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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
  • 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.
  • Friday, April 2. Kyiv Post’s Real Estate Magazine

Top news

Coronavirus

Podcast: On the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in Ukraine

This podcast is all about the coronavirus. The third wave of infection has hit western Ukraine with the British variant of the virus spreading quickly. This has led a sharp increase in cases, with record-breaking daily death rates for several consecutive days. We are joined by staff writer Anna Myroniuk, who traveled to western Ukrainian hospital, and deputy chief editor Olga Rudenko to discuss Kyiv’s third lockdown, in place through April 9.

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Business

UA.TV: Business support during quarantine

UkrInform: Trade between Ukraine and Uzbekistan grew by 30% in 2020

Business Ukraine: Germany in Ukraine — Interview with Heiko Kreisel

Business Ukraine: Ukraine must address the country’s mounting renewable energy sector crisis — Ivan Bondarchuk

Business Ukraine: Ukraine seeks to entice international investors with new Nanny Law

Eurofast: Zelensky initiates tax amnesty in Ukraine

Ukraine International Airlines flight schedule through Oct. 31

Defense Blog: France readies to offer Rafale fighter jets to Ukraine

Warsaw Business Journal: Ukraine and Poland intend to expand cooperation in the agricultural sector

UNIAN: Crimea’s de-facto authorities to sue three Ukrainians for ‘water blockade’

Steel Guru: 3 steel & mining oligarchs wealthiest in Ukraine

Potato News Today: Potato processing plant to be built in Ukraine

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 full array of financial tools to support agricultural business

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

Opinions

Andy Hunder: World’s youngest Catholic bishops energetically lead church in Ukraine

Alexei Bayer: Too much democracy may mean no democracy at all

Askold S. Lozynskyj: From Budapest to Bucharest – a road to nowhere

Andriy Boytsun: Ukrainian state-owned enterprises weekly

EUvsDisinfo: Dizzy by vaccine disinformation

Paul Goble: Just Russia party calls for annexing Qarabagh and DonbasIlya Nuzov: How long can Russia outsource atrocities abroad?

Sena Coskun, Husnu Dalgic: Gender differences in employment risk

Igor Ilyash: How Lukashenko declared war on Belarusian journalists

From the archives: Meltdown

Revisit the Kyiv Post’s weather photos that went viral. Nation’s richest expected to benefit from a $55 billion stimulus plan. Questions surface about national project investor by Kateryna Kapliuk Smart publicity might help fend off takeover attempts. Cyprus’ days as a tax haven could be coming to an end. Ukraine International Airlines ousts Swissport..Cupid denies deceiving clients; Kyiv Post stands by its story. With rentals, always something to wear. The diversity of Switzerland leaves a big impression.

Read the March 29, 2013 edition