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  • 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
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Top news

Coronavirus

Kyiv Post cartoons

Laughter is the best medicine

Business

Hryvnia/$: 28

UkrInform: SkyUp resumes flights to Larnaca from Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia

Interfax: Number of large Ukrainian YouTube channels in 2020 increase by 35-45%

Interfax: Zelensky enacts NSDC decision on subsoil use – decree

Interfax: Ukraine’s road industry until 2023 to completely switch to European standards – Ukravtodor

Finance Ministry: Ukraine’s public-sector banks cut non-performing loans to $11 billion 

Horizon Capital announces exit from Drobobut

Business Wire

New leader for KPMG’s TP group

Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development

Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business

Redcliffe Partners hires new partner Sergiy Ignatovsky to join its leading Litigation and Restructuring practices

Opinions

Iryna Venediktova: I joined team of prosecutors in PrivatBank case to show resultsAlexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week

Washington Post: Navalny is facing new threats to his life. It’s unacceptable

Serhii Savelii and Meredith Applegate: The risks of rushing to internet voting in Ukraine

Diane Francis: The United States of Anarchy

Grigory Ioffe: Parallel worlds in Belarus’s public politics

Vladimir Socor: Russia’s Karabakh protectorate taking clearer shape (Part 3)

Andrei Soldatov: Russia is making the digital weather

From the archives: State of War

Seven years ago, Ukraine faced the prospect of full-scale war. After Russia seized Crimea with military force, the Kremlin began instigating unrest in many parts of the nation, failing in most areas, but launching the war that continues today in the eastern Donbas.

Read the March 28, 2014 edition