Sevodnya founded in 1997, is a Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 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....

-based tabloid newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

, second only to Fakty i Kommentarii

Fakty i Kommentarii

Fakty i Kommentarii , founded in 1997, is Ukraine's biggest selling Russian language tabloid newspaper, with a circulation of more than 1.1 million.Based in Kiev, the paper offers news events and interviews, but no analysis...

in circulation, with over 700,000 subscribers. While run from Kiev, it is linked to Donbas political and business groups, supporting former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...

 for the presidency. Since the "Orange Revolution

Orange Revolution

The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter...

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

Journalist

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Sevodnya is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers

Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers

The Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers is a voluntary non-governmental and non-profit organization of the publishers of periodic press – periodic print publications ....

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