1995
Oct. 18, 1995 — First print edition of the newspaper launched as the “Kiev Post.” It carries founder and owner Jed Sunden’s name as managing editor. He would soon carry the title of publisher and make Andrea Faiad the newspaper’s first chief editor.
Nov. 22, 1995 — Kyiv Post starts quarterly Business Directory.
Dec. 28, 1995 — Winner Automotive, Jones East 8, Ukraine International Airlines, Arizona BBQ are among the earliest advertisers. River Palace entertainment complex opens on the Dnipro River.
1996
July 4, 1996 — The Kyiv Post’s roster of advertisers grows to include Utel, UMC telecommunications, Aerosvit, KLM, Uncle Sam’s restaurant, Impressa Hotel, American Medical Center, Turkish Airlines.
1997
March 20, 1997 — Igor Greenwald becomes the newspaper’s second editor and changes the publication’s name to Kyiv Post, noting in an editorial that “good newspapers can change to suit their audience.”
April 3, 1997 — Advertisements from strip clubs become a regular feature.
Aug. 7, 1997 — Publisher Jed Sunden expands the newspaper to 32 pages, launches the newspaper’s website (www.thepost.kiev.ua) and starts the Odesa Post, which lasted two years.
Sept. 25, 1997 — Vox Populi becomes a regular feature on opinion pages.
Oct. 30, 1997 — Kyota, the first Japanese restaurant in Kyiv, advertises.
Dec. 2, 1997 — Kyiv’s first Korean restaurant advertises.
1998
1998 — The Kyiv Post expands frequency of publication to two times per week with 20,000 circulation.
April 21, 1998 — O’Brien’s Irish Pub comes on the scene as a major advertiser.
May 12, 1998 — Igor Greenwald resigns as the Kyiv Post’s second chief editor.
May 26, 1988 — Askold Krushelnycky takes over as the Kyiv Post’s third chief editor.
June 9, 1988 — Vitaly Sych, now editor of Novoe Vremya, joins the Kyiv Post staff.
June 30, 1988 — Gala Radio’s Top 20 songs by DJ Pasha (Pavlo Shylko) become a regular advertising feature.
June 30, 1988 — Advertising celebrating the first year of the Kyiv Post’s website: “50,000 hits since June 1997 and 250 page requests every day. Updated twice per week. Kyiv Post gets traffic — thousands of users monthly reading the Kyiv Post’s electronic edition in Ukraine and abroad. And our clients are getting sales leads and inquiries from around the globe.”
Sept. 4, 1998 — Kyiv Post house advertisement announces 100,000 viewers on the website and more than 600 daily hits.
Sept. 15, 1998 — Kyiv Post advertisement for sales manager. “You are aggressive and speak on the phone like a dream.”
Sept. 18, 1998 — Tom Warner takes over as the Kyiv Post’s fourth chief editor, outlines coverage plans in a signed editorial.
1999
June 1, 1999 — Brian Bonner becomes the Kyiv Post’s fifth chief editor, taking over from interim chief editor Greg Bloom.
Sept. 1, 1999 — Greg Bloom becomes the Kyiv Post’s sixth chief editor after Brian Bonne resigns.
From left, Oliver Spence, Boyko Boev and Mushegh Yekmalyan of Article 19, a London-based group that defends free speech, hold up a banner in support of the Kyiv Post outside The Royal Court of Justice in London on Feb. 24, 2011. (Courtesy)
2000
2000 — The Kyiv Post launches the Best of Kyiv Awards.
Jan. 6, 2000 — The Kyiv Post has a weekly circulation of 25,000 copies.
2001
Dec. 13, 2001 — Diana Elliott is chief editor of the Kyiv Post.
2002
2002 — Kyiv Post owner Jed Sunden launches the Russian-language Korrespondent magazine, starting with key staff members from the Kyiv Post, including Vitaly Sych as chief editor.
2002 — Kyiv Post starts advertising escort ads from women engaging in prostitution.
2003
Oct. 30, 2003 — Andrey Slivka is the Kyiv Post’s chief editor.
2004
2004 — The Kyiv Post launches its first Employment Fair.
2005
Jan. 13, 2005 — Andrey Slivka remains the Kyiv Post’s chief editor.
Jan. 13, 2005 — Jed Sunden op-ed: Ukraine should stay in Iraq.
Jan. 13, 2005 — Lion’s Club & Kyiv Post advertise 2005 Burns Night on Feb. 12.
Jan. 20, 2005 — Jed Sunden op-ed: Leonid Kuchma, hero of our time.
April 2, 2005 — Kyiv Post Employment Fair.
2006
Dec. 28, 2006 — Stephan Ladanaj is the chief editor.
2007
2008
April 10, 2008 — Zenon Zawada is the chief editor.
June 9, 2008 — Brian Bonner returns as chief editor of the Kyiv Post. The newspaper’s headquarters at the time is on 14A Bazhana St., on the city’s left bank, with the commercial division at 34 Lesya Ukrainka St., in the Pechersk neighborhood.
Sept. 7, 2008 — The Kyiv Post improves its website.
Sept. 24, 2008 — The Kyiv Post redesigns its print newspaper.
