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Vitaly Sych

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NV Editor-in-Chief

Teacher of English and German, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Vinnitsa Pedagogical University, Ukraine, 1997;

Media Management Program, Stanford University, USA, 2007.

More that 20 years in journalism: editorial assistant, journalist, editor at Kyiv Post newspaper, 1997-2003. Editor-in-Chief of Korrespondent magazine, 2003-2013. NV Editor-in-Chief 2014 - until now.

Moderator Dialogues about the Future lectures. Radio NV host. Published by The Economist Group, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Vedomosti, Korrespondent, NV, etc.

Loves travel and soccer.

Mending old wounds /
An appeal to Poland's conscience

When hundreds of drones are flying over Kyiv, the last thing on Ukrainians' minds is whether the name of a new military unit will offend the Poles.

4 June, 03:10 PM 1278

Ambush diplomacy in action /
Two against one: Why Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy clashed

I watched the video multiple times, trying to understand what exactly triggered J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, and whether President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had somehow provoked them.

2 March 2025, 05:34 PM 1052

Amid a year of war, Ukraine is still moving forward

When me and my family were leaving Kyiv on the first day of Russian invasion a year ago, we had no idea whether we would ever be able to return home and whether our media company would survive the next weeks. As well as Ukraine. And we definitely had no idea where we would end up a year afterwards.

1 March 2023, 05:22 PM 402

The chance that we've so long awaited

Making predictions and projecting into the future is never easy. It is all the harder to do this for 2023, but I'll still try

4 January 2023, 06:19 PM 2058

My war diary. A taxi ride of grief

While in Lviv I got a taxi ride with a driver from Mariupol. My taxi application has defined him as Serhiy.

9 May 2022, 12:37 PM 163

My diary of the war. Living in Remarque’s novel

When I arrived in Lviv in the last days of February the city looked like it was on the verge of apocalypse.

6 May 2022, 10:41 AM 344

How NV recovered from the first shock of war and kept covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The first couple of weeks at work were really tough.

1 May 2022, 12:31 PM 467

My war diary. The day 5 Russian ballistic missiles struck Lviv

“Are you alive?” – colleague and partner in a radio show Serhiy Fursa texted me one morning. It was the end of March.

28 April 2022, 11:51 AM 333

My diary of war. Escape from Kyiv

This is the first installment of NV's chief editor Vitaly Sych's diary of how Russia's war against Ukraine looks from within – from the first days until now.

24 April 2022, 12:23 PM 770

How to stop the Russo-Ukrainian war

Only additional harsh sanctions on different stakeholders in Russia can force the Kremlin to step back.

4 March 2022, 10:52 AM 2056

How to stop the Russo-Ukrainian war

Only additional harsh sanctions on different stakeholders in Russia can force the Kremlin to step back

3 March 2022, 03:36 PM 5497

Hear the New Voice of Ukraine

For years, people from embassies in Kyiv and outside of Ukraine have been asking me, “When will NV have an English-language version?”

18 January 2022, 01:56 PM 3116