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Darka Chepak has been appointed press secretary fror Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Chepak started off her journalism career more than a decade ago in Lviv.

She soon moved to Kyiv, where she worked under Georgiy Gongadze, the investigative journalist whose Sept. 16, 2000, murder remains unsolved.

She also spent time working alongside the Kyiv Post in setting up the Korrespondent internet news portal and print magazine, both of which are no longer affiliated with the Kyiv Post and under separate ownership.

Chepak went on to become an editor at Channel 5, and most recently editor at Savik Shuster’s television talk show.