55-37-79
chern@sacura.net
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“Chas”
“Chas”
Owners:
Media outlet is owned by Editor in Chief –
Petro Kobevko
Management:
Editor in Chief – Petro Kobevko,
Editor – Nataliya Bogachuk
Positioning:
Social-and-political regional weekly.
Editor in Chief is a member of Chernivtsy
regional council, and represents the propresidential Nasha Ukraina party.
However, the newspaper often publishes
articles opposed to local government,
Nasha Ukraina and Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
The media outlet is circulated in 10 000
copies and distributed through its own
delivery service. The paper covers the
territory of Chernivtsy region and
neighbouring rayons of other oblasts
(Ternopil’, Ivano-Frankivsk, etc)
The newspaper is also affiliated with
“Chas Halychyny” – a subsidiary of of the
newspaper “Chas”, published for the
readers of Ternopil’ region
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
20, vul. Ruska, Chernivtsy
(0372)553930
chas_@ukr.net, chas@sacura.net
http://www.chas.cv.ua/
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“Chernivtsy city plus”
“Chernivtsy city plus”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by Vasyl’
Zabrods’kyi, who also owns a regional
media holding “City” that includes TV
company “TVA”, radio station “City”,
advertisement newspaper “City” and
entertainment portal www.citi.cv.ua
Management:
Editor in chief - Vasyl’ Zabrods’kyi
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper, mostly focused on
advertisements
The newspaper is circulated in 110 000
copies and covers the city of Chernivtsy
and most rayons of Chernivtsy oblast
Audience:
The paper is designed for all audience
categories
Products:
The newspaper produces free of charge
announcements and advertisement
information about supply and demand on
car market, real estate market, labour
market, etc
The paper is also affiliated with a
newspaper “City Info”, distributed free of
charge in the postal boxes throughout the
city of Chernivtsy
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
13, vul. Chervonoarmiys’ka, 58000,
Chernivtsy
(0372) 585555
citi@mmh.cv.ua, info@mmh.cv.ua
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On line resources
Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”
Chernivtsy Independent News Agency
“Buk Info”
Management:
Head of the News Agency – Sergiy
Zarais’kyi
Positioning:
Independent news agency
Products:
The online news agency produces daily
information about social, political and
financial situation in the Chernivtsy
region, activities of the local government,
and also tries to focus on distant and
rarely covered rayons of the region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
(0372) 59-63-15, 8(050)5005066
bukinfo@ukr.net, zar@ukr.net
http://www.bukinfo.cv.ua
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Web-page of newspaper “Doba”
Web-page of a newspaper “Doba”
Owners:
The newspaper was founded by a
company called Interval, having no direct
relation to media, but interested in local
infrastructure projects
media outlet is controlled by the city
mayor.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Stefanets'
Positioning:
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
17, vul. Grebinky, 58001 Chernivtsy
(0372) 51-44-70
redactor_doba@cv.ukrtel.net,
doba@cv.ukrtel.net
http://www.doba.cv.ua
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Dnipropetrovsk Region
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TV channels
TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”
LLC “TV and Radio Company “TET Dnipropetrovs’k”
(TV channel “TET-Dnipropetrovs’k”)
Owners:
Media outlet is a regional Office of TET
TV and Radio Company (see more
information about the TV channel TET in
the chapter on Ukrainian central media)
Management:
Director General – Oleg Tymchenko
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
Office 1, 1b, vul. Televizijna, 49010,
Dnipropetrovs’k
(0562) 39-86-54
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TV and Radio Company “STERH”
TV and Radio Company “STERH” (11th TV
channel)
Owners:
The company is affiliated with the media
holding of Victor Pinchuk, the richest
Ukrainian oligarch, and is indirectly
controlled by “Interpipe”, his biggest
enterprise.
Sterh subsidiary, “Agency Sobor”, is
controlled by „Interpipe”
Management:
Director: Sergiy Pedashenko
Positioning:
Infotainment media outlet
Media outlet covers the cities of
Dnipropetrovs’k, Kryvyi Rig, Nikopol,
Dniprodzerzhynsk, Novomoskovsk,
Pidgirne, Verhnjodniprovsk, Synelnykove
and other cities of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Audience:
The channel’s audience is estimated at 3
million people
Products:
The media outlet produces own TV
projects. Projects “News on the 11th
Channel”, “The Fact”, “Big Family” and
others have been honored with national
media awards.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
Office 419, 1-a, vul. Pisarzhevskogo,
49005, Dnipropetrovs’k.
(0562) 37-49-200; 37-49-201; 37-49-210
ps@11channel.dp.ua
http://www.11channel.dp.ua
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TV channel “Avtor TV”
TV channel “Avtor TV” ltd
Management:
Director General - Ljudmyla Kachanova
The media outlet covers the city of
Dniprodzerzhyns’k and neighbouring
rayons
Products:
The TV channel broadcasts 24 hours a
day, with both own and re-broadcasted
production. The channel rebroadcasts
products of 5 kanal, Ukrainian national TV
channel. 95% of the broadcasting is in
Ukrainian.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
35, 50-richcha SRSR av., apt. 79
Dnoprodzerzhynsk, Dnirpopertovsk Region
(05692) 2-14-73, 2-92-03
avtor-tv@alicetele.com
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TV and Radio Company “ETIS”
TV and Radio Company “ETIS” ltd
Management:
Director – Mykola Fedorov
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
2, vul. Barnaylska, Office 101, 52300
Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region
(05662)96021
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Newspapers
“Dnepr Vecherniy”
“Dnepr Vecherniy”
Owners:
The paper is owned by a legal company
“Yurydychna Firma Pravnyk”, connected
to Mykhailo Sokolov, MP, a member of
Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
Management:
Editor in Chef – Valentyn Taranenko
Positioning:
Russian-language regional newspaper
focused on news, analysis and
advertisement
The newspaper is one of the most read
print media outlets in the region. The
paper is published four times a week and
distributed throughout the country (19%
of distribution goes through retail trade,
81% - through subscription). 18% of the
paper is covered by advertising.
Products:
The media outlet covers Ukrainian
national news, and also news of the
region and the city of Dnipropetrovs’k.
Categories: Medicine, Economy, Private
life, History, Literature, etc.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
57, vul. Komsomolska, 49000
Dnipropetrovsk
(056) 374 34 05
root@vechyorka.dp.ua
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“Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
“Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
Positioning:
Advertisement newspaper
copies. 95% of the paper is covered by
advertising.
Products:
Main categories: Jobs, Real estate,
Business-Ukraine, Furniture, Auto etc.
The paper’s subsidiary: “Dneprovskaya
Nedel’a +”
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
9, vul. Geroiv Stalingradu, Dnirpopetrovs’k
(0562) 322-666
maket@ria.dp.ua
www.nedelka.dp.u
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“Dneprovskaya pravda”
“Dneprovskaya Pravda”
Owners:
The paper is owned by “Dneprovskaya
Pravda ltd”, a media company, related to
political bloc of Pavlo Lazarenko,
Ukraine’s former prime-minister,
imprisoned in the US for corruption.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Tetyana Valigurska, MP
of the city council, Pavlo Lazarenko bloc
Positioning:
The newspaper is published once a week
and distributed throughout the region
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
701, 55, Pushkina av, 49006,
Dnipropetrovs’k
(0562) 31-82-08
dpravda@a-teleport.com , d-pravda@ateleport.com
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“Nashe misto”
“Nashe Misto”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by the
city council, and is now controlled by
Dniproperovs’k mayor Ivan Kulychenko
Management:
Editor in Chief – Mykola Kravchuk
Positioning:
Newspaper is published four times a
week, circulated in 109 000 copies, and
distributed throughout Dnipropetrovsk
region
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
14, vul. Lenina, 49000, Dnipropetrovs’k
(056) 232-07-87 (-89), 744-60-43, 744-3474
nm@a-teleport.com ,
reclnm@email.dp.ua
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“Nova Gazeta”
”Nova Gazeta”
Owners:
LLC "Poligraf"
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Skalenko
Positioning:
Information-and-advertisement weekly
newspaper
Media outlet is circulated in 12 000
copies, distributed throughout
Dnipropetrovs’k region. Newspaper is
published once a week.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
16-2, vul. Perekopska, 51925,
Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk region
(0569) 53-15-51, 53-18-81
ng@dnpdz.dp.ukrtel.net
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On-line resources
“Sovremennik”
“Sovremennik”
Positioning:
Social and political internet newspaper
Audience:
Audience oriented on communist and
socialist ideology
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
http://www.sovr.krivbassinfo.com
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“Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
“Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
Owners:
The newspaper is integrated into the
media network of city newspapers, owned
by the publishing office Press Center,
which is itself affiliated with GlavredMedia and financial and economic group
Privat.
Manager of the project – Vjacheslav
Manger.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Mamchenko
Positioning:
Weekly Russian-language newspaper
The weekly newspaper is circulated in
52 300 copies, and distributed though the
city of Dnipropetrovsk and its region.
15% of a single copy is covered with
advertising.
The paper is affiliated with other city
papers of the Press Center group,
including “Gazeta po Kievski”, “Gazeta
po Donetski”, “Gazeta po Odesski” etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
15, vul. Furmanova, 49027,
Dnipropetrovsk
(056) 770-20-42, 770-41-29
info@po-dneprovski.dp.ua
http://po-dneprovski.dp.ua
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Donetsk Region
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TV channels
TV company “Stirol-TV”
TV company “Stirol-TV”
(TV channel „Centr”)
Owners:
OJSC "Concern Stirol", one of the biggest
chemical industry company in Ukraine
Management:
Director – Oleg Poplavskyy
Products:
“Stirol-TV” produces own TV projects and
advertising
The TV company is a subsidiary of OJSC
“Concern Stirol”
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
61a/5, vul Gagarina
(0624) 52-1011, (06242) 7-3494
24-7@i.ua
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TRC “Ukraina”
TV and Radio Company “Ukraina” (TRC
Ukraina)
Owners:
The company is owned by System Capital
Management, SCM (99,67% of stock), a
large economic and financial group owned
by Rinat Akhmetov, one of the richest
Ukrainian businessmen.
Management:
President: Genadij Kondyarov
Director General – Valdemar Dziki
LLC «TV Company “Ukraine” is one of the
biggest national TV stations (see more
information about the channel in the
section focused on Ukrainian central
media).
Initially based in Donetsk, the channel
now has two major headquarters, both in
Donetsk and Kiev.
Audience:
All audience groups
Products:
TV channel broadcasts information,
entertainment, youth, sport and other
programs through satellite, cable and air.
TV channel «Futbol»
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
74, vul. Artema, 83000, Donetsk
8(062) 332-72-09, 8(044) 495-85-55
priemnaya@trkukr.donbass.com
http://kanalukraina.tv/
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TV and Radio Company “UNION”
TV and Radio Company “UNION”
Owners:
TV and Radio company is controlled by
Vasyl Dzhatry, ex-mayor of Makyivka (an
industrial city in the Donetsk oblast), MP,
member of the Party of the regions
Management:
Executive Director - Natalia
Zakhatrchenko (Member of the Party of
the Regions faction in Makyivka city
council);
Editor in chief – Yuriy Kirasir
Positioning:
News TV channel «Union»
The channel is the most influential and
popular media outlet in Makyivka. The
signal covers the city of Makyivka and its
60-km surroundings.
According to the data provided by
Makyivka institute of social sciences and
technology, 60% of local population
regularly watches TV channel “Union”.
“Union” was chosen to participate in IREX
Ukrainian Media Partnership Programme.
Audience:
Potential audience – 500 000 people,
representing all audience groups of the
region
Products:
Information mostly focused on Makyivka
city and Donbas in general. The channel
also broadcasts movies, education
programs, and analytic programs. The
channel has 13 own TV projects, including
news program “Panorama”, a media
project “Mestnoe Vremja”, as well as
education and advertising products.
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• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
7, Radjanska Square, 86157 Makiivka,
Donetsk Region
8(0623)22-22-78, 8(0623)22-22-87
mail@uniontv.makeevka.com,
uniontv@gmail.com
http://union.makeevka.com/
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TV company “TV-7”
LLC “TV company “TV-7”
Owners:
The company is owned by Azomash, one
of the biggest industrial and machineryproducing plants in Ukraine
Management:
Director - Ajna Chagir (member of
Marioupol City Council, the Party of the
Regions)
Positioning:
The channel positions itself as the most
dynamically developing TV company of
Marioupol
Products:
TV company produces 13 own
information, education, cultural and
political projects. In total TV company
produces 19-22 hours of airtime.
It also purchases licensed products from
"1+1 Distribution", "Avrora Distribution",
"Amadei", "KiT" and others.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
7, Dachnyy per., 87500, Mariupol,
Donetsk region.
(0629)34-94-53
tv-7@email.ua
http://www.beta.tv7.co
m.ua/
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Newspapers
“Vecherniy Donetsk”
Closed joint-stock company «Newspaper
“Vecherniy Donetsk”
Owners:
The paper belongs to media holding
“Segodnya Multimedia”, owned by System
Capital Management, a large financial
and economic group controlled by Rinat
Akhmetov.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Leonid Lapa
Positioning:
Social-and-political family newspaper
The newspaper is published four times a
week, and circulated in 30 000 copies.
Its distribution covers both Donetsk and
Donetsk oblast
Audience:
According to survey of "Marketing and
media index" (MMI Ukraine), managed by
TNS Ukraine, the total audience of one
issue reaches 124,100 readers.
Audience structure:
people with higher education – 48,2%
high-qualified workers – 35,3%
qualified workers – 31,5%
students – 23,1%.
Age categories:
people aged between 16 and 34 – 30,3%
people aged between 35-54 – 43,3%
people aged between 55-65 – 26,5%.
Products:
The media outlet produces news in the
following categories: “Business World",
"A look into the future", "We criticize, we
demand, we offer", "Did You know this?",
"Pages of the history", "Painful points",
"From the courtroom”
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Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
48, Kyivskyy av, 83118, Donetsk
(062) 311-66-54, 311-65-96
vecherka@dc.ukrtel.net ,
pak@dc.ukrtel.net,
reklamavd@dc.ukrtel.net
http://www.vecherka.donetsk.ua/
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“Donetskie Novosti”
LLC “Newspaper “Donetskie Novosti”
Owners:
The media outlet is a part of the media
holding Segodnia Multimedia, owned by
System Capital Management (Rinat
Akhmetov’s financial and economic
group).
The newspaper is the official information
sponsor of the football club Shakhtar
Donetsk which also belongs to Akhmetov.
Management:
Editor – Rymma Fil’
Positioning:
The newspaper is circulated in 28,000
copies, distributed in the city of Donetsk
and Donetsk region (24, 500 copies); in
Donbass-Airlines airplanes (800 copies)
and in Kiev (300 copies)
Products:
Information provided by the newspaper
covers events in Donetsk and region, on
business, politics, culture, sports, and
also regular reviews of events in the
country.
Newspapers “Donetskie Novosti” and
“Courier Donetskikh Novostey” are parts
of a publishing house “Donetskie novosti”
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
4, Shevchenka av, 83050 Donetsk
(062) 335-35-62 , 335-74-60
dn@dnews.donetsk.ua
http://www.dnews.ukr-info.net/
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“Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”
“Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”
(the title can be translated into Ukrainian
as: “Producer of Ukraine”)
Owners:
CJSC "Group "Nord", CJSC "Varta"
Management:
Editor in Chief – Sergiy Shatskyy
Positioning:
The newspaper positions itself as a key
media outlet for Ukrainian producers
The newspaper is published weekly and
circulated in 10 000 copies, throughout
Ukraine.
