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Top news

Coronavirus

Kyiv Post Cartoons, issue 10

When it’s time to laugh.

Business

$1 = Hr 27.7

UNIAN: Ukraine sees sugar production halve in past five years

Interfax: Premier Palace Hotel posts Hr 10.3 million ($360,000) net profit in 2020

Interfax: Ukraine’s economy ministry estimates drop in GDP in Jan at 2.6-2.8%

Interfax: NBU forecasts $13 billion in remittances from labor migrants in 2021

Interfax: Ukrainian economy could grow by 4.3% in 2021 – forecast

UNIAN: Ukraine extends sanctions against two Russian banks

Business Wire

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

Opinions

Editorial: Lingua franca

Editorial: Get that shot

Mikheil Saakashvili: Corruption costs Ukraine at least $37 billion per year

Andrew D’Anieri: Road map for getting US-Ukraine bilateral ties back on track

Brian Mefford: How Zelensky can improve the US-Ukraine relationship

Paul Goble: FSB told Kremlin 90,000 Russians took part in Navalny protests

Halya Coynash: Russian invaders ‘to sue’ Ukraine for not providing occupied Crimea with water

Pavel Felgenhauer: Russia escalates its proxy war in eastern Ukraine

Anders Åslund, Benjamin Schmitt: Biden must persuade Germany and Austria to stop the “Schroederization” of Europe

From the archives: Deceptive Love

Warnings about scams with online dating agencies, including a first-person column from a Kyiv Post staff member who used to fool men for a living online.

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