2009
July 21, 2009 — Kyiv Post is sold by its founder, Jed Sunden, to British citizen Mohammad Zahoor, the owner of the ISTIL Group for $1.1 million. The newspaper relocates to an office on 120 Sakshanskoho St. Jim Phillipoff takes over as CEO.
2009 — Zahoor puts a stop to “escort” ads from women engaging in prostitution.
2010
2010 — The Kyiv Post holds its last Best of Kyiv Awards.
July 2, 2010 — A front-page article headlined “Gas trade leaves trail of lawsuits” triggers a libel lawsuit filed in the United Kingdom by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
July 6, 2010 — Kyiv Post launches Ukrainian/Russian language website.
Oct. 8, 2010 – The Kyiv Post ranks the richests & most influential expats.
The Kyiv Post staff won the Missouri Medal of Honor for Distinguished Journalism in 2014, the year that the newspaper’s journalists covered the EuroMaidan Revolution ending Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency and the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine. (Pavlo Podufalov)
2011
Feb. 24, 2011 — A London judge dismisses Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash’s libel lawsuit against the Kyiv Post.
April 15, 2011 — Chief editor Brian Bonner is fired for publishing an interview with ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s agricultural minister, Mykola Prysazhnyuk. A staff strike leads to an agreement with publisher Mohammad Zahoor to reinstate Bonner five days later.
July 18, 2011 — Jim Phillipoff resigns as CEO. Michael Willard is named to the position.
2012
Nov. 22, 2012 — The Kyiv Post holds its first Tiger Conference.
2012 — The Kyiv Post becomes a partner of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
2013
2013 — Kyiv Post discontinues Ukrainian/Russian language website.
March 1, 2013 — The Kyiv Post launches a paywall for its website, the first news organization in Ukraine to do so.
April 30, 2013 — Chief editor Brian Bonner is fired for a second time by Mohammad Zahoor, over a financial dispute with CEO Michael Willard, and reinstated four months later, after Willard leaves. Jakub Parusinski, the chief editor, becomes CEO.
2013 — The Kyiv Post launches the Media Development Foundation, a non-profit organization to support investigative journalism, conduct journalism exchanges and carry out training.
2014
March 28, 2014 — First Legal Quarterly magazine.
April 17, 2014 — Media analyst Ken Doctor writes “The newsonomics of the Kyiv Post’s embattled work.”
July 31, 2014 — Nataliya Bugayova is named CEO, becoming the first Ukrainian, the first woman and the first person of color to hold the position.
Oct. 28, 2014 — The Kyiv Post wins the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism. The award is presented in Columbia, Missouri, to chief editor Brian Bonner and deputy chief editor Katya Gorchinskaya.
2014 — The first of six Kyiv Post journalists wins a six-month Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship to work at an American newspaper. The winners have been: Anastasia Forina, Oksana Grytsenko, Olena Goncharova, Yulianna Romanyshyn, Anna Yakutenko, and Illia Ponomarenko.
2014 — Moscow-based AGT Communications Company finds that the Kyiv Post is the most-quoted Ukrainian source of news by American and European news organizations and the second-most quoted in Ukraine and Russia, after Russia’s Kommersant.
September/October 2014 — The Kyiv Post was featured in the Columbia Journalism Review under the headline, the “Kyiv Post’s unlikely success” by author Oliver Bullough.
Renato Ruszczyk, CEO of Lactalis Ukraine, speaks during the 1st Kyiv Post CEO breakfast on April 24, 2015 in Kyiv. (VOLODYMYR PETROV)
2015
April 25, 2015 — The Kyiv Post launches its series of CEO Breakfasts and CEO Dinners.
May 29, 2015 — The Kyiv Post publishes its first Doing Business magazine.
2016
Aug. 2, 2016 — Luc Chenier is named as CEO of the Kyiv Post.
2016 — The Kyiv Post publishes its first e-book “Ukraine — Witness to Revolution: How Kyiv Post journalists saw EuroMaidan.” It chronicles the first-hand reporting in covering the popular uprising that ended President Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency.
2017
May 27, 2017 — The Kyiv Post publishes its first Real Estate supplement.
2018
Feb. 8, 2018 — Luc Chenier resigns as CEO of the Kyiv Post.
March 21, 2018 — Mohammad Zahoor sells the newspaper for $3.5 million to Odesa businessman Adnan Kivan, a native of Syria who owns the KADORR Group. Brian Bonner takes over as executive director in addition to his position as chief editor.
2018 — The Kyiv Post forms a second non-profit organization, the Free Press Foundation, to support independent journalism.
2019
April 20, 2019 — The Kyiv Post publishes its first BrandStudio project, in partnership with DTEK. The customized advertising project involves writers who are separate from the editorial department.
Oct. 18, 2019 — The Kyiv Post launches a redesign of its print newspaper.
2020
March 20, 2020 — The Kyiv Post suspends its print edition for eight weeks starting with the March 27 edition of the COVID‑19 lockdown and resuming on May 22.
Aug. 31, 2020 — The Kyiv Post moves into its eighth office in 25 years, a new building on 68 Zhylianska St. in the Holosiivsky district.
Oct. 15, 2020 — The Kyiv Post publishes a special 36-page edition to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Oct. 18, 2020 — The Kyiv Post celebrates its 25th year in business.
