What we’re watching
- Thursday, April 1 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar with Vadym Melnyk, head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Register here.
- Friday, April 2. Kyiv Post’s Real Estate Magazine
- Tuesday, April 6 at 5 pm. Kyiv time: Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute — A 30-year history of Ukraine’s economic development. Register here.
In case you missed it
Top news
- State Department’s report on human rights: Ukraine condemned for police abuse
- Country loses $7.7 billion to tax evasion each year
- Public outrage might save Soviet modernist building from unrecognizable renovation
- Oschadbank loses Crimean assets case against Russia, plans to appeal
- 100-year-old babushka from Chernivtsi beats COVID-19
- Reuters: Blinken vows US Support for Ukraine in call with Kuleba
- UkrInform: Ukraine at UN condemns Syrian regime for human rights violations
- Toronto Star: The art of the Ukrainian Easter egg
- Associated Press: Hunter Biden says he wouldn’t repeat work for Ukrainian firm
Coronavirus
- COVID-19: 11,226 new cases, record 407 new deaths, 18,668 new vaccinations
- Kyiv shuts public transport, schools, kindergartens and extends current restrictions amid rising infections
- Why Ukraine extended interval between first and second vaccine shots
- UNIAN: Health minister predicts surge in COVID-19 cases within next 2 weeks
- UkrInform: Ukraine intends to vaccinate at least 60% of adult population against COVID-19 by year-end
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Russian atrocities
- RFE/RL: Ukraine army chief warns of Russian military buildup along border
- Associated Press: Italy orders 2 Russian Embassy officials expelled for spying
Ukraine, Kazakhstan tie 1-1
Kazakhstan’s forward Ramazan Orazov and Ukraine’s midfielder Ruslan Malinovskiy vie for the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification football match in Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium on March 31, 2021. (AFP)
Business
Reuters: Merkel ally demands temporary halt to Nord Stream 2
USAID: It is critically important to complete land reform by July 1
Interfax: US calls Ukraine’s actions on Motor Sich, PrivatBank encouraging
World Bank improves Ukraine’s economic growth projection for 2021 to 3.8%
Interfax: Ukreximbank issues Hr 1 billion loans under Affordable Loans 5-7-9% program since program start
Interfax: Zelensky declares over Hr 22.7 million in family income over 2020
Interfax: Spanish PM to visit Ukraine
Interfax: IMF resident representative in Ukraine says the single most important thing to unleash Ukraine’s growth potential is to strengthen the rule of law and root out corruption
Energy Central News: Ukraine is working on ways to develop hydrogen energy
Bloomberg: Ukraine’s tax-amnesty plan clears first hurdle in parliament
Business Wire
Former chairman of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine joins Redcliffe Partners
New leader for KPMG’s TP group
Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development
Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business
Opinions
Brian Whitmore: Inside the Russian takeover of Belarus
Adrian Karatnycky: Ukraine’s unlikely new political heavyweightSteven Pifer: Joe Biden’s killer commentEUvsDisinfo: How to impose costs on perpetrators of disinformation?
Olena Makarenko: Ukraine’s cinematic renaissance keeps delivering despite the pandemic
Paul Goble: Moscow now using terror against its own population
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Kremlin may be slowly killing Navalny in prisonStanislaw Zaryn: How the Nord Stream 2 threatens the West
Halya Coynash: Russia tries to distort the truth about World War II
Halya Coynash: Ukrainian punished because of back pain in Russia
Vladimir Socor: Franco-German proposals in the Normandy Forum
Tom Rogan: Decoding Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine
From the archives – Caution: Plunder Ahead?
Opaque privatizations and land sales are the cover stories. President Viktor Yanukovych delays the start of anti-corruption law to 2011 and appoints highly suspect members to an anti-corruption committee. Alexander Motyl predicts that Yanukovych will spur a revolution if he doesn’t change course. Know Your Heroes: Golda Meir.
Read the April 2, 2010 edition
