Beschrijving
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Olena Yuriivna Prytula is a Ukrainian journalist, the editor-in-chief, owner of the Ukrayinska Pravda, an influential online newspaper that focuses on news and political coverage in Ukraine. Prytula was born in Russia and educated as an engineer in Electroacoustics and Ultrasound at Odessa Polytechnic Institute. Influenced by the dramatic social changes in the Soviet Union, Prytula quit her engineering career and became an independent journalist. She began her journalism career as a correspondent of UNIAR news agency, later working as a stringer for Reuters in Crimea, correspondent for Interfax-Ukraine news agency in Kiev and Crimea.In 2000, Prytula began work as one of the founders of Ukrayinska Pravda. The murder of the site’s co-founder, journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze, who had openly protested against growing government censorship, has focused attention on freedom of speech issues in Ukraine.