Dmytro Hnap

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Dmytro Hnap
Дмитро Володимирович Гнап
Born (1977-12-19) 19 December 1977 (age 47)
Vuhledar, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipUkraine
Occupationjournalist

Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Гнап, Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap; born 19 December 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and Hromadske.TV.[1] His work focuses on corruption and crime.[2][3]

Biography

In 2014, he and other journalists collaborated to preserve documents found at the Mezhyhirya Residence after President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine.[4] Hnap won the main award at the 2015 Mezhyhirya Festival for his investigative work.[3][5]

In April 2016, a libel lawsuit was filed against him by Oleksandr Korniyets, one of the Ukrainian top prosecutors dubbed the "diamond prosecutors", previously suspected of taking bribes in what has been described as a witch hunt against many Hromadske journalists launched by Petro Poroshenko's supporters.[6]

On 25 June 2018, Hnap announced he was leaving journalism to start a political career. He said he would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, and in primaries for a single liberal opposition candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[7] He officially became a presidential candidate on February 8, 2019, nominated by the party Power of the People.[8] Hnap continued to hosts his own political talk show "Right to the Truth" on "24 Channel".[9] On 1 March he withdrew his candidacy in favour of supporting fellow candidate Anatoliy Hrytsenko.[10] The following day Power of People officially withdraw Hap's candidacy.[11] In the election Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes.[12]

References

  1. ^ Sinico, Sean (25 June 2014). "'Everything will be exposed,' Ukrainian reporter says". Deutsche Welle.
  2. ^ Rachkevych, Mark (21 June 2015). "Ukrainian journalist called in for questioning after report on jet-setting judges (VIDEO)". Kyiv Post.
  3. ^ a b "Ukraine's Annual Investigative Prize to Dmytro Hnap". i-scoop.org. 7 June 2015.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Drew (25 February 2014). "YanukovychLeaks: How Ukraine Journalists Are Making History". Global Investigative Journalism Network.
  5. ^ Gordiienko, Olena (9 June 2015). "Mezhyhirya Festival celebrates investigative journalism". Kyiv Post.
  6. ^ Poroshenko’s troll army borrows Kremlin techniques, Unian, 19 April 2016
  7. ^ Ukraine's investigative journalist Hnap quits job, to run for president, UNIAN (26 June 2018)
  8. ^ "Гнап і Соловйов стали останніми кандидатами в президенти України". Інтерфакс-Україна (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  9. ^ (in Ukrainian) Occupation of the TV: Why do politicians become TV presenter, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 February 2019)
  10. ^ Hnap ready to pull out from presidential race in favor of Hrytsenko, but his party’s endorsement needed, Kyiv Post (1 March 2019)
    (in Ukrainian) Hnap also withdraws from the elections in favor of Hritsenko, Ukrayinska Pravda (1 March 2019)
  11. ^ (in Ukrainian) "The Power of People" has withdrawn its candidate Hnap from the presidential race, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 March 2019)
  12. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of the presidential election in 2019. The first round, Ukrayinska Pravda (31 March 2019)