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Euromaidan Press
TypeOnline newspaper
FormatWebsite
Founder(s)Alya Shandra
Mat Babiak
PublisherNGOEuromaidan Press
Staff writersUkrainian volunteers
Founded2014
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
CityKyiv
CountryUkraine
OCLCnumber992513459
Websiteeuromaidanpress
Free online archivesYes

Euromaidan Press(EP) is an English-language news website launched in 2014 by contributors from Ukraine, sponsored by reader contributions and theInternational Renaissance Foundation.[1]It shares its name with theEuromaidanmovement in Ukraine. Registered as anon-governmental organization,EP's stated goal is to provide English-language material to those interested in Ukrainian topics such as business issues, the economy, military conflict, and tourism.

News organization[edit]

Euromaidan Presswas founded in by Ukrainian volunteers as a newspaper based online in order to provide independent news reporting on issues relevant to Ukraine.[2]The news organization first launched in January 2014.[3]It shares its name and values with theEuromaidanmovement from Ukraine, and the news organization states they, "support initiatives developing independent media and democratic initiatives in other states that uphold the core democratic values."[2]The lead creator of the site was Canadian analyst Mat Babiak[4][5](who departed the following year), and was Kyiv-based activist Alya Shandra.[6]Shandra had previously helped translate Ukrainian news reporting into English during the 2013 wave ofdemonstrationsandcivil unrestin Ukraine known as Euromaidan.[6]Other journalists contributing to the newspaper have included Maksym Nedrya, Oleh Gychko, Mykhailo Honchar, and Paul A. Goble.[7][8][9]

The goal of the newspaper's foundation was to provide information to English-language consumers on journalism from Ukraine.[2]The organization registered in Ukraine as anon-governmental organizationwith the same name.[2]The news organization developed its focus on stories related to military conflict in Ukraine, business issues, the Ukrainian economy, and tourism.[2]The newspaper's founding was an attempt to "collect, rely on, and promote non-partisan, non-religious, non-biased information", as a way to address what the organization saw as adisinformationcampaign by Russia in Ukraine.[2]

News content was setup to be delivered online through the newspaper's website euromaidanpress.[10][11][12]The newspaper maintained social media accounts onTwitterandFacebookat Euromaidanpr.[2]A sub-project called the Friends of Ukraine Network released semi-regular news reporting about Ukraine political issues.[2][3]The newspaper's Reft and Light Project was set up in order to analyze totalitarian groups.[2]The news organization worked in conjunction withEuromaidan SOSto bring attention topolitical prisonersof Ukraine origin jailed in Russia, through the website letmypeoplego.org.ua.[2]TheInternational Renaissance Foundationsupported the initiatives ofEuromaidan Press.[2][13]

Reception[edit]

Writing in theJournal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society,contributor Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya characterized the news organization among, "a series of online initiatives aimed at raising global awareness of Ukrainian issues".[3]She describedEuromaidan Pressas "an online newspaper specializing in translations of materials from local Ukrainian news outlets".[3]J.L. Black and Michael Johns, in their bookThe Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, The West and Russia(2016), cited the news organization as a resource, commenting it had a "colourful website".[14]Euromaidan Presshas been relied upon for research on Ukrainian news analyses byThe Perfect Storm of the European Crisis(2017),[15]New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014(2017) by Christine Emeran,[16]Online around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Apps(2017),[17]andGerard Toal'sNear Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus(2017).[18]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Euromaidan Press (2016),Annual Report 2015-2016(PDF),pp. Finances, Resonance and awards,archived(PDF)from the original on 24 February 2019,retrieved1 October2018
  2. ^abcdefghijk"About Us".Euromaidan Press. 2017.Archivedfrom the original on 1 October 2018.Retrieved1 October2018.
  3. ^abcdBonch-Osmolovskaya, Tatiana (2015), Fedor, Julie; Portnov, Andriy; Umland, Andreas (eds.), "Information Resistance",Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society,Russian Media and the War in Ukraine,1(1), Stuttgart, Germany: ibidem Press: 196,ISBN978-3838207261,ISSN2364-5334
  4. ^"@matbabiak".Medium.Retrieved18 May2022.
  5. ^Francis, David (29 December 2014)."Putin's Dream of a Russian NHL Collapsing As His Economy Tanks".Foreign Policy.Matthew Babiak, the Canadian managing editor of Euromaidan Press
  6. ^abShearlaw, Maeve (22 November 2016),"Three years after Euromaidan, how young Ukrainians see the future",The Guardian,archivedfrom the original on 1 October 2018,retrieved1 October2018
  7. ^Besemeres, John (2016),A Difficult Neighbourhood: Essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II,ANU Press,p. 498,ISBN978-1760460600
  8. ^Schoen, Douglas E.; Smith, Evan Roth (2016), "Chapter 6: Sowing Disorder",Putin's Master Plan,Encounter Books,ISBN978-1594038891
  9. ^Sloan, Stanley (2016),Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain,Manchester University Press,ISBN978-1526105752
  10. ^Svyatets, Ekaterina (2015),Energy Security and Cooperation in Eurasia: Power, Profits and Politics,Routledge Studies in Energy Policy,Routledge,p. 183,ISBN978-1138902619
  11. ^Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia, ed. (2016),Media in Process: Transformation and Democratic Transition,Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series,Routledge,p. 49,ISBN978-1472470959
  12. ^Kanet, Roger E.; Sussex, Matthew, eds. (2016),Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia: Foreign Policy in a Contested Region,Palgrave Macmillan,p. 233,ISBN978-1137523662
  13. ^"Euromaidan Press: news and views from Ukraine".WorldCat.OCLC Online Computer Library Center.2017.OCLC992513459.
  14. ^Black, J. L.; Johns, Michael, eds. (2016),The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, The West and Russia,Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series,Routledge,p. 190,ISBN978-1138924093
  15. ^Vohn, Cristina Arvatu (2017), "Perspectives on the Future of Europe", in Dungaciu, Dan; Iordache, Ruxandra (eds.),The Perfect Storm of the European Crisis,Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 113,ISBN978-1443895637
  16. ^Emeran, Christine (2017),New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000-2014,Routledge Advances in Sociology,Routledge,p. 116,ISBN978-1472482525
  17. ^Wilson, Stephen Lloyd (2017), "Ukraine", in Steckman, Laura M.; Andrews, Marilyn J. (eds.),Online around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Apps,ABC-CLIO,p. 319,ISBN978-1610697750
  18. ^Toal, Gerard (2017),Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus,Oxford University Press,p. 351,ISBN978-0190253301

Further reading[edit]

  • Leonor, Alex (31 August 2016),"A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism",StopFake.org
  • Whitmore, Brian (6 September 2016). "Deconstructing Whataboutism".The Morning Vertical.State News Service.Deconstructing Whataboutism - In the second part of its guide to Russian propaganda, Euromaidan Press takes a look at 'Whataboutism.'

External links[edit]

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