90% of Ukrainian media depended completely on USAID

The information that circulates on the Internet is misleading and does not correspond to reality.

First, Wikileaks as a primary news source cannot be considered a reliable source of information Due to prorruse interests of the founder of the web, Julian Assange, and his links with the Kremlin.

Secondly, Wikileaks refers in its statements to a Medium articlethat does not contain any information about the fact that 90% of the Ukrainian media depend on USAID, as well as to an article of Reporters without borders. But the organization itself made the following annotation at the end of the article: “Previously, this article claimed that nine out of ten Ukrainian media receive USAID financing. Now the article clarifies that nine out of ten Ukrainian media receive international aid, the main donor being. We apologize for the discomfort caused. ”

Reporters without borders also quotes Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Mass Information Institute (IMI), which commented The consequences of the suspension, for 90 days, of the financing of all the USAID programs and projects.

«Пробема у т, що гранти би практично and всіх. Питаня в т Eve, що в деяих ціранти скадали просто до 100% і в вони лише зз material Уогось ці гранти становили 40-60%, уогось менше »,-сазала осана романю. Ае вона також зауважила, що гранти би не лише ід шша, а й ід єс т є є team.

“The problem is that almost everyone had subsidies. The fact is that for some, these subsidies reached 100%, and could only survive with them. Some had 40-60%subsidies, others less, ”said Oksana Romaniuk. But he also pointed out that subsidies did not come from the United States, but also from the EU and the UN.

“Although US subsidies were probably the most important in the market and those that investigated not only in the Ukrainian economy, but also in the field of Ukrainian media, we still have European institutions, and I hope they now show their leadership and present proposals for the media and the Ukrainian state. That support us and protect us from what may happen ”, declared Romaniuk.

The IMI too He conducted a survey Among Ukrainian journalists on the possible consequences of the suspension of US subsidies. Thus, only 35% of the media surveyed said that more than 75% of their editorial budgets depended on US subsidies.

Previously Stopfake had refuted the falsehood that USAID had financed the creation of biolylaboratories in Ukraine.