Ukrinform

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox company/styles.css has no content.

National News Agency of Ukraine
Native name
Українське національне інформаційне агентство
Company type
State enterprise
ISINScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
IndustryScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
PredecessorScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
IncorporatedScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
FoundedScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
FounderScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
DefunctScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
SuccessorScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Headquarters8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskoho,
Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001[1]
Key people
Oleksandr Kharchenko[2]
RevenueScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Script error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Script error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Total assetsScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
OwnerMinistry of Culture and Information Policy
Number of employees
Script error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Websiteukrinform.net[3]
uatv.ua/en/

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".

The National News Agency of Ukraine (Template:Langx), or Ukrinform (Template:Langx), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence[6] as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency.[7]

Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).[8]

Ukrinform delivers news stories in Ukrainian, Russian,[3] English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.[8]

History

File:Logo (3).png
Previous logo of Ukrinform

The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP) in 1918, yet since then it went through a series of reorganizations. During the Soviet period, it was associated with Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS).

  • 1918 – Bureau of Ukrainian Press
  • 1920 – All-Ukrainian bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency (UkROSTA)
  • 1921 – Radio-Telegraph Agency of Ukraine (RATAU)
  • 1990 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM)
  • 1996 – State Informational Agency of Ukraine (DINAU)
  • 2000 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM)
  • 2015 – Ukrinform became a part of the Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine (UA|TV)[9]
  • 2018 – Ukrinform signed a co-operation agreement with the Athens–Macedonian News Agency (ANA) providing for an exchange of news items in all categories.[10]
  • 2025-02-25 - Tetiana Kulyk, editor-in-chief of the multimedia department and the host of patriotic Nation of Invincibles project, was killed in a night-time drone attack by Russia on her home[11][12][13]
File:Укрінформ.jpg
Corporate headquarters in Kyiv

Outlook

Ukrinform's main objectives are the coverage of public policy and public life in Ukraine and providing information to government bodies; according to a Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from February 19, 1997 the agency carries out its activities independently of political parties and public organizations.[14]

Per day Ukrinform issues reports in English, German, Ukrainian, Polish, French, Spanish, Japanese. Ukrinform delivers information to the media, TV channels, radio stations, official establishments and local governments, foreign embassies and Ukrainian diplomatic missions abroad and foreign media.[15] In March 2022, the Institute of Mass Information recommended Ukrinform as a reliable and trustworthy media outlet.[16]

Television

File:FreeDOMUAlogo.svg
Logo of FREEДОМ

FREEДОМ (formerly UATV) is a Russian-language television news channel with focus on the Russo-Ukrainian War.[17][18] It is transmitted live on its website, via satellite, and through cable television operators.[17] It has content in English on YouTube.[19] Prior to its temporary closure in January 2020, the channel also broadcast in English, Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar and Arabic.[3][20]

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Official website. Contact Us. ("Kyiv" spelling)". Mar 2017.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Official website". Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."UA-TV". Ukrinform. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. ^ Ukrainian National News Agency UKRINFORM celebrates its 90th anniversary, National Radio Company of Ukraine (May 15, 2008)
  5. ^ On March 1 the national news agency Ukrinform launched Ukraine's first Internet radio service, Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)
  6. ^ Template:In lang Українському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо!, Телекритика (March 17, 2008)
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ukrinform marks 100th anniversary of its foundation". ukrinform.net. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  8. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Information on Agency". www.ukrinform.net. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Рада ухвалила закон про іномовлення (in українська). Ukrinform. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ANA signs deal with Ukraine's Ukrinform". Athens-Macedonian News Agency. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barsukova, Olena (2025-02-26). "Russian Shahed drone attack kill surgeon and Ukrinform journalist in Kyiv Oblast: colleagues confirm married couple's death". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ukrinform journalist Tetiana Kulyk killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv region". Ukrinform. 2025-02-26. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ukraine: Journalist Tetyana Kulyk Killed in Russian Drone Strike". womeninjournalism.org. Coalition For Women In Journalism. 2025-03-09. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  14. ^ Template:In lang Resolution of July 15, 1997 #749, Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Victor Chamara, Director General Ukrinform. "Through truth and objectivity". Ukrinform. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ІМІ рекомендує читати новини з достовірних джерел. Список медіа". imi.org.ua (in українська). Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  17. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About us". Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.""DOM" AND UATV GOT 362 MILLION HRIVNYAS FOR NEXT YEAR". Institute of Mass Information. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  19. ^ UATV English's channel on YouTube
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. "Ukraine axes English & Crimean Tatar TV to launch risky Russian channel for occupied Donbas and Crimea". Retrieved 2022-03-18.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Ukrinform&oldid=7780419"