Oleksandr Martynenko (journalist)

Oleksandr Vladlenovych Martynenko (Олександр Владленович Мартиненко; 22 August 1960 – 28 May 2024) was a Ukrainian media director and journalist. Martynenko was a director of Interfax-Ukraine from its foundation in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003. From 1998 to 2002, he was a deputy chief of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and press secretary of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Long-time author of the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia magazine, where he published articles under the pseudonym "Alexander Makarov". Martynenko died in Kyiv on 28 May 2024, at the age of 63.