Ukrainian Independent Information Agency


The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News is a Kiev-based Ukrainian news agency. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, as well as a photo reporting service.
UNIAN is a part of 1+1 Media Group, related to oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

History

UNIAN was founded in March 1993 as Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News.
UNIAN has close to 500 media clients worldwide and its photobank includes over 200,000 images.
The agency has its own building, inherited from the period of the Soviet Union. It is situated on Khreshchatyk Street in Kiev.

UNIAN press conference hall

UNIAN offers own press conference hall to interested customers.

UNIAN TV

UNIAN also runs its own TV channel, UNIAN TV. The channel's content includes news, analytical programs, documentaries, sport and movies. The General Producer of the channel is Vladyslav Svinchenko.

Broadcast details

The channel is available on satellite, cable and IPTV networks. It broadcasts unencrypted from the AMOS-2 satellite, at 10722 Horizonal, 27500.

Notable people

In the first half of 2020 the website unian.ua was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Ukrainian Wikipedia.
According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the website unian.ua is the 108th and 68th most visited in Ukraine respectively, as of July 2020.