The Security Service of Ukraine or SBU, is Ukraine's law-enforcement authority and main government security agency in the areas of counterintelligence activity and combating terrorism.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada is composed of 450 deputies, who are presided over by a chairman (speaker). The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kiev.
The Kyiv Post is Ukraine's oldest English language newspaper.
Television has a long history in Ukraine, with regular television broadcasting started during the former USSR years in 1951. However the first ever TV broadcast took place on 1 February 1939 in Kyiv. Since then TV broadcasting has expanded, particularly after the fall of Communism in 1989, and now there are many different channels and groups in the Ukrainian TV market.
Ihor Drizhchany is a Ukrainian politician, and former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
MTV Ukraine was a Ukrainian free-to-air television music channel operated by GDF Media Limited under licence from VIMN Europe. The channel was launched on 24 August 2007, 6:00 a.m. and was replaced on 31 May 2013 by a new youth-orientated music and general entertainment channel called Zoom.
Inter is among the most-watched television channels in Ukraine. It covers 99.7 percent of Ukraine's territory.
The media of Ukraine refers to mass media outlets based in Ukraine. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues. The Constitution of Ukraine guarantees freedom of speech. As a country in transition, Ukraine's media system is under transformation.
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV weekly news show Itogi in the 1990s, he became one of the nation's best known television journalists, criticizing government corruption and President Boris Yeltsin. In 2001, he left NTV following its takeover by the state-controlled company Gazprom, serving briefly as general manager of TV-6 before the government refused to renew its broadcasting license in January 2002. He later moved to Ukraine, where he was a presenter for the show Big Politics and currently is in charge of the news production at Inter TV.
TVi was a Ukrainian TV channel that began broadcasting in 2008; it was widely seen as Ukraine's only independent TV channel. It was known for its critical coverage of the Ukrainian government, particularly of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ukraine is in 102nd place out of 180 countries listed in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index. Organizations like Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and Committee to Protect Journalists have condemned Poroshenko government recent bans on media.
The first Azarov government was Ukraine's cabinet from March 11, 2010 till December 3, 2012 till 24 December 2012 when the second Azarov government was appointed by president Viktor Yanukovych.
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former First Vice Prime Minister. According to Ukrainian and East European media Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine's richest people.
The Ukrainian oligarchs are a group of business oligarchs that quickly appeared on the economic and political scene of Ukraine after its independence in 1991, just as happened in neighboring post-Soviet state Russia. In 2008, the combined wealth of Ukraine's 50 richest oligarchs was equal to 85% of Ukraine's GDP. In November 2013 this number was 45%. By 2015, due to the Ukrainian crisis, the total net worth of the five richest and most influential Ukrainians had dropped from $21.6 billion in 2014 to $11.85 billion in June 2015.
Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF. He was highly influential during the Yuschenko administration and Yanukovych administration. As a middleman for the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, Firtash funneled money into the campaigns of pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine was created in 1991 soon after Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union. For short it is known as MinFin.
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine is the main authority in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for formation and realization of state economic and social development policies ; regulation of consumer prices; industrial, investment and trade economic policies; development of entrepreneurship; technical regulation and security of consumer rights; inter-agency coordination of economic and social cooperation of Ukraine with the European Union.
Zoom — the new Ukrainian youth entertainment channel. TV channel began broadcasting June 1, 2013 at a frequency channel MTV Ukraine
The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine serves as a director of the Security Service of Ukraine. The head of the Security Service of Ukraine is ex officio a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. He or she is appointed or dismissed by the Supreme Council of Ukraine on proposition of the President of Ukraine.
NTN is a Ukrainian-language TV broadcaster based in Ukraine. It is a general entertainment channel transmitting daytime programming, sports, and other entertainment programs. It is available as a live stream.
