Popular online journal AIN.ua, aiming to bring its tech news to a wider audience, has released a beta version of its future English-language website.
The online publisher has been operating since 1999. Over the years it has become a favorite of techies and entrepreneurs across Ukraine for its focus on news about Ukraine’s tech scene — which it reports on in Russian.
The media’s publisher, Ilya Boshnyakov, said he sees very few trustworthy English-language news sources that cover IT in Ukraine for global audience, and says his journal can occupy this niche.
“Lots of truly remarkable Ukrainian stories have never been told in English,” Boshnyakov wrote in early October in what’s currently the main public post published by the beta-English version of AIN.ua. According to Boshnyakov, this is the reason why “Ukraine has remained terra incognita for the global technological news feed.”
The founder of Ukrainian startup Petcube, Yaroslav Aznyuk, welcomed
the news of AIN.ua’s new English version in a post on Facebook.
Boshnyakov told the Kyiv Post he wouldn’t comment on the launch of the English version of the site until the full roll-out occurs. But according to him, this will happen soon.
AIN.ua also plans to have English versions of its Twitter and Facebook accounts, RSS feed and weekly e-mail digest.
According to AIN.ua, 6 percent of the current readership of its Russian-language version comes from abroad — Germany, the United States, Poland, the Netherlands, Israel and the United Kingdom. If readers don’t speak Russian, they are forced to “translate (news) into English by their own,” the website says.
The Kyiv Post’s technology coverage is sponsored by Ciklum and NIX Solutions. The content is independent of the donors.
