Focus (Ukrainian magazine)
Focus is a Ukrainian national weekly news magazine, published in Kyiv. The magazine's motto: "Every detail has a meaning".
Overview
The launch of Focus magazine on 29 September 2006 was intended to fill the native news magazine market with corresponding competitor to more notorious magazines such as Newsweek, Der Spiegel, and others. The magazine consists of 84 fully illustrated pages of A4 format and issued every Friday. Focus was one of the several other projects created by the Ukrainian Media Holding in 2006, among which were magazine Zdorovie, Dengi.ua, and others.On 2 April 2020, businessman Oleksandr Borshchevych became the owner of Focus Media LLC, which owns Focus magazine and the focus.ua website.
After 24 February 2022, when the Russian Armed Forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, publication of the weekly magazine was suspended for the duration of martial law, but the website focus.ua continued to operate.
In May 2023, the Ukrainian edition of Forbes published a ranking of the most popular media outlets in Ukraine entitled "Kings of News", in which the website focus.ua ranked sixth in terms of number of views.
In 2025, Mariia Skibinska was appointed as the new editor-in-chief of Focus. At that time, she had 18 years of experience in Ukrainian media.
Lists
Similar to Forbes beside news publishing the magazine specializes in national popularization through a variety of rankings: "The most rich man in Ukraine", "The most influential woman in Ukraine", "Top 55 cities for living in Ukraine", and others.- 100 most influential women of Ukraine
- 55 best cities for living in Ukraine
- 200 richest people in Ukraine, top-130, top-100 )
- 200 most influential Ukrainians
- 25 most successful business-ladies of Ukraine
- The richest football clubs of Ukraine
- 50 most influential people