What we’re watching
- Monday, April 12- Friday, April 16: Strategy Council will hold a week-long series of webinars to mark Ukrainian Transport Infrastructure Week. Register here.
- Wednesday, April 14 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time: GOLAW will hold a webinar “Top Mistakes In Privatization: Things Not To Do”/Register here.
- Thursday, April 15 at 3 p.m. Kyiv time: Norwegian Energy Partners and Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce — The Ukrainian Energy Market: Trends & Opportunities. Register here.
- Next week: Parliament back in session
Top news
- Ambassador gets ready for Zelensky, Macron visit in Paris
- These are ‘top 10 smugglers’ sanctioned by National Security Council
- Ukrainian family in battle to raise $2.3 million to save their son
- Women in Ukraine give birth alone during the pandemic
- Ukrainian duo Bloom Twins want to do it all
- RFE/RL: Top US official calls on Ukraine to crack down on oligarchs, including gas billionaire
- France 24: In Russia, the legend of cosmonaut Gagarin lives on
- Ukrinform: Up to 400,000 Roma people live in Ukraine
- Fresh produce, craft foods delivered to homes in lockdown
Coronavirus
- Infection rate declines, death rate increases as pandemic wave enters plateau phase
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 19,419 new cases, 464 new deaths, 10,032 recoveries
- UNIAN: Kyiv mayor doesn’t rule out COVID-19 lockdown may last until May 10
- Interfax: Institute for Future develops a strategy to restore public confidence in vaccination
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Kremlin tracker
- Fresh data show large Russian forces deployed to region bordering Ukraine
- Ukrinform: U.S. should provide lend-lease type of aid package for Ukraine to help it upgrade its Air Force – Atlantic Council
- UNIAN: NATO names major reforms to bring Ukraine closer
- Bloomberg: Merkel joins diplomacy rush to avert Ukraine military misstep
- Reuters: Merkel tells Putin to pull back troops as Kremlin accuses Ukraine of provocations
- RFE/RL: Zelensky visits eastern front as tensions with Russia rise
- The Hill: Kremlin says Russia could be forced to defend its citizens in east Ukraine
- Bloomberg: Diplomatic flurry over Ukraine reveals fears of military misstep
- Bloomberg: Here’s what’s sparking tension again between Russia and Ukraine
- Reuters: Russia moves warships to Black Sea for drills
- RFE/RL: Russian, Belarusian сurrencies fall as political, diplomatic tensions rise
- Associated Press: Leaders of Russia and China tighten their grips, grow closer
Business
Interfax: Foxtrot will modernize 20 stores, open nine new stores in 2021-2022
Interfax: AMCU studying pricing in transport market due to soaring prices for taxi services on first day of lockdown 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
Opinions
Bohdan Nahaylo: The shame of Angela Merkel
Mikheil Saakashvili: Private copying levy needs to be more transparent in UkraineAlexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Taras Revunets: So to join NATO, Ukraine no longer needs just reforms?
The Ukrainian Weekly: The fight against corruption in Ukraine
Pavel Felgenhauer: Tensions escalate in Donbas and on the Ukrainian border
Mykhailo Fedorov: Ukraine’s digital revolution continues with enhanced legal status for e-passports
Steven Pifer: Nuclear arms control in the 2020s
George Barros: Russia opens permanent training center in BelarusKonstantin Eggert: Vladimir Putin hedges his bets on Ukraine
Paul Goble: Few attacks on Russian activists ever lead to criminal charges
Tetyana Tyshchuk: Financial leasing and veterinary medicine
Oleksiy Reznikov: Reject Nord Stream 2, once and for all
From the archives: Deputies Pass Impeachment Law
Parliament makes it possible to impeach the president. Leonid Kuchma blasts the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for threatening to kick Ukraine out of the organization for human rights violations. Underground digging on Independence Square exposes ancient treasures in drive to build a shopping mall.
