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Ukrainian Media Monitoringon 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 ........................................................................................................................... 11Lviv region .................................................................................................................................. 16Crimea ......................................................................................................................................... 21Kharkiv region ............................................................................................................................ 26Lugansk region .......................................................................................................................... 37Mykolaiv region .......................................................................................................................... 42Odesa region .............................................................................................................................. 48Zakarpattia region...................................................................................................................... 52
Detailed overview of Ukrainian regions by key media outlets ........................................ 58
Autonomous Republic of Crimea............................................................................................ 59TV channels................................................................................................................................ 60
TV channel “Chernomorka”.................................................................................................. 60TV and Radio Company “Devkom”..................................................................................... 61TV 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 ...................................................................................................................... 67The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska” ............................................................... 67News Agency “E-Krym” ........................................................................................................ 68
Cherkasy region .......................................................................................................................... 69TV channels................................................................................................................................ 70
TV company “Vikka” .............................................................................................................. 70TV company “Uman’” ............................................................................................................ 71Cherkasy 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
On-line resources ...................................................................................................................... 78Internet project “Press Center” ............................................................................................ 78Media group “Antena” ........................................................................................................... 79Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a” ............................................................................................. 80
Chernigiv region .......................................................................................................................... 81TV channels................................................................................................................................ 82
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company.......................................................... 82TV channel “TV–Pryluky” ..................................................................................................... 83TV 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
On-line resources ...................................................................................................................... 90Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor” .......................................................................................... 90Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal .................................................................................... 91Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val” ....................................................................................... 92
Chernivtsy region ........................................................................................................................ 93TV channels................................................................................................................................ 94
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy” ................................................................................... 94TV and radio company “AS” ................................................................................................ 95Chernivtsy 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 .................................................................................................................... 102Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”.......................................................... 102Web-page of newspaper “Doba” ....................................................................................... 103
Dnipropetrovsk Region ............................................................................................................ 104TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 105
TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”................................................................................ 105TV and Radio Company “STERH” .................................................................................... 106TV channel “Avtor TV” ........................................................................................................ 107TV 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.......................................................................................................................... 117TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 118
TV company “Stirol-TV” ...................................................................................................... 118TRC “Ukraina” ...................................................................................................................... 119TV and Radio Company “UNION” .................................................................................... 121TV 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 ........................................................................................................... 132TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 133
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company ............................................ 133TV and radio company “3-studiya”.................................................................................... 134TV and radio company “Vezha” ........................................................................................ 135
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 136“Vpered” ................................................................................................................................ 136“Halychyna” .......................................................................................................................... 137“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk” .......................................................................................................... 138“Vilnyy Holos” ....................................................................................................................... 139“Halytske Slovo”................................................................................................................... 140
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 141News agency ifPortal.net.................................................................................................... 141“PIAR” .................................................................................................................................... 142
Kharkiv region ............................................................................................................................ 143TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 144
“TV company “ATN” ............................................................................................................ 144Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ........................................................... 145
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 146“Slobids’kyy Kray” ................................................................................................................ 146“Vecherniy Kharkov”............................................................................................................ 147“Novyy Den’”......................................................................................................................... 148“Vremya” ............................................................................................................................... 149“Sobytie” ................................................................................................................................ 150
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 151“MediaPort” ........................................................................................................................... 151“Status quo” .......................................................................................................................... 153“Gorodskoy Dozor” .............................................................................................................. 154
Kherson region .......................................................................................................................... 155TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 156
“Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company) ...................................... 156TV and radio company “TOP”............................................................................................ 158TV “Vita” ................................................................................................................................ 159
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 160“Bulava” ................................................................................................................................. 160“VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”.................................................................................................... 161“Gryvna” ................................................................................................................................ 162“Novyi Den’” .......................................................................................................................... 163“Vestnik priazov’ya” ............................................................................................................. 164
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 165Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city...................................................................................... 165
Khmelnytskyi region ................................................................................................................ 166TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 167
Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company ................................................. 167TV 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” ................................................................................................................................... 174On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 175
News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi” .......................................................................... 175Media corporation “Ye!” ...................................................................................................... 176
Kirovograd region ..................................................................................................................... 178TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 179
TV and radio company “KTM” ........................................................................................... 179Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company ..................................................... 180
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 181“Kirovogradska Pravda”...................................................................................................... 181“21 kanal” .............................................................................................................................. 182“Narodne Slovo”................................................................................................................... 183“Nova Gazeta” ...................................................................................................................... 184“Silskyy Visnyk” .................................................................................................................... 185
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 186Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd” ....................................................................................... 186On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk ................................................................ 187
Kyiv region .................................................................................................................................. 188TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 189
“Maidan-TV”.......................................................................................................................... 189Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 190
“Hromads’ka Dumka” .......................................................................................................... 190“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny” .............................................................................................. 191“Yagotyns’ki Visti” ................................................................................................................ 192“Peremoga”........................................................................................................................... 193
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 194“Kyiany – Obozrevatel” ....................................................................................................... 194“Khreshchatyk” ..................................................................................................................... 196
Lugansk Region......................................................................................................................... 197TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 198
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”).............................................. 198TV and radio company “STV” ............................................................................................ 199TV and radio company “IRTA”........................................................................................... 200
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 201Vecherniy Lugansk .............................................................................................................. 201“Vesti Regiona” .................................................................................................................... 202“Luganskaya Pravda” .......................................................................................................... 203“Nasha Gazeta”.................................................................................................................... 204
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 205“Novyny Luganska” ............................................................................................................. 205“Rakurs Plus”........................................................................................................................ 206“Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”...................................................................................... 207
Lviv region................................................................................................................................... 208TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 209
Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company.................................................................. 209NTA........................................................................................................................................ 210
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 211Vysokyi Zamok..................................................................................................................... 211Lvivs’ka Hazeta .................................................................................................................... 212Argument Gazeta ................................................................................................................ 213Ratusha ................................................................................................................................. 214
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Subotn’a Poshta .................................................................................................................. 215Online resources...................................................................................................................... 216
News Agency “LvivNews” .................................................................................................. 216ZIK.......................................................................................................................................... 217Zaxid.net ............................................................................................................................... 218
Mykolaiv region.......................................................................................................................... 219TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 220
Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ......................................................... 220TV and radio company “Mart” ............................................................................................ 221TV channel “35 kanal”......................................................................................................... 222
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 223“Vecherniy Nikolaev” ........................................................................................................... 223“Vestnik Pribuzhya” ............................................................................................................. 224“Shchotyzhn’a” ..................................................................................................................... 225“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”...................................................... 226“Yuzhnaya Pravda”.............................................................................................................. 227
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 228Internet media “Mukola.net” ............................................................................................... 228Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua” ...................................................................................... 229Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua” ...................................................................................... 230
Odessa region ............................................................................................................................ 231TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 232
Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company ........................................................... 232Media group “Glas”.............................................................................................................. 233TV 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
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 241News Agency “Reporter” .................................................................................................... 241Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti” .................................................................. 242“Misto” (Odessa News web-page) .................................................................................... 243
Poltava Region ........................................................................................................................... 244TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 245
Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”) ........................................... 245TV channel Misto ................................................................................................................. 246TV channel “Astra” .............................................................................................................. 247
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 249“Zor’a Poltavshchyny” ......................................................................................................... 249“Vechirnia Poltava” .............................................................................................................. 250“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti” ................................................................................................................ 251“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk” ............................................................................................................. 252“Visnyk Kremenchuga” ....................................................................................................... 253
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 254Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny” ......................................................................................... 254Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”............................................................................................ 255
Rivne region................................................................................................................................ 256TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 257
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Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company .............................................................. 257LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”.............................................................................. 258TV and radio company “Rivne-atom” ............................................................................... 259
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 260“7 dniv”................................................................................................................................... 260“Vil’ne Slovo” ........................................................................................................................ 261“Visti Rivnenshchyny” ......................................................................................................... 262“Volyn’” .................................................................................................................................. 263“Rivne Vechirn’e” ................................................................................................................. 264
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 265Regional portal “Rivne” ....................................................................................................... 265Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne” ................................................................................ 266Portal of the publishing house “OGO” .............................................................................. 267
Sumy region................................................................................................................................ 268TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 269
Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company .............................................................. 269TV 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
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 277Informational web-site sumy.net.ua.................................................................................. 277Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua .................................................................................. 278“Panorama”........................................................................................................................... 279
Ternopyl region .......................................................................................................................... 280TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 281
Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company .......................................................... 281“TV-4”..................................................................................................................................... 285TV channel “TTS” ................................................................................................................ 286
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 287“RIA plus” .............................................................................................................................. 287“Visnyk Ternopolyan” .......................................................................................................... 288“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta” ............................................................................................... 289“Podil’ske Slovo” .................................................................................................................. 290“Ternopil Vechirniy” ............................................................................................................. 291
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 292“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”.................................................................................................. 292“I-plus” ................................................................................................................................... 293
Vinnytsia Region ....................................................................................................................... 294TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 295
TV and Radio Company “Lada” ........................................................................................ 295TV and Radio Company “Pilot”.......................................................................................... 295TV 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 ............................................................................................................................... 304TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 305
Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company............................................................... 305TV and radio Company “Avers”......................................................................................... 307
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 308“Visnyk i Ko” ......................................................................................................................... 308“Viche” ................................................................................................................................... 309“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti” ........................................................................................ 310“Volyn” ................................................................................................................................... 311“Dzvony Volyni” .................................................................................................................... 312
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 313“Volynska Pravda” ............................................................................................................... 313Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy” ................................................... 314
Zakarpattia Region .................................................................................................................... 315TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 316
“Tisa-1” .................................................................................................................................. 316“M-studio” .............................................................................................................................. 317
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 318“Zakarpatska Pravda” ......................................................................................................... 318“Novyny Zakarpattia”........................................................................................................... 319“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”......................................................................................................... 320
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 321Zakarpattia on-line............................................................................................................... 321
Zaporizhia region....................................................................................................................... 322TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 323
TV company “TV-5” ............................................................................................................. 323“Aleks TV” ............................................................................................................................. 324TV 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
Online resources...................................................................................................................... 331“Prospect” ............................................................................................................................. 331
Zhytomyr region ........................................................................................................................ 332TV channels.............................................................................................................................. 333
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company ........................................................ 333TV and radio company “VIK” ............................................................................................. 334TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”............................................................................ 335
Newspapers.............................................................................................................................. 336“RIA-Tyzhden” ...................................................................................................................... 336“Ekho” .................................................................................................................................... 337“Zhytomyrshchyna”.............................................................................................................. 338“Slovo Polissya” ................................................................................................................... 339
On-line resources .................................................................................................................... 340
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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 mediamarket. They continue to be subject to considerable political influence, which is evenstronger than political influence at the national level. In each region competitionbetween key political and economic stakeholders is projected to competition betweenmedia outlets / holdings owned by these stakeholders.
This creates a significant setback in development of independent regional journalistsin Ukraine.
Despite this trend, it would be unjust to underestimate potential of Ukrainianregional journalism, including its interest to EU-related information. Regionaljournalists are normally more enthusiastic, less cynical, and more open to newinformation, including that coming from the EU. They know especially well situationin their regions and their economic and social needs, therefore cooperation with themis extremely important for the EU and its diplomatic missions.
Another interesting element of the Ukrainian regional press market concernsdistribution techniques.
In contrast to European national distribution markets, dominated usually by a limitednumber of delivery companies, the Ukrainian distribution market is over-fragmentedand 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 doublesetback: the distribution market is over-fragmented, and no clear tool to objectivelymeasure the number of copies really published by each particular media outlet isavailable.
Some Ukrainian regions are dominated by monopolist distribution companies,usually linked to one or two leading media holdings, which in turn are linked toleading economic, financial or political groups of the region. This creates anothermonopolist trap, as distribution companies remain major information source aboutrating and coverage of a media outlet, which enables dominating holdings manipulatefigures, attract advertisers, and in this way increase their influence on public opinion.
This constellation creates a tricky situation for any media monitoring research, asUkraine still lacks a nationally recognized certifying or monitoring company able toobjectively 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 toprovide more narrative information about key regional players on Ukrainian mediamarket. The report is prepared by local journalists, knowing the situation in theregion on the grassroots level, specially for this report. More detailed analysis of eachmedia 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, thebiggest media owner in the region. In Donetsk oblast Media Group Ukraine, owned bySCM, owns TV channel Donbass ; horizontal web-portal tochka.net (managed by DigitalVentures that belongs to Media Group Ukraine). Segodnya Multimedia, an SCM’scompany managing its print media business, manages newspapers Donetskie novosti(Donetsk news), Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk), Segodnya-Donbas. SCM, throughthese companies, controls majority of the media outlets of the region.
Other big media owners are not that transparent. Non-state TV and radio companyUnion was ranked 13th (out of 42) in the rating of Ukrainian channels broadcasting inthe region (according to data published by GfK Ukraine). According to unofficialinformation, 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 (reportsfrom Crimea were often broadcasted on Union). Due to Dzharty TV channel Union wasquite successful in its municipal tender bids : in 2010 it won the tender of the municipalcouncil on TV services, worth more than UAH 1,5 million (about EUR 130 thousand). TVchannel also has beneficial contracts with the municipal council on coverage of regionalnews.
Anatoliy Blyznuk, now the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, is also oneof the most influential media owners in the region. Regional newspaper Zhyzn (Life),unofficially called a « Blyzniuk’s newspaper », during Yushchenko’s presidency wasfinanced from the budget of Donetsk regional council (regional authority elected on theground). When Yushchenko lost his presidential race to Yanukovych, Blyznuk wasappointed the head of the regional state administration (regional institution appointedby the central authorities), and the paper Zhyzn received funds from theadministration’s budget. The paper’s case is one of the numerous examples in Ukrainehow much Ukrainian regional press depends on regional authorities, on a possiblecontroversy between central (or Kiev-appointed) and regional (regionally elected)authorities, and how pubic money is used to represent and advocate a biased politicalposition.
Political influence
Most media outlets in the region are vehicles to communicate ideas of the Party of theRegions. However, outlets also actively seize an opportunity to earn on political« jeansa » (paid materials). For example, Donetskie novosti were advertisingYanukovych during the latest presidential elections. However, despite sympathy toYanukovych, this newspaper also advertised Yulia Tymoshenko, unpopular in the region,in articles apparently written in Tymoshenko headquarters and advertising herachievements under the mask of an objective journalist report. The same articles werepublished by other media outlets of the region.
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After Yanukovych won the presidential elections, materials about the opposition havebecome mostly full of mockery, while actions taken by the Yanukovych’s team are nowmostly welcomed. Bulk of the pro-Yanukovych articles, whose authors express their fullsupport to Yanukovych, are written by unknown political experts, economists orjournalists. Sometimes articles published in some newspapers, are word-by-wordreproduced in articles published by other papers.
Newspaper Zhyzn earlier balanced between pro-Yanukovych (Anatoliy Blyznuk) and pro-Yushchenko (Volodymyr Lygvynenko, head of the Donetsk regional council, appointed byYushchenko) camps; but after Yanukovych’s victory at the latest elections, it fullysupports Yanukovych.
Latest trends of the media market
Closure of once popular newspaper Salon Dona i Basa has been one of the key events onthe Donetsk regional media market. The newspaper was published on Tuesdays (40pages) and Fridays (92 pages), in 9-15 thousand copies. The newspaper was owned bySegodnya Multimedia holding (SCM) but recently the holding decided to merge itsregional newspapers with the central office (newspaper Segodnya), saying the mergerwill cut costs in the group’s media business. On January, 21st, 2011, newspaper SalonDona i Basa was officially closed.
In February, 2011, Ukraine’s National TV and Radio Broadcasting Council refused toprolong broadcasting licenses to two affiliated Donetsk regional TV companies : CAT-plus and Vostok-plus. The Council said that the companies spend bulk of theirbroadcasting time to rebroadcast other channels’ products, primarily TV channel TVi. AsTVi is one of the key opposition TV channels in Ukraine, this ban was seen by many as apolitical move.
Key media of the region
Press
Donetskie novosti (Donetsk news) – weekly social and political magazine-formatnewspaper. Published in 52 pages, including chapters focused on advertising, thematicpages (Sports, Discovery, Donbass history, Show business, etc). Outreach : 20-28thousand copies. The paper is a part of the media holding Segodnya Multimedia, ownedby Rinat Akhmetov.
Segodnya-Donbass (Donetsk regional supplement to newspaper Segodnya, published in 4pages daily, which includes regional news and announcement of the upcoming events) –daily social and political newspaper, published by the media holding SegodnyaMultimedia, owned by Rinat Akhmetov.
Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk)¸ a regional newspaper focused on the older-ageaudience, who remember « Vecherka » as the key Soviet-time municipal newspaper (thesame phenomenon was present in Kyiv, in which Soviet municipal newspaper VechirniyKyiv 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 SegodnyaMultimedia.
Priazovskyi rabochiy (Azov Region Worker) – daily regional newspaper based inMarioupol 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 andDonetsk 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 citycouncil. Established by the Donetsk city council and the 9 regional councils. Weekly 16-page newspaper, published on Fridays. No credible information about the number ofcopies per issue is available.
TV
27 Kanal – is a part of the Donetsk regional TV and radio company. The channel has thebiggest 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 aboutmedicine”. News (10-15 minutes) broadcasted three times a day.
First municipal channel – is a part of the Advertising agency “Zolotoy gramophon”. Thechannel broadcasts in Donetsk and its suburbs. Key programs: “Kult-Tura”,“Psychology”, “PostFactum”, “Health formula”, etc. The channel also issues 12-15-minutes news blocks.
Union – regional information channel. The channel is believed to be the key channel ofthe Makiivka town, but also covers Donetsk, Horlivka, Khartsyzk, Yenakievo and someother cities of the Donetsk region.
Donbas – twenty-four-hour TV channel oriented on audience of the Eastern region. Thechannel has a political talk show “A question of power” broadcasted live. The TVchannel covers Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasynovata, and a network of cable operatorsthroughout the Donetsk region. Owned by SCM (Rinat Akhmetov).
Radio
Donetsk regional radio («Radio Centre») – a 24-hour radio station. The stationbroadcasts 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 theDonetsk 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 perweek (Donetsk regional state TV and radio company).
FM-radio stations – 13 FM radio stations (most of them broadcast 24 hours per day) areactive in the Donetsk region. Almost all of them broadcast their products under theaegis 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 SocialProspects. In April 2011 the web-site was registered in the Justice Ministry as a newsagency. The site implements its projects under grant support from the NationalEndowment for Democracy; US Embassy’s Foundation on Ukrainian media development;International Renaissance Foundation. Besides, the news agency tries to commercializeits activities and provides advertising services. The site does not have any clear politicalpreferences. It is visited by 10-13 thousand unique users daily.
KID (http://zadonbass.org) – the site does not disclose information about its publishersand owners. However, it full supports current authorities and ideology of the Party ofthe Regions. The site’s editorial board is located in the regional headquarters andpublic reception office of the Party of the Regions. The site is visited by 10-12 thousandunique users daily.
«Novosti Donbassa » (News of Donbass) (http://novosti.dn.ua) – The site does notdisclose information about its publishers and owners. The outlet positions itself as anopposition resource. Its editorial board is located in the headquarters of the regionaloffice of Narodna Partija Ukrainy (Ukraine’s People’s Party), controlled by MP OlexandrKlymenko (NUNS). The outlet’s editor in chief Olexiy Matsuka earlier was a member ofthe Regional Council (regional authority elected on the ground), representing YuliaTymoshenko Bloc. At the same time, despite the site’s close ties to opposition, it is oneof the leaders in publishing « jeansa » (paid news or articles), both economic andpolitical.
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 ofher 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 ofthe municipal councils. She also initiated closure of the municipal newspaper NashSlaviansk (Our Slaviansk). She created an alternative newspaper, « Slavianska pravda »,unofficially called in the region a « Shtepa’s newspaper ». Finally, during a pressconference she insulted a journalist (calling her a “bitch”) who asked an uncomfortablequestion.
The head of Donetsk state regional administration was not ranked an « ennemy of thepress », but his style of communication with the media also deserves attention. Headvocates an idea of « positive news », arguing that journalists try to depict a blackpicture 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 wasfurious when western and then local journalists covered the situation of children inTorez orphaline, saying these materials are « paid » to discredit regional authorities. Ajournalist who wrote about the orphanage in the newspaper Zhyzn, was fired.
State-owned media outlets in the region mostly focus their work on coverage ofactivities of the local authorities. Oleg Dzholos, the director general of the Donetskregional state TV and radio company did not agree with accusations of the independentjournalists that blamed the company for predetermining information broadcasted bythe 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 amongthe journalists, covering key topics of the news and their ideological focus (« keymessage of the day ») and a clearly defined content. Local measures involving the headof the regional state administration and his deputies are considered to be the keyevents of the day. These officials are considered by the TV channel as key speakers ofthe news. Journalists regret that they face difficulties to get equipment and transportto cover news outside of the « weekly plan » most focused on measures involvingregional officials.
In June 2011 Donetsk police tried to get access to data of the information agencyOstroV. The police addressed the provider of the web-hosting services and required, onthe basis of the inexistent criminal case, to provide it with access to the OstroV’sdatabase. Sergiy Harmash, the editor in chief of the outlet, said that the actions takenby law enforcement services are illegal; they might be linked with an attempt ofUkrainian MP Yuriy Ivanushchenko to delete critical materials published by OstroV.
Another important problem of the media sector of the region consists in the fact thatregional authorities try to avoid implementation of the recently adopted law « Onaccess to public information », trying to stamp information they want to hide asinformation « for internal use ». Even after the law took effect, the regional authoritiesdo not reply to journalists’ questions, or refuse, without grounds, in disclosing thisinformation.
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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 publishedthree times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 174,020 readers according tothe research done by the company TNS - NRS 2010/2.
Newspaper “Visokiy Zamok” (“High Castle”) – an interregional media outlet of generalprofile published five times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 162,880readers.
Newspaper “Lvivska Poshta” (“Lviv Post”) - a local media outlet of general profilepublished three times a week. Data about the audience are not available.
Local daily newspapers “Express” and “Visokiy Zamok” have larger audience of oneissue than nation-wide daily newspapers.
Weeklies:
“Lvivska Gazeta” (“Lviv Newspaper”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile. Theaudience of one issue constitutes 32,180 readers.
“Informator – the newspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations – a regionalmedia outlet specializing in journalist investigations. The audience of one issueconstitutes 20,870 readers.
Newspaper “Ratusha” (“City Hall”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile; dataabout 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 hostsmonthly according to Bigmir rating (as of July 3, 2011)
ZIK (http://ww.zik.ua) a news agency “Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” (“WesternInformation 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 analyticshaving around 171,000 hosts monthly.
Television:
TV channel ZIK – an interregional information and education channel broadcasted in Lvivand nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
12th channel - a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted in Lvivand nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
News TV channel “24” – an all-Ukrainian information channel broadcasted inKhmelnitsky and oblast, in Lviv and oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil, accessiblein cable networks and on satellite TV.
TV channel “NTA” – a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted inLviv and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
Radio:
Radio station “Lvivska Khvylia” (“Lviv Wave”) – a local information and entertainmentradio 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 anation-wide radio network (frequency 102.1 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station “Nezalezhnist” (“Independence”) – a local information and educationalradio (frequency 106.7 MHz in Lviv).
According to the research of 17 radio stations broadcasting in Lviv conducted onFebruary 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 ratingof 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-editionsZAXID.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 shareholdingsof the TV and radio company “Lux”: the company’s general director Roman Andreyko, along-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 arealso owners of the television and radio company “PrimeMedia Ltd” (Radio 24).
Media group “ZIK” (“Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” Ltd.) This group includesInternet-outlet ZIK and a regional TV channel ZIK. The group is indirectly owned by thepresident of the soccer club “Karpaty”, an entrepreneur Petro Dyminskiy.
Media group “Express” includes the newspaper “Express” (including regional inserts forLviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Rivne, Lutsk, Uzhgorod), a monthly newspaper“PostPOSTUP”, a weekly magazine “TeleExpress”, a monthly newspaper “PoradnykGospodaria” (“Adviser to the Owner”), a bi-weekly newspaper “Dobriy Likar” (“GoodDoctor”), a monthly magazine “Zhinochiy Poradnik” (“Women’s Adviser”), a monthlymagazine “Express Cool”, a monthly magazine “Retsepty Gospodyni” (“Recipes forHousewife”), Internet media Expres.ua, and a polygraphic complex. The media group isowned by Igor Pochynok, a general director of Express Media Group Ltd. and a chiefeditor of the newspaper “Express”. Together with Roman Chmil, Igor Pochynok is a co-owner 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”. Anetwork of newsstands that uses a trade mark “Vysokiy Zamok” is also related to thisgroup. A chief editor of the newspaper “Vysokiy Zamok”, Natalia Baliuk, and herhusband, an MP, member of the BYuT faction in the parliament, Stepan Kurpil, are theowners 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 isowned by entrepreneurs, brothers Yaroslav and Bogdan Dubnevich, deputies of the Lvivoblast council, members of the faction “Vidrodzhennnia” (“Renaissance”). YaroslavDubnevich is also a representative of Ukrainian Railroad Company in Verkhovna Rada.
