What we’re watching
- Friday, March 19 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time: 4th German-Ukrainian Business Forum. Register here.
- Thursday, March 25 at 4 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S-Ukraine Business Council – A dialogue on the key business, economic, civil society, legal reform, and democracy-building issues. Register here
- Monday, March 22 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: UkraineWorld — Is Kremlin preparing a new war against Ukraine? More information
- Tuesday, July 6: Conference on Ukraine reforms to take place in Vilnius on July 6
Top news
- Ienki Ienki hit puffers start winter fashion revolution
- Farmers harness drones to work fields and reap better harvests
- Influential ex-lawmaker Pashynsky acquitted on assault charges
- Where to buy contemporary art by Ukrainians
- Experts: Green debts discourage investors in Ukraine’s renewables
- Tobacco distributor Tedis fined $10 million for non-compliance
- Central bank’s Rozhkova faces treason, embezzlement charges for working with Kroll
- Journalist who called attention to Russia’s war crimes is detained in Belarus
- Ukravtodor partners with EBRD to fight corruption in road tenders
- Reuters: G7 remains committed to sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
- Associated Press: Group of Seven slams Russia annexation of Crimea, 7 years on
- G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement on Ukraine
- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement on Nord Stream 2
Coronavirus
- Kyiv enters 3-week lockdown from March 20
- Ukraine reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases since November
- UNIAN: Ukraine seeks to update COVID treatment protocol due to mutations
- Reuters: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Kyiv Post Cartoons
Business
Interfax: US warns firms involved in Nord Stream 2 construction of sanctions
Reuters: Blinken warns entities involved in Nord Stream 2 pipeline to immediately quit
Bloomberg: Ukraine’s new farm chief vows to keep food exports flowing
Reuters: European court should dismiss German Gazprom pipeline appeal, says adviser
Interfax: Zelensky says let’s prove together that it’s possible to work honestly and openly in Ukraine
Interfax: KAN Development plans to equip medical offices in residential complexes
Interfax: Ukraine should synchronize energy system with European one within three years – Zelensky
Interfax: DTEK loses Hr 1 billion in profit in Jan-Feb due to coal shortage – Gerus
Interfax: Concorde Capital intends to bring about 10 companies to IPO in two years
Interfax: Kyiv’s Blockbuster Mall posts UAH 2.8 mln of net loss in 2020
Zelensky’s statement on the importance of small and medium businesses in Ukraine
Business Wire
Opinions
Timothy Ash: Let’s see what Biden is made of
Emil Avdaliani: Recalibrating US attention in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
Peter Dickinson: Vladimir Putin does not want peace with Ukraine
Mark Temnycky: Time for the US to jump-start Ukraine talks
Grigory Ioffe: Reshaping Belarus’s political scene
Peter Dickinson: Putin turns up pressure on Russian opposition ahead of September Duma elections
Halya Coynash: Judge who persecuted Maidan activists could get millions in ‘compensation’
Hal Brands: Biden isn’t ignoring the Middle East, and that’s good
Halya Coynash: Journalist seized in Crimea accused of ‘spying and sabotage’ for Ukraine
| From the archives: Lockdown More than a year later, Kyiv is in lockdown mode to stop the surge in coronavirus cases. Revisit the first lockdown which lasted from March 17 – May 24, 2020. At the time, Ukraine had only 26 cases and 3 deaths while the global death toll had just surpassed 10,000. |
