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
- Wednesday, March 31 at 4 p.m. Kyiv time: Kyiv Post Legal Talks — “Ukraine’s Mountain of Bad Debt: How to Collect?” Watch live here
Top news
- World Happiness Report: Ukrainians become slightly happier despite pandemic
- Ukraine temporarily cancels visas for Chinese tourists to boost travel industry
- Ukrainian banks’ profits down 2.5 times due to pandemic, NBU policy
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks Nord Stream 2 with Germany
- EBRD lends Dragon Capital $12.5 million to develop ‘green’ real estate
Coronavirus
- Ukraine to give money to entrepreneurs during lockdown
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 14,174 new cases, 342 new deaths, 137,025 total vaccinations
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Business
Interfax: Ex-PM Azarov suspected of high treason for ratification of draft ‘Kharkiv agreements’
Financial Times: Zelensky’s anti-corruption squad swoops on Ukrainian oligarchy
Interfax: Rozetka plans to create its own payment system
Interfax: Group DF predicts 8-10% growth in Ukrainian nitrogen fertilizer market in 2021
Interfax: EIB could issue EUR100 mln to modernize street lighting in Ukraine
Interfax: Coca-Cola triples capacity of beverage filling line at plant in Kyiv region
Interfax: Electricity price for population to remain Hr 1.68 per kWh from April 1 – PM
Interfax: Ukraine plans to end tuberculosis epidemic by 2030 – Zelensky
Vietnam Plus: Vietnamese ambassador visits Ukraine’s southern province
Business Wire
Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development
Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business
Opinions
Eugene Czolij: A Ukrainian moment on eve of European Council meetingYuri Lapaiev: The political reasons behind the resumed fighting in Donbas
Brian Whitmore: Moscow’s man in Minsk
Mariya Manzhos: I had no plans to become an American. 2020 changed all thatWalter Russell Mead: America’s back – against a wall
Marta Barandiy, Maryna Iaroshevych: What’s wrong with ‘vaccination rush’?
Pavel Baev: Two words that shook Putin’s regime
Vladimir Socor: Russia’s Karabakh protectorate taking clearer shape (Part 2)
Paul Goble: Putin has no idea how to develop seized territories
Halya Coynash: Crimean Tatar sentenced for involvement in legal Ukrainian organization
From the archives: Downsized Dreams
The global financial recession cost many middle-class professionals their jobs in Ukraine as students dropped out of universities or found the job market extremely tough. A comedian named Volodymyr Zelensky co-houses the People of the Year awards with Yevhen Koshevoi. Matvei Ganapolsky says Savik Shuster is all show, no go, only showmanship, not statesmanship.