Media group Prominfo (integrates a number of companies). This group includesspecialized media outlets: newspapers “Derevoobrobnyk” (“Woodworker”),“Elektrotema” (“Electro themes”), “Metals. Technology & Equipment”, “Budekspert”(“Building Expert”), “Harchovyk" (“Food Industry Worker”), "Meat Industry", "Bakery andConfectionery", "Print "magazine", “Furniture technologies”, “Own Business”, “RealHOME”, "Angelyatko" (“Small Angel”) as well as a number of industry portals. Publisheris 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-ChristianParty). The wife of Andriy Sadoviy owns shares of “TRC Lux”. Another owner of theseshares is a long-standing business partner of Andriy Sadoviy, Roman Andreyko.
The media group ZIK is subject to the influence of personal political sympathies ofPetro Dyminskiy who sympathizes with the Party of Regions. In 2010, during theelections 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, MykhailoTsymbaliuk, 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 theLviv mayor, Petro Pisarchuk, is affiliated with the weekly newspaper “Informator” – anewspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations.
The media group “Vysokiy Zamok” is influenced by the political activity of a husband ofthe chief editor of the newspaper “Visokiy Zamok”, Natalua Baliuk – an MP StepanKurpil, 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. Theywere nominated by the party “Vidrodzhennia” (Renaissance).
The Lviv oblast state television and radio company is traditionally controlled by theoblast state administration.
Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, self-censorship, administrative pressure, jeansa, persecution of journalists.
The wide-spread violations of journalism standards (first of all, “jeansa” – paidmaterials) 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 periodsthe level of economic and political “jeansa” is comparable. “Jeansa” is inherent to alltypes of media – print, Internet, television. Owners of the media outlets that are notself-sustained directly or indirectly encourage management to publish “jeansa”. In2008-2011, “jeansa” in Lviv media was monitored by experts Oleg Onysko, BorysPotyatynnyk and Anatoliy Romaniuk. Oleg Onysko, an executive director of theinfographics agency Ukrainian Media Service and a former editor-in-chief of thenewspapers “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 moneyonly through “jeansa” and the expansion of their advertising markets has prevailed. Butthis is harmful for media outlets themselves and for their reputation”.
Censorship is used only towards state or communal media or media outlets that aredependent on the Lviv oblast state administration. In particular, in November 2010, theTV channel ZIK complained about the pressure from the then-head of the Lviv oblaststate administration Vasyl Gorbal who wanted to get leverage on the channel, and hisassistant 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 intoaccount the owner’s political sympathies and his/her political associations. Loyalty hasboth ideological and business parameters. But journalists are free to be unbiasedtowards the owner’s opponents”. In the case of the newspaper “Express”, this rule isonly 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 instrumentof pressure on media and journalists. Today these instruments are not usedsystemically. In December 2010, the Galytskiy district court of the city of Lvivsupported the lawsuit of the head of Lviv railroad, Bogdan Pikh, against the TV channelZIK. 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-prosecutorof Lviv oblast, Oleksiy Baganets and a deputy of Lviv oblast council, YaroslavDubnevych, sued the company – publisher of the newspaper “Express”. Yet, in thisparticular case there were grounds to believe that there was a hidden motivation in thepublications of “Express” – the protection of interests of the newspaper’s owner anddestruction 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 mediaoutlets of general profile. Vasyl Khomin, a publisher of Internet edition on Lviv media“Press Center” says: “The market is too congested. We have Internet mediaZAXID.NET, ZIK, ”Vgolos”, “Gal-info”, “Lvivskiy portal”, “Mediastar”. The same holdstrue for newspapers – they all work on a quite small market of advertisement wherethey landed because of ambitions of their owners, editors and journalists. It is almostimpossible to survive there. Some start to understand this and look for niches forthemselves. For example, “Informator” has its unique content – journalisticinvestigations. “Lvivska gazeta” starts to experiment with infographics. Internetprojects 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 Internetand its easy accessibility. Oleg Onysko comments: “The problem of Lviv newspapers isnot that their audience runs away to Internet but in their content. They haveincreasingly low-quality, unprofessional content. Only “Express”, “Ratusha”, “Noviypogliad” have original content. Those newspapers that have original content will havethe future in Internet. Lviv also has a place for new online media, but they have toproduce 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. Thereason is that editors do not fully understand readers’ needs and fill their editions withknowledge that is useless for readers. At the same time, the audience is becoming moredemanding, asking for more specific knowledge that satisfies its needs and does notwant to read everything. For example, our newspaper “Derevoobrobnyk”(“Woodworker”) that used to work for 2-3 audiences is compelled to publish separateeditions for narrower segments of the audience. If we make a separate product forthem, these narrow audiences grow, and we give them more specific knowledge”. OlegOnysko adds to this point: “Abundance of information results in the fact that mediaoutlets look for original news less often, resorting to copy-paste from each other. As aresult, 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 audiencesand do not order any surveys from experts. This holds true for most of print media withthe exception of “Express” and “Vysokiy Zamok” and for all TV channels except newschannel “24”. The statistics of all Lviv Interned media in the Bigmir rating is closedwhich 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 andfrequent 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 ofCrimea has changed dramatically following the results of the presidential and localelections.
Namely, Lev Mirimskiy (a deputy of the Verkhovna rada (Supreme Council, the Crimeanparliament, and a leader of the party “Soyuz”) who for years had owned influentiallocal media, including a popular newspaper “Crimean time”, left the circle of largemedia tycoons. Mirimskiy ran for a mayor of Sevastopol in 2010 and was defeated by acandidate from the Party of Regions, Viktor Ageev. Soon afterwards he left the mediabusiness and sold most of his media to a deputy of the Crimean parliament, AleksandrMelnik. Today Melnik controls such media as TV channel ITV, a Crimean editorial officeof the country-wide newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today), and newspapers “Krymskoevremia” (“Crimean time”) and “Crimean Telegraph”.
The newspaper “Krymskaya Pravda” (“Crimean Truth”) can be named the leastpolitically 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 wasappointed a deputy Head of the Crimean parliament. As a result, Baharev started togravitate to the politics of the Party of Regions, and the newspaper has become morepolitically biased.
Rustam Temirgaliyev, a head of the “KrymMediaHolding” and a deputy of the Crimeanparliament, is another important actor on the market of media owners. His holdingincludes a TV and radio company “Neapol”, a radio station “Trans-M-Radio” and one ofthe leading regional information agencies “e-Krym” ("e-Crimea"). Earlier the holdingalso included a newspaper “Glavniy prospect” (“Main avenue”), but it was closed duringthe economic crisis of 2009. In 2010-2011, the holding has actually become an affiliateof Aleksandr Melnik representing the Party of Regions. Today Melnik is the largest figureon 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 theCrimean 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 TVchannel used to come under pressure and intimidation, was threatened to be deprivedof its license and faced other obstacles from the politicians who are opposite to BYuT-Batkivschyna.
In 2001, the state television and radio company “Krym” has been gradually passing onto the Prime Minister of the Crimea, Vasiliy Jarty and becoming a “mouthpiece of theCouncil 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 theAutonomous Republic of Crimea. It has been published since October 18, 1991, 5 timesa week. Weekly circulation: 22,349 copies.
Krymskaya pravda (Crimean Truth) - socio-political newspaper that has been publishedsince 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 hasbeen published since December 2005 on Fridays. The newspaper is distributed across allthe Crimea, including Sevastopol.
Krymskiy telegraph (Crimean Telegraph) – Crimean socio-political weekly that has beenpublished since 2008; circulation - 40,000 per month.
Komsomolskaya pravda v Krymu (Komsomol truth in Crimea) - Crimean socio-politicalnewspaper. 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 newsagencies, a part of the KrymMediaHolding. Has operated since 2008 and has around30,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "KIA" (http://www.kianews.com.ua/) - Crimean news agency. Hasoperated since 1998 and has up to 40,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "Context Krym" (“Context Crimea”) (http://vastinfo.crimea.ua/) and itsmedia product - "Portal of Crimean news" (http://context.crimea.ua/) that was createdwith the support of U-Media program of Internews Network in 2009. The Portal hasaround 3,000 unique visitors daily.
“Novosty Kryma” (“News of the Crimea”) (news.allcrimea.net) - Crimean online newsservice. Average attendance constitutes 6,000 visitors daily. "News of the Crimea" grewout of the Yalta city newspaper "Yaltinskie vesti" (“Yalta news”) that is still beingpublished. The newspaper has been published since 1995 and is presented in Internetsince 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 newsagency (http://www.nr2.ru/crimea/). Has operated since 2004 and usually generatesradical “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 activelyexpanding in Crimea since 2011.
Komsomolskaya Pravda Krym (crimea.kp.ua), a part of "Yuzhnoukrainskiy mediaholding” South-Ukrainian media holding. Internet-version of the website exists since2008.
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 theonly 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 CrimeanCommittee of Television and Radio broadcasting. A state-owned TV channel founded byUkraine’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 the "KrymMediaHolding"(“CrimeaMediaHolding”) owned by Rustam Temirgaliev.
ATP - an independent Crimean Tatar channel that has broadcasted since 2006. Thisspring it has started twenty-four-hour broadcasting. A media holding that includes theATP is in ownership of a businessman Isa Haybullaev who is considered close to the firstdeputy 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 stationin the region. Broadcasts mainly rock music.
Meidan - a first independent Crimean Tatar radio station that has broadcasted since2005. 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 beenweakening, 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 anddistribution point in the Crimea through the establishment of a local editorial office.
- In 2010, national minorities in the Crimea have moved closer to multimedia. Inparticular, this year saw the emergence of a project "crimeantatars.org" that wascreated with the support of the U-Media program of Internews Network. The websiterepresents a first and quite successful attempt to gather multimedia content about thelife of Crimean Tatars, including videos from the TV Channel “ATP”. It is also plannedto 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 openlycritical materials about local officials and exposure of major corruption deals. Itspolitical affiliation is not clear.
Restriction on the freedom of speech in local media.
- “Jeansa” (paid, and therefore clearly biased, materials) remains the most commonnegative trend in the work of Crimean media. The monitoring conducted in April 2011by 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 andSymonenko.
- The newspaper “Krymskoe vremia” more often than other media violates thestandards 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 nottypical for the Crimea, except of the case when a correspondent of the newspaper"Zarya Tarkhankuta" (Dawn of Tarkhankut), Sergiy Antipenko, was beaten with ironbars. He has worked on disclosing illegal dealings with land and budget by a villagehead.
In 2010, the human rights activists who had provided media with the information onliving conditions of psychiatric patients in hospitals of the Crimea faced pressure andintimidation. In particular, Andrey Fedosov from the organization UZER was threatenedand urged not to disclose to media the results of his journalistic investigations aboutliving conditions of patients in local psychiatric hospitals.
The main trend among Crimean media is self-censorship in favour of the owner of amedia 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 anyexclusion 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 theEastern Crimea (editorial office is based in Theodosia) is relatively independent, but itmanages to survive due to self-censorship. The economic failure of the Crimean mediamarket makes it impossible to create truly independent media. Political actors are theprimary media customers in the region.
2. After the presidential elections in 2010, the media business in Crimea is still goingthrough 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 minoritiesenjoy only a very small audience. At the same time, such media often becomedependent on their national elites and focus on their problems, turning into amouthpiece of propaganda.
4. According to the data of the NGO “Crimean Center of Legal Initiative”, violations ofjournalist ethics in ethnical issues constitute a serious problem of the Crimean media.More than 100 Crimean journalists have been questioned, and 73% of respondents haveidentified the lack of tolerance among journalists as a main problem of ethnic relationsin 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 hadnot 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 educationshould start from with kindergartens and schools, and 30% believe that it is necessary tochange the policy and the division of the society into the “dominant” and non-dominantnations. Only few respondents expressed an opinion that there was a need to createsuch 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 mediaprojects die, losing sponsors or political support; others emerge, backing businessmenor 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 newspapersor magazines regularly failed. At the same time, entertainment and infotainmentoutlets, 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 wereclosed recently : Sobytie (Event : a weekly close to former director of the Kharkivaviation plant Pavlo Naumenko), Sobytija (Events, close to the Republican Party),Kharkovskie vedomosti (close to former governor of the Kharkiv oblast EvgenKushnariov), Megapolis (a newspaper of Andriy Shantarovich, opposition Belarusianjournalists who left his home country), regional versions of newspapers 24 and 15minut. Weekly MediaPost (established by Zurab Alasania, a well-known local journalist)was also closed, but then reemerged in the online version. Newspaper Novyi denfinanced by Viktor Subotin, head of board of the Megabank (that supported OlexandrMoroz’ 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 aweekly or a daily newspaper is published in more than five thousand copies. NewspaperVremia (http://timeua.info), controlled by former Tymoshenko-loyal politicianOlexandr Feldman, is perhaps the only exception from the rule. Vremia, a rebrandedheir of a soviet-time newsppaer Krasnoie znamia, maintained many of its subscribersand outreach. A media holding was established on the basis of the outlet, a web-sitewas also launched.
Another newspaper with Soviet roots, Vecherniy Kharkov(http://vecherniy.kharkov.ua), linked to Olexandr Kaganovsky (son-in-law of EvgenKushnariov, former governor of the oblast, who mysteriously died at a chase), has beenless successful.
Slobidskyi kray is another post-Soviet newspaper (http://www.slk.kh.ua) calledSotsialistychna Kharkivshchyna (Socialist Kharkiv region) during USSR, controlled andfinanced by the reigonal budget. The paper is oriented on country dwellers, rayon stateadministration, village councils, big agricultural enterprises. Citizens subscribe to thisnewspaper often under pressure from regional authorities. Some years ago Slobidskyikray was the only Ukrainian-language newspaper in the region. After Party of theRegions won on the Ukrainian elections, the paper was reorganized and startedpublishing Russian- and Ukrainian-language articles mostly aimed to advocate policies ofthe Party of the Regions.
Another newspaper – Kharkovskie izvestia – is a toy in the hands of the Kharkiv citycouncil and the city’s mayor Gennadiy Kernes. After Mikhail Dobkin and GennadiyKernes came to power in the region, the newspaper of the city executive committeeSloboda was closed and its place was taken by Kharkovskie izvestia. A relevant newsservice was created on 7th TV channel.
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Special place in the region is occupied by newspaper « Glavnoe » (the title can betranslated as « Main information ») and internet portal http://glavnoe.ua. Bothresources belong to Arsen Avakov.
Distribution remains one of the biggest problems of the region. The number ofnewspaper booths has been recently significantly reduced, but instead a new networkwas established. City authorities explaining the action said the company (PressaKharkova) owning the network and close to the former governor of the oblast ArsenAvakov 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 isowned jointly by the former (« orange ») governor of the oblast Arsen Avakov andKharkiv mayor Gennadiy Kernes. A permanent conflict between the two led to a specificsituation, when the channel has two separate news programs, produced by Avakov-closenews company ATN and Kernes-close Kharkovskie izvestia (produced by mayor-controlled « Independent news service ») respectively. The two news services reportwith opposing perspectives and construct two different virtual worlds aimed to achievedifferent communication tasks.
Interestingly, this situation is not an exception in the region. Many channels alsocommunicate contradictory messages, depending on the forces which are behindparticular programs or news services. For example, state-owned OTB gives its primetime to TV company R-1, linked to Mr Kaganovsky, a politician and businessman fromthe Party of the Regions. Above-mentioned ATN (broadcasting on the 7 kanal), alsorebroadcasts its news on TV channels ATVK, Fora and Favorit-novosti (all threecompanies are linked to Mr Avakov); and Kharkovskie izvestia had its servicebroadcasted on ATVK and Favorit until 1 July, 2011, when this TV channel ceased toexist (however, a part of the Kharkovskie izvestia’s editorial team will work on thereorganized TV channel ATN, now enlarging and preparing new projects).
A special position in the region is held by Media Group « Objektiv » created on August31st 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 : TVand radio broadcasting, internet and print media. The TV channel and the media groupare owned by a millionaire Olexandr Davtian, sympathizing to Arseniy Yatsenuk, one ofUkraine’s opposition politicians.
Kharkiv region practically lacks radio stations providing platform for social and politicaldebate. The only exception – official regional radio focused on audience listening to itby attachement datign from Soviet times) and « Novaya volna » (New Wave) owned byformer head of the Kharkiv regional state administration Arsen Avakov.
Those who want more fresh news, more objective and balanced coverage, go toInternet. Web-site MediaPort (http://www.mediaport.ua) is widely said to be the mostpopular, having its place in the top-30 of Ukrainian information web-sites. Until May2006 it was known as a web-site of the Media Group « Objective » but after a conflictwith 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 Kharkivregional state TV and radio company Zurab Alasania.
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Internet is also a place for more scandal-focused journalism. A number of scandal-focused web-sites specializing on Kharkiv emerged recently. There are also two morenews projects called Gorodskoy Dozor (City Watch) and Nastoyashchiy Dozor (RealWatch): although they earlier constituted a single project, a conflict between itsowners - brothers Protas (local businessmen) and city authorities (Mikhail Dobkin andGennadiy Kernes) - caused a split between the two. Gorodskoy Dozor now mainlycriticizes Dobkin and Kernes, while Nastoyashchiy Dozor is focused on critique of« orange » politicians of the region, primarily Avakov, Feldman and others. Mainobjective of both « Dozors » consists in propaganda, instead of information ; thereforeboth web-sites often use insulting of the political opponents and misinterpretations intheir information activities.
An important role in the Kharkiv media area is played by an information agency «StatusQuo» 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 importanttransformations in the regional media area. TV channels showed a clear drift to moreloyalty to the new authorities. Disappearance of Vasyl Klimentiev, editor in chief of thenewspaper 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 Kharkivjournalists, disappearance of Klimentiev is directly linked to a number of very criticalmaterials (journalist investigations) related to corruption of the local officials and lawenforcement 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 » politicalforces
«Vecherniy Kharkov » : close to Olexandr Kaganovsky, the Party of the Regions
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«Slobidskyi kray » : controlled by the Regional council and Regional stateadministration, the Party of the Regions
«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 » politicalforces
«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 newspapersas an important source of information. 17% of the respondents say the same about thenational newspapers ; 4,3% - Russian newspapers and weeklies.
The following table also shows the distribution of active and non-active readers inKharkiv (% from the total number of respondents, N = 997)
22,526
18,2
27,8
2,5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Readingregularly
Readingoccasionally
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
1 Information about the poll are based upon a report prepared by Regional Policy Research Instittue of theKharkiv National Karazin University ; information provided by the company MediaUkraine ; informationprovided by a company Ukrainian Sociological Standard.
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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 ofrespondents
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)
18,8
16,2
12,9
11,5
10,6
10,5
9,8
9,8
8,5
6,4
5,2
3,6
7,8
0 5 10 15 20
Argumenty ifakty
Art-mozaika
Telenedelia
Fakty
Segodnia
VecherniyKharkov
Komsomolskayapravda
Premier
Semen
Kharkovskyikurier
Vremia
Kharkovskieizvestia
Gazeta po-Kharkovski
What do Kharkiv dwellers watch ?
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Rating of TV channels in Kharkiv media area (% from the total number of respondents,N=978)
Nп/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
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(% 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
(% from the total number of respondents, N=979)
Nп/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 1July, 2011
18,0
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
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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
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(% from the total number of respondents, N=143)
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 theLugansk regional state administration), 600 newspapers and journals are registered inthe Lugansk region, as of January 2011, with the total weekly coverage of 1 million 900thousand copies. However, only about 200 media outlets are indeed published andreach their audience. Economic crisis has had a negative impact on the paymentcapacities of the potential readers.
The most influential newspapers are published in Lugansk itself. 80% are registered andpublished as bilingual newspapers.
Most print media outlets are private. 45 media outlets were founded by localgovernance institutions and local executive authorities. However, these outlets are notsociety-owned or public outlets but rather instruments of the party-inspiredinformation, controlled by the Party of the regions. The domination of the Party of theregions 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 non-allied MP. Regional non-private media owned by territorial communities are in factcontrolled by the regional state administrations and economically dependent on them.Journalists do not intend to refuse from the control by the authorities as, according toUkraine’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 Luganskdwellers with higher education and 56% with incomplete higher education don’t readnewspapers. 12% could not name their favourite newspaper. Local newspapers, as a keyinformation source, exert the biggest impact on 5% of the respondents.
Luganska pravda is published since 1917. During the Soviet period the paper was printeddaily; today it is published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The paper ispublished 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 becausethey 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 regionalcouncil (Party of the Region) Olexandr Kyseliov. In 2009-2011 its quality went down,with original materials becoming less and less frequent, substituted by internet reprintsand 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. Thepaper 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 appointmentbrought more social and life-focused materials. The newspaper has a web-site(nashagazeta.com.ua), updated irregularly. The paper is financed from the regionalbudget. Salaries are a bit higher than in other outlets.
«Izvestia Luganshchyny » (News of the Lugansk region) – an outlet owned by theregional council (regional authority elected on the ground). The paper is aimed tocommunicate achievements of the regional council, of the Party of the Region and ofthe head of the regional council Valeriy Golenko. The paper often published big textsallegedly written by Mr Golenko. It is financed from the regional council budget, underthe chapter « public administration ». Published in 100-200 thousand copies.
Newspaper « Molodogvardeets » is published since 2001. The paper was established andpublished by Olexandr Smetankin; earlier partly financed by the MP (Yulia Tymoshenkobloc) Anatoliy Agoferov. Now relations between the newspaper and its earlier sponsorbecame less friendly. The paper is published weekly, 16 pages, A3, in 12 thousandcopies. Editor in chief – Olexandr Belokobylskyi. The paper has a web-sitewww.mgm.com.ua updated on the issue-to-issue basis. During the election campaignthe paper supported Yulia Tymoshenko. Highly critical articles, including those againstthe leadership of the oblast and of the Party of the Regions, often provoked actionsbrought to the court. Financial difficulties of 2010-2011 made the paper neutral, if notfriendly, to the authorities.
«XXI vek» (XXI century) – published 2 times a week. Published on Wednesdays (A3format, 24 pages) and on Saturdays (16 pages), in 20 thousand copies in total. YuriyYurov is the paper’s editor in chief and owner of the outlet. The paper often publishespre-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. Web-site: 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 newsagency Irta-FAW, TV channel IRTA and radio stations Europa Plus and Chanson is a partof 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 updatedregularly.
The newspaper sometimes criticizes local and central authorities. During 7 years thepaper was headed by Olexiy Bluminov. Under Bluminov’s management the paper waspublished in 11 thousand copies; 8,5 thousand were usually sold ; now the paper ispublished 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 – byVita Kravtsova (Resmetova). Borysov created an alternative web-site, Novyi VecherniyLugansk (New Evening’s Lugansk).
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«Zhyzn Luganska» (Lugansk’s Life) is a weekly newspaper published since 1990. Thepaper was established by Lugansk city council. Director: Oleg Tkachuk, appointed in2009. Volume: 20 pages, format A3, published in 10 thousand copies. 2-3 thousand isdistributed through subscription; however, the newspaper is badly sold in thedistribution network. The paper publishes a lot of legal documents of the city counciland non-critical laudatory articles praising city authorities and mayor SergeiKravchenko. City council pledged UAH 500 thousand into the budget of the newspaperin 2011.
« Realnaya gazeta » (« Real newspaper »). The paper is owned by Ukrainian MP NataliaKorolevska who headed the election campaign of Yulia Tymoshenko in the region. Afterthe 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 hasworked more than 5 years); a new editor, Olexandr Sukharevsky, was appointed.
Most materials are focused on Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, Korolevska herself and critique ofthe authorities. Original materials are scarce. The paper is published in 5 thousandcopies. Sales are not very optimistic. Web-site www.realgazeta.com.ua is updatedwhen the new issue is published.
Nedelia plus (Week+), a regional weekly, established in Alchevsk. The paper is ownedby Lugansk regional council MP and businessman Kostiantyn Petrov. Web-site -www.nedelya.net.ua. The paper is published in 8 thousand copies; established inAlchevsk, it tries to reach out to wider audience in Lugansk oblast.