Audience:
The paper sees its target audience as
primarily composed of Ukrainian
commodity producers
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
2, Zhukovskogo av, 83112, Donetsk
(062) 263-47-43, 385-00-95, 385-05-01
nord_press@dn.farlep.net
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“Donechchyna”
“Donechchyna”
Owners:
Donetsk Regional State Administration.
The outlet is influenced by the Group
“Nord” and MP Valentyn Landik, member
of the Party of the Regions.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Ihor Zots
Positioning:
Social-and-political weekly newspaper in
Ukrainian
copies and distributed throughout the
region. It is published once a week.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
48, Kyivskyi av, 83054, Donetsk
(0622) 55-14-70 55-79-64
donzots@skif.net
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“Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa”
“Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa”
(the title can be translated as: Donbas
Railway Worker)
Owners:
The paper is owned by administration of
Donetsk railway and the railroad trade
union
Management:
Editor in Chief – Boris Sverdlov
Positioning:
“Industry-oriented” weekly newspaper
copies, distributed throughout Donetsk
and Lugansk regions
Audience:
70 thousands workers of Donetsk railway
service
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
198b, vul. Chel’uskintsiv, 83015, Donetsk
(0622) 31-62-10
gazeta_gd@railway.donetsk.ua
http://www.railway.dn.ua
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Online resources
“Novosti.dn.ua”
Donbas Internet-newspaper
“Novosti.dn.ua”
Owners:
Owner and Editor in Chief – Oleksiy
Matsuka (Member of Voroshylov rayon in
the city of Donetsk council, member of
the Yulia Tymoshenko block)
Management:
Editor in Chief – Oleksiy Matsuka
Positioning:
The biggest business online edition in
Donetsk region
The on-line media outlet daily hosts
about 12,000–18,000 visitors (convergent
data by rating services - bigmir.net, i.ua,
rambler.ru, liveinternet.ru)
Audience:
The audience of the media outlet has the
following structure:
Top management of Donetsk companies30%
Heads of departments of Donetsk State
Regional Administration, city councils,
and other authorities- 20%
Management of enterprises (large and
medium business) - 15%
(data by Donetsk institute of information,
2008)
Products:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
The media outlet produces news in the
following categories: daily news,
publications, forum, Donetsk media
review, blogs, citizen journalism etc
127, vul. Postysheva, 83001, Donetsk
(62) 348-95-25, 348-95-26
http://novosti.dn.ua
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“OSTRO”
Internet media outlet “OSTRO” (Centre of
the research of social perspectives of
Donbas; analytical and news agency
“Ostro”)
Owners:
Project is supported by the National Fund
for Democracy, Fund for Ukrainian Media
development of the USA Embassy to
Ukraine, International Renaissance
Foundation.
Management:
Leader of the project – Sergiy Garmash
Products:
Donetsk news, Ivano-Frankivsk and
Lugansk news, all-Ukrainian news
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
info@ostro.org
http://www.ostro.org/
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Ivano-Frankivsk Region
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TV channels
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and
Radio Company
Owners:
Broadcasting
Management:
Director – Roman Andriyashko
Acting as Director General – I. Cyperd’uk
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
30a, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, IvanoFrankivsk
(0342(2) 750063
radio@il.if.ua, odtrk@its.if.ua
http://odtrk.if.ua/
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TV and radio company “3-studiya”
TV and radio company “3-studiya”
Owners:
The company is owned by TV and radio
company “Karpaty”, and a private person
Management:
Director – Mykhailo Rokosh
Profitability:
Today “3-studiya” is one of the few
commercially successful media projects in
the region
Positioning:
Regional TV company, one of the most
popular in the region
The company covers the city of Ivano
Frankivsk and its region. Broadcasting
time: 24 hours in Ivano-Frankivsk and 18
hours in Kalush.
Audience:
Total audience is estimated about 1
million people
Products:
Media outlet produces own projects,
including; “Weekly News”, “Business
Project”, “Ornaments of the Faith”, “This
is Football”, “Pulse” etc
•
Post address:
• Tel:
•
• e-mail:
56, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000 IvanoFrankivsk
(0342) 55-21-21, (03422) 2-24-19, 2-3376, 2-57-73
3studiotv@gmail.com
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TV and radio company “Vezha”
TV and radio company “Vezha”
Owners:
TV and radio company was established by
Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, and now
controlled by the city mayor, affiliated
with Lytvyn Block
Management:
Director – Olena Tretyak
Profitability:
The company receives annual subsidies
from the local budget, estimated at UAH
600,000 (about EUR 50-50,000) in 2008.
Positioning:
News TV and radio company
The company does not have its own
transmission channel and broadcasts
through frequency of the “3-studiya”.
Audience:
Daily audience is estimated at 100,000
people, primarily civil servants,
businessmen and politicians (selfestimation).
Products:
Media outlet produces own TV programs:
Characters of the play, Pro and Contra;
radio programs: News, Secrets of Success,
Experts on-line, Avenue 107, Health
thoughts, Secrets of the old city. The
radio also rebroadcast programs of the
Voice of America.
On-line resource Vezha.org, radio Vezha
Contact
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22, vul. Galyc’ka, 76000 Ivano-Frankivs’k
(0342) 776128, 8050-555-33-13
lena3tiak@rambler.ru
http://www.vezha.org/
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Newspapers
“Vpered”
“Vpered”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Zanyk
Positioning:
Newspaper is distributed in 2,500 copies
throughout Tysmenets rayon of IvanoFrankivsk oblast. It is published once a
week.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
11, vul. Korolya Danyla, 76010, IvanoFrankivsk
(0342) 51-13-74
vpered@i-link.if.ua
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“Halychyna”
“Halychyna”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by IvanoFrankinsk Regional council. It is presently
influenced by Ihor Oliynyk, the head of
the oblast council, Nasha Ukraina party
Management:
Editor in Chief – Vasyl Nazarchyk
Profitability:
Media outlet is subsidized from the
regional budget (about UAH 500,000 – EUR
40,000-50,000 - a year).
Positioning:
Social-and-political media outlet. The
paper positions itself as a centre-right
newspaper, loyal to regional government.
Newspaper is published three times a
week. It is distributed in the city of IvanoFrankivsk and its oblast, in 32,000 copies.
98% is distributed through subscription.
Audience:
The newspaper’s audience is estimated at
some 120 thousand people, mainly
businessmen, managers, intellectuals,
civil servants, farmers
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
25, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, IvanoFrankivsk
(0342) 22-50-90
gal@if.ukrtel.net, vinaz@ukr.net
http://www.galychyna.if.ua
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“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
Owners:
The media outlet was established by
Kolomiya city council in 1990.
However, recent history of the newspaper
was marked with conflicts of editor in
chief Vasyl Demyaniv and mayor of
Kolomiya Mr. Ovcharenko.
The newspaper also attracts foreign grant
assistance
Management:
Editor in Chief – Vasyl Demyaniv
Positioning:
Newspaper is published twice a week. It
is distributed in 5,000 copies throughout
the city of Kolomiya and its rayon.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
27, Konovaltsya, 78200, Kolomiya, IvanoFrankivsk region
(03433) 2-07-19, 4-73-38, 2-14-86
visnyk@ko.if.ua
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“Vilnyy Holos”
“Vilnyy Holos” (the title can be translated
into English as: Free Voice)
Owners:
Kolomiya rayon council jointly with
Kolomiya rayon state administration.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Olga Gavrylyuk
Positioning:
The newspaper is published twice a week.
It is distributed in 5,000 copies
throughout the city of Kolomiya and its
rayon.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
5a, vul. Shyhevycha, 78200, Kolomiya,
Ivano-Frankivsk region
(03433) 2-27-90, 2-06-01
vilnhol@base.km.if.ua
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“Halytske Slovo”
“Halytske Slovo”
Owners:
Halych rayon council jointly with Halych
rayon state administration.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Emilia Nakonechna
Positioning:
The newspaper of Halych rayon council
and rayon state administration
The newspaper is published once a week.
It is distributed in 2,500 copies
throughout the city of Halych and its
rayon.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
5, vul. Konovalc’a, 77100, Halych, IvanoFrankivsk region
(03431) 2-13-43, 2-15-56
Haluch_slovo@br.if.ua
http://galslovo.if.ua/
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On-line resources
News agency ifPortal.net
News agency ifPortal.net
Owners:
The media outlet has recently shown
constant political loyalty to Yulia
Tymoshenko block
Management:
Editor in Chief and owner – Taras Kobets
Profitability:
Like many other regional newspapers, the
outlet is profitable primarily during the
election period
Positioning:
Information resource ifPortal.net
Audience:
The media outlet is targeting mainly
population of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, but
also other Ukrainian regions, including
Kiev
Products:
Media outlet provides information
services: daily news (RSS), monitoring of
the main media outlets of Prykarpattya,
analysis of key events in the region,
expert opinions etc. Categories:
economy, politics, culture, sport, crime,
etc
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(066) 27-45-119; (067) 888-5-666
editor@ifportal.net
http://ifportal.net
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“PIAR”
“Prykarpatska Informaciyna Agenciya I
Reklama “PIAR”
Owners:
The media outlet is said to be close to
Ihor Bahmatyk, Narodna Partiya
(Volodymyr Lytvyn block)
Management:
Editor in Chief – Yuriy Druk
Products:
The media outlet provides all sorts of
advertising and PR services, information
support, etc
•
Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
23, vul. Akademika Saharova, IvanoFrankivsk
(0342)98727
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Kharkiv region
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TV channels
“TV company “ATN”
LLC “TV company “ATN”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by the
company „Investor” (Kharkiv), and the
company’s Director General Oleg Yukht.
The company is close to the governor of
the region Arsen Avakov.
Management:
Director General – Oleg Yukht
Positioning:
News TV channel
The media outlet produces own news
programs, which are also re-broadcasted
at the 7th TV channel.
40% of the respondents, living in Kharkiv,
regularly watch the news of ATN (data of
2003).
Audience:
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Target audience is aged between 18 and
50
4, Teatralnyi av., 61057, Kharkiv
(057) 766-71-43, 766-71-44
atn@atn.kharkov.ua
atn.ua
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Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Kharkiv regional state TV and radio
company (OTB)
Owners:
The OTB made a serious rebranding after
the management change in summer 2005.
Appointment of Zurab Alasania, a famous
journalist, as Director General was
lobbied by Arsen Avakov, the governor of
the Kharkiv oblast.
However, Mykhailo Dobkin, Khrarkiv
mayor, last year called for Alasania
dismissal.
The channel positions itself as a balanced
outlet providing information room for for
all political forces.
Management:
Director – Zurab Alasania, Editor – Hanna
Prokaeva
Positioning:
Audience:
Target audience: people aged 25+
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
5, Svobody square, 61506, Kharkiv
(057) 705-09-60, 705-00-66, 705-09-65
info@otb.com.ua,
anna_prokaeva@rambler.ru
www.otb.com.ua
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Newspapers
“Slobids’kyy Kray”
Slobids’kyy Kray
(the title can be translated into English
as: Sloboda Land)
Owners:
The newspaper was established by
Kharkiv regional council jointly with
Kharkiv regional state administration
Management:
Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Rvenko
Positioning:
The newspaper is published three times a
week. It is distributed in 35,500 copies,
throughout the region.
Products:
The newspaper provides information in
the following categories: Official
Information, Details, Politics, Finance,
Hot Line, Interviews, Culture, Sports, etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
6, Derzhprom., 61022, Kharkiv
(057) 720-04-72
• e-mail:
• URL:
sait@slk.kh.ua, info@slk.kh.ua
http://slk.kh.ua/
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“Vecherniy Kharkov”
“Vecherniy Kharkov”
as: Evening Kharkiv)
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by
Alexander Kaganovskiy, a Kharkiv
businessman, son-in-law of Kharkiv
former governor Evhen Kushnariov.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Tetyana Kostenko
Positioning:
The newspaper is published three times
per week
Products:
the following categories: Mega polis,
Governance, Politics, Finance, Events,
Sports, Culture, Ukraine, World News
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
4, vul. Sums’ka, 61057, Kharkiv
(057) 760-45-81; 760-47-01
vecherka@vecherniy.kharkov.ua,
kostenko@vecherniy.kharkov.ua
http://www.vecherniy.kharkov.ua
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“Novyy Den’”
“Novyy Den’”
Owners:
The newspaper is controlled by Viktor
Subbotin (Director General of
“Turboatom” company, owner of
Megabank and the Head of regional
organization of Ukraine’s Socialist party)
Management:
Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
week, and distributed in 20,000 copies,
Products:
the following categories: Region, Money,
Society, Interview, Point of View, etc
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv
(057) 715-52-75(76)
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“Vremya”
Media company “Vremya” (newspaper
“Vremya”)
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by
Ukrainian MP Oleksander Feldman (Yulia
Tymoshenko blok)
Management:
Editor in chief: Olena Strunova
Daily regional newspaper covering 9
Ukrainian oblasts - Sumy, Kherson,
Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Lugansk,
Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya
Products:
the following categories: Today,
Traditions, Health, Born in Kharkiv, World
news, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
247/10, Moskovskyy av., 61301, Kharkiv
(0572) 92-20-57, 92-20-59
time@kharkov.com
www.timeua.info
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“Sobytie”
“Sobytie”
as: “Event”)
Management:
Director, Editor in Chief – Evhen Avergyn,
Deputy Director – Vitaliy Bulat
Products:
the following categories: Kharkiv and
regional news, Ukraine and CIS, history,
sports, music, etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
6247/8, Moskovskyy av., 1304, Kharkiv
(0572) 92-40-42, (0572) 92-33-16
event@event.interami.com
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Online resources
“MediaPort”
News Agency “MediaPort”
Owners:
Owner – Zurab Alasania, a Ukrainian
journalist, director general of a TV
company OTB
Management:
Director – Tetyana Landesman
The media outlet is the most popular
Kharkiv news portal (data by BigMir.net,
a Ukrainian online and rating project)
Audience:
MediaPort hosts 25,000 visitors daily.
The audience has the following key
groups: civil servants, bank managers,
businessmen, media representatives, etc.
Products:
The project combines both TV and
Internet production.
News produced by the MediaPort are
broadcasted on local Kharkiv TV channels.
The internet portal provides news and
analysis, and accumulates MediaPort
products for the last 7 years.
The information is provided in three
languages – Ukrainian, Russian and
English.
Key news projects: “Ob’ektiv Novosti”
and “Novosti MediaPort”, personal
projects of Zurab Alasania,
documentaries, etc
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• Post address
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
74/7, vul. Sumska, 61022, Kharkiv
News-room: +38 (057) 763-01-06, +38
(057) 763-0107.
Administration:+38 (057) 763-01-09, +38
(057) 705-10-58 fax: (057) 700-29-328
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http://www.mediaport.ua/ (www.mediaobjektiv.com )
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“Status quo”
News agency “STATUS QUO”
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by Viktor
Subbotin, director general of Turboatom,
one of the biggests enterprises in the
region
Management:
Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
Positioning:
The news agency positions itself as a nongovernmental regional news agency
Audience:
The media outlet’s target audience is
defined mostly as media representatives
and managers
Products:
News up-dated on-line every 10-15 min.
