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  • Wednesday, April 21 at 1 p.m. Kyiv time:  Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce — “Bad business: going through the crisis with a financially troubled company.” Register here.
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  • Thursday, April 22 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: US-Ukraine Business Council — Development of extractive industries in Ukraine. Register here.
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Kremlin tracker

Coronavirus

Photos: Ukraine will mark 35th anniversary of Chornobyl tragedy on April 26

Ukraine will mark the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion on April 26. The explosion of reactor No. 4 of the plant in the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, is still regarded as the worst nuclear power disaster.

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Business

28 hryvnia = $1

EBRD: $65 million loan to Ukraine’s Datagroup to spur growth

EBRD: EBRD joins working capital facility for Ukraine’s Kernel Group

Interfax: AMCU warns players of petroleum products market against creating artificial shortage of fuel

Business Wire

Four ways to invest in Ukraine’s infrastructure

Law firm Arzinger announces new appointments

Ukreximbank works as exclusive partner in large-scale infrastructure projects

Big Four audit, consulting firm EY announces its upcoming country leadership change

Arzinger strengthens its presence

GOLAW: Risks of being a top manager: personal assets under threat

Cosmetics giant L’Oréal contributes to solve ecological, social world challenges

Scholarship programs offered by Government of India for professionals and students

Antika; General recommendations for making a decision on acquisition of a land plot for commercial buildings

Kyiv Post joins Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Opinions

Carl Bildt: War or peace in Ukraine?

Bohdan Nahaylo: West afraid to take on Russian bully

Matthew Kupfer: Russia makes its own rules

Vladimir Socor: Macron, Merkel, Zelensky meet to defuse Russian war scareEdward Lucas: Spying out the land

Garry Kasparov: Biden wants a summit with Putin

Diane Francis: Putin’s Rasputin

Alexander Kochetkov: Paris as center of virtual Normandy format

Halya Coynash: Frustrating sentence over the killing of EuroMaidan activist

Halya Coynash: Tatars face sentences for opposing the seizure of the mosque

Maria Kucherenko: Ukraine should make use of escalation

From the archives: Donetsk/Odesa

May 2014 was a rough one, as Russia escalated its war in various parts of Ukraine after illegally annexing the Crimean peninsula following a military invasion. The same editorial could be written today as it was in the May 7, 2014, edition, headlined “Stop Putin.”

Read the May 7, 2014 edition