Weekly «Svobodnyi reporter» (Free reporter), published since 2007, in 8 thousandcopies. Editor: Anna Zhylenko. Owner: businessman Grygoriy Prygeba. The newspapertakes an opposing position to public authorities ; Prigeba himself often participates inactions against the authorities. Popular among the audience as people like readingcritique of the authorities http://freereporter.com.ua/
Newspaper Zhyzn regiona (Region’s life) is a paper established by regional institution ofthe Party of the Regions. 8 pages, A-3 format, distributed free of charge. The paperaims at popularizing President Yanukovych and the head of the Party of the regionsfaction in the Parliament Olexandr Yefremov. Editor in chief – Andriy Kuznetsov. Thepaper is published in 24 thousand copies.
« Sovetskaya Luganshina » (Soviet Lugansk Region) – a newspaper published by theLugansk branch of the Communist Party. The paper is financed by communist MPSpiridon Kilinkarov. Published in 12 thousand copies. Editor in chief : NataliaMaksymets, 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, theseradio stations are mostly focused on entertainment. The following radio stations are themost 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/reyting-telekanalov/ , 87% Lugansk dwellers watch TV. The figure is 3% lower than SocioLabdata published in 2010. TV remains the most accessible information source for most ofthe citizens. However, for people aged between 18 and 41 TV plays a less importantrole, compared to internet. 41% of the Lugansk dwellers say that TV is for them themost important source of information. In the rating of the “most favourite” TV channelscitizens 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 Landykis the channel’s honorable president. Director: Carolina Poltavska (who replacedprevious director Volodymyr Tkachenko in December, 2010. IRTA has a number ofreporter’s points in different places of the Lugansk region and in Kyiv. Audience: morethan 1,6 million people. Mostly focused on Southern (industrial) zones of the Luganskoblast. Web-site : http://tv. irtafax. com.ua/ IRTA is the only company having a licenseon satellite broadcasting, but still didn’t launch digital broadcasting.
«Lugansk cable TV» (LCT), founded in 1991. Director general: German Kudinov. Actuallyowned by the member of the regional council Olexandr Kyseliov. 24-hour broadcasting;10 news releases daily, original program production. Audience: 1,2 million people. Web-site http://lkt. lg. ua/ regularly updated. Antitrust committee penalized the channelmany 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 millionspectators. Director General: Vitaliy Garkusha. Rodion Miroshnyk was a Director Generaluntil 2010. Now he is a deputy governor of the Lugansk oblast on humanitarian issues. InJune, 2011, Lugansk regional TV and radio company reduced its broadcasting time from24 hours to 18 hours ; remaining 6 hours can be put on sale by the National TV and radiobroadcasting council. The TV channel intends to go digital by 2015, according toUkraine’s national plans.
Internet agencies, internet outlets
Lugansk portal TOP www.top.lg.ua – the most popular (the most visited) portal of theregion. The web-resource was founded in 2000. It calls itself a « Lugansk site No 1 ». Itdoes not produce its own news, however, and mostly republishes news produced byother resources. However, TOP hosts a number of blogs and forums attracting theaudience, which makes it a leading resource in the region. It has 3-4 thousand readersdaily. Despite the resource’s popularity, little information is known about the site’sowners. MP from Lugansk city council Volodymyr Medianyk and former police generalVolodymyr Guslavskyi are said to be among the owners of the site.
Eastern-Ukrainian news agency Skhid.info — http://cxid.info/ produces own news. Theweb-site aims at supporting local authorities, namely the Party of the Regions. Untilrecently the outlet was directed by Mykhaylo Fedotov (in 2011 – head of the press andinformation department of the Lugansk regional state administration). It has 3-4thousand visitors daily. The outlet entered the market in 2001 supported by thegovernor 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 oneof the key owners of the company.
City news — http://www.citynews.net.ua/ has been working since 2003. The site usedgrant support given by the US Embassy. Owner and director – Danila Ageev who tries tofollow an independent policy line. Audience : 1,4-1,6 thousand people daily.
Web newspaper « Vostochnyi variant » (http://v-variant.lg.ua/) has been the keybreakthrough 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 channelIRTA and radio stations Evropa Plus and Chanson, as well as newspaper VecherniyLugansk (all of them belong to V. Landik). The web-site has 1,5-1,7 thousand visitorsdaily.
«Lugansk. Kommentarii» http://lugansk.comments.ua/news/ created in 2007 as aregional resource of the pan-Ukrainian information portal Kommentarii-proUA. Ownedby 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 projecthas been implemented due to support of the National Democracy Endowment, UkrainianMedia 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 tothe local authorities. Statistics of audience is unavailable.
«Parallel media» www.paralel-media.com.ua — media outlet focused on news ofLugansk and the region. The outlet is working since 2009. Daily audience reaches 1000people. Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lermontov. The outlet cooperates with NGOs andpromotes civic journalism. It became a partner of many actions: Stop Censorship, Let’smake Lugansk a clean region, cinema festivals, etc. The outlet cooperates with EUDelegation, USAID, Polska Pomoc.
One of the key problems of the media sector of the region consists in the fact thatmedia outlets are gradually turned into advertising vehicles: newspapers are used toadvertise commercial goods or political parties, quite often in the articles. Freejournalists try to escape this pressure, going to internet where ambiance is a bit moreliberal.
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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 remarkablefeature of the Mykolaiv region. Most media outlets belong either to the state or topublishers (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-electionperiod), 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: owns internet newspapers “Biznes-novosti Nikolaeva”,"PRAVDA.mk.ua"
2. The group of A. Onofriychuk: owns newspaper “Nash gorod Nikolaev”, the websitenovosti-n.mk.ua
3. The group of D. Dmitriyev: owns Internet-newspapers “Nikvesti” and“Prestupnosti.net”.
4. All other media outlets.
Political influence on media
The Party of the Regions has the influence on the following media outlets: the oblaststate TV and radio company, TV and radio company “Mykolaiv”, radio company
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“Mykolaiv”, newspapers “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (+ newspaper’s website), “Yuzhnayapravda” (+ newspaper’s website), "Schotizhnya", “Yuzhniy Region”, and “PRyncyp”.
The following media outlets are formally and financially independent, but in fact arecontrolled by supporters of the Party of the Regions:
The group belonging to a member of the oblast executive committee, GlebGolovchenko: “TAK-TV”, “Gubernskaya Nedelia” (a paper version is not being publishedanymore, 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: “VecherniyNikolaev” (+ 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 parliamentarymajority, Gennadiy Zadyrko, controls the TV and radio company “NIS-TV”, thenewspaper “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 thenewspaper “Nikvesti”. The group of D. Dmitriyev (“Nikvesti”, “Prestupnosti.net”) is alsoaffiliated with the party “Front Zmin”.
Party “Tretiya Sila” (“Third Force”) cooperates with the newspaper “Nash Gorod” onbusiness 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 GorodNikolaev” 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 newspaperof the Mykolaiv city council published three times a week.
Newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda” (“Truth of the South”) (www.up.mk.ua) – a socio-political newspaper that is published three times a week.
Newspaper “Schotyzhnia” (“Weekly”) – a weekly appendix to the newspaper “YuzhnayaPravda”.
Newspaper “Tsentraliniy Rynok” (“Central Market”) – a weekly newspaper for vendorsand 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 Mykolaivoblast organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Newspaper “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (“Native Buh Region”) (www.rp.mk.ua) – a newspaper ofthe Mykolaiv oblast council.
Newspaper “Partner-inform” – a Mykolaiv independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weeklynewspaper.
Newspaper “Vzgliad” (“View”) – an independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weeklynewspaper.
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 oblastsocio-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 DmytroTochylkyn, an owner of several entertainment and commercial websites, to the positionof a staff adviser to the mayor belong to recent important events for the local mediamarket. The strategic purpose of these steps was to radically improve communicationsof 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 2010led to the removal of the BYuT influence on the media outlets controlled by theseowners. This fact had very deplorable results for the coverage of BYuT activities in theregion that had been quite modest before.
3. Transfer of a press secretary of BYuT, Yaroslav Indikov, to the “Front Zmin”, hasfinally weakened the already weak position of this coalition in mass media. The qualityof press releases and press conferences has seriously deteriorated. The bloc BYuT is infact not represented not only in state and communal, but even in private media, withthe exception of direct advertisement.
4. Strategic convergence of the website “Nikvesti” and the popular local TV channel NISTV 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 andmiddle-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 presssecretary of a local party office of BYuT has secured an access to at least one popularlocal 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, achief editor of “Ridne Prybuzzhia” has inflicted a powerful blow to the media bloc ofthe “Front Zmin”, since it will be very hard to issue the newspaper of this party withoutMs. Fabrikova – an experienced media professional.
7. Dismissal of Igor Pokh (a chief editor of the newspaper "Partner-inform") from theposition of a press secretary of the local party office of “Sylna Ukraina (“StrongUkraine”; leader – Sergiy Tyhypko) and the stagnation of the Internet media "Nikkurer"have led to the almost complete disappearance of the party “Sylna Ukraina” from thelocal media space.
8. Appointment of D. Dmitriev (ex-supporter of the “Narodna Samooborona” (“People’sSelf-Defence”; leader – Yuriy Lutsenko) to the position of an adviser to the head of theoblast council, a representative of the Party of Regions, Igor Diatlov, has reached anumber of important goals for the Party of Regions, in particular:
1) Seriously reinforced the Internet presence of the party that had been very weakbefore. The party of Regions has received a guaranteed access to the two Internetoutlets with the highest rating: “Nikvesti” and “Prestupnosti.net”.
2) Restricted the access of opposition (BYuT and Narodna Samooborona) to the above-noted media outlets.
3) Considerably improved the party’s professionalism in dealing with media. This wasachieved through the appointment of young journalists of the holding to presssecretaries of I. Diatlov and A. Iliuk (a head of the faction of the Party of Regions in thecity council). The frequency and positive tonality of mentioning these officials inmedia, including the media not controlled by the Party of Regions, have tremendouslygrown.
e) Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, self-censorship, 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 doeshappen, this is usually a consequence of business conflicts, i.e. punishment for theordered 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 outletsare 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 theexistence of this media. In particular:
Hidden subsidies in the form of a small rent payment for the placement of the editorialoffice in state/communal institutions are received by “Nikolaevskie Novosti”, “RodnoyPrichal”, “Yuzhnaya Pravda”, “Schotyznia”, “TAK-TV”, and “Gubernskaya nedelia”.
2. Hidden subsidies in a form of the overrated payment for “information services” arereceived by “Novaya Nikolaevskaya gazeta”, “Partner-inform”, “Pravda”, “Businessnovosti Nikolaeva”, and “Morskie business novosti Ukrainy”.
Few other media outlets share political views of the opposition. It is not possible to findany truly independent media of the region.
In these conditions, the authorities do not feel any need to introduce any formal formsof censorship. The necessary content and tonality of media is secured by media ownersand 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 ofvarious media outlets belonging to different owners and business groups. The mainchallenge faced by the local media market consists in administrative interference intothe media activity from both media owners and local authorities.
Print media
Though regional print media still retains its impact and authority, it gradually cedes itsleading 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, “Vecernyayaodesa” (Evening Odesa), “Yug” (South), “Porto-Franko”, “Slovo” (World). There is alsoa 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 “Odeskiyvestnik” for low-income citizens, which automatically helped this newspaper to becomea regional leader. This year this practice ceased which negatively affected both themedia outlet’s rating and the general popularity of local media.
In the opinion of the well-known Odessa journalist Leonid Shtekel, today regional printmedia have small audiences and small circulations. Still, critical publications in thepress cause public response. The relatively independent local print outlets, such as“Vecherniya Odesa” (“Evening Odesa”) and “Yug” (“South”), try to avoid speakingabout acute public or political problems. The newspaper “Komsomolska Pravda vUkraine” and all-Ukrainian newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today”) that pay serious attentionto local issues of Odesa region are best selling print outlets in the region. Generally, themedia reaction to local events in Odesa is one of the factors that local authorities haveto reckon with. One of the illustrative examples consists in repeated cases when all-Ukrainian weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli” (Mirror of the Week) that contained criticalpublication 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 and11 local TV companies operate. In addition, Odesa has extensive coverage of cablenetworks broadcasting nationwide, foreign and local channels. In particular, “ChornoeMore” (Black Sea) company that is one of the largest cable television providersbroadcasts 73 channels.
Local TV channels successfully compete on the market, first due to active coverage oflocal 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 20-30% of Odesa population. However, outside the city of Odesa, the influence andauthority of local TV stations remarkably decreases as compared to nation-widechannels.
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 isnot surprising that most of Odesa TV channels directly or indirectly belong to regionalpoliticians or openly sympathize with them. For instance, the ATV channel belongs to aleader of the political party “Rodina” (“Motherland”), a deputy of the city council, IhorMadkov. Currently ATV openly supports the city major Aleksey Kostusev, who also is aco-owner of the TV Channel “Odesa Plus”. A number of other local TV companiessupport 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 ofthe Party of Regions faction in the city council, Gennadiy Trukhanov; TV companies“Academia” (Academy), “Zdorovie” (Health), “Reporter” that are controlled by thepeople’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 theParty of Popular Trust, Andrey Azarov.
The group of TV channels supporting local politicians who are in the opposition to thecurrent 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 citymayor.
In recent years, TV companies in the Odesa region have been repeatedly subject toadministrative pressure from local authorities. In particular, Odesa authoritiesdemanded to revoke the license of the ATV Channel in 2009 and threatened to removeopposition channels from the broadcasting grid of cable television. In addition, bothprevious and current city authorities use administrative leverages to prevent theactivities of the opposition media. Namely, in 2009, the rent contracts of ART and GRADTV channels were terminated.
Radio broadcasting
Generally, radio broadcasting in Odesa region is characterized by relative independencefrom 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, radiojournalism 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 withshort 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 “GarmoniyaMira” (World Harmony) make an exception from this rule. They broadcast educationalprograms, political discussions, programs of Ukrainian and Russian services of RadioLiberty, BBC and Deutsche Welle.
Internet media
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The city of Odesa traditionally occupies the second place in Ukraine (after Kyiv) both inview of the percentage of Internet users among the population and the absolute numberof Internet users. Internet coverage in Odesa oblast is not that broad but shows thepositive 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 masterInternet space: almost all Odesa media outlets have their own Internet sites. Forexample, the TV and radio company GLAS (glasweb.com) regularly places videos of itsprograms in Inernet, and the website of the TV company ATV hosts active discussion ofTV programs by Internet users. A number of Odesa radio stations, for example, “ProstoRadio” (prosto.fm), use Internet-broadcasting and place podcasts of their programs inInternet.
In addition to information websites, communities also play an important role in Internetspace of Odesa. The largest in Ukraine Internet forum, Odesa forum (forum.od.ua), hostmore than 55,000 visitors. The importance of this forum as an instrument of electoralcampaign is illustrated by the powerful pressure on the forum’s owner, Internetprovider “Tenet”, by the local authorities in the run up to local elections. The purposeof this pressure was to get control over contents of the forum’s political sectionsthrough giving forum’s moderating and administrative powers to proxies of the citycouncil.
Absence of excessive regulation and relatively low start-up costs enable the existenceof both independent Internet media and the media that do not hide their politicalengagement and affiliation. In particular, Internet resource “Dumskaya” openlysupports the deputy chairman of the oblast council Aleksey Goncharenko, and Internetwebsites “Revizor” and “Timer” – to the party “Rodina”. Editorial offices of Internetmedia 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 onjournalists from media owners and the use of administrative resource of localauthorities against opposition media is the main problem of media in Odesa region. Mostof media owners, especially owners of TV channels, have their own political ambitionsor affiliations and treat their media resources solely as an instrument to realize theseambitions. This leads to a catastrophic decrease in professionalism and neglect ofethical standards of journalism. Repeated statements by a former chief editor of theATV channel Natalya Perevalova that this channel is not a media outlet, but amouthpiece 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 topolitical conflicts within the journalistic community, absence of a common position andreaction to attempts to violate the freedom of speech. Such definitions as “pro-government” and “opposition” media that do not cause rejection of the readers’audience anymore have firmly established in the region. Another negative consequencefrom this situation consists in social indifference to the facts of interference into mediawork, 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 – ascampaigners for one or another political party. In such context, violations of thefreedom of press are treated as a certain type of political struggle.
Probably, that is why a recent outrageous case of jeansa (paid and therefore clearlybiased 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 withreality on the ATB channel. Negotiations with the management of TV company when thefees for the production and placement of news items, special reports and journalistresearch including the use of dummies fabrication of the missing materials were voiced.This scandal has not caused any particular outrage among Odessa residents, and therewas no response from the owners of the channel in relation to dishonest employees.
Another threatening signal consisted in a record number of journalists and mediaprofessionals (more than 50 persons) who ran as candidates to local authorities duringthe elections in autumn 2010. It is remarkable that none of them won in a single-mandate constituency: only media representatives who ran on party lists becamemembers 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 UkraineOleksandr Ostashko, the forthcoming elections will be the last when print media will beactively used in Odesa. Instead, we should expect the large-scale use of dirty Internetand TV technologies that have been upgraded and have repeatedly proved theireffectiveness.
As to the long-term prospects of local Odesa media, Oleksandr Ostashko believes thatprint 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. Theradio broadcasting field will hardly experience any significant changes except of theemergence 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 TVcompanies or the growing publicity of their actual owners. The struggle over the controlof Odesa media may toughen in the case if the declared transition to digitalbroadcasting in Ukraine will take place. This may provoke the total redivision of themarket 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. Owninformation constitutes about 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in 13 rayonsof the oblast.
Newspaper FEST: 7010 copies, published on Thursdays, 16 pages. Own informationconstitues abot 30% of the content. The paper is distributed mostly in Uzhgorod. A partof thecopies are distributed in Uzhgorod rayon, the town of Mukacheve.
Newspaper Evropa Centre : 2 800 copies, published on Saturdays, 8 pages. Owninformation constitues abot 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in the city ofUzhgorod 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. Thepaper is distributed in all 13 rayons of the oblast ; subscription public institutions andorganizations constitues the key part of the distribution.
Newspaper Tribuna : published on Saturdays (1800 copies, 8 pages). Own informationconstitues about 70% of the content. The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod city andUzhgorod rayon.
Newspaper Uzhgorod : published on Saturdays (16 pages, 3000 copies). Own informationconstitutes about 80% of the content. Distributed in Uzhgorod.
Newspaper Zakarpatska pravda : published on Saturdays (16 pages, full color, 18350copies). The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod, as well as in Uzhgorodsky, Mukachivsky,Tiachivsky, Rahivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky, Irshavsky, Mizhirsksky, Uzhgorodskyrayons, 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 inUzhgorod and Mukacheve.
Newspaper Stariy Zamok “Palanok” – published on Thursdays (12000 copies, 16 pages,full colour). Own information constitutes about 90% of the content. Distributed inUzhgorodskyi, Mukachivsky, Irshavsky, Tiachivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky rayons. Thepaper is also distributed in other rayons upon subscription.
TV channel Tysa 1 – regional state-owned television. The channel has own broadcastingfrequency ; 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 inUzhgorodsky 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 territoryof 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 theRegions (represented by the acting governor O. Ledyda) and the Single Centre(represented by the Minister for emergencies Victor Baloga). Both political partiesoccupy 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, headof the regional council Ivan Baloga, MP Vasyl Petiovka;
«Zakarpatska pravda» – affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional stateadministration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Novyny Zakarpattia» (newspaper of Zakarpattia regional council and administration) –affiliated with the head of the regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda and thehead of the regional council Ivan Baloga;
«Uzhgorod» (newspaper of the city council and of the executive committee) – affiliatedwith the Uzhgorod city head Victor Pogorelov;
«Nedilia» – no politician can be clearly said to influence the newspaper; however, theoutlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles);
“Sribna Zemlia Fest” – same as with Nedilia: no politician clearly influences thenewspaper; however the outlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles). The paper isowned 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 regionalstate administration
TV:
TV channel Danio is affiliated with Alla Petrova, member of the Zakarpattia regionalcouncil from the Party of the regions;
State TV company Tysa-1 is affiliated with the head of the regional state administrationOlexandr Ledyda;
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TRC “M-studio” is affiliated with Ukraine’s minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, thehead of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP Vasyl Petiovka;
Radio:
«Zakarpattia FM », «Svit FM », «Versija FM » are affiliated with Ukraine’s minister foremergencies Victor Baloga, the head of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP VasylPetiovka;
Internet outlets:
«Vsia Zakarpatska pravda» is affiliated with MP from the Uzhgorod city council IvanVoloshyn;
«Karpatnews» is affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional stateadministration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Zakarpattia-online» is affiliated with Oleg Dyba, who is close to Victor Baloga as hewas 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 inissue on which they write.
Difficult period for print media: decrease of the advertising volumes, development ofinternet, 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 continuepublishing 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; manyjournalists refuse to write analytic materials on political issues, since, as they say, non-biased material will not be published by any outlet.
Political jeansa (paid materials), published by many newspapers; clear presence of theowner’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- orMukacheve-based media. Newspapers of the national minorities constitute the onlyexception.
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Fast development of internet, and enhanced interest to internet outlets. Increase ofthe 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 creativeyoung people. However, this trend mainly concerns entertainment products.
National minorities-focused press does not play a leading role in the life of the localminority communities.
Media freedom restrictions in the region
Restrictions and violations of the media freedom and freedom of expression constitute awidespread phenomenon in the life of the region.
In May, 2011, unknown people burnt a car of the editor of a Vynogradiv weekly “ChornaHora”; 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 theZakarpattia regional state TV and radio broadcasting company, following publication ofhis scandalous interview with Uzhgorod’s mayor Sergyi Ratushniak.
Self-censorship is widespread in the regional media. Most respondents of our review2say that it is unnecessary to put the pressure over journalists since they would censorthemselves on their own. Journalists are fully aware of the fact in which media outletsthey 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 informedabout 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 TVchannel in the region. Therefore, information that appears in these media is politicallyfiltered. Quite often owners or founders read the issue before it is published. Forexample, a representative of the Party of the Regions comes to the office of thenewspaper “Zakarpatska pravda” every Friday to read the issue before publication.Representatives of owners of affiliated political parties also read the upcoming issue innewspapers “Staryi Zamok Palanok” and web-newspaper “Vsia Zakarpatska pravda”.
While earlier only political materials were censored, now almost any media materialcan become filtered. Some journalists said that when they were preparing a reportabout spoiled goods in supermarkets or parkings in Uzhgorod, they were banned frompublishing the message in one of the regional newspapers. In the first case, thepublication was banned since representatives of the political party owning the outlet,also own supermarkets selling spoiled goods; in the other case, it appeared that moneyfrom parkings go to other co-owners of the outlet. Similar cases were registered withbans 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 ofthe biggest print and electronic outlets.
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When an outlet is not directly controlled by an owner, where there are relatively freeconditions for work, the so-called jeansa (paid materials) becomes a widespreadphenomenon. By publishing materials paid by the client, an outlet or journalist earnsmoney it lacks.
Most journalists say that “jeansa” is a good way to earn some extra money. Mosteditorial 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 theregion consists in low salaries (91% of the respondents) and lack of altarnative financialsources (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 ajournalist 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) AndriySenchenko. The channel is managed bythe member of the Crimean parliament (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) TetyanaKrasikova
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 inKiev.
Products: 120 own TV programs created in the last15 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, [email protected],[email protected]://blacksea.tv/
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TV and Radio Company “Devkom”
Title of the media outlet: TRK “Devkom”
Cable channels Devkom inform, andDevkom Inform Plus
Owners: According to non-official sources, thechannel is influenced by member of theSevastopol city council Dmitriy Belik (theParty 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 theprogramming is broadcasted in Ukrainian.The channel also rebroadcasts Russian TVchannels NTV, ORT, RTR.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: “Telemir Devkom” (newspaper)
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
10, Khrukina st., Sevastopol(0692) [email protected],[email protected]
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TV and Radio Company “Мorion”
Title of the media outlet: TRC “Morion” (TV channel and a radiostation)
Management: Director General : Mykola Filatov.Producer and Development Manager:Nadiya Rakitina
Rating and coverage: Evpatoria, Saky, Lakskyi region,Zaozerne, etc. The radio station coversSimferopol, Bakchisaray,Chervonohvardiyskyi and other rayons.
Audience: 1,5-2 mln people living in the Crimea’sSouth Coast
Products: Media projects, including local news ofEvpatoria (Crimean city). The channelalso rebroadcasts Ukrainian national TVchannel 24 Kanal
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
43, Nekrasova av., 97400 , Evpatoria(06569)3-35-41, 6-03-15 ,fax.(06569)[email protected],[email protected]
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Newspapers
“Krymskaya Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Krymskaya Pravda”
Owners: The most circulated newspaper inCrimea.Editor in Chief: the member of CrimeanParliament, member of block “ForYanukovych!”, Kostjantyn Bakharev.His father, the vise-speaker of Crimeanparliament, is a member of theCommunist Party of Ukraine.
