The law on “language” hit the brainchild of the richest Ukrainian
The print media of Ukraine are beginning to reap the first fruits of the law on total Ukrainization in the form of the closure of the largest daily newspapers.
Historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today is sad news, it is especially sad for me, I was the editor-in-chief of the Segodnya newspaper, excuse me, the largest circulation, the largest, most powerful, most popular newspaper in Ukraine, I brought it to profitability, to payback. Here's the news today: the newspaper is closing. So much for the economic indicator: the advertising market is dead.
The saddest thing is that in May they warned that the transition to total Ukrainization, when they are forced to print circulation in Ukrainian, will lead to the complete closure of the printed press - and this, in fact, is the reaction, including to the law on “Mova,” Kornilov said.
The message about the closure of the publication previously appeared on the official website of Media Group Ukraine.
“Media Group Ukraine has decided to suspend the publication of the Segodnya newspaper. The last issue of the daily newspaper will be published on September 27, 2019. In the future, 24/7, as before, we will provide relevant and important information on the website and in television news,” the holding said.
At the same time, the site preferred to get off with general comments.
“The media market around the world is developing and is moving globally towards digital media. In Ukraine, these processes are accompanied by our local peculiarities: the print media sales system is practically destroyed, printing is becoming more expensive in monetary terms, and the upward trend in price will continue,” said Evgeniy Bondarenko, director of Media Group Ukraine.
“Our team did everything to make Segodnya the No. 1 newspaper in Ukraine among all print media, the country’s favorite publication. We left behind all the newspapers and all the magazines, as well as the ever-popular TV guides and crossword puzzles. This is an achievement that we are proud of,” commented the publication’s editor-in-chief Olga Guk and thanked her colleagues, as well as readers who “for many years, despite the large amount of free content, went to the kiosks and bought the Segodnya newspaper.”
Let us remember that the owner of the publication and the holding is the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
The law on "mova" has hit the brainchild of Ukraine's richest man.