Early in 1997 the "Odyn Z Nas" (ONE OF US) magazine appeared on newsstands in a few areas of Ukraine. According to its editor-in-chief, Leonid Nefedovich, the Kharkov branch of the Agency was the only the only one that has turned down the offer to distribute the journal.
This can surely viewed as a big and important breakthrough in the sphere of accessibility of the information about gays for the wide public and as a token of the going-on democratization of the society.