Management: Editor in Chief – Kostiantyn Bakharev
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper.“Newspaper for Russians, and everybodywho feels Russian, speaks and thinks inRussian” (citation from the newspaper’sweb-page)
Rating and coverage: 5 times per week. Circulation - 50 000copies. 80% is distributed throughsubscription, 20% through retail trade.Newspaper coverage: the whole Crimeanpeninsula, including Simferopol andSevastopol
Audience: Russian ethnic population of Crimea
Products: The commission on journalism ethics in2004 made claims that “KrymskayaPravda” publications on the ethnicalissues suffer from the lack of tolerance,and sometimes stand for the direct callfor confrontation.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
44, vul. Generala Vasyljeva, 95000,Simferopol(0652) 44-69-40. [email protected],[email protected]://www.kp.crimea.ua/
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“Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
Owners: LLC “Poligraphia”, editor – OleksandrDeinega
Management: Director – Andriy Sobolev, Editor in Chief –Iryna Klochkova.
Positioning: Newspaper claims to be an independentmedia outlet that does not reflectpositions of power authorities or local selfgovernment institutions, and does notsupport any political party and/orreligious group.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Circulation — 17500copies. The newspaper is distibutedprimarily in Sevastopol
Audience: Designed for all readers
Products: City news and comments on theimportant events
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
34, vul. Batumska, 99011, Sevastopol(0692) [email protected]://gazeta.sebastopol.ua/
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“Golos Cryma”
Title of the Media outlet: “Golos Cryma”
Owners: Founders – State Committee onNationalities and Migration of Ukraine andthe editorial board of the all-ukrainianweekly “Golos Ukrainy” (officialnewspaper of the Ukrainian parliament).
Management: Editor-in-Chef – Eldar Seitbekirov, formermember of mejlis, today opposed to itsleaders.
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, covering the wholeterritory of the Crimean peninsula.
Audience: Crimean Tatars. Golos Cryma is the mostcirculated newspaper for the CrimeanTatar audience.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
17, vul. Chehova, 95001, Simferopol(0652) [email protected]://www.goloskrima.com/
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“Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
Owners: Sevastopol city council
Management: Editor – Dmytro Chumak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week,circulated in 35 000 copies in total. Thepaper is distributed in Sevastopol and itsrayon. 40% of copies are distributedthrough retail trade, 60% - throughsubscription.
Products: The only media outlet in Sevastopol thatprints decisions of the city council andsubpoenas. The paper also publishesmuch business information, news aboutsocial services, social, political andcultural life of the region.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
11, 3, vul. Lenina, 99011, Sevastopol(0692) 54-34-65,[email protected]
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“Sudakskiy Vestnik”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sudakskiy Vestnik”
Owners: Sudak city council
Management: Editor – Mukola Plyasov
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, circulated in 2 200copies. The newspaper covers the city ofSudak 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”
Title of the Media outlet: The portal of the newspaper “PershaKrymska”
Owners: One of the most circulated Crimeannewspapers that covers the wholepeninsula. Controlled by the company IFDCapital
Management: Editor in Chief – Lilia Budzhurova,Executive Editor – Oleksandr Voronin
Positioning: Analytic newspaper
Rating and coverage: The print version of the newspaper iscirculated in 32 000 copies. The paper isdistributed throughout the wholepeninsula
Products: News and analytic reviews of the eventsin Crimea. Categories: Politics,Infrastructure, Social care, Crime, Life,People, TV Programme. The paper alsohas the following regular chapters: YourAuto, 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”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “E-Krym”
Owners: “KrymMediaHolding” ltd.
Management: Director: Evgen Volchenko, former headof the Public Relations Department of aNGO “Revival of Slavic Unity”, createdupon the initiative of the Head ofSevastopol State Administration SergiyKunitsyn and the governor of Moscowoblast Boris Gromov
Positioning: News Agency of the Crimean peninsula
Audience: Media, enterprises, organizations,politicians and civil authorities
Products: The agency produces information onactivities of the pubic authorities, lawenforcement services, as well as aboutpolitical, cultural and social events. Theagency is mostly focused on economicevents, related to functioning ofenterprises, sectors, state regulation ofbusiness etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
Simferopol(0652) [email protected],[email protected]://www.e-crimea.info/
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TV channels
TV company “Vikka”
Title of the media outlet: TV company “Vikka”
Management: Director – L’ubov Pravdina
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
249, vul. Shevchenka, 18000 Cherkasy(0472) [email protected]
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TV company “Uman’”
Title of the media outlet: TV company “Uman’”
Rating and coverage: The signal of a TV channel coversCherkasy region
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
10, vul. Pushkina, 20300, Uman’(04744)[email protected]://umantv.org.ua
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Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’)
Title of the media outlet: Cherkasy Regional State TV and radiocompany (Ros’)
Owners: State Committee of TV and RadioBroadcasting
Management: Director General - Mykhailo Kalinichenko
Rating and coverage: The outlet covers about 70% of theregion’s population
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
35/1, vul. Vyshnyvetskogo, 18002,Cherkasy(0472) [email protected]
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Newspapers
“Vechirni Cherkasy”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechirni Cherkasy”
Management: Editor in Chief – Stanislav Zhurylo
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Regional weekly newspaper, circulated in78 000 copies
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy(0472) 45-02-71,[email protected],
http://vechirka.ck.ua
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“Dilova Cherkashchyna”
Title of the media outlet: “Dilova Cherkashchyna”
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Saukh
Positioning: Social-and-economic newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, with circulation of20500 copies. The paper is distributedthroughout the region
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
6/431, vul. Lazareva, 18000, Cherkasy(0472) 45-00-00, [email protected] ,[email protected]
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“Sil’ski Obrii”
Title of the media outlet: “Sil’ski Obrii”
Owners: Rayon state administration, rayon council
Management: Editor in Chief – Kalynovska Tetyana
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Circulation: 2800-4000 copies. Newspaper is distributedthroughout 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”
Title of the media outlet: “Cherkas’kyi Kray”
Owners: Regional council, Regional stateadministration
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Golovkovs’kyi
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed twice a week in20 000 copies thoughout the Cherkasyregion.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy(0472) 37-31-52, [email protected] ,[email protected]
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“Ot i Do”
Title of the media outlet: “Ot i Do”
Management: Editor – Sergiy Malyovanyi
Positioning: Weekly newspaper of free of chargeadvertisement and announcements
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 10 000copies, throughout the region.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
205, Shevchenka av., 18000, [email protected]://www.otido.com.ua/
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On-line resources
Internet project “Press Center”
Title of the media outlet: Internet project “Press Center”
Management: Editor in Chief – Andriy KravetsDeputy editor in chief – Vitaliy Latyshev
Rating and coverage: Printed version of the media outlet isdistributed in Cherkasy (40%) andCherkasy region (60%) in 10 000 copies.70% is distributed through subscription,30% through retail trade.The newspaper is a weekly media outletpublished on Wednesdays.
Audience: Media outlet sees its audience ascomposed primarily of heads ofcommercial, banking and industrialenterprises; agricultural companies;private businesses and public authorities.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspaper “Press Center”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
31/1, vul. Lenina, 18002, Cherkasy(0472) [email protected], [email protected]://www.pres-centr.ck.ua
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Media group “Antena”
Title of the media outlet: Media group “Antena”
Owners: LLC "NIA"
Management: Editor in Chief – Valeriy Vorotnik
Rating and coverage: Newspaper Antena, a part of the mediagroup, is published weekly anddistributed in 20,000 copies, throughoutthe region.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Project Antena integrates a weeklynewspaper, a web-page and an on-line24-hour TV channel
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
220, Shevchenko av., 18000, Cherkasy+380 472 38-21-12, +380 472 [email protected], [email protected]://antenna.com.ua/main.php
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Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Title of the media outlet: Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Management: Editor in Chief – Ihor Kosenko
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000copies, throughout the Cherkasy region
Audience: The newspaper targets both male andfemale audience, with equal distribution(self-estimation).
People aged between 25 and 44constitute 81% of the audience, with 89%of the readers having permanent jobs.
The audience has the following structure:managers - 8,3%, businessmen - 6%, high-skilled workers - 43,7%, low-skilledworkers - 40,6%. People with highereducation constitute 67% of the audience.
People with mid- or high incomeconstitute 69,2% of the audience.
Products: Media outlet produces own news
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
39/211, vul. Dashkovycha, 18002,Cherkasy(0472)320-176
http://nt.ck.ua/content.php
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TV channels
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Chernigiv Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners: State Committee of TV and RadioBroadcasting
Management: Anatoliy T’ut’unnyk
Resources: Media outlet is financed from the localbudget.
Rating and coverage: Signal of the TV and Radio Station covers70% of the territory of Chernigiv regionand 70 % of its population.
Contact Information:• Post address :
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
62, Peremogy av., 14000, Chernigiv(0462) 10-13-07, 4-24-81, [email protected]://www.trk.cn.ua
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TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
Owners: Pryluky city council
Management: Director - V. Sak
Positioning: Information-and-education TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV channel broadcasts in the city ofPryluky (Chernigiv region), and neighbourrayons
Audience: Potential audience of a TV channel –400 000 inhabitants.
Products: TV channel produces local news coveringcity 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”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company «Obriy»
Products: TV channel produces local news of thecity Bobrovyts’a (Chernigiv region)
Contact Information:• 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”
Title of the media outlet: Newspaper “Chernigivski Vidomosti”
Owners: Chernigiv city council
Management: Editor in Chief – Iryna Mokrousova
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Monthly circulation –27,500 copies; 65% is distributed throughsubscription.
Audience: Civil servants and workers, intellectualsand students, businessmen andpoliticians, housewives and unemployed
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
50a, vul. Kotsubynskogo, 14000, Chernigiv(0462) 164-631, [email protected]://vid.cn.ua/
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“Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
Management: Deputy editor – Ludmyla Parhomenko
Positioning: Social–and-political, family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 32,000copies throughout Chernigiv region
Products: Newspaper produces own articles in thefollowing key categories: City Events,Guest room, Without taboo, Unforgottencinema, etc
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
62, Peremogy av., 14017 Chernigiv(04622) 44007, (04622) 42300
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“Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
Owners: Chernigiv regional state administration
Management: Editor in Chief – Sergiy Narodenko
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 51,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
12, vul. Priobrazhenskaya, 14000,Chernigiv(0462) [email protected]
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“Sivershchyna”
Title of the media outlet: “Sivershchyna”
Owners: Pan-Ukrainian organization “Prosvita”
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl’ Chepurnyi
Rating and coverage: Pan-Ukrainian weekly newspaper,circulated in 11,100 copies. 90% isdistributed through subscription.
Contact 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”
Title of the media outlet: “Visti”
Owners: Nizhyn city council
Management: Editor in Chief – Anna Zhyglovska
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published weekly,circulated in 5,100 copies. The newspapercovers the city of Nizhyn and its rayon.
Contact Information:• 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”
Title of the media outlet: Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor”
Management: Leader of the project – Yuriy Papernyi
Audience: The project is aimed to meet informationdemand of media representatives, publicauthorities, political parties, NGOs ofChernigiv region
Products: City news and comments on the importantevents
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Magazine "Chernigivs’kyi Monitor"• Regional information agency active in
media monitoring, marketing andsociological research.
• Newspaper “Vchasno”• Internet portalhttp://www.monitor.cn.ua/
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
[email protected],[email protected]://www.monitor.cn.ua/
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Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Title of the media outlet: Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Positioning: Information portal of the city of Chernigiv
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
114/1, Peremogy pr., 14000, Chernigiv8 (0462) [email protected]
http://www.gorod.cn.ua
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Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Title of the media outlet: Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Management: Founder and leader of the project – OlegGolovatenko
Rating and coverage: The outlet estimates itself as a “leadingregional on-line media”. It hosts about7 000 visitors daily.
Products: Internet media outlet aimed at providingobjective and comprehensive informationabout political, financial, and culturallife of Chernigiv region
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The outlet is affiliated with TV and radiocompany “Vysokiy Val”, which alsointegrates an Internet-radio station
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20/1, vul. Polubotka, 14000, Chernigiv(0462) 611-617, [email protected], [email protected]://val.ua
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TV channels
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
Owners: According to non-official information, theTV channel is controlled by city mayorMykola Fedoruk; majority of materials areloyal to local government.
Management: Director General – Genadiy Sergeev
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company covers the wholeterritory of the city of Chernivtsy and itsregion
Audience: Designed for all audience categories
Products: TV and radio station produces 24 hours ofbroadcasting in total, mostly in Ukrainian.TV channel rebroadcasts programs of RenTV, a Russian independent TV channel.“Chernivtsy reports”, “Three questions tothe mayor”, “Unknown Chernivtsy”,“Karaoke by the Fountain” are the mostpopular programs of the TV channel.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The channel is affiliated with Blysk radio
Contact Information:• 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”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “AS”
Management: Director General – Vasyl’ Fedoryak
Products: TV and radio company, also known forproduction of advertisement for local andregional TV and Radio broadcasters.Media outlet also recently produces newsfor Ukrainian central TV channels 5 kanaland STB.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
111, Nezalezhnosti avenue, 58000Chernivtsy(0372) 515444,515 [email protected]://acc.in.ua/index.php?mcmd=show
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Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)
Title of the media outlet: Chernivtsy Regional State TV and RadioCompany (BUK)
Owners: State Committee for TV and RadioBroadcast
Management: Director General – Lubov Gondn’uk
Profitability: TV and radio company is financed fromthe regional budget
Rating and coverage: The signal of TV and radio station coversup to 90% of the territory of theChernivtsy region.
Audience: Designed for all age categories
Products: The media outlet broadcasts in Ukrainianand Romanian. It also produces own TVprojects, including programs called“News”, “Business”, “Family of theBukovina”, “Improvisation”, “On theEuropean Wave”.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The holding integrates a TV channelBukovyna and a radio station Bukovyna
Contact 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”
Title of the media outlet: “Bukovina”
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Isak
Profitability: The newspaper is financed mostly fromthe regional budget
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The paper is one of the oldest and mostpopular media outlets of the Chernivtsyregion
Products: The paper produces news about localpolitical, economical and social activities.It also issues articles on particular topics,including health, nature, etc
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
22, vul. Ukrains’ka, 58000, Chernivtsy(0372) 55-32-12, [email protected],[email protected]://bukovyna.at.ua/index/0-4
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“Molodyi Bukovynets”
Title of the media outlet: “Molodyi Bukovynets”
Owners: Owned by Bogdan Zagaiskyi, its Editor inChief
Management: Editor in Chief - Bogdan Zagaiskyi
Profitability: The newspaper is the only financiallyindependent and self-financed printedmedia outlet in the Chernivtsy region
Positioning: Social-and-political family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper covers the territory ofChernivtsy region, and is circulated in52 000 copies. Web-page of the mediaoutlet (http://www.molbuk.com) hosts2 000 visitors daily
Audience: All audience groups
Products: The media outlet produces local news.Articles are focused on large variety ofsocial topics interesting for all socialgroups. The newspaper is published threetimes per week with regular annexes:Ukrainian auto market, Land and RealEstate, Jobs, Business catalogue etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper “Molodyi Bukovynets” isalso affiliated with an Internet portalhttp://www.molbuk.com
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(0372) 55-34-82
http://www.molbuk.com/
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“Chernivtsy”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernivtsy”
Owners: Chernivtsy city council
Management: Editor in Chief - Vasyl Babukh
Profitability: The newspaper is financed mainly fromthe local budget
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week,circulated in 10 000 copies, throughoutthe region.
Products: The newspaper produces news from localauthorities, coverage of local events,history, culture, sports, and also ads andinformation on services
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2, vul. Kobylyanskoi, 58000, Chernivtsy(0372) [email protected]
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“Chas”
Title of the media outlet: “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 Chernivtsyregional council, and represents the pro-presidential Nasha Ukraina party.However, the newspaper often publishesarticles opposed to local government,Nasha Ukraina and Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is circulated in 10 000copies and distributed through its owndelivery service. The paper covers theterritory of Chernivtsy region andneighbouring rayons of other oblasts(Ternopil’, Ivano-Frankivsk, etc)
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper is also affiliated with“Chas Halychyny” – a subsidiary of of thenewspaper “Chas”, published for thereaders of Ternopil’ region
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Ruska, Chernivtsy
(0372)[email protected], [email protected]://www.chas.cv.ua/
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“Chernivtsy city plus”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernivtsy city plus”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by Vasyl’Zabrods’kyi, who also owns a regionalmedia holding “City” that includes TVcompany “TVA”, radio station “City”,advertisement newspaper “City” andentertainment portal www.citi.cv.ua
Management: Editor in chief - Vasyl’ Zabrods’kyi
Positioning: Weekly newspaper, mostly focused onadvertisements
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 110 000copies and covers the city of Chernivtsyand most rayons of Chernivtsy oblast
Audience: The paper is designed for all audiencecategories
Products: The newspaper produces free of chargeannouncements and advertisementinformation about supply and demand oncar market, real estate market, labourmarket, etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper is also affiliated with anewspaper “City Info”, distributed free ofcharge in the postal boxes throughout thecity of Chernivtsy
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
13, vul. Chervonoarmiys’ka, 58000,Chernivtsy(0372) [email protected], [email protected]
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Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”
Title of the media outlet: Chernivtsy Independent News Agency“Buk Info”
Management: Head of the News Agency – SergiyZarais’kyi
Positioning: Independent news agency
Products: The online news agency produces dailyinformation about social, political andfinancial situation in the Chernivtsyregion, activities of the local government,and also tries to focus on distant andrarely covered rayons of the region.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(0372) 59-63-15, 8(050)[email protected], [email protected]://www.bukinfo.cv.ua
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Web-page of newspaper “Doba”
Title of the media outlet: Web-page of a newspaper “Doba”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by acompany called Interval, having no directrelation to media, but interested in localinfrastructure projects
According to non-official information, themedia outlet is controlled by the citymayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Stefanets'
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
17, vul. Grebinky, 58001 Chernivtsy(0372) [email protected],[email protected]://www.doba.cv.ua
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TV channels
TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV and Radio Company “TET -Dnipropetrovs’k”(TV channel “TET-Dnipropetrovs’k”)
Owners: Media outlet is a regional Office of TETTV and Radio Company (see moreinformation about the TV channel TET inthe chapter on Ukrainian central media)
Management: Director General – Oleg Tymchenko
Contact information:• 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”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “STERH” (11th TVchannel)
Owners: The company is affiliated with the mediaholding of Victor Pinchuk, the richestUkrainian oligarch, and is indirectlycontrolled by “Interpipe”, his biggestenterprise.
Sterh subsidiary, “Agency Sobor”, iscontrolled by „Interpipe”
Management: Director: Sergiy Pedashenko
Positioning: Infotainment media outlet
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the cities ofDnipropetrovs’k, Kryvyi Rig, Nikopol,Dniprodzerzhynsk, Novomoskovsk,Pidgirne, Verhnjodniprovsk, Synelnykoveand other cities of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Audience: The channel’s audience is estimated at 3million people
Products: The media outlet produces own TVprojects. Projects “News on the 11th
Channel”, “The Fact”, “Big Family” andothers have been honored with nationalmedia awards.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
Office 419, 1-a, vul. Pisarzhevskogo,49005, Dnipropetrovs’k.(0562) 37-49-200; 37-49-201; [email protected]://www.11channel.dp.ua
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TV channel “Avtor TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV channel “Avtor TV” ltd
Management: Director General - Ljudmyla Kachanova
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city ofDniprodzerzhyns’k and neighbouringrayons
Products: The TV channel broadcasts 24 hours aday, with both own and re-broadcastedproduction. The channel rebroadcastsproducts of 5 kanal, Ukrainian national TVchannel. 95% of the broadcasting is inUkrainian.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
35, 50-richcha SRSR av., apt. 79Dnoprodzerzhynsk, Dnirpopertovsk Region(05692) 2-14-73, [email protected]
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TV and Radio Company “ETIS”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “ETIS” ltd
Management: Director – Mykola Fedorov
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
2, vul. Barnaylska, Office 101, 52300Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region(05662)96021
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Newspapers
“Dnepr Vecherniy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dnepr Vecherniy”
Owners: The paper is owned by a legal company“Yurydychna Firma Pravnyk”, connectedto Mykhailo Sokolov, MP, a member ofYulia Tymoshenko bloc
Management: Editor in Chef – Valentyn Taranenko
Positioning: Russian-language regional newspaperfocused on news, analysis andadvertisement
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is one of the most readprint media outlets in the region. Thepaper is published four times a week anddistributed throughout the country (19%of distribution goes through retail trade,81% - through subscription). 18% of thepaper is covered by advertising.
Products: The media outlet covers Ukrainiannational news, and also news of theregion and the city of Dnipropetrovs’k.Categories: Medicine, Economy, Privatelife, History, Literature, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
57, vul. Komsomolska, 49000Dnipropetrovsk(056) 374 34 [email protected]
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“Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
Positioning: Advertisement newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 80 000copies. 95% of the paper is covered byadvertising.
Products: Main categories: Jobs, Real estate,Business-Ukraine, Furniture, Auto etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper’s subsidiary: “DneprovskayaNedel’a +”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
9, vul. Geroiv Stalingradu, Dnirpopetrovs’k(0562) [email protected]
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“Dneprovskaya pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dneprovskaya Pravda”
Owners: The paper is owned by “DneprovskayaPravda ltd”, a media company, related topolitical bloc of Pavlo Lazarenko,Ukraine’s former prime-minister,imprisoned in the US for corruption.
Management: Editor in Chief – Tetyana Valigurska, MPof the city council, Pavlo Lazarenko bloc
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a weekand distributed throughout the region
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
701, 55, Pushkina av, 49006,Dnipropetrovs’k(0562) [email protected] , [email protected]
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“Nashe misto”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nashe Misto”
Owners: The newspaper was established by thecity council, and is now controlled byDniproperovs’k mayor Ivan Kulychenko
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Kravchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published four times aweek, circulated in 109 000 copies, anddistributed throughout Dnipropetrovskregion
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
14, vul. Lenina, 49000, Dnipropetrovs’k(056) 232-07-87 (-89), 744-60-43, [email protected] ,[email protected]
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“Nova Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: ”Nova Gazeta”
Owners: LLC "Poligraf"
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Skalenko
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement weeklynewspaper
Rating and coverage: Media outlet is circulated in 12 000copies, distributed throughoutDnipropetrovs’k region. Newspaper ispublished once a week.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
16-2, vul. Perekopska, 51925,Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk region(0569) 53-15-51, [email protected]
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“Sovremennik”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sovremennik”
Positioning: Social and political internet newspaper
Audience: Audience oriented on communist andsocialist ideology
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://www.sovr.krivbassinfo.com
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“Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
Title of the Media outlet: “Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
Owners: The newspaper is integrated into themedia network of city newspapers, ownedby the publishing office Press Center,which is itself affiliated with Glavred-Media and financial and economic groupPrivat.
Manager of the project – VjacheslavManger.
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Mamchenko
Positioning: Weekly Russian-language newspaper
Rating and coverage: The weekly newspaper is circulated in52 300 copies, and distributed though thecity of Dnipropetrovsk and its region.15% of a single copy is covered withadvertising.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper is affiliated with other citypapers of the Press Center group,including “Gazeta po Kievski”, “Gazetapo Donetski”, “Gazeta po Odesski” etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
15, vul. Furmanova, 49027,Dnipropetrovsk(056) 770-20-42, [email protected]://po-dneprovski.dp.ua
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TV channels
TV company “Stirol-TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV company “Stirol-TV”(TV channel „Centr”)
Owners: OJSC "Concern Stirol", one of the biggestchemical industry company in Ukraine
Management: Director – Oleg Poplavskyy
Products: “Stirol-TV” produces own TV projects andadvertising
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The TV company is a subsidiary of OJSC“Concern Stirol”
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
61a/5, vul Gagarina
(0624) 52-1011, (06242) [email protected]
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TRC “Ukraina”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Ukraina” (TRCUkraina)
Owners: The company is owned by System CapitalManagement, SCM (99,67% of stock), alarge economic and financial group ownedby Rinat Akhmetov, one of the richestUkrainian businessmen.
Management: President: Genadij KondyarovDirector General – Valdemar Dziki
Rating and coverage: LLC «TV Company “Ukraine” is one of thebiggest national TV stations (see moreinformation about the channel in thesection focused on Ukrainian centralmedia).
Initially based in Donetsk, the channelnow has two major headquarters, both inDonetsk and Kiev.