The media outlet provides information in
the following categories: Government,
Finance, Politics, Society, Culture,
Sports. It also produces an economyfocused thematic program “SQ Economy”.
The on-line outlet also produces news
covering recent trends in different
sectors of economy, including machinery,
oil production, energy, agriculture,
pharmaceutics, investments, banking,
law, etc.
Press center "STATUS QUO" holds various
round tables and press conferences every
week.
Affiliations:
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
The news agency is affiliated with Novyi
Den, another newspaper controlled by
Viktor Subbotin
46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv (057) 71552-76, 715-52-66 (67)
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redaktor@sq.com.ua, sq@sq.com.ua
www.sq.com.ua
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“Gorodskoy Dozor”
NGO and media project “Gorodskoy
Dozor”
as: City Watch)
Owners:
The media-project “Gorodskoy Dozor”
was created by the group of Kharkiv
journalists in spring 2006 to support a
civic initiative on the local elections (also
called Gorodskoy Dozor). The media
outlet was later financed by the
international enterprise TARGET.
The media outlet is in the top five outlets
of the Kharkiv on-line media.
Products:
The project produces own projects and
plots for news programs, and further
broadsasts on the local TV channel (7th
channel)
Contact
•
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
http://dozor.kharkov.ua/
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Kherson region
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TV channels
“Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company)
“Scythia”
(Kherson Regional State TV and Radio
Company)
Owners:
After the Orange Revolution Director
General Valeriy Dolyna conflicted with
governor of the region Boris Synelnykov,
who unsuccessfully lobbied Dolyna’s
dismissal.
Today the outlet is influenced by the
Head of regional council, member of the
Party of the Regions, Volodymyr
Demekhin.
Management:
Director General – Valeriy Dolyna
Profitability:
The media outlet is financed from the
local budget. Recently financing was
reduced, which led to closure of a weekly
newspaper “Ether”, affiliated with the
company.
The TV channel broadcasts for 24 hours.
The company also produces 18 hours of
radio broadcasting. Media outlet reaches
out to 65% of the region’s population.
Audience:
The TV and radio company targets all
audience groups
Products:
The TV and radio company provides
information in the following categories:
Regional news, central and local
governance (25%), cultural and education
programs (25%), youth-oriented programs
(8%), social programs (12%).
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Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
TV and radio channels "Scythia", "Ranok",
"Dnipro", "Tavria", "Fact".
10, vul. Perekops’ka, 73000, Kherson 100
(0552)224242
tvrcomp@selena.net.ua
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TV and radio company “TOP”
TV and radio company “TOP”
Owners:
The TV and radio company is owned by
Deirector General Oleksandr Solyarchuk
Management:
Director General - Oleksandr Solyarchuk
The radio signal covers entire Kherson
region. Potential audience: 559,550
poeple.
Audience:
The media outlet is designed for all
audience groups.
Products:
The company rebroadcasts production of
Radio Era, a pan-Ukrainian debatesfocused “talk radio”.
The company also produces news on
politics, finance, culture, etc; it
broadcasts for 24 hours.
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Concert agency “Stolyarchuk”
1a, vul. Suvorova, 73000 Kherson (0552)
493203, (0552) 224395
media@top.kherson.ua
http://050.ks.ua/trktop/main.php?page=
melonas&menu
=mnmelodiya&logo=melodiya
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TV “Vita”
TV “Vita”
Management:
Director - Evgenia Khvorost
Positioning:
A social TV channel of the Kherson oblast
All-Ukrainian satellite channel. TV
company produces 15 hours of
broadcasting.
Audience:
Audience of all age categories
Products:
The media outlet produces own news,
education, history-focused projects:
«News», «Tvoya Myzika», «Тviy
mikrofon», «M-project», «Тvoya sprava»,
«Piznayko».
Contact
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Ukrainian TV network
25/311, Shevchenko av., 83017, Donetsk
(062) 312-78-16, 312-79-25, (062) 345-2601
evhvorost@uts.dn.ua
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Newspapers
“Bulava”
“Bulava”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Larysa T’ut’unnyk
Positioning:
The media outlet positions itself as news
and op-ed newspaper of the independent
TV and radio company
Newspaper is distributed in 16,000 copies,
throughout the region. The paper is
Audience:
Total audience: 45-60 000 people, mostly
aged between 25 and 70. The paper sees
its audience is economically active
citizens.
Products:
Newspaper produces information in the
following categories: News, Law and
Crime, City, Region, Society, Sports,
Beauty, Youth page, Star life, Ads
The newspaper is a part of TV and radio
organization “Bulava”
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
46, vul. Radyans’ka, 73000, Kherson
(0552)42-00-22
radio@bulava.com.ua,
paper@bulava.com.ua,
reklama@bulava.com.ua
http://paper.bulava.com.ua/index.php
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“VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”
“VIK – chas, podii, ljudy”
[the title can be translated into English
as: Time, events, people]
Owners:
NGO “Hromadskyy Control’”
Management:
Editor in Chief – L’udmyla Vedmid’
Positioning:
Raiting and coverage:
The nNewspaper is distributed throughout
the city of Kherson
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
10b, vul. Suvorova, 73000, Kherson
(0552) 42-16-09
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“Gryvna”
“Gryvna”
Management:
Editor in chief – Valeriy Boyanzhu
Positioning:
The media outlet positions itself as an
information, financial, cultural and
education-focused newspaper
and distributed in 65,000 copies,
throughout Kherson region and in other
Ukrainian oblasts.
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
3, Murnyi av., 73000, Kherson
(0552) 26-26-88, 26-28-76, 26-28-76
reklama@hryvna.ks.ua
http://www.grivna.kherson.ua
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“Novyi Den’”
“Novyi Den’”
Owners:
The newspaper is influenced by the Party
of the Regions
Management:
Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Zhupyna
Positioning:
The newspaper is published weekly in
35,000 coplies. It is istributed in the city
of Kherson (20%), and Kherson region
(80%).
Products:
Categories: Politics, Crime, Society,
Finance, etc
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
26, vul. Dekabrystiv, 73003, Kherson
(0552) 45-42-60, 45-49-24
info@newday.kherson.ua,
newday@ukr.net
http://www.newday.kherson.ua
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“Vestnik priazov’ya”
“Vestnik priazov’ya”
Owners:
The media outlet was estanlished by the
Geniches’k rayon state administration,
jointly with Geniches’k local council
Management:
Editor in Chief – Vira Azza
Positioning:
The newspaper is published once a week.
It is distributed in 5600 copies, thoughout
the city of Geniches’k and its rayon
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
35, Myru av., 75500, Geniches’k, Kherson
region
(5534) 2-56-54, 3-70-36
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Online resources
Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Owners:
Dmytro Donchenko
Management:
Director: Dmytro Donchenko
Positioning:
Independent news resource
Audience:
The media outlet targets the population
of Nova Kahovka
Products:
The portal provides information in the
following categories: Politics, Finance,
Society, People, etc
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
74900, Nova Kahovka, Kherson region
20554970707
http://nova.kahovka.org.ua/
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Khmelnytskyi region
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TV channels
Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company
“Podillya Centr” (Khmelnytskyi Regional
State TV and Radio Company)
Owners:
The TV channel belongs to state-owned
network controlled by Ukraine’s State
Committee of Television and Radio
Broadcasting
Management:
Olena Pavliuk– Director General.
Regional TV and Radio company. Its signal
covers 90 % of the territory of the region.
Audience:
All age and social groups
Products:
The company produces own news and
programs. All broadcasting is made in
Ukrainian language
Contact
•
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
92, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29000,
Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 795946, (0382) 70-06-70
tvradio@rp.km.ua, odtrk.km@ukrpost.ua
radionovunu@ukr.net
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TV and radio company “Contact”
TV and radio company “Contact”
(Khmelnytskyi non-governmental music
and information radio station and TV
corporation “Contact”)
Owners:
LLC „Financial company „RANP” (Kyiv),
“Contact” (Khmelnytskyi) (cable TV
provider), LLC “TV company “FNB”
(Dunaivtsi) and two physical persons.
Management:
President – Anatoliy Luk’yanchykov
TV and radio company broadcasts in the
cities of Khmelnytskyi and KamyanetsPodilskyi
Audience:
All age and social groups living in
Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets- Podilsk
(Khmelnytskyi oblast)
Contact radio (FM)
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
59, Myru av., 29000, Khmelnytskyi
(03822) 3-12-30, 3-30-74, (0382) 78-9334, 78-93-32, 78-93-37
kontakt_radio@mail.ru,
matseyko@yahoo.co.uk
• URL:
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“Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”
“Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”
(33 channel)
Management:
Director – Olena Filatova
Positioning:
Children-and-youth channel
Audience:
Media outlet is designed to produce and
broadcast programs for children and
youth.
Products:
TV channel produces entertainment and
education programs.
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
4/3, Proskurivska, Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 79-70-34
vinskevich1978@ukr.net, 33tv@mitelua.com
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Newspapers
“Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
“Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by LLC
"Krayany-Podillya"
Management:
Editor – Sergiy Soltus
Positioning:
Free of charge advertisement newspaper
The newspaper is published weekly. It is
distributed in 105,000 copies throughout
the city of Khmelnytskyi
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
53, vul. Svobody, 29000, Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 79-49-05, 76-28-54, 65-53-39
kray@rp.km.ua
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“Khmelnychchyna”
“Khmelnychchyna”
Management:
Editor - Ivan Fedorov
Positioning:
The newspaper is published once a week
throughout the Khmelnytsk region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
71, vul. Proskurivskogo pidpillya, 29000,
Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 79-46-30, 79-55-79
kmelhm@mail.ru
http://gazetahmeln.km.ua
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“Podils’ki visti”
“Podil’ski visti”
Owners:
Khmelnytskyi regional council, jointly
with regional state administration. It is
influenced by Ivan Gladunyak – the Head
of the Khmelnytska oblast regional
council
Management:
Acting Editor in chief – Mykola Shokalo
Positioning:
per week. The outlet is the most
circulated newspaper of the Khmelnytsk
region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
59, Myru av., 29015, Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 78-95-97, 3-30-63, 3-61-57
podil_visti@rp.km.ua, pvisti@ms.km.ua
• e-mail:
• URL:
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“Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”
“Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski
Eparhialni Vidomosti”
Owners:
Khmelnytskyi Diocese Administration of
Ukrainian Orthodox church
Management:
Editor in chief – Metropolitan Antoniy
Positioning:
Religious newspaper
Biweekly newspaper, distributed in 5,000
copies throughout Ukraine.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
113, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29013,
Khmelnytsk
(0382) 65-03-32
antony@fialco.org
http://www.fialco.org
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“VSIM”
“VSIM”
Owners:
LLC "Media-Holding "VSIM"
Management:
Editor – Anatoliy Drozdyk
Positioning:
Advertisement-and-business newpaper
The newspaper is published once a week,
and is distributed in 12,600 copies,
throughout the region. The paper is also
delivered to directors of 130 biggest
regional enterprises.
Audience:
Economically active citizens, having midand high income.
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
10, vul. Teatralna, 29013, Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 70-33-69
vsim@ria.ua, partnera@km.ria.ua
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On-line resources
News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
Management:
Director – Vadym Oleks’uk
Products:
The news agency provides information on
politics, finance, business, social
questions, sports, etc.
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, vul. Radgospna,
Khmelnytskyi (0382)79-21-94
kontext@hm.ukrtel.net
http://www.context-km.info
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Media corporation “Ye!”
Media corporation “Ye!”
Management:
Editor – Sergiy Ishchuk
Positioning:
Regional social-and-political media
outlet, also family and entertainmentoriented
Audience:
Target audience is different for different
projects of «Ye Podillya».
For «Ye telenavigator» 55% of the
audience are women aged between 25
and 55. For «Ye simeyna gazeta» up to
80% of the audience are women aged
between 25 and 34, and also between 46
and 60.
«Vsim.ua» target audience: women and
men aged between 24 and 35.
Products:
The media corporation produces a
number of publications, covering the
whole region, targeting different
audiences. The projects are distributed
by subscription and retail trade; some of
them are free of charge.
Newspaper «Ye Podillya» produces the
latest news of the region, analysis and
interviews. Weekly newspaper „Ye
telenavigator” produces show-biz and
celebrities-focused news. “Ye simeyna
gazeta” is a family newspaper focusing on
advice and consultation information,
interview with medical workers,
psychologists, lawyers, etc. Monthly
newspaper«Vsim.ua» contains
adverisemenr and information, market
reviews, etc.
• «Ye Podillya»
• «Ye telenavigator»
• «Ye simeyna gazeta»
• «Vsim.ua»
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
38, vul. Shevchenka, Khmelnytskyi
(0382) 702-602, (0382) 765 381, 704-604
gazeta@ye.ua, tata@ye.ua, si@ye.ua 119
http://ye.ua
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Kirovograd region
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TV channels
TV and radio company “KTM”
TV and radio company “KTM”
(The title KTM can be translated as
“Cable television networks”)
Owners:
Founders: S. Chechitko, O. Nuzhna, V.
Burlakov
Management:
Director – Stanislav Chechitko
Positioning:
Cable and air broadcasting company
The company broadcasts in the
Kirovograd region
Audience:
Audience is estimated to reach up to
24,000 people
Products:
TV and radio company produces 17 own
information programs and op-ed
materials. It also rebroadcasts national,
local and foreign channels.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
57a, vul. Pershotravneva, 28000,
Oleksandria, Kirovograd region
(05235) 7-23-75, 7-24-44
office@alexandriya.net,
admin@alexandriya.net
http://www.ktm.net.ua/
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Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company
Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners:
The company is integrated into a network
of Ukraine’s State Committee of TV and
radio broadcasting
Management:
Director General – Andriy Bogdanovych
The media outlet covers about 78% of
population of the region. It daily
broadcasts for 2 hours in wired radio and
for 24 hours on radio “Scythia Centr”
(106.7 FM).
Audience:
Designed for all audience categories
Contact
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•
1, Kirova square, 25022, Kirovograd
(0522) 24-88-60, (0522) 24-14-60
KODTRK@rambler.ru
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Newspapers
“Kirovogradska Pravda”
“Kirovogradska Pravda”
Owners:
LLC “Kirovogradpresgrupa”
Management:
Editor in chief: Volodymyr Belinskyy
Positioning:
throughout the city of Kirovograd and its
region.
Products:
The newspaper provides new in the
following categories: Economics, Politics,
Events, Kirovograd, Free Time, Forecasts,
etc
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
40, vul. Egorova, 25015, Kirovograd
(0522) 24-84-44, 24-59-82, 2-50-15
kipr@kw.ukrtel.net
www.pravda-kr.com/
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“21 kanal”
Newspaper “21 kanal”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by the regional
organization of journalists. Olena
Shvorak, journalist of this newspaper, was
elected to Kirovograd regional council
from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
Management:
Editor’s in Chief Deputy – Yuriy Yarovyy
copies, throughout the region. 50% of it is
distributed through retail trade, 48% through subscription, and 2% is
distributed free of charge.
Audience:
Media outlet is designed for all age, sex
and social categories of readers
Products:
The newspaper provides latest regional
news, news of Kirovograd, pan-Ukrainian
news, social news, advertisement. It also
provides additional services, such as
advertisement articles, PR, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
36, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd
(0522) 24-66-72
21@nd.kr.ua
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“Narodne Slovo”
“Narodne Slovo”
Owners:
Kirovograd Regional council, jointly with
regional state administration.
