2020 Year in Review

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Experience Kyiv’s 2021 holiday route

This year, Kyiv has an 8-kilometer holiday route stretching across the city from Sofiyivska Square to the iconic Podil neighborhood and leading …
Iryna Yavorska

2020: Year in Review

The Kyiv Post has published its final issue of the year reviewing the top 2020 events that shaped Ukraine’s politics, business, culture, hospitality …
Kyiv Post

Non-coronavirus events that shaped 2020 for Ukraine

The year 2020 has one of crisis: a global pandemic, economic downturn and political instability.  While COVID-19 and its effects on all spheres of …
Bermet Talant

Get into Christmas spirit with fun at Kyiv’s winter villages (GUIDE)

Kyiv hasn’t been as festive during the winter holidays as this year in a long time. In what seems like a protest to exhaustion of the COVID‑19 …
Toma Istomina

Businesses adapt to harsher reality

In 2020, whatever didn’t kill business, made it stronger – or at least that’s what owners hope. Those who survived also adapted. They switched online, …
Liza Semko

Zelensky disappoints public in 2020 and loses control

In a difficult year, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government failed to deliver reforms, undermining confidence in Ukraine’s leadership. Thus, …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Sergii Leshchenko: Razumkov is not helping Zelensky’s presidency

Ukrainian presidents have a habit of creating problems for themselves — and then having to work hard to solve them. Take former President Viktor …
Sergii Leshchenko

5 uplifting stories of people who enjoyed 2020 against the odds

For many people, 2020 will go down as the worst year of their lives. But for others, it is the year that brought them some of the most defining and …
Yana Mokhonchuk
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Volodymyr Petrov

Setbacks mark 2020 in area of defense reforms

With few exceptions, 2020 has been a year of doom and gloom for Ukraine’s defense sector. And previous years haven’t set the bar very high. Wherever …
Illia Ponomarenko

Shrinking 5%, economy does better than expected in 2020

Fighting the pandemic-induced economic recession, Ukraine has taken hard punches but managed to avoid a knockout blow. The country’s biggest stroke of …
Natalia Datskevych

Energy sector still in need of vast overhaul, big investment

The government focused on fighting the pandemic this year, further stalling reform in the energy sector as the state amassed a $1 billion debt to …
Alexander Query

IT industry shows its resilience as coronavirus attacks others

Ukraine is proud of its tech. In 2019, the industry secured over $4 billion in exports and paid $588 million in taxes. Every year the local …
Daryna Antoniuk

What COVID-19 taught Ukraine

On its Dec. 14 cover, Time Magazine deemed 2020 the “worst year ever.” The obvious reason was the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over 1.7 million …
Anna Myroniuk

COVID‑19’s victims permeate Ukraine’s cultural landscape

At the end of each year, Ukrainian culture is put to shame with statistics on what Ukrainians most watch and listen to on the internet. In 2020, four …
Artur Korniienko

2020 was a horrible time for travel, restaurants & hotels

Kyiv’s vibrant restaurant scene had been booming. Hundreds of new restaurants, bars and cafes came into existence every year, offering diverse …
Daria Shulzhenko
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