Bohdan Volodymyrovych Kutiepov is a Ukrainian journalist and freelance musician (bayan). Along with Haydamaky, in 2014 recorded a musical video clip "Arkana".
Born in Kyiv, Kutiepov graduated the high school No.2 in Yahotyn (Kyiv Oblast). In 2006 he graduated the Journalism Institute of the Kyiv University.
Between 2006 and 2010 Kutepov worked as a journalist-investigator for several television channels: Tonis, STB, and TVi. During that period in 2008 he married another journalist from ICTV, Khrystyna Kotsira. After that Kutepov worked for journal Telekritika. Since 2013, he is a journalist of Hromadske TV.
He was attacked by the police when reporting protests against the government’s quarantine restrictions in Kyiv in May 2020. [1]
The Kyiv Post is Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper. On 8 November 2021, the newspaper was temporarily shut down after the editorial staff's disagreement with planned changes to the outlet led to the owner firing all reporters. On 11 November, the new CEO of Kyiv Post was announced, Luc Chénier.
Ukraine has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 16 times since making its debut in 2003. Ukraine has won the contest twice: in 2004 with "Wild Dances" by Ruslana, and in 2016 with the song "1944" by Jamala, thus becoming the first Eastern European country to win the contest twice. Ukraine hosted the 2005 and 2017 contests in Kyiv.
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award (1987).
Oleksandr Yevhenovych Rybka is a Ukrainian football goalkeeper who plays for Metalist Kharkiv.
Human rights in Ukraine is a highly contested topic and in 2018 Ukraine was labeled as "Partly Free" by organizations such as Freedom House.
The Greatest Ukrainians was a Ukrainian TV project. The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the Ukrainian public considers the greatest Ukrainians have been in history.
Román Skrýpin is a Ukrainian media-manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union.
Ukraine was in 96th place out of 180 countries listed in the 2020 World Press Freedom Index, having returned to top 100 of this list for the first time since 2009, but dropped down one spot to 97th place in 2021.
Leonid Oleksandrovich Kozhara is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2013 he was the OSCE's Chairperson-in-Office, during the Ukrainian presidency of the OSCE.
Mustafa Masi Nayyem is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, and public figure who took part in Euromaidan in Ukraine. Formerly, he was a reporter for the newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine", the TVi channel, and the Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!", and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014, he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. He has been described as a reformist parliamentarian. Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Héctor Ismael Jiménez-Bravo is a Canadian-Ukrainian chef of Colombian origin, business man, TV presenter, judge at the TV project MasterChef Ukraine, Ukraine's Got Talent, and culinary arts lecturer, currently based in Ukraine. He is founder of Bravo Restaurant Group Company. He also received the prestigious "The World Master Chef" award.
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Osman Pashayev is Crimean Tatar journalist and producer.
Tetyana Volodymyrivna Danylenko, is a Ukrainian TV journalist and television host for the Channel 5 and the Hromadske.tv, a blog editor at the Ukrayinska Pravda.
Bohdan Vasylyovych Mykhaylichenko is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for Anderlecht.
Mykola Kniazhytskyi is a Ukrainian journalist, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII and VIII and current IX convocations, Head of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, Co-Head of group for interparliamentary relations with the Republic of Poland, Head of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee.
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Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Borodianskyi is a Ukrainian television manager, public figure, entrepreneur and politician. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine (2019–2020), chairman of the board of STB (2004–2018), Director of StarLightMedia (2012–2018), Chairman of the Council for the Development of the National Cultural, Art and Museum complex "Mystetsky Arsenal".
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