Valeriy Myatovych, its editor in chief, is a
member of the Batkyvshchyna party
(Yulia Tymoshenko bloc)
Management:
Editor in Chief – Valentyna Bazhan
Positioning:
The newspaper is published tree times a
Products:
The newspaper produces news on the
regional and national politics and social
life
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
46, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd
(0522) 22-08-19, 22-47-62, 22-35-49
n-slovo@homenet.kr.ua
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“Nova Gazeta”
“Nova Gazeta”
Management:
Editor in chief: Iryna Petlya
Positioning:
Business media outlet
Audience:
Target group: economically active
citizens the population of Kirovograd
region.
Contact
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•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
43/2, vul. Chornovola, 25006,
Kirovograd
(0522) 22-45-78
nashbiznes@mail.ru
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“Silskyy Visnyk”
“Silskyy Visnyk”
Owners:
Oleksandria rayon council, jointly with
rayon state administration
Management:
Editor in chief: Natalia Lysenko
Positioning:
copies, throughout Oleksandria rayon of
the Kirovograd region. 100% is distributed
through subscription.
Audience:
All categories of readers.
Products:
The newspaper provides news of the city
of Oleksandria and its rayon. The paper
also focused on social projects.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
100, vul. Shevchenka, 28000,
Oleksandria, Kirovograd region.
(05235) 2-27-03
sel_vis@alex.kw.ukrtel.net
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Online resources
Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd”
Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd”
as: All Kirovograd)
Owners:
The project was established by a regional
media group “Ves’ Kirovograd”. The
group also owns the portal
Kirоvоgrad.biz, magazine “Lanrouge”,
promotion agency “Ves’ Kirovograd”.
Profitability:
The internet project is partially
supported by foreign grants. A list of the
donors of the project include Institute of
Social and Cultural management and
Stefan Batory Foundation.
Positioning:
The web page has been created by
journalists and civil society leaders of
Kirovograd to develop civil society,
freedom of speech and access to
information for Kirovograd population
(self-estimation).
The media outlet positions itself as a
major news resource of the region.
Products:
The outlet provides news in the following
categories: Politics, Economy, Society,
Science and Culture, Sports and leisure,
Picture gallery etc
Contact
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•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
mail@kirovograd.net
http://www.kirovograd.net/
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On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk
On-line media outlet of the city of
Svitlovodsk
Owners:
Author and manager of the project –
Bogdan Drozdov
Positioning:
Independent news resource
Audience:
People living in Svitlovodsk
Products:
The news resource provides Svitlovodsk
news, information about everyday events,
holidays, issues related to communal
services, etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://svetlovodsk.com.ua/
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Kyiv region
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TV channels
“Maidan-TV”
TV and radio company “Maidan-TV”
Owners:
Director and owner – Oleksandr Maidanyk
Positioning:
Local non-governmental infotainment TV
channel of Bila Tserkva (a town in the
Kyiv region).
TV channel has 18 hour programming
daily. All the products are in Ukrainian.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
8, Torgova ploshcha, 09101, Bila
Tserkva, Kyiv region
(04463) 9-11-17, 9-98-55
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Newspapers
“Hromads’ka Dumka”
“Hromads’ka Dumka”
Owners:
The media outlet was established by city
council of Bila Tserkva (a town in Kyiv
region)
Management:
Editor – Olena Kutsenko
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper, circulated in 5,000
copies, covering the city of Bila Tserkva
and its rayon
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
60, Pyatdes’atyrichcha Peremogy av.,
09100, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Region
(04463) 6-50-43
grom@magnus.kiev.ua
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“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
Owners:
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi city council
jointly with Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
rayon council
Management:
Editor – Halyna Karpenko
Profitability:
The newspaper is mainly financed from
the local budget, and partially raises
funds through advertisement. In the 1990s
it also benefited from assistance of
international donors organizations.
Positioning:
copies, throughout the city of PereyaslavKhmelnytskyi and its rayon.
Audience:
All age and social groups.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
45, vul. Shkil’na, 08404, Pereyaslav
Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv region
(04467) 5-13-44 , 5-16-11
visnik@us.com.ua
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“Yagotyns’ki Visti”
“Yagotyns’ki Visti”
Owners:
Yagotyn rayon council, jointly with rayon
state administration
Management:
Editor in chief: Anatoliy Sasa
Positioning:
The newspaper is published twice a week
and is distributed in 7,000 copies,
throughout Yagotyn rayon
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
1, vul. Pyr’atyns’ka, 07700, Yagotyn, Kyiv
region
(04475) 5-48-53 , 5-55-52, 8-275-54853
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“Peremoga”
“Peremoga”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Fastiv
city council, jointly with Fastiv rayon
council and rayon state administration.
Management:
Editor in Chief - Viktor Urlapov
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,200
copies. 98% of copies are distributed
through subscription, 1% - through retail
trade, and 1% - free of charge.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
40, vul. Soborna, 08500, Fastiv, Kyiv
region
(04465) 6-21-22, 5-15-21
victorypress@ukr.net
http://fastiv.in.ua/taxonomy/term/1
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Online resources
“Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
“Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
Owners:
Media outlet is owned by internet holding
“OBOZ.ua” (see more information about
the holding in the section “Key media
groups”).
Editor in chief – Albert Feldman
Management:
Editor – Tetyana Andrushchenko
Positioning:
Kyiv-focused online newspaper, a webpage about and for the population of Kyiv
On-line media hosts up to 70,000 visitors
daily
Products:
The outlet provides information in the
following categories: Kyiv news, local
government performance, real estate
market review, financial news, cultural
news, video etc
The outlet is affiliated with other mainly
online projects integrated into Oboz.ua
holding: online newspapers Obozrevatel
and Ohliadach, web-portals Oboz.ua and
uaportal.com, infotainment portal Kiev
2000 (target group: people living in Kyiv),
entertainment web-site Veseli Yaytsia,
sports web-site Sport.oboz.ua, tabloid
Show.oboz.ua,
cinema
web-site
Kino.oboz.ua,
car-focused
site
auto.oboz.ua,
recreation
site
rest.oboz.ua,
photo
portal
photo.oboz.ua,
video
web-site
video.oboz.ua etc
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Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
17, vul. Panasa Myrnogo, 01011, Kyiv (044)
585 46 20
andruschenko@obozrevatel.com,
info@obozrevatel.com
http://kiyany.obozrevatel.com
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“Khreshchatyk”
“Khreshchatyk”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Kyiv
city council, and is largely controlled by
Kyiv municipal authorities
Management:
Acting as Editor in Chief –
Yevgen Gaglovskyi
Deputy of the Editor in Chief –
Oleksandr Marushchak
Positioning:
Kyiv municipal newspaper, a social-andpolitical media outlet
Contact
•
•
•
51b, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 01034, Kyiv
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
(044) 502-34-37
inform@kreschatic.kiev.ua,
denis@kreschatic.kiev.ua
http://www.kreschatic.kiev.ua
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TV channels
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”)
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio
company (“LOT”)
Owners/affiliation:
Head of the board – Rodion Miroshnyk, a
member of the Party of the Regions,
former spokesman of the leader of PoR
faction in the national parliament
Olexandr Efremov
Management:
Rodion Miroshnyk, head of board
The biggest TV channel in the region,
with 90% of citizens living in the oblast
saying they regularly watch its
production. The company also has radio
broadcasting projects.
Audience:
All social groups, living in the region
Puls radio (103,6 FM)
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25, vul. Demiohina, 91016, Lugansk
(0642) 35-16-82, 53-00-87
lgtrk@gts.lg.ua
http://lot.lg.ua/
Information:
поштова адреса:
телефони:
e-mail:
URL:
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TV and radio company “STV”
TV and radio company “STV”
Owners:
Media outlet is a communal enterprise,
founded, among others, by Severodonetsk
city council
Management:
Acting as Director – O. Martynenko
The media outlet covers 35,603
households, including 5,000 of those using
digital TV.
Audience:
People aged between 25 and 49 years
Products:
The media outlet rebroadcasts 80
channels, including 59 digital channels. It
has its own TV channel and radio station.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
93, vul. Gagarina, 93400 Severodonetsk,
Lugansk region
(06452) 3-01-34
pol@stv.lg.ua, info@stv.lg.ua,
stv@sed.lg.ua, trkstv@sed.lg.ua
http://stv.ua
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TV and radio company “IRTA”
LLC Independent TV and radio company
“IRTA”
Owners:
Belongs to LLC “Independent TV and
Radio company “Continent” (Lugansk) and
Volodymyr Landyk, MP, a member of the
Party of the Regions
Management:
Director General – Karolina Poltavska
Positioning:
Infotainment TV channel
Audience:
All social and age groups living in the
region.
Products:
The TV and radio company produces own
news and thematic programs, and
rebroadcasts TV channels “Kino” (Central
Media Enterprises) and “Ru Music”.
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Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
22a, vul. Khersonska, 91053, Lugansk
(0642) 55-18-72, 34-58-87, 34-58-82
201
Newspapers
Vecherniy Lugansk
“Vecherniy Lugansk”
Owners:
The media outlet is close to Volodymyr
Lanyk, a Ukrainian MP, a member of the
Party of the Regions. However, officially
the newspaper is owned by Mr. Zhdanik, a
businessman.
Management:
Acting Editor in chief: German Borysov
Positioning:
The newspaper is one of three most
popular regional press outlets
Products:
The newspaper has a scandalous
reputation, producing materials on acute
social and political issues.
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
7, vul. Eryomenko, Lugansk
44382
vlug@ukr.net
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“Vesti Regiona”
“Vesti Regiona”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by LLC "Vlanyk".
Management:
Editor – Lyudmyla Prokopova
Positioning:
Audience:
The newspaper prioritizes people with
mid- and low income.
Products:
Media outlet provides information in the
following categories: Facts and Events,
History in Faces, TV Program, Behind the
Scenes, etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
89a, vul. Vatutina, 91040, Lugansk
(0642) 46-66-45, 34-48-33
reclama@xpress.lugansk.ua
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“Luganskaya Pravda”
“Luganskaya Pravda”
Owners:
The newspaper is controlled by Oleksandr
Efremov, Ukrainian MP, the Party of the
Regions
Management:
Editor in chief: Volodymyr
Mykhailychenko
Positioning:
per week, and distributed in 42,800
copies, throughout the region. 60% of the
paper distributed within the city of
Lugansk, 40% - in Lugansk region. 90% of
copies are distributed through
subscription, and 10% - through retail
trade.
Products:
The media outlet provides news of the
Lugansk city and its region
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
20/318, vul. Radyanska, 91021, Lugansk
33-14-69, 33-14-68
lugpravda@ukr.net
http://www.pravda.lg.ua/
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“Nasha Gazeta”
“Nasha Gazeta”
Owners/affiliation:
Lugansk regional council. It is close to
former head of the council Victor
Tikhonov and actual head of the council
Valeriy Golenko
Management:
Editor in chief: Oleksandr Pankov
Positioning:
Social-and-economical media outlet
Products:
The media outlet covers issues related to
local governance, regional economy
development, social agenda, city planning
and construction, education, science,
history, etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1b, vul. Lermontova, 91055, Lugansk
(0642) 53-60-44, 53-22-32, 53-62-27
ngaz@gts.lg.ua
http://www.nashagazeta.com.ua
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On-line resources
“Novyny Luganska”
“Novyny Luganska”
The media outlet is one of the most
visited (top-5) Lugansk internet
resources.
Products:
the following categories: Lugansk news,
Ukrainian news, Finance, Politics, Sports
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
8(066)763-41-52
mcno@citynews.net.ua
http://citynews.net.ua/
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“Rakurs Plus”
Portal of the newspaper “Rakurs Plus”
Owners:
The media outlet belongs to its Editor in
Chief Mykola Severyn, member of the
regional council, Ukraine’s Communist
Party
Management:
Editor in Chief - Mykola Severyn
Positioning:
The newspaper outlet positions itself as
an independent on-line media outlet.
Products:
The online newspaper provides
information in the following categories:
Politics, Finance, Society, Crime, Sport,
Culture, Lugansk from A to Z, Quality of
life, etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1b, vul. Lermontova, Lugansk
53-11-55, 588-377.
rakurs@gts.lg.ua
http://rakurs.pl.ua/
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“Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”
“Agentstvo Regionalnyh Novyn” (Regional
news agency)
Products:
the following categories: News, Analysis,
Politics, Finance, Society
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://arena.net.ua/
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Lviv region
209
TV channels
Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Lviv Regional State TV and Radio
Company (12th channel)
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by the
governor of the region Mykola Kmyt’,
leader of the regional organization of
Nasha Ukraina party Petro Oliynyk, and
Lviv mayor – Andriy Sadovyi
Management:
Director – Yaroslav Klymovuch
Profitability:
TV and Radio Company benefits from UAH
8 mln of subsidies annually from the local
and regional budget.
Regional media outlet
Audience:
All social and age groups of people living
in the region.
Products:
The media outlet produces own news and
thematic programs.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
4, Vusokyy Zamok, 79008, Lviv
(032) 272-46-13, (032) 298-69-50, (032)
294-91-03
lodtrk@svitonline.com, 12tv@ukr.net,
http://www.lodtrk.com.ua/?pg=41
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NTA
“NTA” (Independent TV agency)
Owners:
The media outlet was established in 1998
by Eduard Zan’uk and Georgiy Kyrpa.
Today owned by S. Semenuk.
Management:
Director – V. Bilen’
Products:
The channel broadcasts in Ukrainian
language. Own production accounts for
up to 33,34% of the total programming.
The media outlet also produces news for
Ukrainian national TV channels Tonis and
TET.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
6, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv
(032) 2999233, (0322) 763921
nta@mail.lviv.ua
http://www.nta.ua
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Newspapers
Vysokyi Zamok
“Vysokyi Zamok”
as: High Castle)
Owners/affiliation:
Editor in chief: Stepan Kurpil, MP,
member of Yulia Tymoshenko bloc,
protégé of Oleksandr Turchynov,
Ukraine’s first vice-prime-minister
Management:
Editor in chief: Stepan Kurpil
Positioning:
Social-and-political media outlet.
One of the only self-sustainable media
outlets in the region.
The newspaper is published five times a
week, with a total circulation of 100,000
copies (self-estimation), throughout 10
Ukrainian regions.
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
2, vul. Volodymyra Velykogo, 79026 Lviv
(032) 237-47-02, 237-47-16, 237-47-31
info@wz.lviv.ua
http://www.wz.lviv.ua/
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Lvivs’ka Hazeta
“Lvivs’ka Hazeta”
Owners:
The newspaper is controlled by Roman
Shlapak – member of Lviv city council
from Narodnyi Ruh Ukrainy (Ukraine’s
People’s Movement), owner of a trade
mark Intermarket (supermarket network).
Management:
Editor in Chief – Igor Kulyk
Positioning:
The web-page of the media outlet hosts
5-7 000 visitors daily. The printed version
of the newspaper is distributed in 4565 000 copies.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
53, vul. Zamarstynivska, 79058, Lviv
294 95 41, 294 95 45
lvgazeta@gmail.com
http://www.gazeta.lviv.ua/
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Argument Gazeta
“Argument Gazeta”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Taras Smakula
Positioning:
The newspaper is distributed in 8 regions
of Ukraine.