Audience: All audience groups
Products: TV channel broadcasts information,entertainment, youth, sport and otherprograms through satellite, cable and air.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV channel «Futbol»
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
74, vul. Artema, 83000, Donetsk8(062) 332-72-09, 8(044) [email protected]://kanalukraina.tv/
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TV and Radio Company “UNION”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “UNION”
Owners: TV and Radio company is controlled byVasyl Dzhatry, ex-mayor of Makyivka (anindustrial city in the Donetsk oblast), MP,member of the Party of the regions
Management: Executive Director - NataliaZakhatrchenko (Member of the Party ofthe Regions faction in Makyivka citycouncil);
Editor in chief – Yuriy Kirasir
Positioning: News TV channel «Union»
Rating and coverage: The channel is the most influential andpopular media outlet in Makyivka. Thesignal covers the city of Makyivka and its60-km surroundings.
According to the data provided byMakyivka institute of social sciences andtechnology, 60% of local populationregularly watches TV channel “Union”.“Union” was chosen to participate in IREXUkrainian Media Partnership Programme.
Audience: Potential audience – 500 000 people,representing all audience groups of theregion
Products: Information mostly focused on Makyivkacity and Donbas in general. The channelalso broadcasts movies, educationprograms, and analytic programs. Thechannel has 13 own TV projects, includingnews program “Panorama”, a mediaproject “Mestnoe Vremja”, as well aseducation and advertising products.
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Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
7, Radjanska Square, 86157 Makiivka,Donetsk Region8(0623)22-22-78, 8(0623)[email protected], [email protected]://union.makeevka.com/
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TV company “TV-7”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV company “TV-7”
Owners: The company is owned by Azomash, oneof the biggest industrial and machinery-producing plants in Ukraine
Management: Director - Ajna Chagir (member ofMarioupol City Council, the Party of theRegions)
Positioning: The channel positions itself as the mostdynamically developing TV company ofMarioupol
Products: TV company produces 13 owninformation, education, cultural andpolitical projects. In total TV companyproduces 19-22 hours of airtime.
It also purchases licensed products from"1+1 Distribution", "Avrora Distribution","Amadei", "KiT" and others.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
7, Dachnyy per., 87500, Mariupol,Donetsk region.(0629)[email protected]://www.beta.tv7.com.ua/
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Newspapers
“Vecherniy Donetsk”
Title of the Media outlet: Closed joint-stock company «Newspaper“Vecherniy Donetsk”
Owners: The paper belongs to media holding“Segodnya Multimedia”, owned by SystemCapital Management, a large financialand economic group controlled by RinatAkhmetov.
Management: Editor in Chief – Leonid Lapa
Positioning: Social-and-political family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published four times aweek, and circulated in 30 000 copies.Its distribution covers both Donetsk andDonetsk oblast
Audience: According to survey of "Marketing andmedia index" (MMI Ukraine), managed byTNS Ukraine, the total audience of oneissue 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 thefollowing categories: “Business World","A look into the future", "We criticize, wedemand, we offer", "Did You know this?","Pages of the history", "Painful points","From the courtroom”
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Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
48, Kyivskyy av, 83118, Donetsk(062) 311-66-54, [email protected] ,[email protected],[email protected] 72http://www.vecherka.donetsk.ua/
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“Donetskie Novosti”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “Newspaper “Donetskie Novosti”
Owners: The media outlet is a part of the mediaholding Segodnia Multimedia, owned bySystem Capital Management (RinatAkhmetov’s financial and economicgroup).
The newspaper is the official informationsponsor of the football club ShakhtarDonetsk which also belongs to Akhmetov.
Management: Editor – Rymma Fil’
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 28,000copies, distributed in the city of Donetskand Donetsk region (24, 500 copies); inDonbass-Airlines airplanes (800 copies)and in Kiev (300 copies)
Products: Information provided by the newspapercovers events in Donetsk and region, onbusiness, politics, culture, sports, andalso regular reviews of events in thecountry.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspapers “Donetskie Novosti” and“Courier Donetskikh Novostey” are partsof a publishing house “Donetskie novosti”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4, Shevchenka av, 83050 Donetsk(062) 335-35-62 , [email protected]://www.dnews.ukr-info.net/
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“Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”(the title can be translated into Ukrainianas: “Producer of Ukraine”)
Owners: CJSC "Group "Nord", CJSC "Varta"
Management: Editor in Chief – Sergiy Shatskyy
Positioning: The newspaper positions itself as a keymedia outlet for Ukrainian producers
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly andcirculated in 10 000 copies, throughoutUkraine.
Audience: The paper sees its target audience asprimarily composed of Ukrainiancommodity producers
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2, Zhukovskogo av, 83112, Donetsk(062) 263-47-43, 385-00-95, [email protected]
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“Donechchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Donechchyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by theDonetsk Regional State Administration.The outlet is influenced by the Group“Nord” and MP Valentyn Landik, memberof the Party of the Regions.
Management: Editor in Chief – Ihor Zots
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper inUkrainian
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 5 000copies and distributed throughout theregion. It is published once a week.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
48, Kyivskyi av, 83054, Donetsk(0622) 55-14-70 [email protected]
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“Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa”(the title can be translated as: DonbasRailway Worker)
Owners: The paper is owned by administration ofDonetsk railway and the railroad tradeunion
Management: Editor in Chief – Boris Sverdlov
Positioning: “Industry-oriented” weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 48 900copies, distributed throughout Donetskand Lugansk regions
Audience: 70 thousands workers of Donetsk railwayservice
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
198b, vul. Chel’uskintsiv, 83015, Donetsk(0622) [email protected]://www.railway.dn.ua
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Online resources
“Novosti.dn.ua”
Title of the Media outlet: Donbas Internet-newspaper“Novosti.dn.ua”
Owners: Owner and Editor in Chief – OleksiyMatsuka (Member of Voroshylov rayon inthe city of Donetsk council, member ofthe Yulia Tymoshenko block)
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksiy Matsuka
Positioning: The biggest business online edition inDonetsk region
Rating and coverage: The on-line media outlet daily hostsabout 12,000–18,000 visitors (convergentdata by rating services - bigmir.net, i.ua,rambler.ru, liveinternet.ru)
Audience: The audience of the media outlet has thefollowing structure:
Top management of Donetsk companies-30%
Heads of departments of Donetsk StateRegional Administration, city councils,and other authorities- 20%
Management of enterprises (large andmedium business) - 15%
(data by Donetsk institute of information,2008)
Products: The media outlet produces news in thefollowing categories: daily news,publications, forum, Donetsk mediareview, blogs, citizen journalism etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
127, vul. Postysheva, 83001, Donetsk(62) 348-95-25, 348-95-26
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“OSTRO”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet media outlet “OSTRO” (Centre ofthe research of social perspectives ofDonbas; analytical and news agency“Ostro”)
Owners: Project is supported by the National Fundfor Democracy, Fund for Ukrainian Mediadevelopment of the USA Embassy toUkraine, International RenaissanceFoundation.
Management: Leader of the project – Sergiy Garmash
Products: Donetsk news, Ivano-Frankivsk andLugansk news, all-Ukrainian news
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
[email protected]://www.ostro.org/
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TV channels
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV andRadio Company
Owners: State Committee of TV and RadioBroadcasting
Management: Director – Roman AndriyashkoActing as Director General – I. Cyperd’uk
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
30a, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk(0342(2) [email protected], [email protected]://odtrk.if.ua/
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TV and radio company “3-studiya”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “3-studiya”
Owners: The company is owned by TV and radiocompany “Karpaty”, and a private person
Management: Director – Mykhailo Rokosh
Profitability: Today “3-studiya” is one of the fewcommercially successful media projects inthe region
Positioning: Regional TV company, one of the mostpopular in the region
Rating and coverage: The company covers the city of IvanoFrankivsk and its region. Broadcastingtime: 24 hours in Ivano-Frankivsk and 18hours in Kalush.
Audience: Total audience is estimated about 1million people
Products: Media outlet produces own projects,including; “Weekly News”, “BusinessProject”, “Ornaments of the Faith”, “Thisis Football”, “Pulse” etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:•• e-mail:
56, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000 Ivano-Frankivsk(0342) 55-21-21, (03422) 2-24-19, 2-33-76, [email protected]
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TV and radio company “Vezha”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Vezha”
Owners: TV and radio company was established byIvano-Frankivsk City Council, and nowcontrolled by the city mayor, affiliatedwith Lytvyn Block
Management: Director – Olena Tretyak
Profitability: The company receives annual subsidiesfrom the local budget, estimated at UAH600,000 (about EUR 50-50,000) in 2008.
Positioning: News TV and radio company
Rating and coverage: The company does not have its owntransmission channel and broadcaststhrough frequency of the “3-studiya”.
Audience: Daily audience is estimated at 100,000people, primarily civil servants,businessmen and politicians (self-estimation).
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, Healththoughts, Secrets of the old city. Theradio also rebroadcast programs of theVoice of America.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: On-line resource Vezha.org, radio Vezha
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
22, vul. Galyc’ka, 76000 Ivano-Frankivs’k(0342) 776128, [email protected]://www.vezha.org/
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“Vpered”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vpered”
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Zanyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed in 2,500 copiesthroughout Tysmenets rayon of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. It is published once aweek.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
11, vul. Korolya Danyla, 76010, Ivano-Frankivsk(0342) [email protected]
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“Halychyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Halychyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Ivano-Frankinsk Regional council. It is presentlyinfluenced by Ihor Oliynyk, the head ofthe oblast council, Nasha Ukraina party
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl Nazarchyk
Profitability: Media outlet is subsidized from theregional budget (about UAH 500,000 – EUR40,000-50,000 - a year).
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet. Thepaper positions itself as a centre-rightnewspaper, loyal to regional government.
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published three times aweek. It is distributed in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk and its oblast, in 32,000 copies.98% is distributed through subscription.
Audience: The newspaper’s audience is estimated atsome 120 thousand people, mainlybusinessmen, managers, intellectuals,civil servants, farmers
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
25, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk(0342) [email protected], [email protected]://www.galychyna.if.ua
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“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
Owners: The media outlet was established byKolomiya city council in 1990.
However, recent history of the newspaperwas marked with conflicts of editor inchief Vasyl Demyaniv and mayor ofKolomiya Mr. Ovcharenko.
The newspaper also attracts foreign grantassistance
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl Demyaniv
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published twice a week. Itis distributed in 5,000 copies throughoutthe city of Kolomiya and its rayon.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
27, Konovaltsya, 78200, Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankivsk region(03433) 2-07-19, 4-73-38, [email protected]
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“Vilnyy Holos”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vilnyy Holos” (the title can be translatedinto English as: Free Voice)
Owners: The media outlet was established byKolomiya rayon council jointly withKolomiya rayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief – Olga Gavrylyuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week.It is distributed in 5,000 copiesthroughout the city of Kolomiya and itsrayon.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5a, vul. Shyhevycha, 78200, Kolomiya,Ivano-Frankivsk region(03433) 2-27-90, [email protected]
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“Halytske Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Halytske Slovo”
Owners: The media outlet was established byHalych rayon council jointly with Halychrayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief – Emilia Nakonechna
Positioning: The newspaper of Halych rayon counciland rayon state administration
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week.It is distributed in 2,500 copiesthroughout the city of Halych and itsrayon.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5, vul. Konovalc’a, 77100, Halych, Ivano-Frankivsk region(03431) 2-13-43, [email protected]://galslovo.if.ua/
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News agency ifPortal.net
Title of the Media outlet: News agency ifPortal.net
Owners: The media outlet has recently shownconstant political loyalty to YuliaTymoshenko block
Management: Editor in Chief and owner – Taras Kobets
Profitability: Like many other regional newspapers, theoutlet is profitable primarily during theelection period
Positioning: Information resource ifPortal.net
Audience: The media outlet is targeting mainlypopulation of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, butalso other Ukrainian regions, includingKiev
Products: Media outlet provides informationservices: daily news (RSS), monitoring ofthe main media outlets of Prykarpattya,analysis of key events in the region,expert opinions etc. Categories:economy, politics, culture, sport, crime,etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(066) 27-45-119; (067) [email protected]://ifportal.net
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“PIAR”
Title of the Media outlet: “Prykarpatska Informaciyna Agenciya IReklama “PIAR”
Owners: The media outlet is said to be close toIhor Bahmatyk, Narodna Partiya(Volodymyr Lytvyn block)
Management: Editor in Chief – Yuriy Druk
Products: The media outlet provides all sorts ofadvertising and PR services, informationsupport, etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
23, vul. Akademika Saharova, Ivano-Frankivsk(0342)98727
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“TV company “ATN”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV company “ATN”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by thecompany „Investor” (Kharkiv), and thecompany’s Director General Oleg Yukht.The company is close to the governor ofthe region Arsen Avakov.
Management: Director General – Oleg Yukht
Positioning: News TV channel
Rating and coverage: The media outlet produces own newsprograms, which are also re-broadcastedat the 7th TV channel.
40% of the respondents, living in Kharkiv,regularly watch the news of ATN (data of2003).
Audience: Target audience is aged between 18 and50
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4, Teatralnyi av., 61057, Kharkiv(057) 766-71-43, [email protected]
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Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Kharkiv regional state TV and radiocompany (OTB)
Owners: The OTB made a serious rebranding afterthe management change in summer 2005.
Appointment of Zurab Alasania, a famousjournalist, as Director General waslobbied by Arsen Avakov, the governor ofthe Kharkiv oblast.
However, Mykhailo Dobkin, Khrarkivmayor, last year called for Alasaniadismissal.
The channel positions itself as a balancedoutlet providing information room for forall political forces.
Management: Director – Zurab Alasania, Editor – HannaProkaeva
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Audience: Target audience: people aged 25+
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5, Svobody square, 61506, Kharkiv(057) 705-09-60, 705-00-66, [email protected],[email protected]
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“Slobids’kyy Kray”
Title of the Media outlet: Slobids’kyy Kray(the title can be translated into Englishas: Sloboda Land)
Owners: The newspaper was established byKharkiv regional council jointly withKharkiv regional state administration
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Rvenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times aweek. It is distributed in 35,500 copies,throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe following categories: OfficialInformation, Details, Politics, Finance,Hot Line, Interviews, Culture, Sports, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
6, Derzhprom., 61022, Kharkiv(057) 720-04-72
[email protected], [email protected]://slk.kh.ua/
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“Vecherniy Kharkov”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vecherniy Kharkov”(the title can be translated into Englishas: Evening Kharkiv)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled byAlexander Kaganovskiy, a Kharkivbusinessman, son-in-law of Kharkivformer governor Evhen Kushnariov.
Management: Editor in Chief – Tetyana Kostenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three timesper week
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe 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; [email protected],[email protected]://www.vecherniy.kharkov.ua
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“Novyy Den’”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyy Den’”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by ViktorSubbotin (Director General of“Turboatom” company, owner ofMegabank and the Head of regionalorganization of Ukraine’s Socialist party)
Management: Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times aweek, and distributed in 20,000 copies,throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe following categories: Region, Money,Society, Interview, Point of View, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv(057) 715-52-75(76)
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“Vremya”
Title of the Media outlet: Media company “Vremya” (newspaper“Vremya”)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled byUkrainian MP Oleksander Feldman (YuliaTymoshenko blok)
Management: Editor in chief: Olena Strunova
Rating and coverage: Daily regional newspaper covering 9Ukrainian oblasts - Sumy, Kherson,Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Lugansk,Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe following categories: Today,Traditions, Health, Born in Kharkiv, Worldnews, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
247/10, Moskovskyy av., 61301, Kharkiv(0572) 92-20-57, [email protected]
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“Sobytie”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sobytie”(the title can be translated into Englishas: “Event”)
Management: Director, Editor in Chief – Evhen Avergyn,Deputy Director – Vitaliy Bulat
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe following categories: Kharkiv andregional news, Ukraine and CIS, history,sports, music, etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
6247/8, Moskovskyy av., 1304, Kharkiv(0572) 92-40-42, (0572) [email protected]
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“MediaPort”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “MediaPort”
Owners: Owner – Zurab Alasania, a Ukrainianjournalist, director general of a TVcompany OTB
Management: Director – Tetyana Landesman
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is the most popularKharkiv news portal (data by BigMir.net,a Ukrainian online and rating project)
Audience: MediaPort hosts 25,000 visitors daily.
The audience has the following keygroups: civil servants, bank managers,businessmen, media representatives, etc.
Products: The project combines both TV andInternet production.News produced by the MediaPort arebroadcasted on local Kharkiv TV channels.
The internet portal provides news andanalysis, and accumulates MediaPortproducts for the last 7 years.The information is provided in threelanguages – Ukrainian, Russian andEnglish.
Key news projects: “Ob’ektiv Novosti”and “Novosti MediaPort”, personalprojects of Zurab Alasania,documentaries, etc
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Contact information:• Post address• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
74/7, vul. Sumska, 61022, KharkivNews-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
97http://www.mediaport.ua/ (www.media-objektiv.com )
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“Status quo”
Title of the Media outlet: News agency “STATUS QUO”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by ViktorSubbotin, director general of Turboatom,one of the biggests enterprises in theregion
Management: Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
Positioning: The news agency positions itself as a non-governmental regional news agency
Audience: The media outlet’s target audience isdefined mostly as media representativesand managers
Products: News up-dated on-line every 10-15 min.
The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Government,Finance, Politics, Society, Culture,Sports. It also produces an economy-focused thematic program “SQ -Economy”.
The on-line outlet also produces newscovering recent trends in differentsectors of economy, including machinery,oil production, energy, agriculture,pharmaceutics, investments, banking,law, etc.
Press center "STATUS QUO" holds variousround tables and press conferences everyweek.
Affiliations: The news agency is affiliated with NovyiDen, another newspaper controlled byViktor Subbotin
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv (057) 715-52-76, 715-52-66 (67)[email protected], [email protected] 98www.sq.com.ua
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“Gorodskoy Dozor”
Title of the Media outlet: NGO and media project “GorodskoyDozor”(the title can be translated into Englishas: City Watch)
Owners: The media-project “Gorodskoy Dozor”was created by the group of Kharkivjournalists in spring 2006 to support acivic initiative on the local elections (alsocalled Gorodskoy Dozor). The mediaoutlet was later financed by theinternational enterprise TARGET.
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is in the top five outletsof the Kharkiv on-line media.
Products: The project produces own projects andplots for news programs, and furtherbroadsasts on the local TV channel (7th
channel)
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://dozor.kharkov.ua/
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“Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company)
Title of the Media outlet: “Scythia”(Kherson Regional State TV and RadioCompany)
Owners: After the Orange Revolution DirectorGeneral Valeriy Dolyna conflicted withgovernor of the region Boris Synelnykov,who unsuccessfully lobbied Dolyna’sdismissal.
Today the outlet is influenced by theHead of regional council, member of theParty of the Regions, VolodymyrDemekhin.
Management: Director General – Valeriy Dolyna
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from thelocal budget. Recently financing wasreduced, which led to closure of a weeklynewspaper “Ether”, affiliated with thecompany.
Rating and coverage: The TV channel broadcasts for 24 hours.The company also produces 18 hours ofradio broadcasting. Media outlet reachesout to 65% of the region’s population.
Audience: The TV and radio company targets allaudience groups
Products: The TV and radio company providesinformation in the following categories:Regional news, central and localgovernance (25%), cultural and educationprograms (25%), youth-oriented programs(8%), social programs (12%).
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Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV and radio channels "Scythia", "Ranok","Dnipro", "Tavria", "Fact".
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
10, vul. Perekops’ka, 73000, Kherson 100(0552)[email protected]
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TV and radio company “TOP”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “TOP”
Owners: The TV and radio company is owned byDeirector General Oleksandr Solyarchuk
Management: Director General - Oleksandr Solyarchuk
Rating and coverage: The radio signal covers entire Khersonregion. Potential audience: 559,550poeple.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for allaudience groups.
Products: The company rebroadcasts production ofRadio Era, a pan-Ukrainian debates-focused “talk radio”.
The company also produces news onpolitics, finance, culture, etc; itbroadcasts for 24 hours.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Concert agency “Stolyarchuk”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1a, vul. Suvorova, 73000 Kherson (0552)493203, (0552) [email protected]://050.ks.ua/trktop/main.php?page=melonas&menu=mnmelodiya&logo=melodiya
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TV “Vita”
Title of the Media outlet: TV “Vita”
Management: Director - Evgenia Khvorost
Positioning: A social TV channel of the Kherson oblast
Rating and coverage: All-Ukrainian satellite channel. TVcompany produces 15 hours ofbroadcasting.
Audience: Audience of all age categories
Products: The media outlet produces own news,education, history-focused projects:«News», «Tvoya Myzika», «Тviymikrofon», «M-project», «Тvoya sprava»,«Piznayko».
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
Ukrainian TV network25/311, Shevchenko av., 83017, Donetsk(062) 312-78-16, 312-79-25, (062) [email protected]
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“Bulava”
Title of the Media outlet: “Bulava”
Management: Editor in Chief – Larysa T’ut’unnyk
Positioning: The media outlet positions itself as newsand op-ed newspaper of the independentTV and radio company
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed in 16,000 copies,throughout the region. The paper ispublished once a week.
Audience: Total audience: 45-60 000 people, mostlyaged between 25 and 70. The paper seesits audience is economically activecitizens.
Products: Newspaper produces information in thefollowing categories: News, Law andCrime, City, Region, Society, Sports,Beauty, Youth page, Star life, Ads
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper is a part of TV and radioorganization “Bulava”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
46, vul. Radyans’ka, 73000, Kherson(0552)[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]://paper.bulava.com.ua/index.php
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“VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”
Title of the Media outlet: “VIK – chas, podii, ljudy”[the title can be translated into Englishas: Time, events, people]
Owners: NGO “Hromadskyy Control’”
Management: Editor in Chief – L’udmyla Vedmid’
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The nNewspaper is distributed throughoutthe city of Kherson
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
10b, vul. Suvorova, 73000, Kherson(0552) 42-16-09
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“Gryvna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Gryvna”
Management: Editor in chief – Valeriy Boyanzhu
Positioning: The media outlet positions itself as aninformation, financial, cultural andeducation-focused newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week,and distributed in 65,000 copies,throughout Kherson region and in otherUkrainian oblasts.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
3, Murnyi av., 73000, Kherson(0552) 26-26-88, 26-28-76, [email protected]://www.grivna.kherson.ua
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“Novyi Den’”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyi Den’”
Owners: The newspaper is influenced by the Partyof the Regions
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Zhupyna
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly in35,000 coplies. It is istributed in the cityof Kherson (20%), and Kherson region(80%).
Products: Categories: Politics, Crime, Society,Finance, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
26, vul. Dekabrystiv, 73003, Kherson(0552) 45-42-60, [email protected],[email protected]://www.newday.kherson.ua
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“Vestnik priazov’ya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vestnik priazov’ya”
Owners: The media outlet was estanlished by theGeniches’k rayon state administration,jointly with Geniches’k local council
Management: Editor in Chief – Vira Azza
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week.It is distributed in 5600 copies, thoughoutthe city of Geniches’k and its rayon
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
35, Myru av., 75500, Geniches’k, Khersonregion(5534) 2-56-54, 3-70-36
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Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Title of the Media outlet: Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Owners: Dmytro Donchenko
Management: Director: Dmytro Donchenko
Positioning: Independent news resource
Audience: The media outlet targets the populationof Nova Kahovka
Products: The portal provides information in thefollowing categories: Politics, Finance,Society, People, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
74900, Nova Kahovka, Kherson region20554970707
http://nova.kahovka.org.ua/
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Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: “Podillya Centr” (Khmelnytskyi RegionalState TV and Radio Company)
Owners: The TV channel belongs to state-ownednetwork controlled by Ukraine’s StateCommittee of Television and RadioBroadcasting
Management: Olena Pavliuk– Director General.
Rating and coverage: Regional TV and Radio company. Its signalcovers 90 % of the territory of the region.
Audience: All age and social groups
Products: The company produces own news andprograms. All broadcasting is made inUkrainian language
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
92, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29000,Khmelnytskyi(0382) 795946, (0382) [email protected], [email protected]@ukr.net
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TV and radio company “Contact”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Contact”(Khmelnytskyi non-governmental musicand information radio station and TVcorporation “Contact”)
Owners: LLC „Financial company „RANP” (Kyiv),“Contact” (Khmelnytskyi) (cable TVprovider), LLC “TV company “FNB”(Dunaivtsi) and two physical persons.
