Olena Prytula
| Olena Yuriivna Prytula Олена Юріївна Притула |
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March 10, 1967 Zavolzhye, Russian SFSR |
| Notable credit(s) | Ukrayinska Pravda co-founder (2000-2014), Knight Fellow at Stanford University |
Olena Yuriivna Prytula (Ukrainian: Олена Юріївна Притула; Russian: Алёна Юрьевна Притула) (born March 10, 1967) is a Ukrainian journalist, the former editor-in-chief, owner (and earlier co-founder) of the Ukrayinska Pravda, an influential online newspaper that focuses on news and political coverage in Ukraine.
Born in Zavolzhye, Gorky Oblast, Prytula with her parents moved to the city of Izmail on the Danube in Ukraine. She was educated as an engineer in electroacoustics and ultrasound at Odessa Polytechnic Institute. Influenced by the dramatic social changes in the Soviet Union, Prytula quit her engineering career and became a journalist. She began her journalism career as a correspondent of UNIAR news agency, later working as a stringer for Reuters in Crimea, correspondent for Interfax-Ukraine news agency in Kiev and Crimea.
In 2000, Prytula became one of the founders of Ukrayinska Pravda. The murder of the site's co-founder, journalist Georgiy Gongadze, who had openly protested against growing government censorship, focused attention on freedom of speech issues in Ukraine.
Prytula has also been a mistress of married Gongadze. She never stated it publicly but repeatedly mentioned her deep personal ties to him after his death. She was the very same "friend" of Gongadze whose apartment he left just before he was last seen alive.
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