Products:
The media outlet is focusing on
investigative journalism, special reports,
criminal news, etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
105, vul. Zelena, 79058 Lviv
41-82-26, 41-82-27
office@argument.lviv.ua
http://argumentgazeta.
com/
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Ratusha
“Ratusha”
Owners:
The newspaper was founded by Lviv city
council. It is de-facto opposed to city
mayor Andriy Sadovyi, and influenced by
some members of city council from Nasha
Ukraina (Our Ukraine) and Ukrainian
People’s Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc).
Management:
Editor in chief: Mykola Saveliev
Profitability:
local budget, with total annual subsidies
reaching UAH 412,000. Additional income
comes from advertisement, subscription,
etc.
Positioning:
Social-and-political and business media
outlet
copies, in the city of Lviv.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
8, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv
(0322) 76-76-95
ratusha@ipm.lviv.ua
http://ratusha.lviv.ua
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Subotn’a Poshta
“Subotn’a Poshta”
Owners:
The newspaper was founded by
“Profesiyna Liga” ltd. Later the outlet
was taken over by the company “Royal”,
owner of a slot machines chain.
Management:
Director – Anatoliy Zabarylo
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper, distributed in total in
55,000 copies, throughout the country
Products:
The newspaper covers the news of Lviv
city and oblast, and also Ukrainian news.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
23, Shevchenka av., 79601 Lviv
(0322) 97-10-27, 97-15-24, 97-09-04
lvivpost@ukrpost.ua
http://www.lvivpost.net/
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Online resources
News Agency “LvivNews”
News Agency “LvivNews”
The media outlet covers the city of Lviv.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
editor@lvivnews.info
http://www.lvivnews.info/
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ZIK
News Agency “ZIK”
(“Zahidna infomaciyna korporaciya” –
Western information corporation)
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by Petro
Dyminskiy, former MP, one of the biggest
regional businessmen, who also owns
several media outlets, oil refinery
companies and a football club. Mr.
Dyminskiy is known for instability of his
political affiliation, as he started his
political career in president-close Nasha
Ukraina, than moved to the Party of the
regions led by Victor Yanukovych, than to
Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and finally ended
up at ECO+25%.
Ukrainian news magazine Focus put
Dyminskyi 46th in the rating of Ukrainian
welthiest busissmen, estimating his
fortune at USD 580 million.
Positioning:
The news agency positions itself as an
independent, non-partisan media outlet
that follows standards of openness,
transparency and balanced information.
The agency covers the city of Lviv and
other western regions of Ukraine. Some
estimates put the site to top-10 of
Ukrainian online information projects.
Products:
The media outlet provides information on
Lviv, Ternopil’, Chernivtsy, IvanoFrankivsk, Rivne and Lutsk.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
2, vul. Voronogo, 79006, Lviv
(032) 235-02-12, (032) 235-02-11
info@zik.com.ua, zik@mail.lviv.ua
http://zik.com.ua/
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Zaxid.net
“Zaxid.net”
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by Andriy
Sadovyi, Lviv mayor.
Positioning:
Independent social-and-political Internet
media outlet
Some estimates put the site to top-10 of
Ukrainian online information projects.
Products:
the following categories: News (in
Ukrainian, Polish and Russian), Top Topic,
Blogs, Interview, Lviv 2012, Chat, etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
67-g, vul. Chornovola, 79000,
Lviv (032) 242-20-77
info@zaxid.net
http://www.zaxid.net/
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Mykolaiv region
220
TV channels
Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners/affiliation:
TV channel is loyal to the governor of the
region Oleksiy Garkusha
Management:
Director General – Oleksandr Mytrofanov
Products:
The media outlet produces own news,
youth-focused, sports and other
programs. It also rebroadcasts UT-1,
Ukrainian national state-owned TV
channel. Additional services include
advertisement production.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
24b, Lenina av., 54029, Mukolaiv
(0512) 47-65-45
OGTRK@mksat.net
http://www.ogtrk.mk.ua
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TV and radio company “Mart”
TV and radio company “Mart”
Owners/affiliation:
The TV and radio company was
established by Mykolaiv city council. It is
influenced by Mykolaiv mayor Volodymyr
Chayka
Management:
Director – Oleksandr Sokolov
Profitability:
The media outlet is financed primarily
from the local budget.
Potential audience reaches up to about 1
mln people living in the region.
Products:
The media outlet produces own
information and op-ed programs.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
31, vul. Admiralska, Mykolaiv
35-94-51, 35-05-71
сontext@farlep.mk.ua, trkmart@mksat.net
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TV channel “35 kanal”
TV channel “35 kanal” (TV company “NIS
TV” ltd)
Owners:
The TV channel is controlled by Ukrainian
MP Gennadiy Zadyrko, a member of the
Yulia Tymoshenko bloc.
Management:
Director – Vitaliy Meheda
Positioning:
Mykolaiv local non-governmental
infotainment TV channel
Products:
TV channel produces own news and
entertainment projects.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
30a, vul. Chkalova, 54017, Mykolaiv
(0512) 47-46-66, 36-11-44
nistv@mksat.net
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Newspapers
(The title can be translated into English
as: Evening Mykolaiv)
Owners:
Mykolaiv city council. It is controlled by
city mayor - Volodymyr Chayka.
Management:
Editor in Chief – V. Puchkov
Positioning:
The highest ranked media outlet in the
city. The newspaper is published three
times a week.
Products:
the following categories: official news
and announcements of the city council,
texts of local journalists, important social
materials, history, news and comments,
etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv
(0512) 35-20-73
reclama@vn.mk.ua
http://www.vn.mk.ua/
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“Vestnik Pribuzhya”
“Vestnik Pribuzhya”
(annex to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya
Pravda” – see below)
Owners:
The newspaper is influenced by
Volodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning:
Products:
The newspaper covers local and regional
news.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(0512) 35-14-43, 35-43-57, 35-20-47
up@comcent.mk.ua
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“Shchotyzhn’a”
“Shchotyzhn’a”
(annex to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya
Pravda” – see below.
The title Shchotyzhn’a can be translated
into English as: Every Week)
Owners:
The newspaper is influenced by
Volodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management:
Positioning:
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(0512) 35-50-28, 35-20-47, 35-14-43
up@up.mk.ua , up@comcent.mk.ua
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“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”
“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya
gazeta”
(Annex to “Yuzhnaya Pravda”)
Owners:
The newspaper is loyal to Volodymyr
Chaika, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management:
Positioning:
copies, in Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk,
Zaporizhiya, Kirovograd, Odesa, Kherson
regions and Crimean autonomous
republic.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(0512) 35-13-66, 35-20-47, 35-14-43
up@up.mk.ua, up@comcent.mk.ua
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“Yuzhnaya Pravda”
“Yuzhnaya Pravda”
as: Truth of the South, or Southern
Pravda)
Owners:
The newspaper is loyal by Volodymyr
Chayka, the Mykolaiv mayor.
Management:
Editor in chief: Mykola Stetsenko
Financing:
The media outlet is financed by the local
budget, but also receives a partial
support from foreign donors.
Positioning:
The most circulated newspaper in the
region. 95% of copies are distributed
through subscription.
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Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Ads and informational newspaper
“Vestnik Pribuzhya”,
Ukrainian-language weekly
“Shchotyzhnya”,
Youth newspaper “Novoe
pokolenie”,
multiregional edition “Yuzhnaya
obshchestvennaya gazeta”.
(0512) 37-00-47, 37-37-64
up@up.mk.ua, up@comcent.mk.ua
http://www.up.mk.ua/
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Online resources
Internet media “Mukola.net”
Internet media “Mukola.net”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Oksana Tyhonchuk
Positioning:
Analytical newspaper of the city of
Mykolaiv
The biggest Mykolaiv on-line media. It
monthly hosts – 135,000 visitors from
Ukraine, US, Russia, Israel, EU etc.
Audience:
The media outlet is designed mostly for
businessmen and politicians.
Products:
On-line media outlet provides news from
Mykolaiv and Ukraine, as well as
worldwide news.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
+380 512 76-76-56; +380 512 76-7606;+380 512 36-09-44
http://www.mukola.net/
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Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Positioning:
Mykolaiv regional internet newspaper
The media outlet hosts 6,000 – 8,000
visitors daily.
Products:
the following categories: News, Articles,
Pictures, Travel, News of the car market,
etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
8 (093) 128-77-17
http://novosti-n.mk.ua/
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Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua”
Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua”
Management:
Editor – Vyacheslav Chychenin
Positioning:
Mykolaiv news-and-analysis newspaper
Products:
the following categories: Analytics,
Politics, Finance, Events, Security,
Culture, Sports, etc
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
380(98)716-40-90
mkmkua@yandex.ru, nzn@mksat.net
http://www.mk.mk.ua/
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Odessa region
232
TV channels
Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company
Odessa Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners/Affiliation:
The company is part of the network of
Ukraine’s State Committee of TV and
Radio Broadcasting. But in reality the
channel is close to Leonid Klimov,
Ukrainian MP, member of the Party of the
Regions, owner of AKB Imeksbank
Management:
Director General – Oksana Matyukh
Regional TV and Radio Company
Products:
The company has own TV and radio
production. News programs
“Chornomorskiy Mayak”, “Odes’kiy
Kaleydoskop”, thematic program “People
of my land” etc. are among the most
popular radio programs.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
3, Fontans’ka doroga, 65063, Odessa
(048) 748-10-67, (048) 63-45-62
odt@ukr.net
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Media group “Glas”
Media group “Glas”
as: Voice)
Owners/affiliation:
Controlling stock of the media group
belongs to Gennadiy Trukhanov (a
member of the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc,
one of the top-5 Ukrainian political
factions).
Odessa and its region. The group
integrates highly popular TV channels in
the Odessa region.
Audience:
All social groups and all age categories
(people aged between 5 and 70).
Products:
24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes own
cultural and education products for the
whole family.
The media group includes 3 TV channels
and a radio station: TV channels “Glas”,
“Plus”, and “Strana Sovetov” (satellite
and cable TV channel), radio Glas 106.6
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
83, vul. Kanatna, 65107 Odessa (048)
714-85-62 personal@glas.odessa.ua,
info@glas.odessa.ua
http://glasweb.com/index.php/default
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TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”
TV and radio company “Illichivske
Telebachennya-3”
Management:
Director – Mykhailo Fomenko
TV and radio company broadcasts in the
city of Illichivs’k.
Products:
the following categories: Illichivs’k news,
Politics, Culture, Sports, Conclusions, City
news, Port news, Health, Video, Ads
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
6, Pratsi square, Illichivs’k, Odessa region
(04868) 3-11-12, 69-12-70
trkit3@gmail.com
http://it3.com.ua/
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Newspapers
“Odesskiy Vestnik”
“Odesskiy Vestnik”
as: Odessa Messanger)
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Odessa
city council. It is loyal to Eduard Gurvitz,
Odessa mayor.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Oleksandr Kamennyi
Positioning:
The media outlet is a leader of Odessa
printed media.
Audience:
The newspaper’s audience reaches 78-82
thousand readers.
Male audience accounts for 59%, female
audience - 41%.
Age structure is the following:
-people aged between 26 and 40 – 60%,
-41-65 – 30%,
66+ – 10%.
According to newspaper’s self-estimation,
people with lower middle income
constitute 50% of audience; those with
mid-level income – 20%.
Products:
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
The newspaper provides business
information, local news, local
government performance, etc.
4, vul. Evreis’ka, 65014, Odessa
722-28-30, 731-42-27, 722-44-93
odvestnik@farlep.net
http://odvestnik.com.ua/
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“Gazeta po-odesski”
“Gazeta po-odesski”
Owners:
The newspaper is integrated into a
network of city newspapers published by
a Publishing House Press Center (GlavredMedia, largely controlled by economic
and financial group Privat)
Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10810
Products:
The media outlet produces regional and
city news in Russian.
Contact
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Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
21/19, vul. Bunina, 65026, Odessa
(048) 725-20-20, 725-22-33, 725-22-44
gazeta@gazetapo.odessa.ua
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“Vechern’aya Odessa”
“Vechern’aya Odessa”
as: Evening Odessa)
Owners/Affiliation:
The media outlet positions itself as an
independent newspaper, not depending
on governmental subsidies.
Rumors say that the paper can be
purchased by a member of the Odessa
regional council from NSNU political
faction Volodymyr Galanternik
Management:
Editor in Chief – Larysa Burcho
Positioning:
copies (self-estimation).
Products:
the following categories: Ukrainian news,
global news, politics, this week, finance,
maritime industry, legal news, etc.
“Reklama Vechirn’oi Odessy” (Ads
newspaper)
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa
(482) 649756.
vecherka@ukr.net
http://vo.od.ua/
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“Delovaya Odessa”
“Delovaya Odessa”
Owners:
The newspaper is controlled by Leonid
Klymov (MP, Party of Regions, owner of
Imeksbank, Football club Chernomorec
Odessa).
Management:
Editor – Sergiy Marin
Positioning:
Pan-Ukrainian business media outlet
specializing on business and financial
information
The newspaper is published in 18,000
copies, distributed throughout the
country.
Audience:
Business audience
Contact
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12a, Gagarina av., 65039, Odessa
048 719 86 50
delod@farlep.net
http://www.delod.odessa.net
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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“Chornomors’ki novyny”
“Chornomors’ki novyny”
as: Black Sea News)
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Odessa
Regional State Administration
Management:
Editor – Ivan Melnyk
Positioning:
copies, throughout the region. 95% of
subscription.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa
(0482) 67-75-67
cn@optima.com.ua
http://chornomorka.com
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Online resources
News Agency “Reporter”
News Agency “Reporter”
The media outlet hosts more than 2 000
visitors daily.
Audience:
Most visitors of the web-site are living in
Odessa and its region, but the newspaper
also hosts visitors from other regions,
including Kyiv and Moscow.
Products:
Media outlet produces news and analysis
materials, articles and interviews.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(0482) 35–91–11, 35–91–10, (048) 735-4164
reporter-odessa@mail.ru
http://www.reporter.com.ua/
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Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti”
Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski
Visti”
Management:
Editor in Chief – Mr. Sokolov
Products:
following categories: Governance, City
news, Society, Criminal news, Citations,
Humor, Survey
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
2, vul. Chkalova, 67700, BelgorodDnistrovs’kyi, Odessa region
(04849) 6 02 64, 3 32 64
http://www.visti.net.ua/
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“Misto” (Odessa News web-page)
“Misto” (Odessa News web-page )
Owners:
The project belongs to Oleksiy Yeremitsa
(the Party of the Regions), an advisor to
the Head of Odessa Regional Council.
Products:
the following categories: Odessa news,
City news, Governance, Politics,
Education, Leisure, Employment,
Lawyer’s consultation, On-line links &
catalogue etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(048) 714-49-76, (048) 711-75-82
misto@odessa.net, misto@real.ua
http://www.misto.odessa.ua/
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Poltava Region
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TV channels
Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”)
Poltava Regional State TV and Radio
Company (“Ltava”)
Owners:
The company is a part of pan-Ukrainian
network of state-owned TV companies,
controlled by State committee on TV and
radio broadcasting. The channel is loyal
to the governor of the oblast Valeriy
Asadchev
Management:
Director General - Mykola L’apanenko
(since 1992).
The radio station covers 90% of region’s
territory. The TV channel covers up to
70% of the region’s territory.
Audience:
All social and age groups.
