Interfax-Ukraine

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Interfax-Ukraine
Company typeNews website
IndustryNews agency
Founded1992; 33 years ago (1992)
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
Key people
Iehor Boltryk, Director
OwnerAndriy Oleksandrovych Martynenko
Websiteinterfax.com.ua (Ukrainian)
ru.interfax.com.ua (Russian)
en.interfax.com.ua (English)

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]

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.[7] In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv.[7] Director was Oleksandr 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).

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,[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]

References

  1. ↑ "Contacts, Official website". www.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "INTERFAX-UKRAINE. WE ARE 30 YEARS OLD. WE ARE 270 DAYS website". www.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 "About agency Official website". www.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. ↑ ""Interfax-Ukraine" launches updated system of access to its services". Ukraine open for business – Business news from Ukraine. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "Top Ukrainian official visits US to meet Trump team, foreign minister says". Reuters. 4 December 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Choursina, Kateryna (13 August 2012). "Russia Agrees to Import Ukraine Pipes Duty-Free, Interfax Says". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Interfax-Ukraine - 25 years". en.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "Александр Мартыненко: "Ельцин крепко обнял Кучму и держал так секунд 20, после чего сказал: "Задушу. В объятиях"". fakty.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Alexander Martynenko, founder and head of Interfax-Ukraine, passes away". Ukraine open for business – Business news from Ukraine. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Інтерфакс-Україна". Інтерфакс-Україна (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "Press-center, Official website". www.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  12. ↑ "Interfax-Ukraine, Author at Euromaidan Press". Euromaidan Press. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  13. ↑ "About agency". web.archive.org. 27 August 2009. Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  14. ↑ "Interfax Ukraine: Contact Information, Journalists, and Overview | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "INTERFAX INFORMATION SERVICES LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Interfax-Ukraine, Author at Kyiv Post - Page 10156 of 12739". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  17. ↑ "ІНТЕРФАКС-УКРАЇНА. НАМ 30 РОКІВ. НАМ 270 ДНІВ". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
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