Interfax-Ukraine

This article is about Interfax of Ukraine. For Interfax of Russia, see Interfax.

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]

Interfax-Ukraine

Company type	News website
Industry	News agency
Founded	1992; 33 years ago (1992)
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Key people	Iehor Boltryk, Director
Owner	Andriy Oleksandrovych Martynenko
Website	interfax.com.ua (Ukrainian) ru.interfax.com.ua (Russian) en.interfax.com.ua (English)

The company owns a 50-seat press centre.^[4]

The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022)

SPARK-Interfax is a service that collects information on legal entities and individual entrepreneurs from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova. It helps to identify connections, monitor changes in companies, and conduct business analysis.^[5][6]

History

Original logo Interfax-Ukraine

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]