Segodnya

While run from Kyiv, it was linked to Donbas political and business groups. Its holding company, Segodnya Multimedia Publishing Group, was owned by Rinat Akhmetov's Ukraina Media Group.[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/119108/ Akhmetov: Segodnya newspaper must become stronger], Kyiv Post (15 December 2011)

The paper supported former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for the presidency in 2004.{{cn|date=September 2020}} Since the "Orange Revolution", the newspaper has moderated its pro-Eastern{{huh|date=September 2020}} reporting under pressure from its own journalists.{{cn|date=September 2020}} The last print edition was issued in 2019. In July 2022, Akhmetov folded all his media business due to the entering into force of the anti-oligarch law.{{Cite news |date=11 July 2022|access-date=24 February 2023|language=English|title=UkrainianAkhmetov hands media business over to government – statement|url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/845239.html|work=Interfax-Ukraine}}

Segodnya was a member of the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers.

In 2011, the paper's journalists threatened to go on strike after Chief Editor Ihor Guzhva 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 and presidential adviser Hanna Herman. She also mandated favorable coverage of certain politicians and public figures, the journalists say.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/business/trouble-brews-at-akhmetovs-segodnya-daily-119059.html|title=Trouble brews at Akhmetov's Segodnya daily - Dec. 15, 2011|date=December 15, 2011|website=KyivPost}} The newspaper was even accused of publishing forged documents.[http://kiev.pravda.com.ua/columns/4f30f530ba8c8/ "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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