UAPP (the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers) is a voluntary non-governmental and non-profit organization of the publishers of periodic press – periodic print publications (newspapers and magazines). UAPP announced its foundation on March, 2001 at the meeting of an initiative group of publishers of more than thirty independent newspapers, held in Zaporizhia. UAPP was officially registered in July, 2001. Today the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers unite 111 publishing houses from all the regions (oblast) of Ukraine. UAPP is a member of WAN (World Association of Newspapers)