Dear Kyiv Post readers, we’re proud to offer you this special edition of the Kyiv Post with the 10th annual Best of Kyiv awards!
For a decade now, the Kyiv Post has given out awards to the people and businesses that make us proud to call this ancient and beautiful capital our home. The contest is one of the best traditions of this newspaper, which will celebrate its sweet 16th birthday this fall.
When it comes to the Best of Kyiv, we’re gratified when we see previous winners hang up their framed awards and articles in their establishments. It motivates use to search far and wide for the city’s brightest gems.
To mark this special anniversary, we decided to choose a person for a 10-Year Achievement Award. This prize will go to someone who has made lasting contributions. All the nominees, in our opinion, are deserving. The winner will join two others – Business Person of the Year and Spirit of Kyiv – as individual honorees. Each year, nominating people gives us so much optimism about Ukraine’s future because there are so many deserving people that it is hard to pick a winner.
We also bolstered the expert panel from 21 to 39 business and community leaders and are pleased that more than 1,000 additional online voters cast their ballots for the winners compared to last year.
We’re pleased that Clifford Chance law firm came on board again this year as Best of Kyiv’s general partner. Intercomp Global Services joined as our accounting partner, while InterContinental Hotel became our gracious host for the awards ceremony. Gala Radio’s DJ Pasha was master of ceremony and Oleh Skrypka headlined the entertainment. Artistic florist Kvitlyandia was our flower partner and Baltika 7 our beer partner.
We could give out hundreds of awards to deserving businesses and organizations, but we have to draw the line somewhere. We have settled on 21 award categories for businesses and organizations. New this year is an award category given to a non-profit organization which has had the best impact on making lives better.
As Kyiv continues to grow and prosper, it becomes more difficult each year to single out any business as the best in its category. Who can say, for instance, that a particular restaurant is No. 1 when the capital has hundreds of great places to eat — from fast food to upscale dining options?
So on behalf of everyone at the Kyiv Post, thanks to everyone involved – especially Kyiv Post readers who took the time to vote online and who continue to support independent journalism. With the launch of www.kyivpost.ua last July, we no longer consider ourselves simply as Ukraine’s best English-language newspaper.
We regard ourselves as one of Ukraine’s top news sources and we will work hard to earn your trust.
We look forward to the 11th annual Best of Kyiv awards!
Here you can find the list of all nominees and the winners.
Download pdf KyivPost’s Best of Kyiv 2010 here.
See also: Kyiv Post staff’s 10 best and 10 worst things about Kyiv
See also: “What we love and don’t love about Kyiv”
Sincerely,
Jim Phillipoff, Kyiv Post Chief Executive Officer
Brian Bonner, Kyiv Post Chief Editor