Management: President – Anatoliy Luk’yanchykov
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company broadcasts in thecities of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi
Audience: All age and social groups living inKhmelnytskyi and Kamyanets- Podilsk(Khmelnytskyi oblast)
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Contact radio (FM)
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:
• URL:
59, Myru av., 29000, Khmelnytskyi(03822) 3-12-30, 3-30-74, (0382) 78-93-34, 78-93-32, [email protected],[email protected]
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“Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”(33 channel)
Management: Director – Olena Filatova
Positioning: Children-and-youth channel
Audience: Media outlet is designed to produce andbroadcast programs for children andyouth.
Products: TV channel produces entertainment andeducation programs.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4/3, Proskurivska, Khmelnytskyi(0382) [email protected], [email protected]
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“Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by LLC"Krayany-Podillya"
Management: Editor – Sergiy Soltus
Positioning: Free of charge advertisement newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly. It isdistributed in 105,000 copies throughoutthe city of Khmelnytskyi
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
53, vul. Svobody, 29000, Khmelnytskyi(0382) 79-49-05, 76-28-54, [email protected]
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“Khmelnychchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khmelnychchyna”
Management: Editor - Ivan Fedorov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a weekand distributed in 15,000 copies,throughout the Khmelnytsk region.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
71, vul. Proskurivskogo pidpillya, 29000,Khmelnytskyi(0382) 79-46-30, [email protected]://gazetahmeln.km.ua
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“Podils’ki visti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Podil’ski visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established byKhmelnytskyi regional council, jointlywith regional state administration. It isinfluenced by Ivan Gladunyak – the Headof the Khmelnytska oblast regionalcouncil
Management: Acting Editor in chief – Mykola Shokalo
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three timesper week. The outlet is the mostcirculated newspaper of the Khmelnytskregion.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
59, Myru av., 29015, Khmelnytskyi(0382) 78-95-97, 3-30-63, [email protected], [email protected]
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“Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’skiEparhialni Vidomosti”
Owners: The media outlet was established byKhmelnytskyi Diocese Administration ofUkrainian Orthodox church
Management: Editor in chief – Metropolitan Antoniy
Positioning: Religious newspaper
Rating and coverage: Biweekly newspaper, distributed in 5,000copies throughout Ukraine.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
113, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29013,Khmelnytsk(0382) [email protected]://www.fialco.org
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“VSIM”
Title of the Media outlet: “VSIM”
Owners: LLC "Media-Holding "VSIM"
Management: Editor – Anatoliy Drozdyk
Positioning: Advertisement-and-business newpaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week,and is distributed in 12,600 copies,throughout the region. The paper is alsodelivered to directors of 130 biggestregional enterprises.
Audience: Economically active citizens, having mid-and high income.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
10, vul. Teatralna, 29013, Khmelnytskyi(0382) [email protected], [email protected]
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News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
Management: Director – Vadym Oleks’uk
Products: The news agency provides information onpolitics, finance, business, socialquestions, sports, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Radgospna,Khmelnytskyi (0382)[email protected]://www.context-km.info
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Media corporation “Ye!”
Title of the Media outlet: Media corporation “Ye!”
Management: Editor – Sergiy Ishchuk
Positioning: Regional social-and-political mediaoutlet, also family and entertainment-oriented
Audience: Target audience is different for differentprojects of «Ye Podillya».For «Ye telenavigator» 55% of theaudience are women aged between 25and 55. For «Ye simeyna gazeta» up to80% of the audience are women agedbetween 25 and 34, and also between 46and 60.«Vsim.ua» target audience: women andmen aged between 24 and 35.
Products: The media corporation produces anumber of publications, covering thewhole region, targeting differentaudiences. The projects are distributedby subscription and retail trade; some ofthem are free of charge.Newspaper «Ye Podillya» produces thelatest news of the region, analysis andinterviews. Weekly newspaper „Yetelenavigator” produces show-biz andcelebrities-focused news. “Ye simeynagazeta” is a family newspaper focusing onadvice and consultation information,interview with medical workers,psychologists, lawyers, etc. Monthlynewspaper«Vsim.ua» containsadverisemenr and information, marketreviews, etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • «Ye Podillya»• «Ye telenavigator»• «Ye simeyna gazeta»• «Vsim.ua»
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
38, vul. Shevchenka, Khmelnytskyi(0382) 702-602, (0382) 765 381, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 119http://ye.ua
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TV and radio company “KTM”
Title of the Media outlet: 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
Rating and coverage: The company broadcasts in theKirovograd region
Audience: Audience is estimated to reach up to24,000 people
Products: TV and radio company produces 17 owninformation programs and op-edmaterials. It also rebroadcasts national,local and foreign channels.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
57a, vul. Pershotravneva, 28000,Oleksandria, Kirovograd region(05235) 7-23-75, [email protected],[email protected]://www.ktm.net.ua/
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Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Kirovograd Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners: The company is integrated into a networkof Ukraine’s State Committee of TV andradio broadcasting
Management: Director General – Andriy Bogdanovych
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers about 78% ofpopulation of the region. It dailybroadcasts for 2 hours in wired radio andfor 24 hours on radio “Scythia Centr”(106.7 FM).
Audience: Designed for all audience categories
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, Kirova square, 25022, Kirovograd(0522) 24-88-60, (0522) [email protected]
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“Kirovogradska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kirovogradska Pravda”
Owners: LLC “Kirovogradpresgrupa”
Management: Editor in chief: Volodymyr Belinskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times aweek. It is distributed in 30,000 copies,throughout the city of Kirovograd and itsregion.
Products: The newspaper provides new in thefollowing categories: Economics, Politics,Events, Kirovograd, Free Time, Forecasts,etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
40, vul. Egorova, 25015, Kirovograd(0522) 24-84-44, 24-59-82, [email protected]/
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“21 kanal”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “21 kanal”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by the regionalorganization of journalists. OlenaShvorak, journalist of this newspaper, waselected to Kirovograd regional councilfrom Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
Management: Editor’s in Chief Deputy – Yuriy Yarovyy
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 50,000copies, throughout the region. 50% of it isdistributed through retail trade, 48% -through subscription, and 2% isdistributed free of charge.
Audience: Media outlet is designed for all age, sexand social categories of readers
Products: The newspaper provides latest regionalnews, news of Kirovograd, pan-Ukrainiannews, social news, advertisement. It alsoprovides additional services, such asadvertisement articles, PR, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
36, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd(0522) [email protected]
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“Narodne Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Narodne Slovo”
Owners: The newspaper was established by theKirovograd Regional council, jointly withregional state administration.
Valeriy Myatovych, its editor in chief, is amember of the Batkyvshchyna party(Yulia Tymoshenko bloc)
Management: Editor in Chief – Valentyna Bazhan
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published tree times aweek. It is distributed in 21,000 copies,throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper produces news on theregional and national politics and sociallife
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
46, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd(0522) 22-08-19, 22-47-62, [email protected]
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“Nova Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nova Gazeta”
Management: Editor in chief: Iryna Petlya
Positioning: Business media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 18,000copies, throughout the region.
Audience: Target group: economically activecitizens the population of Kirovogradregion.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
43/2, vul. Chornovola, 25006,Kirovograd(0522) [email protected]
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“Silskyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Silskyy Visnyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established byOleksandria rayon council, jointly withrayon state administration
Management: Editor in chief: Natalia Lysenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 3,000copies, throughout Oleksandria rayon ofthe Kirovograd region. 100% is distributedthrough subscription.
Audience: All categories of readers.
Products: The newspaper provides news of the cityof Oleksandria and its rayon. The paperalso focused on social projects.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
100, vul. Shevchenka, 28000,Oleksandria, Kirovograd region.(05235) [email protected]
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Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd”(the title can be translated into Englishas: All Kirovograd)
Owners: The project was established by a regionalmedia group “Ves’ Kirovograd”. Thegroup also owns the portalKirоvоgrad.biz, magazine “Lanrouge”,promotion agency “Ves’ Kirovograd”.
Profitability: The internet project is partiallysupported by foreign grants. A list of thedonors of the project include Institute ofSocial and Cultural management andStefan Batory Foundation.
Positioning: The web page has been created byjournalists and civil society leaders ofKirovograd to develop civil society,freedom of speech and access toinformation for Kirovograd population(self-estimation).
Rating and coverage: The media outlet positions itself as amajor news resource of the region.
Products: The outlet provides news in the followingcategories: Politics, Economy, Society,Science and Culture, Sports and leisure,Picture gallery etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
[email protected]://www.kirovograd.net/
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On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk
Title of the Media outlet: On-line media outlet of the city ofSvitlovodsk
Owners: Author and manager of the project –Bogdan Drozdov
Positioning: Independent news resource
Audience: People living in Svitlovodsk
Products: The news resource provides Svitlovodsknews, information about everyday events,holidays, issues related to communalservices, etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://svetlovodsk.com.ua/
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“Maidan-TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Maidan-TV”
Owners: Director and owner – Oleksandr Maidanyk
Positioning: Local non-governmental infotainment TVchannel of Bila Tserkva (a town in theKyiv region).
Rating and coverage: TV channel has 18 hour programmingdaily. All the products are in Ukrainian.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
8, Torgova ploshcha, 09101, BilaTserkva, Kyiv region(04463) 9-11-17, 9-98-55
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“Hromads’ka Dumka”
Title of the Media outlet: “Hromads’ka Dumka”
Owners: The media outlet was established by citycouncil of Bila Tserkva (a town in Kyivregion)
Management: Editor – Olena Kutsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, circulated in 5,000copies, covering the city of Bila Tserkvaand its rayon
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
60, Pyatdes’atyrichcha Peremogy av.,09100, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Region(04463) [email protected]
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“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established byPereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi city counciljointly with Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyirayon council
Management: Editor – Halyna Karpenko
Profitability: The newspaper is mainly financed fromthe local budget, and partially raisesfunds through advertisement. In the 1990sit also benefited from assistance ofinternational donors organizations.
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 7,000copies, throughout the city of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and its rayon.
Audience: All age and social groups.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
45, vul. Shkil’na, 08404, PereyaslavKhmelnytskyi, Kyiv region(04467) 5-13-44 , [email protected]
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“Yagotyns’ki Visti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Yagotyns’ki Visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established byYagotyn rayon council, jointly with rayonstate administration
Management: Editor in chief: Anatoliy Sasa
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a weekand is distributed in 7,000 copies,throughout Yagotyn rayon
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Pyr’atyns’ka, 07700, Yagotyn, Kyivregion(04475) 5-48-53 , 5-55-52, 8-275-54853
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“Peremoga”
Title of the Media outlet: “Peremoga”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Fastivcity council, jointly with Fastiv rayoncouncil and rayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief - Viktor Urlapov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,200copies. 98% of copies are distributedthrough subscription, 1% - through retailtrade, and 1% - free of charge.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
40, vul. Soborna, 08500, Fastiv, Kyivregion(04465) 6-21-22, [email protected]://fastiv.in.ua/taxonomy/term/1
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Online resources
“Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
Owners: Media outlet is owned by internet holding“OBOZ.ua” (see more information aboutthe holding in the section “Key mediagroups”).
Editor in chief – Albert Feldman
Management: Editor – Tetyana Andrushchenko
Positioning: Kyiv-focused online newspaper, a web-page about and for the population of Kyiv
Rating and coverage: On-line media hosts up to 70,000 visitorsdaily
Products: The outlet provides information in thefollowing categories: Kyiv news, localgovernment performance, real estatemarket review, financial news, culturalnews, video etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The outlet is affiliated with other mainlyonline projects integrated into Oboz.uaholding: online newspapers Obozrevateland Ohliadach, web-portals Oboz.ua anduaportal.com, infotainment portal Kiev2000 (target group: people living in Kyiv),entertainment web-site Veseli Yaytsia,sports web-site Sport.oboz.ua, tabloidShow.oboz.ua, cinema web-siteKino.oboz.ua, car-focused siteauto.oboz.ua, recreation siterest.oboz.ua, photo portalphoto.oboz.ua, video web-sitevideo.oboz.ua etc
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Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
17, vul. Panasa Myrnogo, 01011, Kyiv (044)585 46 [email protected],[email protected]://kiyany.obozrevatel.com
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“Khreshchatyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khreshchatyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Kyivcity council, and is largely controlled byKyiv municipal authorities
Management: Acting as Editor in Chief –Yevgen Gaglovskyi
Deputy of the Editor in Chief –Oleksandr Marushchak
Positioning: Kyiv municipal newspaper, a social-and-political media outlet
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
51b, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 01034, Kyiv
(044) 502-34-37
[email protected],[email protected]://www.kreschatic.kiev.ua
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TV channels
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”)
Title of the media outlet: Lugansk Regional State TV and radiocompany (“LOT”)
Owners/affiliation: Head of the board – Rodion Miroshnyk, amember of the Party of the Regions,former spokesman of the leader of PoRfaction in the national parliamentOlexandr Efremov
Management: Rodion Miroshnyk, head of board
Rating and coverage: The biggest TV channel in the region,with 90% of citizens living in the oblastsaying they regularly watch itsproduction. The company also has radiobroadcasting projects.
Audience: All social groups, living in the region
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Puls radio (103,6 FM)
Contact Information:• поштова адреса:• телефони:• e-mail:• URL:
25, vul. Demiohina, 91016, Lugansk(0642) 35-16-82, [email protected]://lot.lg.ua/
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TV and radio company “STV”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “STV”
Owners: Media outlet is a communal enterprise,founded, among others, by Severodonetskcity council
Management: Acting as Director – O. Martynenko
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers 35,603households, including 5,000 of those usingdigital TV.
Audience: People aged between 25 and 49 years
Products: The media outlet rebroadcasts 80channels, including 59 digital channels. Ithas its own TV channel and radio station.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
93, vul. Gagarina, 93400 Severodonetsk,Lugansk region(06452) [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected]://stv.ua
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TV and radio company “IRTA”
Title of the media outlet: LLC Independent TV and radio company“IRTA”
Owners: Belongs to LLC “Independent TV andRadio company “Continent” (Lugansk) andVolodymyr Landyk, MP, a member of theParty of the Regions
Management: Director General – Karolina Poltavska
Positioning: Infotainment TV channel
Audience: All social and age groups living in theregion.
Products: The TV and radio company produces ownnews and thematic programs, andrebroadcasts TV channels “Kino” (CentralMedia Enterprises) and “Ru Music”.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
22a, vul. Khersonska, 91053, Lugansk(0642) 55-18-72, 34-58-87, 34-58-82
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Vecherniy Lugansk
Title of the media outlet: “Vecherniy Lugansk”
Owners: The media outlet is close to VolodymyrLanyk, a Ukrainian MP, a member of theParty of the Regions. However, officiallythe newspaper is owned by Mr. Zhdanik, abusinessman.
Management: Acting Editor in chief: German Borysov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is one of three mostpopular regional press outlets
Products: The newspaper has a scandalousreputation, producing materials on acutesocial and political issues.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
7, vul. Eryomenko, [email protected]
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“Vesti Regiona”
Title of the media outlet: “Vesti Regiona”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by LLC "Vlanyk".
Management: Editor – Lyudmyla Prokopova
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 29,020copies, throughout the region.
Audience: The newspaper prioritizes people withmid- and low income.
Products: Media outlet provides information in thefollowing categories: Facts and Events,History in Faces, TV Program, Behind theScenes, etc
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
89a, vul. Vatutina, 91040, Lugansk(0642) 46-66-45, [email protected]
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“Luganskaya Pravda”
Title of the media outlet: “Luganskaya Pravda”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by OleksandrEfremov, Ukrainian MP, the Party of theRegions
Management: Editor in chief: VolodymyrMykhailychenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three timesper week, and distributed in 42,800copies, throughout the region. 60% of thepaper distributed within the city ofLugansk, 40% - in Lugansk region. 90% ofcopies are distributed throughsubscription, and 10% - through retailtrade.
Products: The media outlet provides news of theLugansk city and its region
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20/318, vul. Radyanska, 91021, Lugansk33-14-69, [email protected]://www.pravda.lg.ua/
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“Nasha Gazeta”
Title of the media outlet: “Nasha Gazeta”
Owners/affiliation: The newspaper was established byLugansk regional council. It is close toformer head of the council VictorTikhonov and actual head of the councilValeriy Golenko
Management: Editor in chief: Oleksandr Pankov
Positioning: Social-and-economical media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 43,335copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet covers issues related tolocal governance, regional economydevelopment, social agenda, city planningand construction, education, science,history, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1b, vul. Lermontova, 91055, Lugansk(0642) 53-60-44, 53-22-32, [email protected]://www.nashagazeta.com.ua
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On-line resources
“Novyny Luganska”
Title of the media outlet: “Novyny Luganska”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is one of the mostvisited (top-5) Lugansk internetresources.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Lugansk news,Ukrainian news, Finance, Politics, Sports
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
8(066)[email protected]://citynews.net.ua/
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“Rakurs Plus”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the newspaper “Rakurs Plus”
Owners: The media outlet belongs to its Editor inChief Mykola Severyn, member of theregional council, Ukraine’s CommunistParty
Management: Editor in Chief - Mykola Severyn
Positioning: The newspaper outlet positions itself asan independent on-line media outlet.
Products: The online newspaper providesinformation in the following categories:Politics, Finance, Society, Crime, Sport,Culture, Lugansk from A to Z, Quality oflife, etc
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1b, vul. Lermontova, Lugansk53-11-55, [email protected]://rakurs.pl.ua/
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“Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”
Title of the media outlet: “Agentstvo Regionalnyh Novyn” (Regionalnews agency)
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: News, Analysis,Politics, Finance, Society
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://arena.net.ua/
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Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Lviv Regional State TV and RadioCompany (12th channel)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by thegovernor of the region Mykola Kmyt’,leader of the regional organization ofNasha Ukraina party Petro Oliynyk, andLviv mayor – Andriy Sadovyi
Management: Director – Yaroslav Klymovuch
Profitability: TV and Radio Company benefits from UAH8 mln of subsidies annually from the localand regional budget.
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Audience: All social and age groups of people livingin the region.
Products: The media outlet produces own news andthematic programs.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
4, Vusokyy Zamok, 79008, Lviv(032) 272-46-13, (032) 298-69-50, (032)[email protected], [email protected],http://www.lodtrk.com.ua/?pg=41
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NTA
Title of the media outlet: “NTA” (Independent TV agency)
Owners: The media outlet was established in 1998by Eduard Zan’uk and Georgiy Kyrpa.Today owned by S. Semenuk.
Management: Director – V. Bilen’
Products: The channel broadcasts in Ukrainianlanguage. Own production accounts forup to 33,34% of the total programming.The media outlet also produces news forUkrainian national TV channels Tonis andTET.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
6, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv(032) 2999233, (0322) [email protected]://www.nta.ua
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Vysokyi Zamok
Title of the media outlet: “Vysokyi Zamok”(the title can be translated into Englishas: 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 mediaoutlets in the region.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published five times aweek, with a total circulation of 100,000copies (self-estimation), throughout 10Ukrainian regions.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2, vul. Volodymyra Velykogo, 79026 Lviv(032) 237-47-02, 237-47-16, [email protected]://www.wz.lviv.ua/
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Lvivs’ka Hazeta
Title of the media outlet: “Lvivs’ka Hazeta”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by RomanShlapak – member of Lviv city councilfrom Narodnyi Ruh Ukrainy (Ukraine’sPeople’s Movement), owner of a trademark Intermarket (supermarket network).
Management: Editor in Chief – Igor Kulyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The web-page of the media outlet hosts5-7 000 visitors daily. The printed versionof the newspaper is distributed in 45-65 000 copies.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
53, vul. Zamarstynivska, 79058, Lviv294 95 41, 294 95 [email protected]://www.gazeta.lviv.ua/
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Argument Gazeta
Title of the media outlet: “Argument Gazeta”
Management: Editor in Chief – Taras Smakula
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 8 regionsof Ukraine.
Products: The media outlet is focusing oninvestigative journalism, special reports,criminal news, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
105, vul. Zelena, 79058 Lviv41-82-26, [email protected]://argumentgazeta.com/
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Ratusha
Title of the media outlet: “Ratusha”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by Lviv citycouncil. It is de-facto opposed to citymayor Andriy Sadovyi, and influenced bysome members of city council from NashaUkraina (Our Ukraine) and UkrainianPeople’s Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc).
Management: Editor in chief: Mykola Saveliev
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from thelocal budget, with total annual subsidiesreaching UAH 412,000. Additional incomecomes from advertisement, subscription,etc.
Positioning: Social-and-political and business mediaoutlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 38,000copies, in the city of Lviv.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
8, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv(0322) [email protected]://ratusha.lviv.ua
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Subotn’a Poshta
Title of the media outlet: “Subotn’a Poshta”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by“Profesiyna Liga” ltd. Later the outletwas taken over by the company “Royal”,owner of a slot machines chain.
Management: Director – Anatoliy Zabarylo
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in total in55,000 copies, throughout the country
Products: The newspaper covers the news of Lvivcity and oblast, and also Ukrainian news.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
23, Shevchenka av., 79601 Lviv(0322) 97-10-27, 97-15-24, [email protected]://www.lvivpost.net/
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News Agency “LvivNews”
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “LvivNews”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city of Lviv.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
[email protected]://www.lvivnews.info/
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ZIK
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “ZIK”(“Zahidna infomaciyna korporaciya” –Western information corporation)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by PetroDyminskiy, former MP, one of the biggestregional businessmen, who also ownsseveral media outlets, oil refinerycompanies and a football club. Mr.Dyminskiy is known for instability of hispolitical affiliation, as he started hispolitical career in president-close NashaUkraina, than moved to the Party of theregions led by Victor Yanukovych, than toYulia Tymoshenko bloc and finally endedup at ECO+25%.Ukrainian news magazine Focus putDyminskyi 46th in the rating of Ukrainianwelthiest busissmen, estimating hisfortune at USD 580 million.
Positioning: The news agency positions itself as anindependent, non-partisan media outletthat follows standards of openness,transparency and balanced information.
Rating and coverage: The agency covers the city of Lviv andother western regions of Ukraine. Someestimates put the site to top-10 ofUkrainian online information projects.
Products: The media outlet provides information onLviv, Ternopil’, Chernivtsy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Lutsk.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2, vul. Voronogo, 79006, Lviv(032) 235-02-12, (032) [email protected], [email protected]://zik.com.ua/
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Zaxid.net
Title of the media outlet: “Zaxid.net”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by AndriySadovyi, Lviv mayor.
Positioning: Independent social-and-political Internetmedia outlet
Rating and coverage: Some estimates put the site to top-10 ofUkrainian online information projects.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: News (inUkrainian, Polish and Russian), Top Topic,Blogs, Interview, Lviv 2012, Chat, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
67-g, vul. Chornovola, 79000,Lviv (032) [email protected]://www.zaxid.net/
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Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Mykolaiv Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners/affiliation: TV channel is loyal to the governor of theregion Oleksiy Garkusha
Management: Director General – Oleksandr Mytrofanov
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Products: The media outlet produces own news,youth-focused, sports and otherprograms. It also rebroadcasts UT-1,Ukrainian national state-owned TVchannel. Additional services includeadvertisement production.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
24b, Lenina av., 54029, Mukolaiv(0512) [email protected]://www.ogtrk.mk.ua
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TV and radio company “Mart”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Mart”
Owners/affiliation: The TV and radio company wasestablished by Mykolaiv city council. It isinfluenced by Mykolaiv mayor VolodymyrChayka
Management: Director – Oleksandr Sokolov
Profitability: The media outlet is financed primarilyfrom the local budget.
Rating and coverage: Potential audience reaches up to about 1mln people living in the region.
Products: The media outlet produces owninformation and op-ed programs.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
31, vul. Admiralska, Mykolaiv35-94-51, 35-05-71с[email protected], [email protected]
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TV channel “35 kanal”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “35 kanal” (TV company “NISTV” ltd)
Owners: The TV channel is controlled by UkrainianMP Gennadiy Zadyrko, a member of theYulia Tymoshenko bloc.
Management: Director – Vitaliy Meheda
Positioning: Mykolaiv local non-governmentalinfotainment TV channel
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Products: TV channel produces own news andentertainment projects.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
30a, vul. Chkalova, 54017, Mykolaiv(0512) 47-46-66, [email protected]
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“Vecherniy Nikolaev”
Title of the media outlet: “Vecherniy Nikolaev”
(The title can be translated into Englishas: Evening Mykolaiv)
Owners: The newspaper was established byMykolaiv city council. It is controlled bycity mayor - Volodymyr Chayka.
