Feb 3, 2021 · In a presidential order announced late on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelensky imposed the sanctions on channels 112, NewsOne and ZIK and their legal owner Taras Kozak for five years. The TV channels were...

Feb 5, 2021 · Ukrainian TV channels ZIK, NewsOne, and 112 were forced off the air late on February 2 after the official channel owner and opposition MP Taras Kozak was hit with sanctions.

ZIK (after the initials of Західна інформаційна корпорація - Western Information Corporation) was a pro-Russian TV channel in Ukraine. It was part of the Novyny media holding, whose unofficial owner was pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk (through …

Feb 3, 2021 · Blocking NewsOne, ZIK and 112 Ukraine. How can the war with the pro-Kremlin TV channels end, and why is it unsafe to leave them working?

Feb 5, 2021 · One of the fiercest Kremlin foes and most successful reformers in the former Soviet Union applauded Zelenskyy’s move to close down the 112, NewsOne and ZIK news channels on Tuesday.

On 26 February 2021, from the closed channels of the media holding—NewsOne, ZIK and 112 Ukraine —a new TV channel was created - "First Independent" , where the journalists of the closed TV channels moved.

Feb 3, 2021 · Three pro-Russian TV channels have gone off the air in Kyiv after pro-Western President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a Ukrainian security council decree imposing sanctions for five years on eight...

Feb 2, 2021 · President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky implemented NSDC decision on sanctions against OPFL deputy Taras Kozak and 112 Ukraine, ZIK, NewsOne Tv channels Kozak owns. They are ordered to stop broadcasting.

Aug 23, 2021 · According to experts, viewers of Kozak and Medvedchuk’s channels flocked to Nash after 112 Ukraine, NewsOne, and ZIK were taken off the air earlier this year.

Jul 4, 2019 · The editorial independence of Ukraine’s news media needs urgent protection, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned today, after more than 400 journalists resigned from the TV channel ZIK and its sister news agency because the opposition parliamentarian who acquired them has radically changed their editorial policies.