Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, undertaking to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. He was also the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and a People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction.
Television has a long history in Ukraine, where regular television broadcasting started during the Soviet 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.
Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.
112 Ukraine was a private Ukrainian TV channel which provided 24-hour news coverage. 112 Ukraine was available on satellites AMOS 2/3, via the DVB-T2 network, and was also available in packages of all major Ukrainian cable operators until it was banned from broadcasting in Ukraine in February 2021. The channel was focused on live broadcasting.
Ukrainian Choice, officially since 2016 named Ukrainian Choice – Right of the People, is an NGO in Ukraine. It was initiated by and is led by the business tycoon Viktor Medvedchuk. In Ukraine it is considered a pro-Russian organisation.
In the run up to the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Ukraine. The results of such polls are displayed in this article.
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko. According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), Zelenskyy won the second round with 73.22% of the votes. The election was recognized as free and fair.
The Opposition Platform – For Life was a pro-Russian and Eurosceptic political party in Ukraine.
Taras Romanovych Kozak is a Ukrainian politician, state servant, businessman and media proprietor, and a close associate of the pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk. He was elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a People's Deputy of the 8th convocation for the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party. In 2019, he was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine of 9th convocation for the now banned pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life party.
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Borodianskyi is a Ukrainian television manager, public figure, entrepreneur and politician. He has served as Ukraine's Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports (2019–2020), chairman of the board of STB (2004–2018), Director of StarLightMedia (2012–2018), and as Chairman of the Council for the Development of the National Cultural, Art and Museum complex "Mystetsky Arsenal".
Natalia Vlaschenko is a Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist, publisher and contributing editor. She is the general producer of the Ukrainian TV-channel "ZIK", the ex-editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian socio-political magazine "Public people", and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.
The Russian information war against Ukraine was first articulated by Valery Gerasimov in 2013. He believed that Western governments were instigating color revolutions and the Arab Spring, which posed a threat to Russia. Gerasimov's definition reflected his belief in Western involvement in these events, particularly the 2011–2013 Russian protests.
NewsOne was a pro-Russian information and educational TV channel in Ukraine. It was a member of the Novyny media holding group unofficially owned by politician Viktor Medvedchuk through his associate Taras Kozak.
Lilya Rustemovna Budzhurova, is a Crimean Tatar poetess and journalist. She became an Honored journalist of Ukraine in 2005.
Danylo Oleksandrovych Hetmantsev is a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician, lawyer and scientist. He was an assistant to Volodymyr Sivkovych, a member of Parliament of Ukraine from the pro-Russian Party of Regions, who is suspected of treason for creating a network of Russian agents in Ukraine. Since 2019, he has been a Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party. He is the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy. He is listed in the database of the Myrotvorets. He is a Doctor of Law, professor.
The Brotherhood, Fraternity is a Ukrainian political party led by Dmytro Korchynsky. Registered by the Ministry of Justice on 5 August 2004. The party represents itself: "Party of Jesus Christ, National Christian Network - a revolutionary Christian community".
Olha Mykhailivna Vasylevska-Smahliuk Ukrainian journalist, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation, elected from the 96th single-mandate constituency, member of the Parliamentary faction of Servants of the People, Chair of the Subcommittee on the Functioning of Payment and Information Systems and Prevention of Money Laundering of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.
Diana Vitalievna Panchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter.
First Independent is a closed pro-Russian news channel in Ukraine, whose unofficial owner is pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.
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