Management: Editor in Chief – V. Puchkov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The highest ranked media outlet in thecity. The newspaper is published threetimes a week.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: official newsand announcements of the city council,texts of local journalists, important socialmaterials, history, news and comments,etc
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv(0512) [email protected]://www.vn.mk.ua/
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“Vestnik Pribuzhya”
Title of the media outlet: “Vestnik Pribuzhya”(annex to the newspaper “YuzhnayaPravda” – see below)
Owners: The newspaper is influenced byVolodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 15,000copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper covers local and regionalnews.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv(0512) 35-14-43, 35-43-57, [email protected]
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“Shchotyzhn’a”
Title of the media outlet: “Shchotyzhn’a”(annex to the newspaper “YuzhnayaPravda” – see below.The title Shchotyzhn’a can be translatedinto English as: Every Week)
Owners: The newspaper is influenced byVolodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 6,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv(0512) 35-50-28, 35-20-47, [email protected] , [email protected]
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“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”
Title of the media outlet: “Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskayagazeta”(Annex to “Yuzhnaya Pravda”)
Owners: The newspaper is loyal to VolodymyrChaika, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 4,500copies, in Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk,Zaporizhiya, Kirovograd, Odesa, Khersonregions and Crimean autonomousrepublic.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv(0512) 35-13-66, 35-20-47, [email protected], [email protected]
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“Yuzhnaya Pravda”
Title of the media outlet: “Yuzhnaya Pravda”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Truth of the South, or SouthernPravda)
Owners: The newspaper is loyal by VolodymyrChayka, the Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in chief: Mykola Stetsenko
Financing: The media outlet is financed by the localbudget, but also receives a partialsupport from foreign donors.
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The most circulated newspaper in theregion. 95% of copies are distributedthrough subscription.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Ads and informational newspaper“Vestnik Pribuzhya”,
• Ukrainian-language weekly“Shchotyzhnya”,
• Youth newspaper “Novoepokolenie”,
• multiregional edition “Yuzhnayaobshchestvennaya gazeta”.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv(0512) 37-00-47, [email protected], [email protected]://www.up.mk.ua/
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Internet media “Mukola.net”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media “Mukola.net”
Management: Editor in Chief – Oksana Tyhonchuk
Positioning: Analytical newspaper of the city ofMykolaiv
Rating and coverage: The biggest Mykolaiv on-line media. Itmonthly hosts – 135,000 visitors fromUkraine, US, Russia, Israel, EU etc.
Audience: The media outlet is designed mostly forbusinessmen and politicians.
Products: On-line media outlet provides news fromMykolaiv and Ukraine, as well asworldwide news.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
+380 512 76-76-56; +380 512 76-76-06;+380 512 36-09-44
http://www.mukola.net/
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Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Positioning: Mykolaiv regional internet newspaper
Rating and coverage: The media outlet hosts 6,000 – 8,000visitors daily.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: News, Articles,Pictures, Travel, News of the car market,etc
Contact Information:• 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”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua”
Management: Editor – Vyacheslav Chychenin
Positioning: Mykolaiv news-and-analysis newspaper
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Analytics,Politics, Finance, Events, Security,Culture, Sports, etc
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
380(98)[email protected], [email protected]://www.mk.mk.ua/
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Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Odessa Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners/Affiliation: The company is part of the network ofUkraine’s State Committee of TV andRadio Broadcasting. But in reality thechannel is close to Leonid Klimov,Ukrainian MP, member of the Party of theRegions, owner of AKB Imeksbank
Management: Director General – Oksana Matyukh
Rating and coverage: Regional TV and Radio Company
Products: The company has own TV and radioproduction. News programs“Chornomorskiy Mayak”, “Odes’kiyKaleydoskop”, thematic program “Peopleof my land” etc. are among the mostpopular radio programs.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
3, Fontans’ka doroga, 65063, Odessa(048) 748-10-67, (048) [email protected]
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Media group “Glas”
Title of the media outlet: Media group “Glas”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Voice)
Owners/affiliation: Controlling stock of the media groupbelongs to Gennadiy Trukhanov (amember of the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc,one of the top-5 Ukrainian politicalfactions).
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city ofOdessa and its region. The groupintegrates highly popular TV channels inthe Odessa region.
Audience: All social groups and all age categories(people aged between 5 and 70).
Products: 24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes owncultural and education products for thewhole family.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The media group includes 3 TV channelsand a radio station: TV channels “Glas”,“Plus”, and “Strana Sovetov” (satelliteand cable TV channel), radio Glas 106.6
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
83, vul. Kanatna, 65107 Odessa (048)714-85-62 [email protected],[email protected]://glasweb.com/index.php/default
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TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “IllichivskeTelebachennya-3”
Management: Director – Mykhailo Fomenko
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company broadcasts in thecity of Illichivs’k.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Illichivs’k news,Politics, Culture, Sports, Conclusions, Citynews, Port news, Health, Video, Ads
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
6, Pratsi square, Illichivs’k, Odessa region(04868) 3-11-12, [email protected]://it3.com.ua/
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“Odesskiy Vestnik”
Title of the media outlet: “Odesskiy Vestnik”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Odessa Messanger)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Odessacity council. It is loyal to Eduard Gurvitz,Odessa mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksandr Kamennyi
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is a leader of Odessaprinted media.
Audience: The newspaper’s audience reaches 78-82thousand readers.
Male audience accounts for 59%, femaleaudience - 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 incomeconstitute 50% of audience; those withmid-level income – 20%.
Products: The newspaper provides businessinformation, local news, localgovernment performance, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4, vul. Evreis’ka, 65014, Odessa722-28-30, 731-42-27, [email protected]://odvestnik.com.ua/
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“Gazeta po-odesski”
Title of the media outlet: “Gazeta po-odesski”
Owners: The newspaper is integrated into anetwork of city newspapers published bya Publishing House Press Center (Glavred-Media, largely controlled by economicand financial group Privat)
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10810copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet produces regional andcity news in Russian.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
21/19, vul. Bunina, 65026, Odessa(048) 725-20-20, 725-22-33, [email protected]
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“Vechern’aya Odessa”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechern’aya Odessa”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Evening Odessa)
Owners/Affiliation: The media outlet positions itself as anindependent newspaper, not dependingon governmental subsidies.
Rumors say that the paper can bepurchased by a member of the Odessaregional council from NSNU politicalfaction Volodymyr Galanternik
Management: Editor in Chief – Larysa Burcho
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 50,000copies (self-estimation).
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Ukrainian news,global news, politics, this week, finance,maritime industry, legal news, etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: “Reklama Vechirn’oi Odessy” (Adsnewspaper)
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa(482) [email protected]://vo.od.ua/
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“Delovaya Odessa”
Title of the media outlet: “Delovaya Odessa”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by LeonidKlymov (MP, Party of Regions, owner ofImeksbank, Football club ChernomorecOdessa).
Management: Editor – Sergiy Marin
Positioning: Pan-Ukrainian business media outletspecializing on business and financialinformation
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published in 18,000copies, distributed throughout thecountry.
Audience: Business audience
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
12a, Gagarina av., 65039, Odessa048 719 86 [email protected]://www.delod.odessa.net
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“Chornomors’ki novyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Chornomors’ki novyny”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Black Sea News)
Owners: The newspaper was established by OdessaRegional State Administration
Management: Editor – Ivan Melnyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 7,000copies, throughout the region. 95% ofcopies are distributed throughsubscription.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa(0482) [email protected]://chornomorka.com
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News Agency “Reporter”
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “Reporter”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet hosts more than 2 000visitors daily.
Audience: Most visitors of the web-site are living inOdessa and its region, but the newspaperalso hosts visitors from other regions,including Kyiv and Moscow.
Products: Media outlet produces news and analysismaterials, articles and interviews.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(0482) 35–91–11, 35–91–10, (048) [email protected]://www.reporter.com.ua/
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Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the newspaper “AkkermenskiVisti”
Management: Editor in Chief – Mr. Sokolov
Products: Media outlet provides information in thefollowing categories: Governance, Citynews, Society, Criminal news, Citations,Humor, Survey
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2, vul. Chkalova, 67700, Belgorod-Dnistrovs’kyi, Odessa region(04849) 6 02 64, 3 32 64
http://www.visti.net.ua/
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“Misto” (Odessa News web-page)
Title of the media outlet: “Misto” (Odessa News web-page )
Owners: The project belongs to Oleksiy Yeremitsa(the Party of the Regions), an advisor tothe Head of Odessa Regional Council.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Odessa news,City news, Governance, Politics,Education, Leisure, Employment,Lawyer’s consultation, On-line links &catalogue etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(048) 714-49-76, (048) [email protected], [email protected]://www.misto.odessa.ua/
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Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”)
Title of the media outlet: Poltava Regional State TV and RadioCompany (“Ltava”)
Owners: The company is a part of pan-Ukrainiannetwork of state-owned TV companies,controlled by State committee on TV andradio broadcasting. The channel is loyalto the governor of the oblast ValeriyAsadchev
Management: Director General - Mykola L’apanenko(since 1992).
Rating and coverage: The radio station covers 90% of region’sterritory. The TV channel covers up to70% of the region’s territory.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: 18-hour-per-day broadcasting includesown news, social-and-political programs,education projects, entertainmentprograms.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Vasha Hvyl’a radio• Youth TV studio “Razom”
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Kyrychenko, Poltava05322-296-19, [email protected],[email protected]://www.ltava.poltava.ua/
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TV channel Misto
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “Misto”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: TV channel City)
Owners: The TV channel, similar to TV and radiostation Anna, Shanson radio, is controlledby Poltava ex-mayor Anatoliy Kukuba
Management: Director General - Ihor Kuzhik
Positioning: Poltava local non-governmentalinfotainment TV channel
Products: The media outlet produces own news andprojects, and rebroadcasts pan-UkrainianTV channel “Tonis”.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1a, vul. Kozaka, 36000 Poltava(0532) 56-93-35, [email protected]://www.misto-tv.poltava.ua/
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TV channel “Astra”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “Astra”
Owners: Media outlet was established byChervonozavods’ke city council and localenterprises.
Management: Director – Anatoliy Rekovets
Positioning: Infotainment TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV channel covers the city ofChervonozavods’ke (Poltava region).
Products: Media outlet produces 12 hours ofbroadcasting per day.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1a, vul. Son’achna, Chervonozavods’ke,Poltava region(256) 9-82-31, 8-066- [email protected]
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“Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
(the title can be translated into Englishas: Daybreak of the Poltava region)
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by ValeriyAsadchev, the governor of the Poltavaregion.
Regional Council and Regional Stateadministration were among the co-founders of the newspaper.
Management: Editor in Chief – Grygoriy Gryn’
Positioning: Pan-Ukrainian social-and-political mediaoutlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times aweek, and distributed in 43,000 copies,throughout country.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
115, vul. Pushkina, 36000, Poltava56-97-24; [email protected]://www.zorya.poltava.ua/
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“Vechirnia Poltava”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechirnia Poltava”
(The title can be translated into Englishas: Evening Poltava)
Owners/Affiliation: The newspaper is loyal to politicalleadership of the city, and close toPoltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (YuliaTymoshenko bloc)
Management: Director General – Volodymyr Marchenko
Positioning: Regional social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 23,000copies, throughout the city of Poltava andPoltava region. It is the top third popularmedia outlet, according to the rating ofPoltava oblast Regional Council.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Key topic, Thecity, Region, Ukraine, Foreign news,Politics, Society, Finance, Health,Emergency, Criminal news, etc. However,according to a rating by Telekritika, aUkrainian media-focused magazine, inVechirnia Poltava was among the leadersin violation of journalist standards inUkraine.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
36, vul. Rozy Luxemburg, 36039 Poltava(05322) 2-28-73,[email protected], [email protected],[email protected]://vechirka.pl.ua
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“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
Title of the media outlet: “Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established jointly byPyr’atyn rayon state administration,rayon council and local council.
Management: Editor – Ganna Syn’ak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,350copies, throughout the rayon.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Rayon, Ukraineand world news, Q&A, Ads, Advices,Interesting stories, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5, vul. Petrovs’kogo, 37000 Pyr’atyn,Poltava region2-06-73, [email protected]://piryatin-visti.at.ua/publ/
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“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
Title of the media outlet: “Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established byPoltava city council. The paper is loyal toPoltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (YuliaTymoshenko bloc)
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Skobel’skyi (formerregional correspondent of Holos Ukrainy,the official newspaper of the Ukrainianparliament)
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 26,000copies, throughout the region. 80% ofcopies are distributed throughsubscription.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
43, vul. Zovtneva, 36000, Poltava(0532) 7-92-11, [email protected]://www.pv.poltava.ua/
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“Visnyk Kremenchuga”
Title of the media outlet: “Visnyk Kremenchuga”
(The title can be translated into Englishas: Kremenchug messanger)
Owners: The newspaper was established byKremenchug city council.
Management: Editor – Yulia Bylyna
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 6,000copies, throughout the Kremenchug rayon
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
12, vul. Zhadova, 39614, Kremenchug,Poltava region(05366) 36304, [email protected]@visnyk.kremenchug.net
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Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established byPoltava regional council
Positioning: Communal news agency
Rating and coverage: The most popular on-line news resourceof Poltava region.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Official newsfrom public authorities, Society (socialimportance issues, cultural events,interviews, on-line conferences) Finance,Sports, etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
(0532) 60-31-40, [email protected],[email protected]://poltavanews.com.ua/
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Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Title of the media outlet: Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Owners: Editor in chief: Sergiy Kanarskyi
Positioning: Infotainment web-portal
Rating and coverage: The portal itself claims to the mostpopular on-line news resource in the city.The media outlet hosts up to 1,000visitors daily.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Kremenchugnews, Announcements, Ads, Databases,On-line conferences with celebrities anddecision-makers etc.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
URL:
Kremenchug, Poltava region(05366) [email protected]://kremenchu.ua/
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Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Rivne Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners: The TV company is part of the pan-Ukrainian network controlled by StateCommittee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The channel’s Director General AndriyVelesyk is a son-in-law of MP MykolaShershun, Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc.
The channel is loyal to the oblastgovernor Viktor Matchuk.
Management: Director General: Andriy Velesyk
Rating and coverage: The company covers 95% of populationand 70% of the territory of Rivne region.
Products: 24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes ownprograms on local and national issues.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
20a, Kotlyarevskogo, 33028 Rivne26-58-23, [email protected]://www.rtb.rv.ua
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LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”
Title of the media outlet: “TV and radio company Rivne-1” ltd
Owners: TV and Radio Company is owned by ViktorDanylov, member of Regional council,NSNU bloc, Edynyi tsentr party.
Management: Director - Viktor Danylov, Executivedirector – L’udmyla Homa. Mr Danylov isthe owner of OGO media group,publishing a newspaper OGO (see below)and a vice-president Ukrainian associationof publishers of the periodic press.
Positioning: Local family TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers 80% of thepopulation and 60% of the territory ofRivne region.
Audience: All social and age groups
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
19, vul. Danyla Halytskogo, 33027, Rivne(0362) 62 35 01, (067) [email protected], [email protected]
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TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
Owners: TV and Radio Company is officially ownedby Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.
Management: Director – Petro Kratik
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city ofKuznetsovsk and 10-km-wide surroundingarea.
Products: The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for1 hour during the workdays and 1.5 hourson weekends. It also rebroadcasts TVchannel ICTV.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1/9, Budivelnykiv, Kuznetsovsk, Rivneregion
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“7 dniv”
Title of the media outlet: “7 dniv”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Rivnecity council.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleg Tyshchenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 13,600copies, throughout the Rivne region. 80%of copies are distributed by subscription,20% - through retail trade.7 dniv is one of the top popularnewspapers in the region: 19,1 % of thecitizens living in the region say they readit regularly (according to the data of theCenter of the information of NationalAcademy of Science, 2006).
Audience: According to newspaper’s self-estimation,newspaper’s audience has the followingstructure: intelligentsia (21,5 %), civilservants (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 officialinformation from Rivne city council.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://www.7dniv.rv.ua/
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“Vil’ne Slovo”
Title of the media outlet: “Vil’ne Slovo”
Owners: The newspaper was established by RivneRegional State Administration. The paperis loyal to oblast governor Victor Matchuk
Management: Editor in Chief – Andriy Babinets
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
82a, vul. Kn’az’a Volodymyra, 33013,Rivne(0362) [email protected]://www.vslovo.com.ua/
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“Visti Rivnenshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Visti Rivnenshchyny”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Rivneregional council. It is oriented on thehead of regional council OleksandrDanylchuak, member of the YuliaTymoshenko bloc.
Management: Editor – Svitlana Stelmashchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 20,000copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet is focusing on regionalgovernment performance; it regularlypublishes regulatory acts and officialdocuments influencing local economicdevelopment.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, Maidan Prosvity, 33038, Rivne(0362) [email protected]
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“Volyn’”
Title of the media outlet: “Volyn’”
Owners: The newspaper was established by a sub-unit of Ukrainian Cossacks organization“Volyn Sich”. It is controlled by theleader of the Volyn Sich, ex-governor ofthe region Vasyl Chervoniy.
Management: Sergiy Stepanyshyn
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 14,000copies, throughout the Rivne region.
Products: The newspaper produces news, analysis,events and advertisement. Information isrenewed weekly.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, Symona Petl’ury, 33028, Rivne(0362) 22-34-47, [email protected]://www.volyn.rivne.com/
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“Rivne Vechirn’e”
Title of the media outlet: “Rivne Vechirn’e”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by MykolaNesen’uk, one of the leaders of regionaldepartment of the Narodnyi Rukh (Peole’sMovement), a Ukrainian patriotic party.
Management: Director: Mykola Nesen’uk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a weekand distributed in 25,000 copies,throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Rivne andregional news, Ukrainian news, Crime,Sports, Education, Legal news, Legalconsultations etc. According toTelekritika, a Ukrainian media-focusedoutlet, the newspaper is one of the topmedia outlets suggesting “Dzhynsa” (pre-paid corrupted information) in the region.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1-b, vul. Stepana Bandery, Rivne(0362)62 56 [email protected]://www.rivnepost.rv.ua/
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Regional portal “Rivne”
Title of the media outlet: Regional portal “Rivne”
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: News,Comments, Help-desk, Forum
Contact Information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://rivne.com.ua/
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Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of a Rivne regional newspaper“Rakurs Rivne”
Management: Director – Volodymyr Konev
Positioning: Independent weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The printed version of the newspaper ispublished once a week, and distributed in7,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Events, Politics,Finance, Health, Culture and Education,Sports, Crime, Life, Personal, Travel,Entertainment.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
6, vul. Gagarina, Rivne(0362) 62-31-63, 62-31-64, 24-90-22, [email protected]://www.rakurs.rovno.ua/
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Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Management: Director General – Vitaliy Golubev
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement mediaoutlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper “OGO” is distributed in15,000 copies, throughout the region.“Rivenska Gazeta”, another newspaperintegrated into media group OGO, isdistributed in 20,000 copies, throughoutRivne region.
Contact Information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
19, vul. Danyla Galyckogo, 33027, Rivne(0362) 62-35-01, 050) 339-39-85, (050)[email protected], [email protected]
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Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Sumy Regional State TV and Radio
Company
Owners: The TV company is part of the pan-Ukrainian network controlled by StateCommittee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The company is oriented on regional stateadministration.
Management: Director General – Larysa Yakubenko
Finances: The media outlet is financed from theregional budget.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for all socialand age groups.
Products: The TV and Radio Company produces ownprojects in Ukrainian. It also develops thenetwork for TV and radio broadcasting.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Sloboda-FM radio
Contact information:
• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:
URL:
125, vul. Pertopavlivs’ka, 40021, Sumy(0542) 60-05-67, [email protected]@strc.sumy.uahttp://www.strc.sumy.ua
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TV and radio company “Vikidion”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV and radio company “Vikidion”
Owners: TV and Radio Company was established byDonets’k-based media. It was initiallycreated as the major commercial mediaoutlet in Sumy. However, later it receivedfinancing from the region’s governor, andduring 2004 election campaign it lostmuch of the audience trust due to biasedand non-objective information. Today thecompany is influenced by the Party of theRegions.
Positioning: Commercial TV and radio company
Raiting and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Companycovers 75 % of the region’s territory.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for all socialand age groups.
Products: The TV and Radio Company producesnews, entertainment and educationalprograms.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Diva radio (107,0 FM)
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
5, vul. Kharkivs’ka, 40024, Sumy(0542) 605105, 326604, 605106, [email protected]@[email protected]
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“Telecom Service”
Title of the Media outlet: “Telecom Service”
Management: Director – S. Ladunskyy
Positioning: infotainment
Raiting and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Companycovers the city of Shostka and Shostkarayon.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for24 hours, with at least 75% of thebroadcasting programming is held inUkrainian language. Own products take upto 9,7% of the total broadcasting. Thechannel also rebroadcasts “Novyi Kanal”,a Ukrainian central TV channel.
Conctact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
33a, vul. Korolenka, 41100, Shostka,Sumy region
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“Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
Owners: Newspaper was established by of Sumyregional organization of Narodna Partiya(Ukrainian People’s Party, VolodymyrLytvyn bloc).
Positioning: The newspaper is oriented on theleadership of Narodna Partiya
Conctact information:• Post address:
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“Domashnya Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Domashnya Gazeta”(the title can be translated into Englishas: Home Newspaper)
Owners: The newspaper is owned by LLC"Marketing Center LTD".
Management: Editor – Stanislav Bakhtin
Positioning: General audience newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 5,000copies, throughout the Sumy region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
30, av. Metalurgiv, 40009, Sumy(0542)[email protected]
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“Sumschina”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sumschina”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Sumyregional council, jointly with regionalstate administration.
Management: Editor – Svitlana Bubynets
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times aweek, and distributed in 30,000 copies,throughout the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The newspaper covers city and regionalnews, local government performance,history, social issues, sports, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
27, vul. Kirova, 40030, Sumy(0542) [email protected]://sumschina.com.ua
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“Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by "KrayanyMedia Service", which also ownsadvertisement agency advertisementagency “Vinnytsya ta Vinnychany”.
Management: Director – Ludmila L’aposhchenko
Positioning: News-and-information media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The newspaper is one of the topinformation newspapers of the city.
Free-of-charge weekly newspaperdistributed in 60,000 copies (self-estimation), throughout the region.
Audience: All social groups, with major focus onbusinessmen and economically activecitizens.
Products: Information and advertisement.
Conctact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5/4, vul. Kuznechna, 40030, Sumy(0542) [email protected]
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“Narodna Trybuna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Narodna Trybuna”(The title can be translated into Englishas: People’s Tribune)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Gluhivcity council.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Matvienko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week,and distributed in 4,000 copies,throughout the city of Gluhiv and itsrayon.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Rudchenka, 41400, Gluhiv, Sumyregion(05444) 2-20-46, 2-31-14
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Informational web-site sumy.net.ua
Title of the Media outlet: Information web-site sumy.net.ua
Positioning: Informational media outlet
Products: The media outlet contains city andregional news, regional media review,database of major enterprises in theregion, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL: http://www.sumy.net.ua
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Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Title of the Media outlet: Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Owners: The portal is owned by the company“Dankor Media”, which also owns 7 othermedia outlets.
Management: Director General – Igor Danylenko.
Finances: Self-sustainable project, also raisingfunds from international donors.
Positioning: News resource “Dankor online” is aprivate self-sustainable media outlet. Itpositions itself as an independent mediaoutlet, however the web-site is nottotally free from pre-ordered and pre-paid political materials.
Rating and coverage: Media outlet hosts 2,000 visitors daily.
Audience: The portal is designed for representativesof different occupations and socialpositioning, students, businessmen,managers etc.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Politics,Finance, Society, Environment, Business,Law, People, Culture, Style, Sports,Leisure, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
70, vul. Petropavlivs’ka, 40030, Sumy(0542) 655-445, (0542) [email protected]://dancor.sumy.ua/
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“Panorama”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper Portal “Panorama”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by EvgenPolozhiy, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in Chief — Evgen Polozhiy. MrPolozhiy is a representative of theParliamentary committee on freedom ofspeech and information in Sumy region.
Positioning: Independent social-and-political self-sustainable media outlet.
Rating and coverage: The printed version is distributed in26,000 copies, throughout the region.The media outlet has its own deliveryservice.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Editor’s Page,Politics, Opinion, Government, LocalNews, Leisure, Culture, UnknownUkrainians, Sports, Forum, etc.
Contact 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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Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Ternopil Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners: The media outlet is a part of a broadnetwork of regional state-owned TV andradio companies integrated by Ukraine’sstate committee for TV and radiobroadcasting.
The channel is loyal to the governor ofTernopil oblast Yuriy Chyzhmar, amember of the executive committee of“Pora” party.
Management: Director General – Roman Zayac’
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from theregional budget.
Rating and coverage: The outlet’s radio broadcasting covers98% of the region’s territory; TVbroadcasting covers 75% of the territory.
Audience: All social and age groups. However,similar to all Ukrainian regional state-owned TV and radio companies, thechannel is most watched and listened toelderly audience.
