The murder of the site's co-founder, journalist Georgiy Gongadze, who had openly protested against growing government censorship, focused attention on freedom of speech issues in Ukraine.
[3] Olena Prytula was featured in a PBS FRONTLINE World story in October 2005, "A Murder in Kyiv," that investigated the killing of Gongadze and her efforts to keep the paper going that they co-founded.
Prytula returned to Ukraine in 2004 after her fellowship year at Stanford, where she was a Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fellow, studying Internet-based communications and new media technologies.
Soon after her return, Ukraine witnessed the Orange Revolution during which Prytula's site played a pivotal role in providing timely information to the public in an atmosphere of upheaval and press restrictions.
Russian-speaking Prytula insists that her news sites' home pages should remain in Ukrainian language, although translated Russian version is also provided.