Freedom of the press in Ukraine
Ukraine was in 96th place out of 180 countries listed in the 2020 World Press Freedom Index, having returned to top 100 of this list for the first time since 2009, but dropped down one spot to 97th place in 2021, being characterized as being in a "difficult situation".
Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of the popular Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
Journalist documenting events at the Independence square. Clashes in Ukraine, Kyiv. Events of 18 February 2014.
Mykola Yanovych Azarov is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014. He was the First Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister from 2002 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2007. Azarov also served ex officio as an acting prime minister in the First Yanukovych Government when Viktor Yanukovych ran for president at first and then upon the resignation of his government.
Azarov in 2012
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski and Azarov (30 September 2010)
Azarov and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (10 February 2012)