Politics
Former lawmaker and Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko started a physical confrontation with Servant of the People parliamentarian Andriy Gerus in Kyiv’s airport over Gerus’s decision to open Ukraine to energy imports from Russia. The fight was caught on camera.
Russia’s war against Ukraine
On Nov. 7, the United Nations delivered its “largest ever” aid package to Ukraine. 18 massive trucks crossed the front-line in the Donbas with materials to reconstruct homes and build shelters for civilians in the region.
Assasination attempt in Kyiv
The businessman Igor Salo was targeted in an assasination attempt on the evening of Nov. 6. The attack left his bodyguard dead and Salo and another passenger seriously injured.
Business
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development upgraded its prediction for Ukraine’s real GDP growth from 2.5% to 3.3% according to a report released on Nov. 6.
Former Ukrainian president and confectionary oligarch Petro Poroshenko has transferred majority control of his company Roshen Corporation to his son, Oleksiy.
Opinions
Hayla Coynash: Why is Ukraine helping Russia lie about attack on Ukrainian naval boats?
Alla Hurska: Russia’s ‘coal weapon’
Vitaly Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
From the Archives
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series: Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reportedly transferred majority ownership of his confectionery company Roshen to his son Oleksiy this week. The biggest candy company in Ukraine, Poroshenko is a leader in another, more dubious category. In the Nov. 10, 2017 issue of the Kyiv Post, our cover story detailed how the public servant also led Ukraine in hiding financial assets in offshore bank accounts to avoid taxes as well as the mandate for elected officials to sell financial assets, as disclosed in the Paradise Papers.
