Ukrajinska Prawda

Founded in April 2000, Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) was for a long time the most influential website in Ukraine. Its editor-in-chief Georgiy Gongadze was kidnapped and murdered shortly after the website was launched, and to this day no one has been charged with his murder. In the liberal period that came after the Orange Revolution of 2004, with the rise of the Internet the website became increasingly influential, and reportedly attained financial independence in 2005. Coverage is provided in both Ukrainian and Russian. Longer articles are generally published in one language only, frequently Ukrainian. In 2014 two well-known investigative journalists at Pravda, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayem, were elected into parliament as members of the presidential party Petro-Poroshenko-Block. Neither of them have been in parliament since 2019, but both are well-known and respected journalists in Ukraine. In July 2016, a second Pravda journalist was murdered, the Belarusian Pavel Sheremet. No one has ever been charged with his murder either. The website includes sections specialising in topics such as the economy, European integration, culture and the history of Ukraine, as well as an entertainment section. It is blocked in Russia.