News & Commentary
BUSINESS NEWS
◊ Dilova Ukraïna / Ділова Україна (Укрінформ)
◊ Halyts'ki kontrakty / Галицькі контракти. Web site of weekly publication, devoted to business news.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL
◊ BBC World Service in Ukrainian / Бі-Бі-Сі.
◊ The Day / День Daily news; culture; TV news; extensive political and socio-cultural commentary; photo reportage; and photography contests.
◊ The Gazette / Газета. Quasi tabloid newspaper devoted to the news, politics, the world, sports, scandals, money, culture and topical photographs. Its articles are short and therefore appropriate for readers at the lower intermediate level. It has a section, titled Колонка (Column) that publisheс very brief essays by accomplished prose writers and poets (Vitalii Zhezhera, Andrii Bodnar, Svitlana Pyrkalo, Mykola Riabchuk, Viktoria Stakh), who report philosophically on everyday occurrences with humor and, often, irony.
◊ KorrespondenT.net / in Ukrainian: КорреспонденТ.net
◊ The Mirror Weekly / Дзеркало тижня. News and detailed commentary on politics, the economy, finances, the energy market, business, farming, social well-being, culture, the church, history, the family, etc.
◊ Razumkov Centre / Центр Разумкова. A NGO, this centre conducts research and publishes news concerning internal and external affairs, economic politics, energy questions, questions of the land, social politics, international and regional security, as well as national security and defense.
◊ Telekrytyka / Телекритика A journal devoted to journalism and the life of the media in Ukraine.
◊ The Ukrainian Week / Український тиждень. Social and political topics.
◊ Ukraïns'ka pravda / Українська правда News and commentary. Has a separate publication devoted to questions of the economy: Ekonomichna pravda / Економічна правда.
◊ Ukraïna moloda / Україна молода. Web site of a newspaper that began appearing in 1991 and caters specifically to youth. It is published in three Ukrainian cities (Kyiv, Lviv and Kherson) on a daily basis, from Tuesday through Saturday, and has columns devoted to the news, politics, the world, the law, society, culture, etc.
◊ UNIAN Information Agency / Iнформаційне агенство УНІАН.
◊ ZIK — Western Information Agency / Західна інформаційна агенція. Politics, еconomics, society, culture, mass-media, sports, and extraordinary situations from the perspective of Lviv and the Western regions of Ukraine.
RELIGIOUS LIFE
◊ RISU (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) / РІСУ (Релігійно інформаційна служба України). This Internet portal appears in Ukrainian, English, Russian, German and Italian and is devoted to the lives of the major religious communities in Ukraine: Catholic (Armenian, Ukrainian [Greek-Catholic], and Roman); Jewish; Muslim; Orthodox (Autocephalous, Kyiv Patrirchate, and Moscow Patriarchate); various Protestant denominations (Baptist, Evangelical, Lutheran, etc.); and Pre-Chalcedonian Armenian. In addition to new reports, the portal features discussions, resources, information about religious freedom, articles about religious art, as well as art galleries. Based in Lviv, RISU is a project of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
SPORTS
◊ Champion / Чемпіон. News about sports in general.
◊ Ukraïns'kyi futbol / Український футбол. News about soccer (i.e., European football).
TABLOID
◊ TABLOID / ТАБЛО-ID
A richly illutsrated publication, this is Ukraine's first major gossip magazine to appear in Ukrainian. An affiliate publication of Ukraïns'ka pravda, this magazine diiffers from similar publications in the West in that its gossip is comparatively mild. It frequently features news about fashion and reveals the excesses of Ukrainian "stars" and the political elite.
