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- Friday, April 2. Kyiv Post’s Real Estate Magazine is published and offers a complete overview of Ukraine’s residential and commercial sectors. Find your copy here: distribution.kyivpost.com. Or email [email protected] or call 044-591-7788. The newspaper thanks partner KAN Development as well as advertisers KADORR Group, GOLAW, Antika Law Firm, and Edeldorf Prime House.
- Tuesday, April 6 at 5 pm. Kyiv time: Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute — A 30-year history of Ukraine’s economic development. Register here.
- Wednesday, April 14 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time: GOLAW will hold a webinar “Top Mistakes In Privatization: Things Not To Do”. Ukraine hopes to raise $400 million by selling state assets in 2021. Register here.
Kyiv Post Real Estate Magazine
- Welcome back, Kyiv Post Real Estate!
- With relatively low-interest rates, more Ukrainians can borrow for homes
- Developers keep building malls despite coronavirus, rise in online shopping
- What can you buy for $500,000, $100,000 & $50,000 in Kyiv?
- Hoteliers take big hit in 2020, rely on domestic tourists
- Rental property business in Kyiv keeps money safe but needs capital, effort
- Pandemic forces tenants to look for flexible office space as IT drives demand
- Warehouses benefit from global pandemic
- Kyiv can be a safe market for brave investors, CEO of real estate agency says
- Ukraine’s affordable housing seduce foreign investors
- Сoworking Creative States is ‘five-star hotel for businesses’
- Ukraine has potential to become ‘mecca for esports’ if infrastructure improves
- CBRE Ukraine’s Sergiy Sergiyenko talks changes in commercial property market
- Business, government want the same — privatization of state-owned property
- Home of aviation legend Ihor Sikorsky decays because of neglect, bureaucracy
Top news
- Donbas In The 1990s: How It Defined Ukraine’s Future
- Biden holds first call with Zelensky amid Russian military buildup
- Kuleba: Ukraine hopes US will take a more active role to end Russia’s war
- Ukrainian smartphone market grows, Xiaomi devices prevail
- Anti-monopoly authority fines petrol stations linked to Kolomoisky $170 million
- New tax amnesty bill encourages taxpayers to come clean
- ‘Orthodox Chic’ photo book shows bizarre aesthetic of makeshift churches in Ukraine
- Japan’s largest credit card brand enters Ukraine to rival Visa, Mastercard
- Russia’s outdated construction fleet in Nord Stream 2 could lead to catastrophe, report warns
- Study: ‘Price of happiness’ in Ukraine lowest among European countries
- European court sides with Ukrainian journalist in case against prosecutors
Coronavirus
- COVID-19: Infection hits new records with 19,893 cases, 433 deaths
- Video: Volunteers supply oxygen to COVID-19 patients
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Russian atrocities
- Tensions skyrocket as Russia masses forces near eastern Ukraine
- US slams human rights abuses by Russian proxies in Ukraine, Chechen leader
- OilPrice: Is Russia about to invade Ukraine?
- RFE/RL: A junta, a hunger strike, and rumblings in Donbas
In case you missed it
- Kyiv Post Legal Talks webinar tackles Ukraine’s ‘mountain of bad debt’
- Kyiv Post Legal Talks webinar delves into lingering hangover of Ukraine’s banking crisis
- Experts: Banks should speed up sale of non-performing assets (VIDEO)
- Editorial: Bank robbers roam free
Video: Volunteers supply oxygen to COVID-19 patients
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Ukrainian hospitals face a shortage of oxygen devices that help patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Volunteers of the charity fund Svoi decided to take control of the situation. They managed to help save thousands of patients all around Ukraine by providing them with oxygen concentrators.
Business
Interfax: Zlochevsky bribe case submitted to court – SAPO
Business Wire
GOLAW: Surprises during real estate
GOLAW: Top mistakes in privatization — things not to do
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 full array of financial tools to support agricultural business
Opinions
Bohdan Nahaylo: The Normandy Four ‘process’ is dead – what next?
Mikheil Saakashvili: What will car customs clearance reform entail?Halya Coynash: Editor on trial in Crimea for UN report mentioning Mejlis
Halya Coynash: Provocation aimed at discrediting UkraineVladimir Socor: Normandy without Ukraine?
David Ignatius: Russia’s military activity near Ukraine tests Biden administration
Iryna Ozymok: Ukraine’s local authorities and the COVID-19 pandemic
Alexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Adrian Karatnycky: Ukraine cracks down on its own pro-Russian QAnon
Bohdan Ben: Making Ukraine green again
Christine Chraibi: Markiv case shows how Kremlin narratives pervade European info space
Tom Rogan: Decoding Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine
Kurt Volker: Reviving NATO won’t be easy
Editorial: Bank robbers roam free
Editorial: Betraying Ukraine
Judy Dempsey: Will the EU recovery fund happen?
The Ukrainian Weekly: Russian troops amassing near eastern Ukraine
Washington Post: Why Navalny’s hunger strike should raise alarms worldwide
Peter Dickinson: How Putin made the international media his accomplices
Thomas Kent: Disinformation response
From the archives: Kiev theaters may be shut down
The 1990s project in today’s newspaper by Veronika Melkozerova got us nostalgic for those days of Ukraine’s first decade of independence.
Journalists under pressure. Dnipropetrovsk clan rises. Communists oppose the first post-Soviet Constitution, adopted on June. 28. Budget cuts may force nearly half of Kyiv’s state-financed theaters to shut down. Advertisers include Utel, UMC telecommunications; Aerosvit, Ukraine International Airlines, KLM; Uncle Sam’s restaurant; Impressa Hotel.
