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Kremlin tracker

  • UNIAN: Russia deploying air assault division to Crimea
  • Reuters: US has asked Russia to explain ‘provocations’ on Ukraine border
  • Reuters: Russia says it is in high-level contact with US over Ukraine

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Business

28 – hryvnia to dollar

UNIAN: Ukraine loses gas transit to Romania over Russia’s pipe

Reuters: Ukraine inflation is seen hitting a 1.5-year high for March

UNIAN: Ukravtodor to repair 600 kilometers of border roads by 2023

Reuters: Ukraine grain export prices down amid weak demandInterfax: SBU continues system-wide response to curbing smuggling in Ukraine

Interfax: AMCU fines Google subsidiary in Ukraine Hr 1 million

Interfax: Pivdenny Mining doubles net profit in 2020, to pay almost Hr 20 billion in dividends

UNIAN: Grain sowing campaign launched in Ukraine

Business Wire

Kyiv Post joins Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

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

Redcliffe Partners hires new partner Sergiy Ignatovsky to join its leading Litigation and Restructuring practices

Opinions

Maxim Timchenko: A view from Berlin on a green deal for Ukraine

Sergiy Tsivkach: Ukraine, an emerging investment destination in Europe

Paul Goble: Putin era increasingly resembles Stalin’s 1937

Rosa Balfour: Against a European civilization – narratives about the EU

Christian Mamo: Does Russia’s military build-up mean war with Ukraine is imminent?

Halya Coynash: Journalist on trial for reporting Russian persecution in Crimea

Halya Coynash: Russia to answer to Strasbourg for imprisonment of Dmitrie

Pavel Baev: War scare is Putin’s natural element

From the archives: Nation’s leading reformer resigns

Viktor Pynzenyk resigns. Gala Radio is back on FM airwaves. Letters to the editor: Age and sex discrimination; reaction to renaming the newspaper the Kyiv Post rather than the Kiev Post. Nationalists urge tax on Russian performers. Activists seek to help stray animals. Editorial: Will Boris Yeltsin again cancel visit to Kyiv?

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