What we’re watching
- 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
- Thursday, April 1 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar with Vadym Melnyk, head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Register here.
Top news
- Heavy fighting, 4 Ukrainian fatalities reported in Donbas
- OCCRP: The sweetheart oil deal funding Ukraine’s top pro-Kremlin politician
- Zelensky deploys sharp tool, National Security Council, to speed up his agenda
- Medvedchuk’s associates charged with treason over Crimea annexation
- SBU busts ‘private military company’ allegedly tied to Kolomoisky
- Local YouTube channels get 35-45% more popular in 2020
- What’s up with the Crimea water crisis? (EXPLAINER)
- Naftogaz to create fixed-rate annual gas plan for household consumers
- Ukrainian co-directs new bold music video for Lil Nas X
- Spiritual retreats offer chance to recharge during the unending crisis
- Phillip Karber’s presentation on Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014
- Ukraine to switch to daylight saving time on Sunday
- Channel 7 Odesa’s Kyiv Post Review
- Ukraine among 10 largest pig iron producer
Coronavirus
- Everything to know about current state of vaccination campaign in Ukraine
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: record 18,132 new cases, 326 new deaths, 18,738 new vaccination
Business
Ukraine pays $110.7 million in interest on eurobonds
SBU prevents illegal shipment of military goods to Russia
Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person
Ukrenergo to raise investments in power grids by 38%, to Hr 4.3 billion, in 2021
Ukraine’s public debt amounted to $91.4 billion in late February
IMF advises Ukraine to keep the focus on structural reforms
Revitalising Ukraine’s defence sector, and with it, its military
EBRD launches pilot project for online courts involving small claims
Ukraine in talks with China on opening new markets for own products
Business Wire
Former chairman of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine joins Redcliffe Partners
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
Opinions
| Editorial: Out of control Editorial: Robbing Ukraine blind Alexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week Steven Pifer: Rebuilding US-German relationsThe Ukrainian Weekly: Escalating violence in Donbas Halya Coynash: Russia brings weapon of intimidation to Crimea Halya Coynash: SBU officers on trial for the killing of activist EU vs Disinfo: How to (not) become a target of disinformation Andriy Boytsun: Ukrainian state-owned enterprises weekly Paul Goble: The desire to steal explains Putin regime’s behavior From the archives: Power Play: Poroshenko Takes On Kolomoisky Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko fires billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky as Dnipropetrovsk Oblast governor, and seeks to end his control of state-owned oil company Ukrnafta. Despite being only a minority shareholder, Kolomoisky effectively controlled the company. World in Ukraine: Belgium. Business Focus: Transport & logistics. The huge scandal over how the American Chamber of Commerce hired Californian Bernard Casey as its president despite his pro-Kremlin views. This was his scandalous op-ed, published online by the Kyiv Post on March 22, 2015, headlined: “Last chance for peace in Ukraine.” Lifestyle: Victoria Petrenko writes that foreigners find Ukraine cheap but scary. YUNA marches on in its fourth year. |
