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Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian news agency

Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian news agency

FieldValue
name**Interfax-Ukraine**
imageРейтарская 8 дробь 5-А Киев 2012 01.jpg
typeNews website
foundation
locationKyiv, Ukraine
key_peopleIehor Boltryk, Director
industryNews agency
ownerAndriy Oleksandrovych Martynenko
homepage(Ukrainian)
(Russian)
(English)

(Russian) (English)

Interfax-Ukraine () is a Ukrainian news agency. Founded in 1992, the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German. Interfax-Ukraine dispatches have been used by Reuters and Bloomberg in their news coverage from Ukraine.

History

Original logo Interfax-Ukraine

Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv. In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv. Director was Oleksandr Martynenko from its founding in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003 until his death in 2024. He was succeeded by Yegor Boltrik.

The company owns a 50-seat press centre. The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022).

Questions of independence

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, which operates through an offshore company in Cyprus.

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.

References

References

  1. "Contacts, Official website".
  2. "INTERFAX-UKRAINE. WE ARE 30 YEARS OLD. WE ARE 270 DAYS website".
  3. "About agency Official website".
  4. (2025-09-01). "“Interfax-Ukraine” launches updated system of access to its services".
  5. (2024-12-04). "Top Ukrainian official visits US to meet Trump team, foreign minister says".
  6. Choursina, Kateryna. (2012-08-13). "Russia Agrees to Import Ukraine Pipes Duty-Free, Interfax Says".
  7. "Interfax-Ukraine - 25 years".
  8. "Александр Мартыненко: "Ельцин крепко обнял Кучму и держал так секунд 20, после чего сказал: "Задушу. В объятиях"".
  9. (2025-09-01). "Alexander Martynenko, founder and head of Interfax-Ukraine, passes away".
  10. "Інтерфакс-Україна".
  11. "Press-center, Official website".
  12. "Interfax-Ukraine, Author at Euromaidan Press".
  13. (2009-08-27). "About agency".
  14. "Interfax Ukraine: Contact Information, Journalists, and Overview {{!}} Muck Rack".
  15. "INTERFAX INFORMATION SERVICES LIMITED".
  16. "Interfax-Ukraine, Author at Kyiv Post - Page 10156 of 12739".
  17. "ІНТЕРФАКС-УКРАЇНА. НАМ 30 РОКІВ. НАМ 270 ДНІВ".
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