What we’re watching
- Monday, March 22 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: UkraineWorld — Is Kremlin preparing a new war against Ukraine? More information
- 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
Top news
- US calls on companies involved in Nord Stream 2 to stop immediately
- Prosecutor general confirms embezzlement probe against central bank’s Rozhkova
- Has fugitive Firtash co-opted Austria’s leaders to block US?
- As Zelensky vows to take down oligarchs, attention turns to Kolomoisky
- Ukraine imposes sanctions against Yanukovych, Azarov, Yanukovych-era officials
- Another Ukrainian soldier killed in action in Donbas
- Medvedchuk loses appeal, fails to ban book about dissident Vasyl Stus
- Ukrainian startup 3DLook raises $6.5 million to help people shop online
- Ukraine’s egg production drops by 16%, UkrLandFarming blames NABU
- Address by President Volodymyr Zelensky on the latest decisions of the National Security and Defense Council and strengthening of quarantine in some regions
- Ukraine climbs 13 positions in happiness ranking
- Soccer club Veres goes public, draws attention to Ukrainian stock exchange
- Poor lease management cost state millions of dollars, audit reveals
Coronavirus
- Haunted by death, Kolomyia hospital strives to save lives (PHOTO, VIDEO)
- Interfax: British strain of coronavirus identified in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Agribusiness in Ukraine – sponsored by Lactalis
Business Focus: Agribusiness in Ukraine
Business
Bloomberg: Crimea’s water crisis is an impossible problem for Putin
UkrInform: Head of Ukravtodor says domestic companies performed 80% of roads works last year
Interfax: Expert platform launched in Ukraine to help cities implement large infrastructure projects
Interfax: Ukraine imposes most severe sanctions against 19 subsoil companies from Golden Derrick caseInterfax: Ukraine’s NSDC imposes sanctions against two companies-owners of Donetskoblgaz
Interfax: Ukraine to audit all permits for subsoil use since 1994, return to people in case of conditions violation – NSDC Secretary
Interfax: Bees Airline to launch first scheduled flight by late April
Interfax: DTEK and Siemens, with government support, agree on 25 million euro hydrogen project in Mariupol
Interfax: Ukrtelecom posts Hr 643 million ($23 million) in net profit in 2020
Ukrinform: Merkel says Ukraine-Germany cooperation not limited to economy
Ukrinform: German business in Ukraine can be more active if reforms continue – Marco Wanderwit
Ukrinform: Ambassador says Ukraine interested in launch of FTA talks with Japan
Bloomberg: Ukraine central banker probed for embezzlement, prosecutors say
The Financial: The first private steel and mining University established in Ukraine
Business Wire
Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development
Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business
Opinions
Editorial: Taxing Big Tobacco
Editorial: Going backwards
Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Ukrainian World Congress: 7 years of war. Putin’s big lie continues
Serhiy Sydorenko: Between occupation and annexationThomas Barrett: Ukraine should beware of the Georgian development model
Clara Ferreira Marques: Crimea’s water crisis is an impossible problem for Putin
David Axe: Ukraine is hardening its coastline against Russian attack
Robert Homans: Ukrainian President Zelensky’s oligarch speech
David Ignatius: Russia’s disinformation campaign will keep rolling
From the archives: How To Go Broke Owning Monopolies
Kyiv Post editorials rip Yanukovych administration for cancelling local elections, illegal formation of the parliamentary majority, the closing of KGB archives by security chief Valery Khoroshkovsky, removal of the Holodomor from the presidential website and more. Cover story: How oligarchs steal from Naftogaz, Ukrzalyznitsa, Ukrtelecom.
Read the March 19, 2010 edition