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
- Military HQ says Ukrainian soldier was killed to disrupt peace talks
- US lobbying firm works pro bono for Ukrainian deputy PM Uruskiy
- Russia bans Ukrainians from owning land in annexed Crimea
- Protesters demand Sternenko’s release, vandalize President’s Office
- Interfax: Zelensky finds strange that sanctions against Yanukovych, other ex-officials not imposed since 2014
- Court freezes Motor Sich’s assets amid dispute with Chinese investor
- New evidence emerges for conflicts of interest, nepotism at Constitutional Court
Coronavirus
- ‘Red’ level of epidemic danger introduced in Kyiv, Odesa region from March 23 – Nemchynov
- Ukraine signs preliminary supply agreements with six global manufacturers of vaccines against COVID-19 – Shmyhal
- Haunted by death, a Ukrainian town hospital strives to save lives (VIDEO)
- Lockdown begins in Kyiv: What’s allowed and what isn’t
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Protesters support Sternenko, demand judicial reform
On Feb. 23, protesters in support of activist Serhiy Sternenko erupted across Ukraine. Sternenko was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and illegal carrying of firearms by the Odesa District Court and sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. He was found guilty of abducting Serhiy Shcherbych, a member of the Rodina party, who at the time of abduction was a deputy of the district council in Odesa Oblast. Sternenko says the case is political retribution for his activism.
Business
Reuters: Germany’s Greens vow to scrap Russian gas pipeline after election
Trend: Uzbekistan, Ukraine have significant prospects for developing cooperation in agriculture
Interfax: Shmyhal stresses geopolitical threat of Nord Stream 2 during meeting with President of Bundestag
Business Wire
Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development
Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business
Opinions
Paul Niland: Ukraine’s coronavirus catastrophe
Timothy Ash: Sanctioning Russian sovereign debt is the next logical step
Timothy Ash: Ukraine’s central bank backtracks on reformSimon Tisdall: Biden must punish Putin’s cyber-attacks
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Reimagining diplomacy in the post-COVID world
Bohdan Ben: Time for Ukraine to create a domestic sanctions policy
Paul Goble: Ever more parts of Russia running out of coronavirus vaccine
Washington Post: Russia meddled again – but there’s a bigger reason to be alarmedMason Clark: Russian offensive in Ukraine unlikely
Paul Goble: West must respond to Putin’s moves against Navalny
Janusz Bugajski: Biden vs. Putin – round 1
From the archives: Budget crisis looms over fragile economy
Igor Greenwald is editor; the newspaper adopts Kyiv Post instead of Kiev Post; 35 percent of readers are Ukrainian. Ukraine dithers on 42-billion hryvnia budget for 1997. Kievskie Vedomosti editor-in-chief Yevhen Yakunov believes Luhansk correspondent Petro Shevchenko was murdered. Ukraine’s abortion rate high at 56 per 1,000 women in 1995.
Read the March 20, 1997 edition
