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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
Latest news:
- Only two weeks to go to the election, and it’s far from clear who will be Ukraine’s next president. However, there will almost certainly be a second-round vote in April, as none of the 39 candidates is anywhere near the 50 percent support level needed to win in the first round. Read the latest campaign news in this week’s Election Watch.
- President Petro Poroshenko, seeking a second term as head of state, promises zero tolerance of corruption if re-elected. The trouble is, he promised the exact same thing five years ago, and corruption is still rampant.
- A suspect in a treason case, Serhiy Semochko, one of the two first deputy chiefs of the Foreign Intelligence Service, could effectively be in charge of the service until its new chief is appointed, media reported.
- Facebook introduced new transparency requirements for ads related to politics and elections in Ukraine that become effective on March 18, less than two weeks before Ukrainians are to vote in presidential elections
- This year’s Docudays film festival presents a selection of documentary films that explore both the benefits and the dangers of digital developments
- Crippled by years of underfunding, drastic post-Soviet cuts, and a rapid loss of skilled personnel, the Ukrainian Air Force is trying to rise again as a combat-potent force. The mission is now to prevent Russia, the world’s second greatest air power, from encroaching on Ukraine’s integrity and independence
Russia’s war on Ukraine:
- Russian-led forces mounted four attacks on Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas in the previous 24 hours, with no casualties reported, Ukraine’s military said early on March 15.
- The European Union sanctioned on March 15 eight more Russians over a stand-off with Ukraine in the Azov Sea, including senior security service officials and military commanders that the bloc accuses of preventing Ukrainian ships from reaching port.
- The United Nations Children’s Fund has sent humanitarian aid with a total weight of 108 tonnes to the Russian-occupied parts of the Donbas, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported. Earlier, the Kremlin said it hadn’t sent any aid to the area this year, as none was needed.
Business news:
- It looks increasingly likely that Ukraine will have Andriy Kobolyev around as CEO of state-owned Naftogaz for another year at least
- Ukraine’s real estate sector is limited by a feeble property tax system, lack of competition in the construction industry, high-interest rates on loans and bad municipal planning. Sergiy Sergiyenko, one of CBRE Ukraine’s two managing partners, thinks he knows how to fix it.
- Transforming vinyl records into earrings, plastic shampoo bottles into brooches and bottle caps into pedants — the Kyiv-based brand Re-beau has found the key to make recycling not only good for the environment, but also fashionable.
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