It produces and provides political, business and financial information, and a photo reporting service.

[2] UNIAN is a part of 1+1 Media Group, related to oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

[3][4] UNIAN was founded in March[citation needed] 1993 as the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News.

[5] The agency's offices are at 4 Khreshchatyk Street,[6] adjacent to European Square, in Kyiv.

[9] On August 28, 2013, Oksana Romanyuk, executive director of the Institute of Mass Information, wrote on her Facebook page that the UNIAN leadership locked in a room "unpleasant" editors who had previously declared censorship, and several other employees, and kept them for several hours.