Forbes is launched in Ukraine in spring. Glavred - Vladimir Fedorin

The official Forbes Ukraine will again appear in Ukraine under the license of the original Forbes. This was reported in the release of the company. The restart of the print and online versions will take place this spring, the exact dates are not called.

The magazine will be published 10 times a year in Russian and Ukrainian. The Forbes Ukraine editorial portfolio, as before, will include stories, tips from successful entrepreneurs, ratings of the richest and most influential, “List of 30” and other special projects. 80% of the content will be local.

The new publisher will be the publishing company UYAVI! The publication will be headed by Vladimir Fedorin, who from 2010 to 2013 was the editor-in-chief of Forbes Ukraine, and then founded "UNIVERSITY!"
What is "UNIVERSAL!"

Ukrainian publishing company "UYAVI!" founded by Vladimir Fedorin. The majority stake in the company belongs to the Swiss Mimier Trade, which is owned by Arthur Granz.
About Forbes in Ukraine

Forbes has a global audience of over 120 million, with 40 licensed publications in 70 countries.

Forbes has been operating in Ukraine since 2010, the online version has been operating since 2012 (it was headed by Leonid Bershidsky). The publisher was Ukrainian Media Holding, led by Boris Lozhkin.

In 2013, UMH became the property of the head of the VETEK group of companies, Sergey Kurchenko. After that, 13 journalists of the Ukrainian Forbes immediately made an open statement that censorship was being introduced in the publication and quit.

After the change of power in Ukraine, the activities of Kurchenko began to be investigated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Law enforcement authorities uncovered a criminal scheme involving VETEK, owned by Kurchenko. And in August 2015, Forbes American Publishing House announced that Forbes Ukraine no longer has the right to use this brand, as well as the content of the publication.

The Ukrainian holding, which produced Forbes under license, was suing an American company for the right to publish a magazine under this brand. The site was first transferred to another domain, and in August 2017 it stopped working.
Restart 2.0

In May 2019, several sources told AIN.UA that Forbes would return to Ukraine by the Slovak publishing house Barecz & Conrad Media before the end of 2019. However, the launch did not happen.

The journalist Ekaterina Gorchinskaya worked on the launch of the publication with Barecz & Conrad. She was supposed to be the chief editor. According to her, investors studied the Ukrainian market for more than a year, but decided not to enter the Ukrainian market because they were threatened, Gorchinskaya wrote on Facebook ..

In July 2019, Gorchinskaya continued negotiations on a license already as a potential publisher, assembled a team of investors whose capital was “exactly zero questions”. But at the end of the year, Forbes said they preferred another publisher. “The preference criteria were not clear then, now it’s clear that they preferred a person who already did this,” the journalist noted.