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Ukraine Digest: June 24

What we’re watchingThursday, June 24 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time – Corporate Governance of SOEs in Ukraine. Register here.Top News Metinvest promises to …
Brian Bonner

10th annual International Book Arsenal Festival starts in Kyiv

The 10th annual International Book Arsenal Festival has started in Kyiv. It started on June 23 and runs to June 27 in Mystetsky Arsenal gallery on 12 …
Oleg Petrasiuk

Voice of America: EU chief vows action against Hungary’s anti-LGBT measure

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday slammed an anti-LGBT measure passed by Hungary’s Parliament as “a shame” that goes …
Voice of America

New York Times: Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted

About a year ago, genetic sequences from more than 200 virus samples from early cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan disappeared from an online scientific …
New York Times

Anna Osypchuk: Uncovering the paradoxes of values in Ukrainian Society

This past February was seven years since the climax of the Maidan and the sniper shootings. From today’s perspective those events are intrinsically …
Anna Osypchuk

CNN: John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved

John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting …
CNN

BBC: Russian jets and ships shadow British warship

More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow’s defence ministry said a patrol …
BBC

Jan Pieklo: Why Putin dare not abandon Belarus dictator Lukashenko

The ongoing crisis in Belarus was barely mentioned during last week’s hotly anticipated summit meeting in Geneva between US President Joe Biden and …
Jan Pieklo

RFE/RL: New COVID restrictions for Moscow restaurants, bars, and cafes

From June 28, Moscow restaurants, cafes, and bars have been ordered to only serve guests who have been vaccinated, had COVID-19 within the last six …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ben Aris: Russia and Europe – friends again?

Tired of the endless bickering and headaches that the Kremlin has caused in Europe’s backyard and increasingly further afield, Germany and France have …
Ben Aris

Georgia calls on Russia to de-occupy territories throughout world

President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili called on the Russian authorities to stop the use of military force and to withdraw the territories they had …
Interfax-Ukraine

Washington Post: Russia and UK at odds over incident in the Black Sea

It was either the sharpest escalation of NATO-Russian tension in recent years, with Russia firing warning shots at a British destroyer and dropping …
Washington Post

Reuters: Russians detained in Chad desert say they are tourists

A group of Russians detained by the police in a part of northern Chad where the army has been battling a rebel invasion from Libya said on Wednesday …
Reuters

France 24: US sees ‘no better friend’ than Germany, eyes common ground on Russia, China

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the United States had “no better friend” than Germany as the two nations pledged a common front on …
France 24

CNN: Russian forces confront British warship in Black Sea military encounter

A British naval warship became embroiled in a confrontation with Russian forces off the coast of the disputed territory of Crimea on June 23. Read …
CNN

Metinvest promises to clean up its act in Mariupol

Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov believes the company’s steel plants in Mariupol will meet European emissions standards “within two or three years.” He …
Max Hunder

Judge Vovk saves another judge Vovk from criminal prosecution

In Kyiv, a controversial judge named Vovk can always count on another controversial judge named Vovk to get him out of trouble.  This played out again …
Oleg Sukhov

Zelensky, Grybauskaitė discuss movement of Ukraine towards EU integration

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with President of Lithuania in 2009-2019 Dalia Grybauskaitė, the presidential press service said. Zelensky …
Interfax-Ukraine
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