Nashe Prydnestrovya, one of the oldest print newspapers in Vinnytsia oblast (based in Murovany Kurylivtsi), is closing down, reports Mohyliv-Podilskyi.online.
The last issue (No. 48) was published on 10 December 2025. The team had to take this step due to economic difficulties and the war.
The newspaper was founded in April 1931. Operations were suspended during World War II and resumed in 1944 under the name Nasha Peremoha. Svitlana Kubliak was the newspaper’s chief editor for the last 22 years. “We are leaving, but we will come back…” she said about the closure.
“We delayed the sad moment of closing the newspaper long-term, hoping that something would change for the better. But things did not go as we wanted. The constantly rising prices for printing, energy, delieveries, post offices closing down and the post service downsizing, subscriptions dropping accelerated and greatly complicated the critical situation. And the war also made its terrible adjustments,” says Svitlana Kubliak.
The newspaper was printed on eight pages in color until February 2022. With the start of Russia’s full-scale war, they switched to four pages of black-and-white printing, but the team did not miss a single issue.
“Due to a lack of funds, we spent the first year of the war working on enthusiasm alone, without salaries. For the last three years, we received 0.25 percent of the minimum wage,” said Svitlana Kubliak.
Vinnytsia borders the unrecognised pro-Russian enclave “PMR” (“Transnistrian Moldavian Republic”), with Russians distributing propaganda newspapers free of charge, founding TV and radio broadcasters, and using mobile screens. Nashe Prydnestrovya being gon may leave part of the population, especially the elderly in Vinnytsia’s remote villages, in an information vacuum, notes the Institute of Mass Information’s regional representative.
Earlier, the print district newspaper Promin (Mashivka hromada, Poltava oblast) closed down due to financial struggles.