''Segodnya'' ( rus, Сегодня, p=sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə, t=Today, a=Ru-сегодня.ogg) was a

Russian-language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living Eas ...

Ukrainian

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founded in 1997. While run from

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, it was linked to

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political and business groups; its holding company is owned by

Rinat Akhmetov Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov, ; russian: Ринат Леонидович Ахметов, ; tt-Cyrl, Ринат Леонид улы Әхмәтов, translit=Rinat Leonid uly Äkhmätov (born on 21 September 1966) is a Ukrainian billionaire and b ...

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. The paper supported former Prime Minister

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

for the presidency in 2004. Since the "

Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution ( uk, Помаранчева революція, translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate afterm ...

", the newspaper has moderated its pro-Eastern reporting under pressure from its own

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s. ''Segodnya'' was a member of the

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Censorship

In 2011, the paper's journalists threatened to go on strike after Chief Editor

Ihor Guzhva Igor ( be, Ігар, Ihar ; russian: Игорь, Igor' ; sr-Cyrl, Игор ; uk, Ігор, Ihor ; ) is a common East Slavic given name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, in the form ...

was controversially fired, and his replacement censored certain types of stories, and dictated to journalists how certain politicians and public figures should be covered. " Olena Hromnytska is trying to implement corruption schemes for publishing paid articles ... and also to introduce censorship in the newspaper" the journalists' statement read. In particular, the statement said she ordered some stories removed from the website about Odesa Mayor

Oleksiy Kostusev Oleksii, Oleksiy or OleksiĭALA-LC romanization of Ukrainian. ( uk, Олексі́й, Oleksij ) is a Ukrainian male name of Ancient Greek origin. Some people with the given name Oleksiy * Oleksiy Antonov (born 1986), Ukrainian football forward ...

and presidential adviser

Hanna Herman Hanna Mykolaivna Herman ( uk, Га́нна Микола́ївна Ге́рман) (born 24 April 1959; Lviv region,

. She also mandated favorable coverage of certain politicians and public figures, the journalists say. The newspaper was even accused of publishing forged documents."Who forged the signatures on a letter to the president from the residents of Honchar Street"? (Russian)
Українська правда: Київ, 07.02.2012.

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