What we’re watching
- Tuesday, March 30: The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, goes into an extraordinary session. Two items are reportedly on the agenda: 1. setting a mayoral election in Kharkiv to replace Hennady Kernes, who died in office on Dec. 17, 2020, from COVID-19 complications. 2. order law enforcement to “objectively investigate and give a legal assessment” on the March 20 protest in which the President’s Office was vandalized.
- 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
- Prosecutors place PrivatBank’s former CEO on wanted list
- PrivatBank threatens to turn off Apple Pay, Google Pay
- Intercity train derails near Zaporizhia, no casualties
- Energoatom orders 12.3 million euros worth of equipment from Putin-linked firm
- EBRD to introduce futuristic online courts in Ukraine
- Ukrainian photographers capture intimacy of body and underwear for Calvin Klein
- Bellingcat identifies 3 prison camp guards in Russian-occupied Donetsk
- Parliament by-elections: Separatist elected in Donbas; Zelensky’s candidate leads race in western Ukraine
- Washington Post: Ukraine wants to show Biden it’s serious about ending ‘oligarch era’
- Ukraine prepares for defensive ‘total war’
- Yermak speaks with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan
- State-owned banks reduce number of non-performing loans
Coronavirus
- COVID-19: 8,346 new cases, 178 new deaths, 1,585 new vaccinations
- UNIAN: Expert says no COVID-19 peak seen in Ukraine yet
- UA.TV: Robot helper in Dnipro
- Zelensky: Ukraine needs to develop a system of vaccination passports and increase collective immunity from COVID-19
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Russian atrocities
- Reuters: Russia jails woman for 12 years in Crimea for spying on behalf of Ukraine
- UPI: Russia sentences Crimean man amid Kremlin crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses
- RFE/RL: As domestic violence surges amid pandemic, Russia targets victims’ support group
- Interfax: PGO serves 2 with charges of cruel treatment of Ukrainian military in Donbas
- RFE/RL: Russia’s Navalny says risks solitary confinement over prison infractions
Ukraine’s champion advances
Elina Svitolina of Ukraine returns a shot to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on March 29, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (AFP)
Read more: Elina Svitolina notches gritty win over Petra Kvitova for a quarterfinal spot
Business
UA.TV: Business support during quarantine
Ag Trader: Global factors putting the brakes on price momentum
Financial Express: Ukraine ranked 5th among countries in origin of cyberattacks
Reuters: Ukraine’s central bank governor returns to work after COVID-19
Open Democracy: How Zelensky can challenge Ukraine’s media magnates
Interfax: ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih posts Hr 741 million net profit in 2020
Ukrinform: Ukraine begins spring sowing campaign
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
Mariana Bezuhla: Transforming the SBU based on NATO best practices
Ben Dubow: How YouTube helps fund Kremlin allies
Edward Lucas: Irresistible?
EUvsDisinfo: Attacking the West, putting Russians in danger
Paul Goble: Kremlin making a Magnitsky out of Navalny in violation of its own interests
Diane Francis: Gerrymeandering
Halya Coynash: Russia hides its trials
Halya Coynash: Tortured for tweets
Nastassia Astrasheuskaya: Russia seizes on Suez blockage to promote merits of Arctic route
From the archives: Tourism, travel in the slow lane
It sounds like a lot: 23 million foreign tourists in 2007. But most of them are coming from such neighboring countries as Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Poland. So they are probably not tourists at all, but “day traders” crossing the border regularly to sell items or simply family & friends visiting in Ukraine. Ukrzalyznytsia, the state’s railway, is in the slow lane in travel. International Monetary Fund holds up loans. Tetiana Vorozhko explains why Ukrainian women marry foreign men. Photos: As the weather turns warmer, the Dnipro River beckons.
