What we’re watching
- 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
- Zelensky signs law creating agency to investigate economic crimes
- Vovk case likely to be closed as deadline for sending it to trial expires
- 18th soldier killed since start of cease-fire
- One dead, four injured in a new bus crash in Poland
- UkrOboronProm ready to assume temporary control of Motor Sich assets
- Docudays UA film festival to run online with 80 pictures on human rights
- Russian top game developer Playrix buys Ukrainian tech firm
Coronavirus
- Kyiv endures third lockdown (VIDEO)
- Dangerous new mutated British COVID-19 variants found in Ukraine
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: Deaths reach 30,000, vaccination remains slow
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Video
Haunted by death, a Ukrainian town hospital strives to save lives (VIDEO)
The Kolomyia district hospital is trying to save as many patients as it can amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. In February, a major outbreak of the disease began in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast where the hospital is based, overwhelming medical institutions with a flood of patients.
Read the full story here: Haunted by death, Kolomyia hospital strives to save lives (PHOTO, VIDEO)
| Business UNIAN: Hryvnia to sink to 29.5 by late 2021 Interfax: Ukraine’s GDP down by 4% in 2020, to $151 billion. Interfax: Zelensky invites EBRD to join the development of infrastructure projects, privatization in UkraineInterfax: EBRD president pays a two-day visit to Kyiv Reuters: US sanctions on Russia will send a signal, if not deter Interfax: Ministry of Economy proposes to send UAH 200 mln a year to support movie networks Interfax: Rozhkova calls NBU’s refusal to approve Oschadbank board member Buts as alarming signal Opinions |
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Alexander Vindman, Garry Kasparov: It’s not Navalny vs. Putin. It’s democracy vs. authoritarianism
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Brian Mefford: Young Ukrainian mayor offers hope of a new politics
Peter Dickinson: Maidan’s metamorphosis mirrors Ukraine’s national coming of age
From the archives: Ambassador says US aid in jeopardy
A violent election campaign in the Odesa mayoral race between Eduard Hurvits and Ruslan Bodelan. American Douglas Dedge is killed in an Ultimate Fighting match. U.S. Ambassador Steven Pifer warns of aid cutoff because of investor disputes. Borys Oryshkevych, a Ukrainian American who founded USA/USA, seeks to help Ukrainians study in America.
Read the March 20, 1998 edition
