The
Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News
(
Ukrainian
:
Укра?нське Незалежне ?нформац?йне Агентство Новин, УН?АН
,
romanized
:?
Ukrains?ke Nezalezhne Informatsiine Ahentstvo Novyn,
UNIAN
) is a
Kyiv
-based
Ukrainian
news agency
. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, and a photo reporting service. As of October 2022, it was the most visited news site in Ukraine with a 19% market share.
[2]
UNIAN is a part of
1+1 Media Group
, related to
oligarch
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
.
[3]
[4]
UNIAN was founded in March
[
citation needed
]
1993 as the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News.
[5]
The agency's offices are at 4
Khreshchatyk
Street,
[6]
adjacent to
European Square
, in Kyiv. UNIAN offers its press conference hall to interested customers.
[7]
[8]
UNIAN runs a TV channel, UNIAN TV, broadcasting news, analytical programs, documentaries, sport and movies. It is available on satellite, cable and IPTV networks. It broadcasts unencrypted from the AMOS-2 satellite (4.0 W), at 10722 Horizonal, 27500. The channel's General Producer is
Vladyslav Svinchenko
.
[9]
On August 28, 2013, Oksana Romanyuk, executive director of the Institute of Mass Information, wrote on her
Facebook page
that the UNIAN leadership locked in a room "unpleasant" editors who had previously declared censorship, and several other employees, and kept them for several hours. They were forced to sign that they were aware of the order to "move" them from the site department to the "TV news monitoring" department located somewhere in Darnytsia."
[10]
Journalists called it revenge for the fact that they had previously reported on censorship: "We consider the decision of the administration as aimed at persecuting critics and citizens, as well as establishing total censorship on the UNIAN website."
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