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Today is an all-Ukrainian daily social and political newspaper in Russian.

Characteristics of publication
The declared total circulation is 233 thousand copies. Owns assets in printing, in Kiev, the newspaper was printed in its own printing house. The largest shareholders of the holding are the Cyprus company SCM Limited (29.9999%) and CJSC System Capital Management (70,0001%).

The newspaper "Today" was a full-color national publication, had four regional issues in the cities: Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa. The average audience of one issue in Ukraine was 508.2 people or 3.38% of the country's residents aged 12-65 years (data from TNS Ukraine, MMI Ukraine 2016/2 + 2016/3 study).

The last paper issue of the newspaper was published on September 27, 2019.

History
The newspaper “Today” began to be published in 1997 in Kiev by the company “Today Publishing Group”.

In 2003, Igor Guzhva became the editor-in-chief of Today.

In August 2006, Argentine Guillermo Schmitt became a member. In February 2007, the company CJSC Publishing Group Today changed its name to PJSC Today Multimedia.

In April 2007, the Internet version of the newspaper “Today” was launched.

In July 2011, Alena Gromnitskaya became the General Director of PJSC Today Multimedia. In December 2011, the editorial office of the newspaper Segodnya announced a “pre-strike state” due to Alena Gromnitskaya’s pressure on editorial policy. In January 2012, the Supervisory Board published its decision, according to which Igor Guzhva was dismissed from the post of chief editor, and Alyona Gromnitskaya left the post of general director at her own request. In April 2013, several dozen journalists of the newspaper (15 people, according to the new editor of “Today”) left the publication, among them a significant part – in the new daily newspaper “Vesti”, which began to issue Guzhva. The new chief editor of “Today” was Olga Guk.

From January to March 2015, the post of chief editor of the newspaper was occupied by Oles Buzina.

On September 2, 2019, it became known about the termination of the publication of the newspaper from September 27. The reasons were called the deterioration of the printing press market, digitalization and the growing influence of the Internet. The brand “Today” was decided to develop through the website and TV news.

Criticism
According to Ukrainska Pravda, during the 2004 presidential election, the newspaper, along with many other popular publications, actively supported the candidacy of Viktor Yanukovych and criticized his main opponent, Viktor Yushchenko, without providing an opposite point of view and using false headlines. According to the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Today” Igor Guzhva, the inserts to the newspaper dedicated to the elections were invested directly in the printing press, and were based on temniks from the presidential administration.

Ukrainian politician Mykola Tomenko accused the newspaper of unreliable publications.

Former political columnist of the newspaper Alexander Chalenko told the online publication “Telecritic” that, according to him, the main reason for his dismissal was