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Ukrinform

National News Agency of Ukraine
Native name
Українське національне інформаційне агентство
Company typeState enterprise
IndustryNews agency
FoundedMarch 16, 1918[1][2]
Headquarters8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskoho,
Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001[3]
Key people
Oleksandr Kharchenko[4]
OwnerMinistry of Culture and Information Policy
Websiteukrinform.net[5]
uatv.ua/en/

The National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Ukrainian: Укрінформ), 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,[5] English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.[8]

  1. ^ Ukrainian National News Agency UKRINFORM celebrates its 90th anniversary, National Radio Company of Ukraine (May 15, 2008)
  2. ^ On March 1 the national news agency Ukrinform launched Ukraine's first Internet radio service, Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)
  3. ^ "Official website. Contact Us. ("Kyiv" spelling)". Mar 2017.
  4. ^ "Official website". Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ukrinform-uatv was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) Українському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо!, Телекритика (March 17, 2008)
  7. ^ "Ukrinform marks 100th anniversary of its foundation". ukrinform.net. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Information on Agency". www.ukrinform.net. Retrieved 2023-04-27.

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