[2][3] The project also included Nataliya Gumenyuk, and was also joined by journalist Yulia Bankova, because she "in 2010, working at Pershyi Natsionalnyi for the first time [got] confronted with censorship".

[2] A Russian counterpart Public TV Russia lasted only three months due to exhausted financial resources.

[1] It was originally scheduled to start at 18:00; but this time was moved forward a few hours in response to the 21 November 2013 Ukrainian government decree suspended preparations for signing of an EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

[8] On 29 November 2013, during Euromaidan, a journalist of 5 Kanal and HromadskeTV stated they were attacked by "athletically built men in plainclothes believed to be hired thugs" in Kyiv's Mariinskyi park, while "police were nowhere in sight".

[9][10] In July 2014, an anchor for Hromadske TV cut off an interview with Tanya Lokshina, a researcher in the Russia office of Human Rights Watch, after she had insisted on speaking about civilian casualties but refused to blame Russia outright for the conflict (as HRW never comment on matters of political responsibility), despite repeated demands from the anchor, Danylo Yanevskiy.

[14] In July 2016 The World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center denied the complaint and left the domain ‘hromadske.tv’ to Skrypin.