What we’re watching
- Thursday, March 11 at 4:30 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council – A conversation with Anders Aslund – Register here
- Thursday, March 11 at 6:15 p.m Kyiv time: Public talk by Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine: “From oligarchy to healthy competition: US and Ukrainian partnership for systemic reform in Ukraine” Watch here
- Friday, March 12 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: Atlantic Council: Does Ukraine need the IMF? Register here
- Tuesday, March 16 at 12 p.m Kyiv time: Internews and UkraineWorld. “Seven years of Russian occupation in Crimea.” Watch here.
- Friday, March 19 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time: 4th German-Ukrainian Business Forum. Register here.
Top news
- NBU tries to censor deputy governor Rozhkova again
- Ukraine will spend $72 million on cultural heritage through Big Restoration program
- Congress of Judges approves its own oversight despite protests (UPDATED)
- Call to Biden: US should help boost Ukraine’s reforms, move to NATO
- Akhmetov’s DTEK fined Hr 5.1 million for deliberately cutting coal supplies
- Ukrainian tutoring platform Preply raises $35 million to fuel growth
- Interfax: Markarova points to need to strengthen sanctions against Russia, political cooperation between Ukraine, United States based on bipartisan support
Coronavirus
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Business
Ukrainer: Turning chicken manure into fertiliser and a source of energy
Interfax: Boryspil airport cuts passenger traffic by 65.5%
Interfax: Ukrzaliznytsia’s losses from passenger traffic 26% up in 2020
UkraineInvest: Zelensky signs law on state support of investment projects with significant investmentsUkraineInvest:Zhytomyr Oblast rated as best region for doing business
From Andriy Boytsun’s SOE Weekly:
* The Cabinet of Ministers appointed Yuriy Vlasenko as the new acting CEO of Centrenergo. Later, the State Property Fund completely renewed the composition of Centerenergo’s management, appointing eight top managers led by Vlasenko. The newly appointed managers include: Serhiy Shulha (CFO), Olena Voloshyna (Economics Director), Oleksiy Kurakov (Commercial Director), Vitaliy Dovhal (Fuel Supply Director), Volodymyr Halushchak (Energy Trading Director), Viktor Spychka (Materials Director for Technical Support and Investment Projects) and Dmytro Momonov (Director of Legal Affairs and Corporate Governance).
* Cuts in Ukrzaliznytsia. As part of its structural reform and optimization of duplicate management positions, Ukrzaliznytsia will cut almost a third of its central office staff. Ukrzaliznytsia’s CEO Volodymyr Zhmak said that the cuts will first take place in Ukrzaliznytsia’s central office in Kyiv, where the company is cutting 700 of the 2,500 full-time equivalent positions and eliminating the roles of 13 functional directors and 14 divisions. According to the data from of the Ministry of Infrastructure website, Ukrzaliznytsia’s average working staff numbers about 266,000.
Business Wire
Opinion
Taras Revunets: How the Ukrainian diaspora landed in a 1972 Soviet dramedy
Bohdan Nahaylo: Time to shift the onus to Berlin and Paris
Maryna Khromykh: Why I stand for Sternenko
Timothy Ash: Change in National Bank of Ukraine culture
Brian Whitmore: Putin’s stealth takeover of Belarus gains momentum
Atlantic Council: Strengthening US-Ukraine relations
Olena Makarenko: Phenomenon of Ukraine’s hodgepodge balconies
Halya Coynash: Crimean Tatar political prisoner spends year in torture conditions for refusing to collaborate
Halya Coynash: Avakov accused of manipulating public opinion over most controversial trial
From the archives: A Sneak Peak At The New TsUM
Kyiv’s main department store gets remodeled by billionaire oligarch owner Rinat Akhmetov. Mykolayiv’s Oksana Makar is gang-raped and beaten. Ukraine’s communists support Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. World in Ukraine: Switzerland. Business Focus: Health Care. Gaitana represents Ukraine in Eurovision. Euro 2012: The rush to learn English
