During the next half year the national version of Harper's Bazaar, an American weekly women’s magazine, may launch in Ukraine. The potential publisher is IM Ukraina, a subsidiary of Independent Media Sanoma Magazines publishing house.

Yulia Stefanyshyna, the Director-General of IM Ukraina, neither confirmed nor dispelled this information. “Officially, I can’t confirm or dispel this. But yes, negotiations are under way. A situation will be clear in a month or another”.

Independent Media publishing house was established in 1992 by Dirk Sauer (Holland). At the present time this publishing house publishes more than 30 magazines in Russia, including such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Domashniy Ochag (‘Hearth and Home’), Men’s Health, Smart Money, and also a number of newspapers, including Vedomosti (‘Journal’) and Moscow Times. At the beginning of 2005 year, Sauer sold the company to the Finnish group SanomaWSOY for EUR142 million. The publishing house was renamed as Independent Media Sanoma Magazines. Sanoma Magazines publishes altogether more than 270 magazines in 12 European countries, and it has about 4,5 thousand employees. Independent Media works in Ukraine from 1999. It publishes the Ukrainian versions of such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Prevention. The net sales of SanomaWSOY amounted to EUR247,6 million in 2006.