The Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers (UAPP)

General Information

The Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers (UAPP) is a leading voluntarily non-government and non-profit association of the periodic press publishers (newspapers and magazines) in Ukraine.

UAPP was founded in 2001, today unites 88 members – publishers of magazines and newspapers from all over Ukraine. There are 40 regional and 48 all-Ukrainian publishing companies (based in Kiev) amongst them, and they are publishing more, than 350 different titles with different periodicity – from daily to quarterly and even annually. Their combined average weekly circulation exceeds 15 million copies.

The higher body of UAPP management is General Assemblages, which are held annually (mainly, at February each year). Board of Directors is elected by General Assemblages (for 2 years term) and President (similarly, once in 2 years, without the right of reelection more than to 2 terms successively).  Board of Directors and President are appointing the General Director, who is leading the Executive management office of the UAPP.

Board of Directors and President are the highest strategic body of the UAPP management, and the Executive management and General Director are the executive body. Members of strategic body are working as volunteers, and members of executive body are working on a staff basis.

The President’s position now is holding by Oleksandr Antonets - since February 2009

The General Director of UAPP today is Oleksii Pogorelov. He is on his position since June, 2006.

UAPP mission & main goal

UAPP mission is to protect and to represent the interests of all publishers, to lead the industry’s development into a competitive, investment attractive business with professional management, high editorial standards and economic independence of all market players – to provide important conditions for political independence and to guarantee the Freedom of the Press in Ukraine.
UAPP main goal is to create favorable conditions for publishing business development in Ukraine.

UAPP Leadership

UAPP leads the industry in such important directions as:

- professional education;
- professional standards;
- professional ground for intercourse, meeting place for communication of close markets professionals;
- professional expertise, market evaluation and estimations, industry data collection and analisys
- industry lobbying;
- industry PR.

Contacts

04071, Kiev, UKRAINE

Mezhihirska str., b.22, of 20

tel/fax +38 (044) 425-57-87

Oleksii Pogorelov, general director UAPP - pogorelov@uapp.org   

Oksana Musienko, UAPP members’ service manager - organizator@uapp.org

www.uapp.org