Products:
18-hour-per-day broadcasting includes
own news, social-and-political programs,
education projects, entertainment
programs.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
•
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Vasha Hvyl’a radio
Youth TV studio “Razom”
1, vul. Kyrychenko, Poltava
05322-296-19, 298-78
info@ltava.poltava.ua,
ltavatv@kot.poltava.ua
http://www.ltava.poltava.ua/
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TV channel Misto
TV channel “Misto”
as: TV channel City)
Owners:
The TV channel, similar to TV and radio
station Anna, Shanson radio, is controlled
by Poltava ex-mayor Anatoliy Kukuba
Management:
Director General - Ihor Kuzhik
Positioning:
Poltava local non-governmental
infotainment TV channel
Products:
The media outlet produces own news and
projects, and rebroadcasts pan-Ukrainian
TV channel “Tonis”.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1a, vul. Kozaka, 36000 Poltava
(0532) 56-93-35, 50-86-53
misto@misto-tv.poltava.ua
http://www.misto-tv.poltava.ua/
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TV channel “Astra”
TV channel “Astra”
Owners:
Media outlet was established by
Chervonozavods’ke city council and local
enterprises.
Management:
Director – Anatoliy Rekovets
Positioning:
Infotainment TV channel
TV channel covers the city of
Chervonozavods’ke (Poltava region).
Products:
Media outlet produces 12 hours of
broadcasting per day.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
1a, vul. Son’achna, Chervonozavods’ke,
Poltava region
(256) 9-82-31, 8-066- 246-27-87
trk_astra@ukr.net
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Newspapers
“Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
“Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
as: Daybreak of the Poltava region)
Owners:
The newspaper is controlled by Valeriy
Asadchev, the governor of the Poltava
region.
Regional Council and Regional State
administration were among the cofounders of the newspaper.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Grygoriy Gryn’
Positioning:
Pan-Ukrainian social-and-political media
outlet
throughout country.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
115, vul. Pushkina, 36000, Poltava
56-97-24; 56-23-02
zoria@poltava.ukrtel.net
http://www.zorya.poltava.ua/
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“Vechirnia Poltava”
“Vechirnia Poltava”
as: Evening Poltava)
Owners/Affiliation:
The newspaper is loyal to political
leadership of the city, and close to
Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc)
Management:
Director General – Volodymyr Marchenko
Positioning:
Regional social-and-political media outlet
copies, throughout the city of Poltava and
Poltava region. It is the top third popular
media outlet, according to the rating of
Poltava oblast Regional Council.
Products:
the following categories: Key topic, The
city, Region, Ukraine, Foreign news,
Politics, Society, Finance, Health,
Emergency, Criminal news, etc. However,
according to a rating by Telekritika, a
Ukrainian media-focused magazine, in
Vechirnia Poltava was among the leaders
in violation of journalist standards in
Ukraine.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
36, vul. Rozy Luxemburg, 36039 Poltava
(05322) 2-28-73,
mvp7@ukr.net, mvp7@ukrtel.net,
vpoltava@poltava.ukrtel.net
http://vechirka.pl.ua
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“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
Owners:
The newspaper was established jointly by
Pyr’atyn rayon state administration,
rayon council and local council.
Management:
Editor – Ganna Syn’ak
Positioning:
copies, throughout the rayon.
Products:
the following categories: Rayon, Ukraine
and world news, Q&A, Ads, Advices,
Interesting stories, etc.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
5, vul. Petrovs’kogo, 37000 Pyr’atyn,
Poltava region
2-06-73, 2-04-70
pir_visti@poltava.ukrtel.net
http://piryatin-visti.at.ua/publ/
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“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
Owners:
Poltava city council. The paper is loyal to
Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc)
Management:
Editor – Vitaliy Skobel’skyi (former
regional correspondent of Holos Ukrainy,
the official newspaper of the Ukrainian
parliament)
Positioning:
copies, throughout the region. 80% of
subscription.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
43, vul. Zovtneva, 36000, Poltava
(0532) 7-92-11, 7-05-81
info_visnik@ukrpost.ua
http://www.pv.poltava.ua/
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“Visnyk Kremenchuga”
“Visnyk Kremenchuga”
as: Kremenchug messanger)
Owners:
Kremenchug city council.
Management:
Editor – Yulia Bylyna
Positioning:
copies, throughout the Kremenchug rayon
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
12, vul. Zhadova, 39614, Kremenchug,
Poltava region
(05366) 36304, 36362
vestnik@ukr.net
office@visnyk.kremenchug.net
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Online resources
Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Owners:
Poltava regional council
Positioning:
Communal news agency
The most popular on-line news resource
of Poltava region.
Products:
the following categories: Official news
from public authorities, Society (social
importance issues, cultural events,
interviews, on-line conferences) Finance,
Sports, etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
(0532) 60-31-40, 8-050-419-77-58
info@regionnews.poltava.ua,
nikdruzh@mail.ru
http://poltavanews.com.ua/
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Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Owners:
Editor in chief: Sergiy Kanarskyi
Positioning:
Infotainment web-portal
The portal itself claims to the most
popular on-line news resource in the city.
The media outlet hosts up to 1,000
visitors daily.
Products:
the following categories: Kremenchug
news, Announcements, Ads, Databases,
On-line conferences with celebrities and
decision-makers etc.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Kremenchug, Poltava region
(05366) 555-55-55
gorod@kremenchug.ua
http://kremenchu.ua/
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Rivne region
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TV channels
Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company
Rivne Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners:
The TV company is part of the panUkrainian network controlled by State
Committee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The channel’s Director General Andriy
Velesyk is a son-in-law of MP Mykola
Shershun, Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc.
The channel is loyal to the oblast
governor Viktor Matchuk.
Management:
Director General: Andriy Velesyk
The company covers 95% of population
and 70% of the territory of Rivne region.
Products:
24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes own
programs on local and national issues.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
20a, Kotlyarevskogo, 33028 Rivne
26-58-23, 23-34-91
news@rtb.rovno.ua
http://www.rtb.rv.ua
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LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”
“TV and radio company Rivne-1” ltd
Owners:
TV and Radio Company is owned by Viktor
Danylov, member of Regional council,
NSNU bloc, Edynyi tsentr party.
Management:
Director - Viktor Danylov, Executive
director – L’udmyla Homa. Mr Danylov is
the owner of OGO media group,
publishing a newspaper OGO (see below)
and a vice-president Ukrainian association
of publishers of the periodic press.
Positioning:
Local family TV channel
TV and Radio Company covers 80% of the
population and 60% of the territory of
Rivne region.
Audience:
All social and age groups
Contact
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19, vul. Danyla Halytskogo, 33027, Rivne
(0362) 62 35 01, (067) 2780542
info@rivne1.tv, homa@rivne1.tv
www.rivne1.tv
Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
Owners:
TV and Radio Company is officially owned
by Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.
Management:
Director – Petro Kratik
Kuznetsovsk and 10-km-wide surrounding
area.
Products:
The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for
1 hour during the workdays and 1.5 hours
on weekends. It also rebroadcasts TV
channel ICTV.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1/9, Budivelnykiv, Kuznetsovsk, Rivne
region
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Newspapers
“7 dniv”
“7 dniv”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Rivne
city council.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Oleg Tyshchenko
Positioning:
copies, throughout the Rivne region. 80%
of copies are distributed by subscription,
20% - through retail trade.
7 dniv is one of the top popular
newspapers in the region: 19,1 % of the
citizens living in the region say they read
it regularly (according to the data of the
Center of the information of National
Academy of Science, 2006).
Audience:
According to newspaper’s self-estimation,
newspaper’s audience has the following
structure: intelligentsia (21,5 %), civil
servants (14,9 %), retired (28,1 %),
workers (13,9 %).
Age: people aged 30- (14,1 %), 30-40
(24,2 %), 41-55 (12,1 %), 55+ (26,2 %).
Products:
The newspaper provides official
information from Rivne city council.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://www.7dniv.rv.ua/
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“Vil’ne Slovo”
“Vil’ne Slovo”
Owners:
Regional State Administration. The paper
is loyal to oblast governor Victor Matchuk
Management:
Editor in Chief – Andriy Babinets
Positioning:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
82a, vul. Kn’az’a Volodymyra, 33013,
Rivne
(0362) 63-43-96
vslovo@rivne.com
http://www.vslovo.com.u
a/
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“Visti Rivnenshchyny”
“Visti Rivnenshchyny”
Owners:
regional council. It is oriented on the
head of regional council Oleksandr
Danylchuak, member of the Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc.
Management:
Editor – Svitlana Stelmashchuk
Positioning:
Products:
The media outlet is focusing on regional
government performance; it regularly
publishes regulatory acts and official
documents influencing local economic
development.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, Maidan Prosvity, 33038, Rivne
(0362) 22-23-24
visti@jb.rovno.ua
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“Volyn’”
“Volyn’”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by a subunit of Ukrainian Cossacks organization
“Volyn Sich”. It is controlled by the
leader of the Volyn Sich, ex-governor of
the region Vasyl Chervoniy.
Management:
Sergiy Stepanyshyn
Positioning:
copies, throughout the Rivne region.
Products:
The newspaper produces news, analysis,
events and advertisement. Information is
renewed weekly.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, Symona Petl’ury, 33028, Rivne
(0362) 22-34-47, 26-47-65
volyn@rivne.com
http://www.volyn.rivne.com/
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“Rivne Vechirn’e”
“Rivne Vechirn’e”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by Mykola
Nesen’uk, one of the leaders of regional
department of the Narodnyi Rukh (Peole’s
Movement), a Ukrainian patriotic party.
Management:
Director: Mykola Nesen’uk
Positioning:
The newspaper is published twice a week
Products:
the following categories: Rivne and
regional news, Ukrainian news, Crime,
Sports, Education, Legal news, Legal
consultations etc. According to
Telekritika, a Ukrainian media-focused
outlet, the newspaper is one of the top
media outlets suggesting “Dzhynsa” (prepaid corrupted information) in the region.
Contact
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Information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1-b, vul. Stepana Bandery, Rivne
(0362)62 56 55
info@rivnepost.rv.ua
http://www.rivnepost.rv.ua/
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On-line resources
Regional portal “Rivne”
Regional portal “Rivne”
Products:
the following categories: News,
Comments, Help-desk, Forum
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://rivne.com.ua/
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Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne”
Portal of a Rivne regional newspaper
“Rakurs Rivne”
Management:
Director – Volodymyr Konev
Positioning:
Independent weekly newspaper
The printed version of the newspaper is
published once a week, and distributed in
7,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products:
the following categories: Events, Politics,
Finance, Health, Culture and Education,
Sports, Crime, Life, Personal, Travel,
Entertainment.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
6, vul. Gagarina, Rivne
(0362) 62-31-63, 62-31-64, 24-90-22, 6344-42
rakurs@ukrwest.net
http://www.rakurs.rovno.ua/
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Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Management:
Director General – Vitaliy Golubev
Positioning:
Information-and-advertisement media
outlet
The newspaper “OGO” is distributed in
“Rivenska Gazeta”, another newspaper
integrated into media group OGO, is
Rivne region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
19, vul. Danyla Galyckogo, 33027, Rivne
(0362) 62-35-01, 050) 339-39-85, (050)
375-13-88
golubev@ogo.ua, info@ogo.ua
www.ogo.ua
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Sumy region
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TV channels
Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company
Sumy Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners:
The TV company is part of the panUkrainian network controlled by State
Committee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The company is oriented on regional state
administration.
Management:
Director General – Larysa Yakubenko
Finances:
regional budget.
Audience:
The media outlet is designed for all social
and age groups.
Products:
The TV and Radio Company produces own
projects in Ukrainian. It also develops the
network for TV and radio broadcasting.
Sloboda-FM radio
•
Post address:
•
Tel:
•
e-mail:
URL:
125, vul. Pertopavlivs’ka, 40021, Sumy
(0542) 60-05-67, 60-05-67
boss@strc.sumy.ua
glavredtv@strc.sumy.ua
http://www.strc.sumy.ua
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TV and radio company “Vikidion”
LLC “TV and radio company “Vikidion”
Owners:
TV and Radio Company was established by
Donets’k-based media. It was initially
created as the major commercial media
outlet in Sumy. However, later it received
financing from the region’s governor, and
during 2004 election campaign it lost
much of the audience trust due to biased
and non-objective information. Today the
company is influenced by the Party of the
Regions.
Positioning:
Commercial TV and radio company
The signal of TV and Radio Company
covers 75 % of the region’s territory.
Audience:
Products:
The media outlet is designed for all social
and age groups.
The TV and Radio Company produces
news, entertainment and educational
programs.
Diva radio (107,0 FM)
Contact
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•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
5, vul. Kharkivs’ka, 40024, Sumy
(0542) 605105, 326604, 605106, 605107
radio@vidikon-rtv.sumy.ua
107fm@vidikon-rtv.sumy.ua
roman@vidikon-rtv.sumy.ua
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“Telecom Service”
“Telecom Service”
Management:
Director – S. Ladunskyy
Positioning:
infotainment
covers the city of Shostka and Shostka
rayon.
Audience:
Products:
The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for
24 hours, with at least 75% of the
broadcasting programming is held in
Ukrainian language. Own products take up
to 9,7% of the total broadcasting. The
channel also rebroadcasts “Novyi Kanal”,
a Ukrainian central TV channel.
Conctact information:
• Post address:
33a, vul. Korolenka, 41100, Shostka,
Sumy region
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
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Newspapers
“Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
“Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
Owners:
Newspaper was established by of Sumy
regional organization of Narodna Partiya
(Ukrainian People’s Party, Volodymyr
Lytvyn bloc).
Positioning:
The newspaper is oriented on the
leadership of Narodna Partiya
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
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“Domashnya Gazeta”
“Domashnya Gazeta”
as: Home Newspaper)
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by LLC
"Marketing Center LTD".
Management:
Editor – Stanislav Bakhtin
Positioning:
General audience newspaper
copies, throughout the Sumy region.
Audience:
Contact
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30, av. Metalurgiv, 40009, Sumy
(0542)92-71-61
dom_gazeta@ua.fm
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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“Sumschina”
“Sumschina”
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Sumy
regional council, jointly with regional
state administration.
Management:
Editor – Svitlana Bubynets
Positioning:
Audience:
Products:
The newspaper covers city and regional
news, local government performance,
history, social issues, sports, etc.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
27, vul. Kirova, 40030, Sumy
(0542) 60-15-07
editorial@sumschina.sumy.ua
http://sumschina.com.ua
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“Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
“Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by "Krayany
Media Service", which also owns
advertisement agency advertisement
agency “Vinnytsya ta Vinnychany”.
Management:
Director – Ludmila L’aposhchenko
Positioning:
News-and-information media outlet
The newspaper is one of the top
information newspapers of the city.
Free-of-charge weekly newspaper
distributed in 60,000 copies (selfestimation), throughout the region.
Audience:
All social groups, with major focus on
businessmen and economically active
citizens.
Products:
Information and advertisement.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
5/4, vul. Kuznechna, 40030, Sumy
(0542) 21-90-20
sis@sis.sumy.ua
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“Narodna Trybuna”
“Narodna Trybuna”
as: People’s Tribune)
Owners:
The newspaper was established by Gluhiv
city council.
Management:
Editor – Vitaliy Matvienko
Positioning:
throughout the city of Gluhiv and its
rayon.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
1, vul. Rudchenka, 41400, Gluhiv, Sumy
region
(05444) 2-20-46, 2-31-14
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On-line resources
Informational web-site sumy.net.ua
Information web-site sumy.net.ua
Positioning:
Informational media outlet
Products:
The media outlet contains city and
regional news, regional media review,
database of major enterprises in the
region, etc.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://www.sumy.net.ua
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Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Owners:
The portal is owned by the company
“Dankor Media”, which also owns 7 other
media outlets.
