What we’re watching
- Tuesday, Feb. 9: The ANTS Network and the Anti-Corruption Action Center. Two webinars: “Ukraine – NATO: vision 2030” at 4 p.m. Kyiv time, followed by “Way forward with Security Service of Ukraine reform” at 5 p.m. Kyiv time. Register here. Discussion in English can be watched here. More information on Facebook here.
- Thursday, Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. Kyiv time: American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine “10 Steps for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery and Growth.” It can be watched on the ACC’s Facebook page.
Top news
- EU top envoy’s failure in Russia draws wave of criticism
- Tainted judge Vovk hides from NABU, ignores court order to attend hearing
- US and Germany lock horns over resuming Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Ukrainians launch a flash mob against Twitter’s verification of Russia’s Crimea account
- Poll: Ukrainian GDP to grow by 10% in second quarter of 2021
- Robot software and augmented reality developer attracts $2 million
- Ukrainian Fashion Week runs in striking absence of audience
- Experts: Foreigners should invest in Ukraine’s green energy, state assets
- Large Chinese electronics manufacturer to invest $13 million in Ukraine’s TV brand Kivi
- While snow slows city life, our athletes speed up
- Belarus diaspora marks International Solidarity Day
Coronavirus
- Reuters: Ukraine hopes half of the population will be vaccinated by early 2022
- Red & green zone countries
- Interfax: U.S. Embassy announces new assistance to start COVID-19 vaccination in Ukraine
- Interfax: Ukraine to be given priority in supply of vaccines under COVAX initiative
- US chief of mission Kristina Kvien: America has given $48 million to Ukraine in fight against COVID-19
- Volodymyr Zelensky: I will be vaccinated against COVID-19
- UATV: Report on the Ukraine 30 conference on the coronavirus
- Ukrinform: WHO director-general assures Ukraine of support in fight against pandemic
Photos: Ukrainian Fashion Week marches on without the live audience
Ukrainian Fashion Week has been a grand function for the local clothing industry for 23 years. For the first time in its history, the event presented its collections with no audience or celebration — the shows were recorded and streamed online.
Business
UNIAN: What Ukrainians should expect from hryvniaInterfax: DTEK agrees terms of restructuring eurobonds, bank debt with creditors’ committee
Interfax: Odesa Airport reduces passenger traffic by 58% in 2020
Interfax: Arricano Group malls’ goods turnover 10% down in 2020
London South East: Arricano Ukraine shopping malls perform well despite restrictions
Interfax: ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih cuts tax payments by 26% in 2020
Interfax: Nova Poshta launches phase two of Kyiv Innovation Terminal
Interfax: Philip Morris cuts shipments in Ukraine by 4.3% while market falls by 10.2% in 2020
National Bank of Ukraine: Ukrainian workers abroad send $12.1 billion home in 2020
Developing Telecoms: Ukraine’s government approves plan for 5G migration in 2021
Deutsche Presse Agency: Steinmeier upsets Ukraine with comment on Nord Stream 2
Reuters: Ukraine’s DTEK reaches agreement with bondholders on debt restructuring
Business Wire
GOLAW: Guilt and intent as conditions for tax liability from January 2021
Avellum: How to protect international investors in an unsettled tax world
Winner: story of success in Ukraine
Horizon Capital is pleased to announce that Dmytro Bondar was promoted to Compliance Director
Ukrainian crypto trading company SpangBit to Stake Nearly 3,200 Ethereum to Support ETH 2.0
Coca-Cola invests 10 million euros in the modernization of a high-speed production line
Opinions
Washington Post: The Senate must convict Donald Trump
Edward Lucas: Fool’s errandJoanna Hosa: Why the EU should appoint a special representative for Crimea
Jerzy Pieńkowski: The impact of labor migration on the Ukrainian economy
Halya Coynash: Proxy forces plan ‘Russian Donbas’ propaganda campaign
Leonid Bershidsky: Navalny has a secret weapon
Nigel Gould-Davies: A fortnight that shook Russia
Josep Borrell: The future of EU-Russia relations
Halya Coynash: Crimean political prisoners taken to Russia in torture conditions
From the archives: Guide to EuroMaidan
As the revolution that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22, 2014, neared its ultimate goal, the Kyiv Post offered its guide to the revolution.
