What we’re watching
- Monday, April 5: President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Qatar
- 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.
Top news
- Donbas In The 1990s: How It Defined Ukraine’s Future
- Top officials’ annual asset declarations full of riches, surprises
- Zelensky: Smuggling is $10.7 billion a year ‘economic terrorism against Ukraine’
- Ukrainians complete crew training for US cutters
- Ukraine’s foreign trade doing better than last year
- Investigation: Allies of Poroshenko, Moldovan oligarch help corrupt judge escape Ukraine
- Washington Post: Moldova wants to be more European and less corrupt
- Kyiv Post Review – 75
- UNIAN: Zelensky appoints chief of Disinformation Countering Center
- UNIAN: Ukraine’s Ambassador to U.S. elaborates on arrangement of Zelensky-Biden meeting
- Ukraine imposes sanctions against top local smugglers, associated companies
- Zelensky’s candidate wins in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast amid controversy
Coronavirus
- Zelensky orders vaccination of most adults by end of 2021
- COVID-19: 13,738 new cases, 258 new deaths, 3,919 new vaccinations
- Reuters: Ukraine approves Chinese vaccine as COVID-19 cases hit new record high
- UNIAN: Ukraine health chief roots for domestic vaccine production amid “real war” for jabs
- BBC: COVID pandemic peaks in Eastern Europe ruins Easter
- New York Times: Virus variants threaten to draw out the pandemic, scientists say
- Washington Post: Canada’s variant-fueled COVID-19 surge prompts new restrictions
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Russian atrocities
- Ukrainian World Congress condemns Russia’s military build-up, cease-fire violations
- Ukrainian Canadian Congress calls for tougher sanctions against Russia
- Deutsche Welle: Russia warns West against sending troops to back Ukraine
- Bloomberg: All about the US sanctions aimed at Putin’s Russia
- RFE/RL: Russian court fines Twitter $117,000 over posts calling for Navalny protests
- US protests illegal conscriptions in Crimea
- Reuters: Russia’s Sputnik news agency halts operations in Britain
Podcast: Ukraine’s slow vaccine rollout
Elina Kent: Welcome to the Kyiv Post Podcast, where you can tune in to stories that give you a deeper understanding of Ukraine. I’m your host Elina Kent. I’m a multimedia producer and lifestyle journalist here at the Kyiv Post. Last week’s episode was all about the third wave of coronavirus that has hit Ukraine. This week Kyiv Post editor-in-chief Brian Bonner and I sit down and talk about vaccines and what we can expect in the next few months.
Listen to the podcast here or read the transcript
Business
UNIAN: First toll highway to be built in Ukraine
Interfax: Over 100 customs employees suspended from their duties
Interfax: NBU governor confirms priority of protecting nationalization of PrivatBank, return of funds from bankrupt banks
Business Recorder: Chicago corn firms, near 8-year high on tightening supplies
Ukrinform: What Zelensky wants in Qatar
Doha Globe: Ukraine open to investment by Qatar sovereign funds
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
Editorial: Bank robbers roam free
Editorial: Betraying Ukraine
Andriy Boytsun: Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly
Mohammad Zahoor: Welcome developments in Ukraine-Pakistan relations
Bohdan Nahaylo: The Normandy Four ‘process’ is dead – what next?
Mikheil Saakashvili: What will car customs clearance reform entail?
Artur Koldomasov, Bohdan Myronenko: How Telegram turns Ukrainian politics into chaosAlexei Bayer: It’s harder to be an immigrant in today’s America
Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska: The global shift towards green finance
Tetiana Shevchuk: Weekly anti-corruption update in UkraineAlexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Mateusz Kubiak: Ukrainian dependency on Belarusian fuels
Yuri Zoria: 3 warders who tortured prisoners in Donbas are Russian citizens
Olena Makarenko: Zelensky dismisses 2 Constitutional Court judges
Trudy Rubin: ‘Killer’ Putin must be prevented from murdering Navalny in prison
EUvsDisinfo: Theories on presidents getting vaccinate
Anna Nemtsova: Ex-US convict sent to humiliate Navalny in prison
Paul Goble: Moscow will be ready for a war against Ukraine ‘in a month
Paul Goble: Moscow should be building a water pipeline to Crimea, not Nord Stream 2
Bohdan Ben: Putin’s ‘Trojan horse’ in Ukraine
Daniel Baer: Biden can help Armenia and Azerbaijan make peaceMason Clark: Russian troops likely intended to pressure Zelensky, not Biden
Michael Kofman: Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine is an intimidation tactic
Michael Bociurkiw: A glimmer of light for action against the next pandemic
Japan Forward: Japan, G7 must condemn Russia’s illegal Crimea grab
Christian Mamo: The contested legacy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Christian Science Monitor: A bit of sunlight on Ukraine corruption
Atlantic Council: Is Putin about to launch a new offensive in Ukraine?
From the archives: Kiev theaters may be shut down (repeating archive item – forgot to add link)
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.
Read the April 4, 1996 edition
