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Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian news agency From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Interfax-Ukraine (Ukrainian: Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Ukrainian news agency.[1][2] Founded in 1992,[3] the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.[3] The company presents itself as an independent Ukrainian news agency that serves the country’s political and economic news market. It offers over forty news products in four languages.[4] Interfax-Ukraine dispatches have been used by Reuters and Bloomberg in their news coverage from Ukraine.[5][6]
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History
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Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv.[7] In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv.[7] Director was Oleksandr Martynenko from its founding in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003[8] until his death in 2024.[9] He was succeeded by Yegor Boltrik.[10]
The company owns a 50-seat press centre.[11] The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022).
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Questions of independence
Some sources, up to 2013, affiliated the agency with the non-state Russian group Interfax Information Services. For this reason, in some sources the Ukrainian agency is still labeled as part of that group,[12][13][14][15] which operates through an offshore company in Cyprus.[16][17]
However, the founder and employees of the company have repeatedly denied this information, explaining that the only things uniting the organizations of the same name are a shared foreign sales system and editorial independence.[18]
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Analysis and bias
According to Media Bias/Fact Check, Interfax–Ukraine is assessed as Left-Center due to a modest left-leaning tilt in story selection. Its factual reliability is rated Mixed, reflecting concerns about sourcing quality and limited transparency over ownership.[19]
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