Focus (Ukrainian magazine)

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Focus (Ukrainian: Тижневик «Фокус», romanized: Tyzhnevyk 'Fokus', lit. 'Focus weekly', pronounced [tɪʒˈnɛwɪk ˈfɔkʊs]) is a Ukrainian national weekly news magazine, published in Kyiv. The magazine's motto: "Every detail has a meaning".

Фокус

Focus's front cover issue № 24 (15 June 2007)
Chief Editor	Oleksij Gazubej
Former editors	Vakhtang Kipiani (2006-2007)
Categories	News magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	34,390 per week[1]
Publisher	Nadiya Shalomova (Director)
First issue	30 September 2006; 18 years ago (2006-09-30)
Company	Ukrainian Media Holding
Country	Ukraine
Language	Russian (2006-2021), Ukrainian (since 2022)
Website	focus.ua

Overview

The launch of Focus magazine on 30 September 2006^[2] was intended to fill the native news magazine market with corresponding competitor to more notorious magazines such as Newsweek, Der Spiegel, and others. The magazine consists of 84 fully illustrated pages of A4 format and issued every Friday (previously - every Saturday). Focus was one of the several other projects created by the Ukrainian Media Holding in 2006, among which were magazine Zdorovie, Dengi.ua, and others.

Lists

Similar to Forbes beside news publishing the magazine specializes in national popularization through a variety of rankings: "The most rich man in Ukraine", "The most influential woman in Ukraine", "Top 55 cities for living in Ukraine", and others.

• 100 most influential women of Ukraine (since 2006)
• 55 best cities for living in Ukraine (since 2007, originally as top-50)^[3]
• 200 richest people in Ukraine (since 2006, other names: top-150 (2009), top-130 (2008), top-100 (2007))
• 200 most influential Ukrainians (since 2007)
• 25 most successful business-ladies of Ukraine (since 2010)
• The richest football clubs of Ukraine
• 50 most influential people (by region) (Dnipropetrovsk - 2007, Kharkiv - 2007, Crimea - 2007, Odesa - 2008, Donbas - 2006, Donetsk - 2010)