Products: The company produces own news, social-and-political, cultural, youth, and sportsproducts in Ukrainian language.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV channel “TTB”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
17, Shevchenka av., 46001, Ternopil(0352) [email protected],http://todtrk.com.ua
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“TV-4”
Title of the Media outlet: Non-governmental regional TV company“TV-4”
Owners: The media outlet is one of the few outletsin the Ternopil oblast oriented on theParty of the Regions.
Management: Director – Yulia Vynokur
Positioning: Family TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV Company covers Ternopil, partiallyLviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne andKhmelnytsk regions.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The TV Company produces its ownprograms: Greetings, Tutti-Frutti, TheGlobe, Car market, By the way, KnowMore, Point of view, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
2/7 vul. Sagaidachnogo, Ternopil(0352 ) 52-08-31, 52-31-40, [email protected]/
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TV channel “TTS”
Title of the Media outlet: TV channel “TTS”(Ternopilski Tele-Systemy - Ternopil TVSystems)
Management: Director – I. Kucherenko
Positioning: TV channel of a cable provider
Rating and coverage: The channel covers Ternopil oblast.
Products: Cable broadcasting provider, which alsoprovides advertisement and regularInternet-review.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: "Quest-TV" – experimental studio
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Krushelnytskoi, [email protected]://www.tts.te.ua/?tab=tts
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“RIA plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “RIA plus”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by OleksandrChovgan, who is also an editor in chief of“RIA”, “RIA-Inter”, “VSIM”, “RIA-Koz’atyn”, “Kievskiy capitalist”.
Management: Editor – Olga Yurkova
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement weeklynewspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 19,600copies, throughout the region. The paperis distributed through subscription andretail trade, but also through targetdelivery to directors of Ternopilenterprises.
Audience: The media outlet itself says it has 74,000of readers, mainly population of Ternopil.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: “News”,“Business for a week”, “Way of Life”,etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1b, vul. Dubovetska, Ternopil(0352)430050, 8(097)4401505,[email protected], [email protected]
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“Visnyk Ternopolyan”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet newspaper “Visnyk Ternopolyan”
(The title can be translated into Englishas: Herald of Ternopil dwellers)
Owners: The paper is owned Ruslan Slyvka, itseditor in chief
Management: Editor in chief – Ruslan Slyvka
Positioning: Independent on-line media outlet
Rating and coverage: The media outlet positions itself as a topInternet media outlet in the region(rating by Ternopil web-resourcescatalogue).
Products: The web-site publishes news about citycouncil decisions, city and regional news,announcements, practical information,surveys etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
(067) [email protected]://www.visnyk.te.ua/
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“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by the agency“Ternopil Media”, and is influenced bySvoboda, a nationalist party getting moreand more popular in the region.
Management: Editor in Chief - Mykola Martynchuk
Raising and coverage: Biweekly newspaper distributed in 26,600copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet produces mainlyregional news.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1a, vul. Krushelnytskoi, 46003, Ternopil(0352) [email protected],[email protected]
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“Podil’ske Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Podil’ske Slovo”
Owners: The media outlet was established byTernopil rayon council, jointly with rayonstate administration.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 2,000copies, throughout the rayon.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
17, vul. Brodivska, 46020, Ternopil(0352) 52-88-30, (0352) [email protected]
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“Ternopil Vechirniy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Ternopil Vechirniy” online
Owners: The media outlet was established byTernopil city council.
Management: Editor in Chief – Inna Syrnyk
Positioning: Ternopil city council newspaper.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 8,000copies, throughout the city of Ternopil.
Products: The newspaper covers mainly city andregional news of Ternopil.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4, vul. Rodyny Barvins’kyh, 46000,Ternopil(0352) 52-72-13, [email protected]://t-v.te.ua
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“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
(The title can be translated into Englishas: News of the Ternopil region)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by AndriyKornilov, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in chief: Andriy Kornilov
Rating and coverage: One of the most popular web-resources ofthe region.
Products: The media outlet provides regularmonitoring of the regional news.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
[email protected]://www.news.te.ua/
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“I-plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “I-plus”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by OleksandraIvantsiv, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksandra Ivantsiv
Positioning: Independent media of the city ofChortkiv, Ternopil region
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the city of Chortkiv.
Products: Rayon news, regional and national news,information on local events, chat, forum,gallery, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
77, vul. S.Bandery, Chortkiv, Ternopilregion(03552) [email protected], [email protected]://iplus.net.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “Lada”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Lada” (radio“Ladyzhyn”)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by communalEntreprise “Lada”, Agency "RMA CAPITAL"
Management: Director – Halyna Danylivska (member ofLadyzhyn city council, a representative ofPeople’s Democratic Party (VolodymyrLytvyn bloc)
Rating and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Companycovers 25 % of the territory of the region.
Products: The media outlet produces infotainmentradio and TV projects. The company alsorebroadcasts programs of a company “FDR- radio center” and information programsof Ukrainian departments of radiostations "BBC", "The Voice of America",Radio Liberty, "Deutsche Welle".
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Lada radio, Local wired-radio outlets, TVproduction studio, Internet portalwww.lada-fm.com and network ofrepresentation across the region.
Contact information:• 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)[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]://ladafm.at.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
Owners: The TV and Radio Company is owned byits director – Ihor Dovbnya, a vice-president of “RIA” corporation
Management: Director: Ihor Dovbnya
Positioning: Private music-and-information radiostation.
Audience: People aged between 27 and 40
Products: The media outlet mainly rebroadcastsKiev-based radio stations Europa Plus FM,OK FM, Hit FM, Retro FM, and produceslocal news for 5 kanal.
Conctact information:• 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)[email protected], [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]://www.ria.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “TODOR”
Title of the Media outlet: Private Entrepreneurship TV and RadioCompany “TODOR”
Management: Director: O. Rak
Positioning: Infotainment media outlet
Rating and coverage: Cable TV service provider.
Products: The media outlet provides mainly cablebroadcasting, and covers the city ofLadyzhyn, Vinnytsia region. The companyalso has an own TV channel whichbroadcasts for 2 hours a day.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Budivelnykiv, 24321, Ladyzhyn,Vinnytsia region(04343) 62847
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“Vinnytska Hazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vinnytska Hazeta”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on VinnytsiaMayor Volodymyr Groysman (NashaUkraina Party). Some influence of YuliaTymoshenko bloc is also visible.
Management: Editor - Natalya Kosmina
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet,positioned as the cheapest and the mostaccessible informational partner of thecity council, and for the whole citycommunity.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 10,000copies, throughout the region. The paperis published three times a week.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet provides informationfocused on acute political and socialissues, legal issues, taxation etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
15, vul. Kozutskogo, 21050, Vinnytsia(0432) 35-33-20, 35-50-37, [email protected]://www.vin-gazeta.net
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“Vinnychyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vinnychyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by theregional council. Now it is controlled bythe Head of the regional council GrygoriyZabolotny (Socialist Party) and the Headof Regional State AdministrationOleksandr Dombrovsky (Nasha Ukrainaparty).
Management: Editor - Vasyl Palamarchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 30,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
7, vul. Khmelnytske shose, 21100,Vinnytsia (0432) 32-05-83, 32-07-83,32-46-29 [email protected]://www.vinnichina.inf.ua/
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“Pivdennyi Bug”
Title of the Media outlet: “Pivdennyi Bug”
Owners: The media outlet was jointly establishedby regional NGOs.
Management: Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lysenko. MrLysenko is the head of the Vinnytsiaregional organization of the NationalUnion of Ukrainian Journalists
Positioning: Informational and op-ed media outlet
Rating and coverage: Biweekly newspaper published in 1,000copies, distributed free of charge in thewhole region.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
19, vul. Gogolya, 21100, Vinnytsia(0432) 35-01-72
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“Trybuna Praci”
Title of the Media outlet: “Trybuna Praci”
Owners: The media outlet was established byGaysyn rayon council jointly with RayonState Administration
Management: Editor – Yuriy Kovch
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 5000copies, throughout the Gaysyn rayon. It ispublished twice a week.
Contact information:• 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, [email protected]
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“Shargorodshyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Shargorodshyna”
Owners: The media outlet was established byShargorod rayon council jointly withRayon State Administration.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Buryak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,000copies, throughout the Shargorod rayon.100 % is distributed through subscription.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
186, vul. Lenina, 23500, Shargorod,Vinnytsja region(04344) [email protected]://shargorodshina.inf.ua
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“Misto”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “Misto”
Owners: The media outlet is close to the mayor ofVinnytsia Volodymyr Groysman (NashaUkraina party).
Management: Director General – Oleksandr Baryl, Editorin Chief – Iryna Zhuk
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 15,600copies, throughout the Vinnytsia region.
Audience: Population of Vinnytsia city and region
Products: The newspaper provides information inthe following categories: Day after day,That’s life, Style, Health, Useful reading,Sports, The Editor’s column, Fordiscussion, etc.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
3а, vul. Shurshova, 21009, Vinnytsia55-11-00, 55-11-01, [email protected]://www.misto.vn.ua/
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“33 kanal”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “33 kanal”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on YuliaTymoshenko bloc, although the owner ofthe outlet Anatoliy Zhuchynskyyrepresents Nasha Ukraina party in theregional council.
The paper has recently criticizedVinnytsia mayor Volodymyr Groysman andgovernor of the region OleksandrDumbrovskyy (both represent NashaUkraina party).
Management: Editor - Anatoliy Zhuchynskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political, analytical edition
Rating and coverage: The most circulated newspaper of theregion. The printed version is distributedin 55,000 copies, in the city of Vinnytsiaand its region, partially Zhytomyr andKhmelnytskiy regions.
Products: Media outlet provides information in thefollowing categories: Political andEconomical news, Cultural life, Youthpage, Crime, Scandals etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspaper «Podilska Radnycya»
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
23, vul. Kosmonavtiv, 21021, Vinnytsia(432) 515-226, [email protected]://33kanal.com
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Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Volyn Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Management: Director General: Olga Kulish
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers up to 90%of the population of the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet produces own mediaprojects, news, international projects(example: a joint Ukrainian-Polish-Belarusmedia project).
The company cooperates with BBC,Deutsche Welle, The Voice of America,Ukrainian Radio of Chicago (USA) andpan-Ukrainian TV channels.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Volyn Radio (air and wired-radio), radiostation "Lutsk" (20 hours per day), VolynTV (TV channel "Nova Volyn" – 15 hoursper day). The company also hascorrespondent offices and specialcorrespondents across the region
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
9, vul. Slovackogo, 43025, Lutsk(0332) [email protected]://voltv.com.ua
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TV and radio Company “Avers”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Avers”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by thepresident of corporation «Avers» OlegVelychko.
Management: Director – V. Synkevych. The Head of theeditor’s board – N. Chepynoga
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
19а, vul. Konjakina, 43026, Lutsk(0332) 778503, (0322) 778505
http://www.mediaavers.com
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“Visnyk i Ko”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visnyk i Ko”
Owners: The media outlet was established byLutsk city organization of Afghan WarVeterans. The outlet is owned byCommercial Bank “Zakhidincombank”(the bank’s Head of the Board: VasylHavrylyshyn, member of the city council,Yulia Tymoshenko bloc).
Management: Editor – Evgen Hotymchyk
Positioning: Analytical media outlet
Rating and coverage: Monthly newspaper distributed in 80,000copies, throughout the country.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
15, av. Peremogy, 43005, Lutsk, Volynregion(0332) [email protected], [email protected]://visnyk.lutsk.ua
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“Viche”
Title of the Media outlet: “Viche”
Owners: Media outlet was established by theregional journalists.
Management: Editor - Vasyl Prostopchyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 17,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
8, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk(0332) 22-80-86, [email protected]://www.viche.lutsk.ua
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“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
Owners: The media outlet was established by LLC“Slovo”.According to non-official information, thenewspaper is owned by a group ofcompanies “Continuum”, owned by IhorEremeev.
Management: Editor - Galyna Fedorenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 15,000copies, throughout the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet is designed for anintellectual reader (self-estimation). Thenewspaper informs about the events inUkraine and abroad, interesting lifestories and personalities. Close attentionis paid to issues of political andeconomical development of the country,agricultural sector. Separate sections arefocused on history.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
49, vul. Glushets, 43010, Lutsk(0332) 78-78-44, [email protected]
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“Volyn”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volyn”
Owners: The media outlet was established byVolyn regional council.
Management: Editor - Oleksandr Goranets
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet.Newspaper positions itself as a centristmedia outlet, which articulates positionsof different political forces, includingopposition.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 71,000copies, throughout the region. It ispublished three times a week.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
13, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk(0332) 72-38-96, 72-71-07,[email protected]://www.volyn.com.ua/
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“Dzvony Volyni”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dzvony Volyni”
Owners: Volyn diocesan administration of theUkrainian Orthodox Church
Positioning: Religious newspaper
Rating and coverage: Monthly newspaper distributed in 10,600copies, throughout the country.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
11, vul. Karaimska, 43016, Lutsk(0332) [email protected]://www.orthvoldiocese.lutsk.ua/
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“Volynska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volynska Pravda”
Owners: The on-line resource was established bythe similarly named LLC. The leader ofthe project Oleksandr Pyrozhyk in March2008 won the contest “The Volyn Personof the Year” in the category “The bestinformation project”, and in June 2008chaired the newly created Department ofinformational policy of Lutsk City Council.Mayor of Lutsk Bogdan Shyba has someinfluence on the media outlet.
Management: Leader of the project – OleksandrPyrozhyk
Positioning: The first independent internet media inVolyn
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
http://pravda.lutsk.ua/
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Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy”
Title of the Media outlet: Web-portal of the newspaper “VolodymyrVechirnyy”
Management: Editor – I. Zalyskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper for allsocial groups
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
8(050)3781055, (0334)238131
http://www.volodymyr.in.ua/
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“Tisa-1”
Title of the Media outlet: Zakarpattia Regional State TV and RadioCompany (“Tisa-1”)
Owners: The outlet is loyal to Viktor Baloha andhis brother – first deputy governor of theregion Ivan Baloha.
Management: Director General – Evgen Shyshkov
Products: Media outlet produces 12 hours of ownbroadcasting in Ukrainian, German,Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak languages.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
18, Kyivska Naberezhna, Uzhgorod,Zakarpattia region(+380-312) [email protected]
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“M-studio”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “M-Studio” (TV andradio company “Mukachevske”)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Balohabrothers.
Management: Director General – Volodymyr Shybets
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers up to 70%of the population of the region.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
17, vul. Yaroslava Mudrogo, 89600,Mukacheve, Zakarpattia region(03131) 5-50-99, (03131)4-13-95, [email protected]://m-studio.net.ua
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“Zakarpatska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zakarpatska Pravda”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by theHead of the regional office of the Party ofthe Regions, MP Oleksandr Ledida.
Management: Editor – Volodymyr Ushenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10,000-15,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe 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 [email protected]
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“Novyny Zakarpattia”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyny Zakarpattia”
Owners: The media outlet was established by theRegional council and Regional StateAdministration. It is controlled by Balohabrothers.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Yashyshak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 40,000copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides info in thefollowing categories: “Local time”,“News”, “Comments”, “Marketdevelopment”, “Culture”, “Sports,advertisement.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
• URL:
4, Narodna sq., 88008, Uzhgorod(0312) 23-53-00, [email protected]
http://transkarpatia.net/
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“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established byUzhgorod Rayon State Administration,jointly with the Uzhgorod Rayon council.
Management: Director General – Ivan Zhyrosh
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
84, vul. Sobranetska, 88000, Uzhgorod(0312) 61-44-26
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Zakarpattia on-line
Title of the Media outlet: Zakarpattia on-line
Products: The media outlet provides recent newsZakarpattia and the whole Ukraine. Theoutlet is focused on politics and economyof the region, culture and sports, criminalnews, etc.
Contact information:• e-mail:• URL:
[email protected]://Zakarpattia.net.ua/
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TV company “TV-5”
Title of the Media outlet: TV company “TV-5”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by OJSC“Zaporizhstal”, one of the biggest steelproducing enterprises in the region, and“IndustrialBank”.
Management: Director General – Mykola Efimov,Executive Director – Sergiy Tyhonov
Products: The TV Company produces news, politicaleconomic programs, projects for children,etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Channel TV-5 Sport
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
4-a, vul. Suvorova, 69035, Zaporizhia(061) [email protected]://www.tv5.zp.ua/
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“Aleks TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Aleks TV” (22channel)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by OJSC MotorSich, one of the biggest engine-producingcompany in the world. The head of MotorSich, Viacheslav Boguslaev, is a UkrainianMP, a member of the Party of theRegions.
Management: Director general – Viacheslav Vlasov
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: The City,Criminal news, Culture, Politics, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
48, av. Motobudivnykiv, Zaporizhia,(0612)[email protected], [email protected]://alextv.zp.ua
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TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”(the title can be translated into Englishas: Azov Wave)
Management: Director – I. Onyshenko
Positioning: Berdyansk private infotainment station
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the city of Berdyanskand its rayon.
Products: TV and Radio Company produces ownprograms, and rebroadcasts Kyivsyndication company “FDR Radio center”
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Radio Azovs’ka Hvyl’a - 106 FM
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:
• e-mail:• URL:
20, Melitopolske sh., 71100, Berdyansk(06153)-2-51-40, (06153)-2-55-41(06153)[email protected]
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Newspapers
“Zaporizka Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zaporizka Pravda”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on the Headof the regional council, a member of theParty of the Regions, Oleksandr Nefedov.
Management: Editor – Ivan Cyganyuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 34,000copies, throughout the region. The paperis published three times a week. 95% ofcopies are distributed throughsubscription. 15% of copies are distributedin the city of Zaporizhia, 85% - in theregion.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia(0612) [email protected]://www.online.zp.ua/zp/
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“Gorozhanin”
Title of the Media outlet: “Gorozhanin”
Owners: The media outlet is loyal to Zaprorizzhia citymayor Evgen Kartashov and the economic andfinancial group integrated by “Zaporizhstal”and “IndustrialBank”.
Management: Editor - Andriy Bartysh
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 15,000copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia. Itis published once a week.
Audience: All social and political groups.
Products: The media outlet provides information in thefollowing categories: Politics, Society, Thecity, Culture, Health, Sports, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
7, vul. Pravdy, 69037, Zaporizhia(0612) 24-02-43, [email protected]://gorozhanin.com.ua/index.php?id=1228
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“Nashe Vremya Plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nashe Vremya Plus”
(The title can be translated into Englishas Our Time Plus)
Owners: The media outlet is led by the company“Alexander” of Volodymyr Kaltsev, formercandidate for Zaporizzhia city mayor
Management: Director – Olena Gnyda
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhiaand the region. It is published once aweek.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: “News”, “TheProblem”, “Regional news”, “Our life”,“Culture” , “Consumer”, “Health” ,“Leisure”, “Sports”, etc
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia(0612) 62-60-81, 60-97-50, [email protected]://www.nv.zp.ua/
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“Region”
Title of the Media outlet: “Region”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by LLC"Publishing House "Magnat"
Management: Editor - Oleksandr Kurashenko
Positioning: Advertising media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 55,000copies, throughout the region.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
159b, vul. Gorkogo, 69095, Zaporizhia(0612) 60-31-24, [email protected]
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“Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama”
Title of the Media outlet: “Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by thefinancial and economic group“Zaporizhstal” - “IndustrialBank”.
Management: Editor – Volodymyr Dubak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 24,000copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhiaand its region. It is published once aweek.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Economy, Law,Government, Events, Crime, Society,Health, Education, History, Foreigncountries, Sport, etc
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
152/225, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia(061) 228-30-15, 228-30-17, [email protected]://iz.com.ua/
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Online resources
“Prospect”
Title of the Media outlet: “Prospect”
Positioning: News and Analytical Portal
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet provides information inthe following categories: Politics, Society,Science and Research, Travel,Government, Personality, History,Culture, Sports, Information
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: PR agency Media Plus
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
66, av. Lenina, 69002, Zaporizhia(061)213-86-20 ,8(067)[email protected] ,[email protected]://prospect.zp.ua/
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TV channels
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Zhytomyr Regional State TV and RadioCompany
Owners/Affiliation: The company is part of a network ofUkrainian regional TV and radiocompanies integrated under Ukraine’sState Committee for TV and RadioBroadcasting.In its content the company is oriented onthe speaker of Ukraine’s parliamentVolodymyr Lytvyn
Management: Director - Viktor Boyko. Mr Boyko is amember of Zhytomyr regional council,member of People’s Party (VolodymyrLytvyn bloc)
Rating and coverage: The TV and Radio Company broadcastsown products on two TV channels and tworadio channels. Total volume of TVbroadcasting - 19 hours per day; totalvolume of radio broadcasting - 21 hoursper day. Potential audience reaches 900thousand people, 70% of the population ofthe region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet produces socially-oriented, economic, political, culturaland other programs about Zhytomyrregion, mostly in Ukrainian language.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
7, vul. Teatralna, 10014, Zhytomyr(0412) 47-30-89, [email protected]
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TV and radio company “VIK”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “VIK”
Management: Director – Viktor Bessalitskyh
Positioning: Air and cable broadcaster
Rating and coverage: TV channel „VIK” is broadcasted in thecity of Berdichiv and Berdichiv rayonthrough a cable network.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: Own programs: 24 hours a dayNews programs: 8 hours a day Culturalprograms: 2 hours a day Entertainmentprograms: 2 hours a day Programs forchildren: 2 hours a day
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
55, vul. Lenina, 13300, Berdichiv,Zhytomyr region(04143) 4-09-99 [email protected]://www.trkvik.tv/index.php
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TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
Owners: The company is oriented on YuliaTymoshenko bloc. Serhiy Hrynchuk, oneof the owners of the company, is amember of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc inthe regional council
Management: Director – Dmytro Kondratuk. Executivedirector – Serhiy Hrynchuk.
Rating and coverage: 4 radio stations in Zhytomyr and region
Audience: General audience is aged between 20 and55, among them - students, civil servants,housewives etc.
Products: 70% of broadcasting of the TV and RadioCompany is in Ukrainian; 30% - in Russian.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: LLC “Orta-Forum” owns the local radiostation “Radio-Club” and purchased rightsto rebroadcast “Lux-FM” and “Hit-FM”.The company is also linked to anadvertising agency “R-Club”
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
1, vul. Kyivska, 10014, Zhytomyr(412)413104, [email protected]
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Newspapers
“RIA-Tyzhden”
Title of the Media outlet: “RIA-Tyzhden”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by the Media-corporation RIA.
Management: Editor in Chief – Kostyantyn Gudzovskyy
Positioning: Advertisement-focused media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 9,750copies, throughout the region. It ispublished once a week.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
301, 9, vul. Rylskogo, 10014, Zhytomyr(0412) 41-81-89, [email protected]://zhitomir.ria.ua/
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“Ekho”
Title of the Media outlet: “Ekho”
Owners/Affiliation: The newspaper is oriented on the speakerof Ukraine’s parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn
Management: Editor in chief - Volodymyr Yatskevych.Mr Yatskevych is a member of theregional council, representing People’sParty (Volodymyr Lytvyn).
Positioning: Social, political and business media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 60,000copies, throughout the region.
Audience: Economically active citizens,businessmen.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
106c, vul. Chernyahivskogo, 10014,Zhytomyr(0412) 24-55-00, [email protected], [email protected]://www.exo.net.ua/
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“Zhytomyrshchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zhytomyshchyna”
Owners: The media outlet was established byRegional council, jointly with RegionalState Administration
Management: Editor – Dmytro Panchuk
Profitability: Newspaper is financed by regionalgovernment, and is mostly loyal togovernor Yuriy Zabela (“Single Centre”party, headed by Viktor Baloha).
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 19,600copies, throughout the region. It ispublished three times a week. 97% ofcopies are distributed throughsubscription, 3% through retail trade.
Contact information:• Post address:• Tel:• e-mail:
12, Maidan Rad square, 10014, Zhytomyr(0412) 37-15-48, 22-54-55, [email protected]
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“Slovo Polissya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slovo Polissya”
Owners: The media outlet was established byBaranivka Rayon State Administration,jointly with Rayon and city councils
Management: Editor in Chief – A. Strilchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 4,500copies, throughout the Baranivskyi rayon.It is published three times per week.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
7а, vul. Kirova, 12700, Baranivka,Zhytomyr region
(04144) [email protected]
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On-line resources
Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Title of the Media outlet: Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Management: Editor – Viktor Kotenko
Positioning: Information online regional media outlet
Rating and coverage: The printed version of the newspaper isdistributed in 5,000 copies, throughoutthe region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information:• Post address:
• Tel:• e-mail:• URL:
5, vul. Seletska, 10009, Zhytomyr. postoffice box 538 (0412) 48-01-45, [email protected]