Interfax-Ukraine (Ukrainian:Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Ukrainian news agency.[1][2] Founded in 1992,[3] the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.[3] The company presents itself as an independent Ukrainian news agency that serves the country’s political and economic news market. It offers over forty news products in four languages.[4] Interfax-Ukraine dispatches have been used by Reuters and Bloomberg in their news coverage from Ukraine.[5][6]
Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year followingUkraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people inKharkiv.[7] In 1993 the agency moved toKyiv.[7] Director wasOleksandr Martynenko from its founding in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003[8] until his death in 2024.[9] He was succeeded by Yegor Boltrik.[10]
The company owns a 50-seat press centre.[11] The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022).
Some sources, up to 2013, affiliated the agency with the non-state Russian group Interfax Information Services. For this reason, in some sources the Ukrainian agency is still labeled as part of that group,[12][13][14] which operates through an offshore company in Cyprus.[15][16]
However, the founder and employees of the company have repeatedly denied this information, explaining that the only things uniting the organizations of the same name are a shared foreign sales system and editorial independence.[17]
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