Management:
Director General – Igor Danylenko.
Finances:
Self-sustainable project, also raising
funds from international donors.
Positioning:
News resource “Dankor online” is a
private self-sustainable media outlet. It
positions itself as an independent media
outlet, however the web-site is not
totally free from pre-ordered and prepaid political materials.
Media outlet hosts 2,000 visitors daily.
Audience:
The portal is designed for representatives
of different occupations and social
positioning, students, businessmen,
managers etc.
Products:
the following categories: Politics,
Finance, Society, Environment, Business,
Law, People, Culture, Style, Sports,
Leisure, etc.
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
70, vul. Petropavlivs’ka, 40030, Sumy
(0542) 655-445, (0542) 611-551
igor.danilenko@dancor.info
http://dancor.sumy.ua/
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“Panorama”
Newspaper Portal “Panorama”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by Evgen
Polozhiy, its editor in chief.
Management:
Editor in Chief — Evgen Polozhiy. Mr
Polozhiy is a representative of the
Parliamentary committee on freedom of
speech and information in Sumy region.
Positioning:
Independent social-and-political selfsustainable media outlet.
The printed version is distributed in
The media outlet has its own delivery
service.
Products:
the following categories: Editor’s Page,
Politics, Opinion, Government, Local
News, Leisure, Culture, Unknown
Ukrainians, Sports, Forum, etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
6, Chervona Ploshcha, Sumy
(0542) 21-04-79, 21-10-02
http://rama.com.ua/
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TV channels
Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company
Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners:
The media outlet is a part of a broad
network of regional state-owned TV and
radio companies integrated by Ukraine’s
state committee for TV and radio
broadcasting.
The channel is loyal to the governor of
Ternopil oblast Yuriy Chyzhmar, a
member of the executive committee of
“Pora” party.
Management:
Director General – Roman Zayac’
Profitability:
regional budget.
The outlet’s radio broadcasting covers
98% of the region’s territory; TV
broadcasting covers 75% of the territory.
Audience:
All social and age groups. However,
similar to all Ukrainian regional stateowned TV and radio companies, the
channel is most watched and listened to
elderly audience.
Products:
The company produces own news, socialand-political, cultural, youth, and sports
products in Ukrainian language.
TV channel “TTB”
Contact
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17, Shevchenka av., 46001, Ternopil
(0352) 52-47-62
admin@odtrk.te.ua,
http://todtrk.com.ua
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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“TV-4”
Non-governmental regional TV company
“TV-4”
Owners:
The media outlet is one of the few outlets
in the Ternopil oblast oriented on the
Party of the Regions.
Management:
Director – Yulia Vynokur
Positioning:
Family TV channel
TV Company covers Ternopil, partially
Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and
Khmelnytsk regions.
Audience:
Products:
The TV Company produces its own
programs: Greetings, Tutti-Frutti, The
Globe, Car market, By the way, Know
More, Point of view, etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
2/7 vul. Sagaidachnogo, Ternopil
(0352 ) 52-08-31, 52-31-40, 43-10-44
tv4@tv.te.ua
www.tv4.te.ua/
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TV channel “TTS”
TV channel “TTS”
(Ternopilski Tele-Systemy - Ternopil TV
Systems)
Management:
Director – I. Kucherenko
Positioning:
TV channel of a cable provider
The channel covers Ternopil oblast.
Products:
Cable broadcasting provider, which also
provides advertisement and regular
Internet-review.
"Quest-TV" – experimental studio
Contact
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1, vul. Krushelnytskoi, Ternopil
43-10-17
quest@tts.te.ua
http://www.tts.te.ua/?tab=tts
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Newspapers
“RIA plus”
“RIA plus”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by Oleksandr
Chovgan, who is also an editor in chief of
“RIA”, “RIA-Inter”, “VSIM”, “RIAKoz’atyn”, “Kievskiy capitalist”.
Management:
Editor – Olga Yurkova
Positioning:
Information-and-advertisement weekly
newspaper
copies, throughout the region. The paper
is distributed through subscription and
retail trade, but also through target
delivery to directors of Ternopil
enterprises.
Audience:
The media outlet itself says it has 74,000
of readers, mainly population of Ternopil.
Products:
the following categories: “News”,
“Business for a week”, “Way of Life”,
etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1b, vul. Dubovetska, Ternopil
(0352)430050, 8(097)4401505,
design@te.ria.ua, ria@utel.net.ua
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“Visnyk Ternopolyan”
Internet newspaper “Visnyk Ternopolyan”
as: Herald of Ternopil dwellers)
Owners:
The paper is owned Ruslan Slyvka, its
editor in chief
Management:
Editor in chief – Ruslan Slyvka
Positioning:
Independent on-line media outlet
The media outlet positions itself as a top
Internet media outlet in the region
(rating by Ternopil web-resources
catalogue).
Products:
The web-site publishes news about city
council decisions, city and regional news,
announcements, practical information,
surveys etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
(067) 3512488
visnykter@rambler.ru
http://www.visnyk.te.ua/
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“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
Owners:
The newspaper is owned by the agency
“Ternopil Media”, and is influenced by
Svoboda, a nationalist party getting more
and more popular in the region.
Management:
Editor in Chief - Mykola Martynchuk
Raising and coverage:
Biweekly newspaper distributed in 26,600
Products:
The media outlet produces mainly
regional news.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1a, vul. Krushelnytskoi, 46003, Ternopil
(0352) 433538
nova@gazeta.te.ua,
nevs.ternopil@utel.net.ua
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“Podil’ske Slovo”
“Podil’ske Slovo”
Owners:
Ternopil rayon council, jointly with rayon
state administration.
copies, throughout the rayon.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
17, vul. Brodivska, 46020, Ternopil
(0352) 52-88-30, (0352) 52-88-78
podilske@slovo.ssft.net
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“Ternopil Vechirniy”
“Ternopil Vechirniy” online
Owners:
Ternopil city council.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Inna Syrnyk
Positioning:
Ternopil city council newspaper.
copies, throughout the city of Ternopil.
Products:
The newspaper covers mainly city and
regional news of Ternopil.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
4, vul. Rodyny Barvins’kyh, 46000,
Ternopil
(0352) 52-72-13, 52-67-02
vt@vechirka.te.ua
http://t-v.te.ua
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On-line resources
“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
as: News of the Ternopil region)
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by Andriy
Kornilov, its editor in chief.
Management:
Editor in chief: Andriy Kornilov
One of the most popular web-resources of
the region.
Products:
The media outlet provides regular
monitoring of the regional news.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
frutik@gmail.com
http://www.news.te.ua/
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“I-plus”
“I-plus”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by Oleksandra
Ivantsiv, its editor in chief.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Oleksandra Ivantsiv
Positioning:
Independent media of the city of
Chortkiv, Ternopil region
Media outlet covers the city of Chortkiv.
Products:
Rayon news, regional and national news,
information on local events, chat, forum,
gallery, etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
77, vul. S.Bandery, Chortkiv, Ternopil
region
(03552) 3-24-11
plus@novanet.com.ua, lena@iplus.net.ua
http://iplus.net.ua/
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Vinnytsia Region
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TV channels
TV and Radio Company “Lada”
TV and Radio Company “Lada” (radio
“Ladyzhyn”)
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by communal
Entreprise “Lada”, Agency "RMA CAPITAL"
Management:
Director – Halyna Danylivska (member of
Ladyzhyn city council, a representative of
People’s Democratic Party (Volodymyr
Lytvyn bloc)
covers 25 % of the territory of the region.
Products:
The media outlet produces infotainment
radio and TV projects. The company also
rebroadcasts programs of a company “FDR
- radio center” and information programs
of Ukrainian departments of radio
stations "BBC", "The Voice of America",
Radio Liberty, "Deutsche Welle".
Lada radio, Local wired-radio outlets, TV
production studio, Internet portal
www.lada-fm.com and network of
representation across the region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
Viinytsia Region, the city of Ladyzhyn
(243)6 25 03
(04343)-6-95-23
(0432)-69-92-83
(0432)-69-92-87
radio_lada@mail.ru
promo@lada-fm.com.ua
muzred@lada-fm.com.ua
director@lada-fm.com.ua
trkpk@mail.ru
http://ladafm.at.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
Owners:
The TV and Radio Company is owned by
its director – Ihor Dovbnya, a vicepresident of “RIA” corporation
Management:
Director: Ihor Dovbnya
Positioning:
Private music-and-information radio
station.
Audience:
People aged between 27 and 40
Products:
The media outlet mainly rebroadcasts
Kiev-based radio stations Europa Plus FM,
OK FM, Hit FM, Retro FM, and produces
local news for 5 kanal.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
Office 701, 82, Khmelnutsk av, 21000,
Vinnytsia
(0432)57-03-90, (0432)-32-91-00, (0432)53-16-18(РА), (0432)-55-49-88, (0432)-6609-56
radio@ria.ua, radio_1014@ria.ua,
ria@mail.vinnica.ua,
welcome@ria.nest.vinnica.ua
http://www.ria.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “TODOR”
Private Entrepreneurship TV and Radio
Company “TODOR”
Management:
Director: O. Rak
Positioning:
Infotainment media outlet
Cable TV service provider.
Products:
The media outlet provides mainly cable
broadcasting, and covers the city of
Ladyzhyn, Vinnytsia region. The company
also has an own TV channel which
broadcasts for 2 hours a day.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, vul. Budivelnykiv, 24321, Ladyzhyn,
Vinnytsia region
(04343) 62847
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Newspapers
“Vinnytska Hazeta”
“Vinnytska Hazeta”
Owners:
The media outlet is oriented on Vinnytsia
Mayor Volodymyr Groysman (Nasha
Ukraina Party). Some influence of Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc is also visible.
Management:
Editor - Natalya Kosmina
Positioning:
Social-and-political media outlet,
positioned as the cheapest and the most
accessible informational partner of the
city council, and for the whole city
community.
is published three times a week.
Audience:
Products:
The media outlet provides information
focused on acute political and social
issues, legal issues, taxation etc
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
15, vul. Kozutskogo, 21050, Vinnytsia
(0432) 35-33-20, 35-50-37, 35-22-68
vgazeta@apexnet.com.ua
http://www.vin-gazeta.net
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“Vinnychyna”
“Vinnychyna”
Owners:
regional council. Now it is controlled by
the Head of the regional council Grygoriy
Zabolotny (Socialist Party) and the Head
of Regional State Administration
Oleksandr Dombrovsky (Nasha Ukraina
party).
Management:
Editor - Vasyl Palamarchuk
Positioning:
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
7, vul. Khmelnytske shose, 21100,
Vinnytsia (0432) 32-05-83, 32-07-83,
32-46-29 vinnitch@vc.ukrtel.net
http://www.vinnichina.inf.ua/
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“Pivdennyi Bug”
“Pivdennyi Bug”
Owners:
The media outlet was jointly established
by regional NGOs.
Management:
Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lysenko. Mr
Lysenko is the head of the Vinnytsia
regional organization of the National
Union of Ukrainian Journalists
Positioning:
Informational and op-ed media outlet
Biweekly newspaper published in 1,000
copies, distributed free of charge in the
whole region.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
19, vul. Gogolya, 21100, Vinnytsia
(0432) 35-01-72
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“Trybuna Praci”
“Trybuna Praci”
Owners:
Gaysyn rayon council jointly with Rayon
State Administration
Management:
Editor – Yuriy Kovch
Positioning:
The newspaper is distributed in 5000
copies, throughout the Gaysyn rayon. It is
published twice a week.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
6, vul. Pershogo Travnya, 23700, Gaysyn,
Vinnytsia Region
(04334) 4-35-02, fax: 4-31-59, 4-34-81, 242-14
trybuna@vc.ukrtel.net
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“Shargorodshyna”
“Shargorodshyna”
Owners:
Shargorod rayon council jointly with
Rayon State Administration.
Management:
Editor – Vitaliy Buryak
Positioning:
copies, throughout the Shargorod rayon.
100 % is distributed through subscription.
Audience:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
186, vul. Lenina, 23500, Shargorod,
Vinnytsja region
(04344) 2-14-84
paper_shar@ukrpost.ua
http://shargorodshina.inf.ua
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“Misto”
Newspaper “Misto”
Owners:
The media outlet is close to the mayor of
Vinnytsia Volodymyr Groysman (Nasha
Ukraina party).
Management:
Director General – Oleksandr Baryl, Editor
in Chief – Iryna Zhuk
copies, throughout the Vinnytsia region.
Audience:
Population of Vinnytsia city and region
Products:
the following categories: Day after day,
That’s life, Style, Health, Useful reading,
Sports, The Editor’s column, For
discussion, etc.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
3а, vul. Shurshova, 21009, Vinnytsia
55-11-00, 55-11-01, 55-11-02
misto@vinnitsa.com
http://www.misto.vn.ua/
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“33 kanal”
Newspaper “33 kanal”
Owners:
The media outlet is oriented on Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc, although the owner of
the outlet Anatoliy Zhuchynskyy
represents Nasha Ukraina party in the
regional council.
The paper has recently criticized
Vinnytsia mayor Volodymyr Groysman and
governor of the region Oleksandr
Dumbrovskyy (both represent Nasha
Ukraina party).
Management:
Editor - Anatoliy Zhuchynskyy
Positioning:
Social-and-political, analytical edition
The most circulated newspaper of the
region. The printed version is distributed
in 55,000 copies, in the city of Vinnytsia
and its region, partially Zhytomyr and
Khmelnytskiy regions.
Products:
following categories: Political and
Economical news, Cultural life, Youth
page, Crime, Scandals etc.
Newspaper «Podilska Radnycya»
Contact
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23, vul. Kosmonavtiv, 21021, Vinnytsia
(432) 515-226, 43-57-88
chanel33@vinnitsa.com
http://33kanal.com
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
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Volyn Region
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305
TV channels
Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company
Volyn Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Management:
Director General: Olga Kulish
TV and Radio Company covers up to 90%
of the population of the region.
Audience:
Products:
The media outlet produces own media
projects, news, international projects
(example: a joint Ukrainian-Polish-Belarus
media project).
The company cooperates with BBC,
Deutsche Welle, The Voice of America,
Ukrainian Radio of Chicago (USA) and
pan-Ukrainian TV channels.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
Volyn Radio (air and wired-radio), radio
station "Lutsk" (20 hours per day), Volyn
TV (TV channel "Nova Volyn" – 15 hours
per day). The company also has
correspondent offices and special
correspondents across the region
9, vul. Slovackogo, 43025, Lutsk
(0332) 77-05-70
admin@voltv.lutsk.ua
http://voltv.com.ua
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TV and radio Company “Avers”
TV and Radio Company “Avers”
Owners:
president of corporation «Avers» Oleg
Velychko.
Management:
Director – V. Synkevych. The Head of the
editor’s board – N. Chepynoga
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
19а, vul. Konjakina, 43026, Lutsk
(0332) 778503, (0322) 778505
http://www.mediaavers.com
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Newspapers
“Visnyk i Ko”
“Visnyk i Ko”
Owners:
Lutsk city organization of Afghan War
Veterans. The outlet is owned by
Commercial Bank “Zakhidincombank”
(the bank’s Head of the Board: Vasyl
Havrylyshyn, member of the city council,
Yulia Tymoshenko bloc).
