- Here’s an overview of where the top candidates stand days before the March 31 presidential election.
- This sequence of events is strange even by Ukrainian standards: Days before the election, a prosecutor said he had issued notices of suspicion to several top allies of President Petro Poroshenko, only for the charges later to be canceled by the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
- Densely populated Donetsk Oblast used to play a big role in any election in Ukraine. But a lot changed after it’s been overtaken by Russia’s war and many locals fled or found themselves nearly cut off from the rest of Ukraine. Now, the region is about to vote in its first presidential election after the start of the war.
- Meanwhile, in the city of Dnipro, the mayor supports President Petro Poroshenko, but people appear to sympathize with Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
- Olga Aivazovska, head of Ukraine’s biggest election watchdog Opora, lays out key facts about the election in an interview with the Kyiv Post.
- Here’s how legal loopholes let Ukrainian dating sites scam foreigners.
Business & Investigations
- A Ukrainian developer of wireless high-tech alarms, Ajax Systems, attracted $10 million from investment fund Horizon Capital to ramp up its global expansion.
- Rybalsky Island, an industrial zone near the center of Kyiv, appears to be the center of a major land grab by powerful and politically-connected business.
- Read our investigation of the secretly kept Ukrainian business empire that appears to belong to one of President Vladimir Putin’s most important henchmen.
- IT is becoming an essential element of every industry, and the legal sphere is no exception. But while some lawyers are threatened by the advances of IT and artificial intelligence, others are looking for ways to adapt to the changing conditions.
- Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government faces blame in delay of e-revolution.
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