Ukrainska Pravda
Type of site | Online newspaper |
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| Owner | Dragon Capital |
| Created by | Heorhii Gongadze |
| Founder(s) | Heorhii Gongadze |
| Editor | Sevgil Musayeva |
| Key people | Olena Prytula, Sevgil Musayeva |
| URL | pravda |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | 16 April 2000 |
| Current status | works |
| OCLC number | 1066371688 |
Ukrainska Pravda is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda until 2014, when she handed over the position to Sevhil Musaieva. In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital.
The murder of the founder Heorhii Gongadze in the fall of 2000, who had protested against increasing state censorship, drew international attention to the state of press freedom in Ukraine and sparked protests against President Leonid Kuchma in 2000–2001. In July 2016, Ukrainska Pravda journalist Pavlo Sheremet was killed in an explosion. As of 2020, the masterminds behind the murders of Gongadze and Sheremet remain unknown.