Euromaidan Press

Euromaidan Press

Type	Online newspaper
Format	Website
Founder(s)	Alya Shandra Mat Babiak
Publisher	NGO Euromaidan Press
Staff writers	Ukrainian volunteers
Founded	2014
Language	English, Spanish
City	Kyiv
Country	Ukraine
OCLC number	992513459
Website	euromaidanpress.com
Free online archives	Yes
Media of Ukraine List of newspapers

Euromaidan Press (EP) is an English-language news website launched in 2014 by contributors from Ukraine, sponsored by reader contributions and the International Renaissance Foundation.^[1] It shares its name with the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine. Registered as a non-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

Euromaidan Press was 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 the Euromaidan movement 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 of demonstrations and civil unrest in 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 a non-governmental organization with 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 a disinformation campaign by Russia in Ukraine.^[2]

News content was setup to be delivered online through the newspaper's website euromaidanpress.com.^[10][11][12] The newspaper maintained social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook at 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 with Euromaidan SOS to bring attention to political prisoners of Ukraine origin jailed in Russia, through the website letmypeoplego.org.ua.^[2] The International Renaissance Foundation supported the initiatives of Euromaidan Press.^[2][13]

Reception

Writing in the Journal 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 described Euromaidan Press as "an online newspaper specializing in translations of materials from local Ukrainian news outlets".^[3] J. L. Black and Michael Johns, in their book The 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 Press has been relied upon for research on Ukrainian news analyses by The 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] and Gerard Toal's Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus (2017).^[18]

See also

• Euromaidan
• Revolution of Dignity
• Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
• International reactions to the war in Donbas
• Russo-Ukrainian War

References

1. Euromaidan Press (2016), Annual Report 2015-2016 (PDF), pp. Finances, Resonance and awards, archived (PDF) from the original on 24 February 2019, retrieved 1 October 2018
2. "About Us". Euromaidan Press. 2017. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
3. Bonch-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, ISBN 978-3838207261, ISSN 2364-5334
4. "@matbabiak". Medium. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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. Shearlaw, Maeve (22 November 2016), "Three years after Euromaidan, how young Ukrainians see the future", The Guardian, archived from the original on 1 October 2018, retrieved 1 October 2018
7. Besemeres, John (2016), A Difficult Neighbourhood: Essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II, ANU Press, p. 498, ISBN 978-1760460600
8. Schoen, Douglas E.; Smith, Evan Roth (2016), "Chapter 6: Sowing Disorder", Putin's Master Plan, Encounter Books, ISBN 978-1594038891
9. Sloan, Stanley (2016), Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-1526105752
10. Svyatets, Ekaterina (2015), Energy Security and Cooperation in Eurasia: Power, Profits and Politics, Routledge Studies in Energy Policy, Routledge, p. 183, ISBN 978-1138902619
11. Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia, ed. (2016), Media in Process: Transformation and Democratic Transition, Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series, Routledge, p. 49, ISBN 978-1472470959
12. Kanet, Roger E.; Sussex, Matthew, eds. (2016), Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia: Foreign Policy in a Contested Region, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 233, ISBN 978-1137523662
13. "Euromaidan Press : news and views from Ukraine". WorldCat. OCLC Online Computer Library Center. 2017. OCLC 992513459.
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, ISBN 978-1138924093
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, ISBN 978-1443895637
16. Emeran, Christine (2017), New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000-2014, Routledge Advances in Sociology, Routledge, p. 116, ISBN 978-1472482525
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, ISBN 978-1610697750
18. Toal, Gerard (2017), Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus, Oxford University Press, p. 351, ISBN 978-0190253301

Further reading

• 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

• Official website
• Video designer: Ganna Naronina; video script and idea: Alex Leonor, Alya Shandra (5 September 2016). "A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism" (video). YouTube. Euromaidan Press.