- Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has retained his lead in the presidential race, being almost 10 percents ahead of his main rivals, President Petro Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, according to polls published by two agencies on March 28. This was the final day polls can be published ahead of the March 31 vote.
- But the day brought bad news for Zelenskiy, too. He failed to declare a posh villa in Italy that he owns, according to investigating journalism agency Slidstvo.Info. His campaign denied wrongdoing.
- Election Day observers arrive in Ukraine. Hundreds of foreign election observers, part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, monitoring mission, are arriving in Ukraine to observe the country’s March 31 presidential election.
- Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is moving a little closer to taking full control of Ukrainian gas monopoly Naftogaz – or at least render its current leadership obsolete. According to a decision from March 27, the Cabinet of Ministers is forcing the oil and gas company to clear any major financial decisions with the government first.
- The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is investigating Ukraine International Airlines or UIA, Wizz Air, Ryanair and a few other air carriers regarding possible competition law violations after new hand luggage rules were launched by all three airlines.
- Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen was fired on March 28 over the bank’s growing money laundering scandal, a day after police raided the bank’s offices in Stockholm. Some companies that had accounts in Swedbank were linked to ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his now-jailed American adviser, Paul Manafort.
- Austrian journalist Christian Wehrschuetz filed documents to challenge his ban from Ukraine with the District Administrative Court of Kyiv. Wehrschuetz is challenging a decision by Ukraine’s SBU security service.
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