Management:
Editor – Evgen Hotymchyk
Positioning:
Analytical media outlet
Monthly newspaper distributed in 80,000
copies, throughout the country.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
15, av. Peremogy, 43005, Lutsk, Volyn
region
(0332) 78-02-27
visnyk@zib.lutsk.ua, market@zib.lutsk.ua
http://visnyk.lutsk.ua
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“Viche”
“Viche”
Owners:
Media outlet was established by the
regional journalists.
Management:
Editor - Vasyl Prostopchyk
Positioning:
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
8, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk
(0332) 22-80-86, 72-60-98.
viche@viche.lutsk.ua
http://www.viche.lutsk.ua
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“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
Owners:
The media outlet was established by LLC
“Slovo”.
newspaper is owned by a group of
companies “Continuum”, owned by Ihor
Eremeev.
Management:
Editor - Galyna Fedorenko
Positioning:
Audience:
Products:
The media outlet is designed for an
intellectual reader (self-estimation). The
newspaper informs about the events in
Ukraine and abroad, interesting life
stories and personalities. Close attention
is paid to issues of political and
economical development of the country,
agricultural sector. Separate sections are
focused on history.
Contact
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information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
49, vul. Glushets, 43010, Lutsk
(0332) 78-78-44, 78-63-31.
vgv@fk.lutsk.ua
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“Volyn”
“Volyn”
Owners:
Volyn regional council.
Management:
Editor - Oleksandr Goranets
Positioning:
Social-and-political media outlet.
Newspaper positions itself as a centrist
media outlet, which articulates positions
of different political forces, including
opposition.
copies, throughout the region. It is
published three times a week.
Audience:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
13, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk
(0332) 72-38-96, 72-71-07,77-07-70.
gazeta@gazeta.lutsk.ua
http://www.volyn.com.ua/
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“Dzvony Volyni”
“Dzvony Volyni”
Owners:
Volyn diocesan administration of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Positioning:
Religious newspaper
Monthly newspaper distributed in 10,600
copies, throughout the country.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
11, vul. Karaimska, 43016, Lutsk
(0332) 72-51-77
orthopress@elutsk.ua
http://www.orthvoldiocese.lutsk.ua/
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Online resources
“Volynska Pravda”
“Volynska Pravda”
Owners:
The on-line resource was established by
the similarly named LLC. The leader of
the project Oleksandr Pyrozhyk in March
2008 won the contest “The Volyn Person
of the Year” in the category “The best
information project”, and in June 2008
chaired the newly created Department of
informational policy of Lutsk City Council.
Mayor of Lutsk Bogdan Shyba has some
influence on the media outlet.
Management:
Leader of the project – Oleksandr
Pyrozhyk
Positioning:
The first independent internet media in
Volyn
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
http://pravda.lutsk.ua/
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Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy”
Web-portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr
Vechirnyy”
Management:
Editor – I. Zalyskyy
Positioning:
Social-and-political newspaper for all
social groups
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
8(050)3781055, (0334)238131
http://www.volodymyr.in.ua/
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Zakarpattia Region
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TV channels
“Tisa-1”
Zakarpattia Regional State TV and Radio
Company (“Tisa-1”)
Owners:
The outlet is loyal to Viktor Baloha and
his brother – first deputy governor of the
region Ivan Baloha.
Management:
Director General – Evgen Shyshkov
Products:
Media outlet produces 12 hours of own
broadcasting in Ukrainian, German,
Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak languages.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
18, Kyivska Naberezhna, Uzhgorod,
Zakarpattia region
(+380-312) 61-62-72
ztv@utel.net.ua
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“M-studio”
TV and radio company “M-Studio” (TV and
radio company “Mukachevske”)
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by Baloha
brothers.
Management:
Director General – Volodymyr Shybets
TV and Radio Company covers up to 70%
of the population of the region.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
17, vul. Yaroslava Mudrogo, 89600,
Mukacheve, Zakarpattia region
(03131) 5-50-99, (03131)4-13-95, 3-79-00
m-studio@mk.uz.ua
http://m-studio.net.ua
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Newspapers
“Zakarpatska Pravda”
“Zakarpatska Pravda”
Owners:
Head of the regional office of the Party of
the Regions, MP Oleksandr Ledida.
Management:
Editor – Volodymyr Ushenko
Positioning:
Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10,00015,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products:
the following categories: Economic news,
Politics, Society, Sports, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
41/1, vul. Gagarina, 88000, Uzhgorod
(0312) 66-00-31, 66-02-02 22-55-66
zakarpatka@westportal.net
319
“Novyny Zakarpattia”
“Novyny Zakarpattia”
Owners:
The media outlet was established by the
Regional council and Regional State
Administration. It is controlled by Baloha
brothers.
Management:
Editor – Vitaliy Yashyshak
Positioning:
Products:
The media outlet provides info in the
following categories: “Local time”,
“News”, “Comments”, “Market
development”, “Culture”, “Sports,
advertisement.
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
• URL:
4, Narodna sq., 88008, Uzhgorod
(0312) 23-53-00, 23-62-84
nzak@tn.uz.ua
http://transkarpatia.net/
320
“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
Owners:
Uzhgorod Rayon State Administration,
jointly with the Uzhgorod Rayon council.
Management:
Director General – Ivan Zhyrosh
Positioning:
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
84, vul. Sobranetska, 88000, Uzhgorod
(0312) 61-44-26
321
Online resources
Zakarpattia on-line
Zakarpattia on-line
Products:
The media outlet provides recent news
Zakarpattia and the whole Ukraine. The
outlet is focused on politics and economy
of the region, culture and sports, criminal
news, etc.
• e-mail:
• URL:
editor@Zakarpattia.net.ua
http://Zakarpattia.net.ua/
322
Zaporizhia region
323
TV channels
Owners:
The media outlet is controlled by OJSC
“Zaporizhstal”, one of the biggest steel
producing enterprises in the region, and
“IndustrialBank”.
Management:
Director General – Mykola Efimov,
Executive Director – Sergiy Tyhonov
Products:
The TV Company produces news, political
economic programs, projects for children,
etc.
Channel TV-5 Sport
Contact
•
•
•
•
4-a, vul. Suvorova, 69035, Zaporizhia
(061) 213-46-10
tv5@tv5.zp.ua
http://www.tv5.zp.ua/
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
324
“Aleks TV”
TV and radio company “Aleks TV” (22
channel)
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by OJSC Motor
Sich, one of the biggest engine-producing
company in the world. The head of Motor
Sich, Viacheslav Boguslaev, is a Ukrainian
MP, a member of the Party of the
Regions.
Management:
Director general – Viacheslav Vlasov
Products:
the following categories: The City,
Criminal news, Culture, Politics, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
48, av. Motobudivnykiv, Zaporizhia,
(0612)213-91-53
trk@atv.zp.ua, romanovaea@ukr.net
http://alextv.zp.ua
325
TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”
TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”
as: Azov Wave)
Management:
Director – I. Onyshenko
Positioning:
Berdyansk private infotainment station
Media outlet covers the city of Berdyansk
and its rayon.
Products:
TV and Radio Company produces own
programs, and rebroadcasts Kyiv
syndication company “FDR Radio center”
Radio Azovs’ka Hvyl’a - 106 FM
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
20, Melitopolske sh., 71100, Berdyansk
(06153)-2-51-40, (06153)-2-55-41
(06153)-2-51-40
radio106@ukrpost.ua
326
Newspapers
“Zaporizka Pravda”
“Zaporizka Pravda”
Owners:
The media outlet is oriented on the Head
of the regional council, a member of the
Party of the Regions, Oleksandr Nefedov.
Management:
Editor – Ivan Cyganyuk
Positioning:
is published three times a week. 95% of
subscription. 15% of copies are distributed
in the city of Zaporizhia, 85% - in the
region.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia
(0612) 24-54-21
zp-reklama@optima.com.ua
http://www.online.zp.ua/zp/
327
“Gorozhanin”
“Gorozhanin”
Owners:
The media outlet is loyal to Zaprorizzhia city
mayor Evgen Kartashov and the economic and
financial group integrated by “Zaporizhstal”
and “IndustrialBank”.
Management:
Editor - Andriy Bartysh
Positioning:
copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia. It
is published once a week.
Audience:
All social and political groups.
Products:
The media outlet provides information in the
following categories: Politics, Society, The
city, Culture, Health, Sports, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
7, vul. Pravdy, 69037, Zaporizhia
(0612) 24-02-43, 49-03-87
gorozhanin@ukr.net
http://gorozhanin.com.ua/index.php?id=1228
328
“Nashe Vremya Plus”
“Nashe Vremya Plus”
as Our Time Plus)
Owners:
The media outlet is led by the company
“Alexander” of Volodymyr Kaltsev, former
candidate for Zaporizzhia city mayor
Management:
Director – Olena Gnyda
Positioning:
copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia
and the region. It is published once a
week.
Products:
the following categories: “News”, “The
Problem”, “Regional news”, “Our life”,
“Culture” , “Consumer”, “Health” ,
“Leisure”, “Sports”, etc
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia
(0612) 62-60-81, 60-97-50, 63-82-64
nv@newtime.zp.ua
http://www.nv.zp.ua/
329
“Region”
“Region”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by LLC
"Publishing House "Magnat"
Management:
Editor - Oleksandr Kurashenko
Positioning:
Advertising media outlet
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
159b, vul. Gorkogo, 69095, Zaporizhia
(0612) 60-31-24, 62-51-63
mechta_reklama@ua.fm
330
“Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama”
“Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZPanorama”
Owners:
financial and economic group
“Zaporizhstal” - “IndustrialBank”.
Management:
Editor – Volodymyr Dubak
Positioning:
copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia
and its region. It is published once a
week.
Products:
the following categories: Economy, Law,
Government, Events, Crime, Society,
Health, Education, History, Foreign
countries, Sport, etc
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
152/225, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia
(061) 228-30-15, 228-3017, 228-30-18
iz@iz.com.ua
http://iz.com.ua/
331
Online resources
“Prospect”
“Prospect”
Positioning:
News and Analytical Portal
Audience:
Products:
the following categories: Politics, Society,
Science and Research, Travel,
Government, Personality, History,
Culture, Sports, Information
PR agency Media Plus
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
66, av. Lenina, 69002, Zaporizhia
(061)213-86-20 ,8(067)386-35-80
nastgaz@rambler.ru ,
prospect@udaff.com
http://prospect.zp.ua/
332
Zhytomyr region
333
TV channels
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners/Affiliation:
The company is part of a network of
Ukrainian regional TV and radio
companies integrated under Ukraine’s
State Committee for TV and Radio
Broadcasting.
In its content the company is oriented on
the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament
Volodymyr Lytvyn
Management:
Director - Viktor Boyko. Mr Boyko is a
member of Zhytomyr regional council,
member of People’s Party (Volodymyr
Lytvyn bloc)
The TV and Radio Company broadcasts
own products on two TV channels and two
radio channels. Total volume of TV
broadcasting - 19 hours per day; total
volume of radio broadcasting - 21 hours
per day. Potential audience reaches 900
thousand people, 70% of the population of
the region.
Audience:
Products:
The media outlet produces sociallyoriented, economic, political, cultural
and other programs about Zhytomyr
region, mostly in Ukrainian language.
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
7, vul. Teatralna, 10014, Zhytomyr
(0412) 47-30-89, 22-85-32
Boyko.tv@zt.ukrtel.net
334
TV and radio company “VIK”
TV and radio company “VIK”
Management:
Director – Viktor Bessalitskyh
Positioning:
Air and cable broadcaster
TV channel „VIK” is broadcasted in the
city of Berdichiv and Berdichiv rayon
through a cable network.
Audience:
Products:
Own programs: 24 hours a day
News programs: 8 hours a day Cultural
programs: 2 hours a day Entertainment
programs: 2 hours a day Programs for
children: 2 hours a day
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
55, vul. Lenina, 13300, Berdichiv,
Zhytomyr region
(04143) 4-09-99 viktrk@mail.ru
http://www.trkvik.tv/index.php
335
TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
Owners:
The company is oriented on Yulia
Tymoshenko bloc. Serhiy Hrynchuk, one
of the owners of the company, is a
member of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc in
the regional council
Management:
Director – Dmytro Kondratuk. Executive
director – Serhiy Hrynchuk.
4 radio stations in Zhytomyr and region
Audience:
General audience is aged between 20 and
55, among them - students, civil servants,
housewives etc.
Products:
70% of broadcasting of the TV and Radio
Company is in Ukrainian; 30% - in Russian.
LLC “Orta-Forum” owns the local radio
station “Radio-Club” and purchased rights
to rebroadcast “Lux-FM” and “Hit-FM”.
The company is also linked to an
advertising agency “R-Club”
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
1, vul. Kyivska, 10014, Zhytomyr
(412)413104, 413104
rclub@polesye.net
336
Newspapers
“RIA-Tyzhden”
“RIA-Tyzhden”
Owners:
The media outlet is owned by the Mediacorporation RIA.
Management:
Editor in Chief – Kostyantyn Gudzovskyy
Positioning:
Advertisement-focused media outlet
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
301, 9, vul. Rylskogo, 10014, Zhytomyr
(0412) 41-81-89, 41-31-64
inter@impuls.zhitomir.ua
http://zhitomir.ria.ua/
337
“Ekho”
“Ekho”
Owners/Affiliation:
The newspaper is oriented on the speaker
of Ukraine’s parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn
Management:
Editor in chief - Volodymyr Yatskevych.
Mr Yatskevych is a member of the
regional council, representing People’s
Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn).
Positioning:
Social, political and business media outlet
Audience:
Economically active citizens,
businessmen.
Contact
•
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
URL:
106c, vul. Chernyahivskogo, 10014,
Zhytomyr
(0412) 24-55-00, 24-39-02
exo@polesye.net, info@exo.net.ua
http://www.exo.net.ua/
338
“Zhytomyrshchyna”
“Zhytomyshchyna”
Owners:
Regional council, jointly with Regional
State Administration
Management:
Editor – Dmytro Panchuk
Profitability:
Newspaper is financed by regional
government, and is mostly loyal to
governor Yuriy Zabela (“Single Centre”
party, headed by Viktor Baloha).
Positioning:
published three times a week. 97% of
subscription, 3% through retail trade.
Contact
•
•
•
information:
Post address:
Tel:
e-mail:
12, Maidan Rad square, 10014, Zhytomyr
(0412) 37-15-48, 22-54-55, 37-42-21
zhitom@com.zt.ua
339
“Slovo Polissya”
“Slovo Polissya”
Owners:
Baranivka Rayon State Administration,
jointly with Rayon and city councils
Management:
Editor in Chief – A. Strilchuk
Positioning:
copies, throughout the Baranivskyi rayon.
It is published three times per week.
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
7а, vul. Kirova, 12700, Baranivka,
Zhytomyr region
(04144) 4-23-76
slovo@okotel.net.ua
340
On-line resources
Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Management:
Editor – Viktor Kotenko
Positioning:
Information online regional media outlet
The printed version of the newspaper is
the region.
Audience:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
5, vul. Seletska, 10009, Zhytomyr. post
office box 53
8 (0412) 48-01-45, 8-063-406-17-06
svoboda2-08@mail.ru
www.svoboda.zhitomir.ua

Ukrainian Media Monitoring on EU Issues

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