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Román Skrýpin – Ukrainian media-manager, famous journalist, TV anchor, Chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union.

He was born on the 27th of May, 1973 in Poltava

Poltava

Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....

, in the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. He is married and has a daughter.

Roman graduated from Kiev University

Kiev University

Taras Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , colloquially known in Ukrainian as KNU is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is the third oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and Kharkiv University. Currently, its structure...

, The institute of Journalism.(1991-1997)

1990 – journalist – trainee “Komsomolets Poltavshyny” newspaper

1991-1992 – journalist, “Ukraina moloda” newspaper

1992-1993 – freelancer, “Gart” studio, Ukrainian television

1993-1995 – journalist, Center of the creative television

1995-1996 - co-owner, journalist- producer – private firm “Agency of producers”

1996-1998 – reporter, chief – editor of the news block, news anchor “Dobrogo ranku, Ukrayina”, UTN, Ukrainian television.

Since September 1998, Roman has been working as the anchor – editor of the “Vikna. Press digest” TV program, STB TV channel

STB (Channel)

STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...

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Since January, 1999 - he has been working as chief and anchor of the “Vikna. At the midnight” and “Mediaclub”, TV programs, STB

STB (Channel)

channel. Due to the total political censorship on Ukrainian TV channels as far as on STB also, Roman had to left in 2002.

Since 2002 – journalist of the “Hromads'ke radio”

During the parliamentary proceedings, which were dedicated to the situation of the freedom of speech in Ukraine, Roman had appeared with his colleague Andriy Shevchenko. Roman state authoritatively about impermissibility of the censorship

Censorship

thumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...

and brought an accusation against then existing (1994-2005) president Leonid Kuchma

Leonid Kuchma

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk...

, that he is the one and the first who made such unbearable conditions, when the journalist can’t work by specialty.

Skrypin is the co-author of the “5 channel”

Kanal 5 (Ukraine)

5 Kanal is a television station in Ukraine controlled by businessman Petro Poroshenko. It became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering balanced or critical broadcasting on candidate Viktor Yanukovych...

- the channel of the true news, creation idea. He has been started to work from the very beginning until June 2006, as chief-editor and also as a TV anchor of the summarize program “Time”. Roman resigned in June 2006 due to the reason of development absence and also because there was an absence of straight scheme of decision-making. Among other things, the new chief-editor was appointed without any discussions with Skrypin as that time chief-editor.

Starting 14 August, 2006 till 31st of January 2008 he has been working as Media director, “RBC Ukraine” inform agency.

For this moment, Roman is a radio-anchor of the "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL).

Starting 19th of January, 2009,- he is the author and the anchor of "Truth of Roman Skrypin" (ukr: "Pravda Romana Skrypina") TV-program, "TVi" TV-channel (Ukraine).

On the 23rd of February he was elected as a Chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union. There were 31 votes for his candidature among 57 delegates attended the 2nd congress of the Independent media union, which took place in the House of scientists, Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

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On the 2nd of April Roman Skrypin headed informational service of "TVi" TV-channel (Ukraine). He became the vice of the "TVi" editor in chief Yevgeniy Kiselyov.

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