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.
- Friday, April 2. Kyiv Post’s Real Estate Magazine
Kyiv Post Legal Talks at 4 p.m. on March 31 focuses on Ukraine’s $15 billion in non-performing loans in the banking sector. Speakers include Maryan Martynyuk, senior partner of the Moris Group law firm; Olyana Gordiyenko, chairperson of the supervisory board of Ukreximbank; Oleksii Sobolev, CEO of ProZorro.sale; and Svitlana Rekrut, managing director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund. The discussion will be moderated by Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner.
Top news
- Parliament lifts ban on big privatization
- Apple to work with unofficial repair shops in Ukraine, but there’s a catch
- Crackdown on illegal gas stations planned
- Ukraine makes digital passports legally equivalent to ordinary ones
- Ukraine harvests 65 million tons of winter grain, exports half
- After the death of Kharkiv Mayor Kernes, his hidden riches surface
- Cyprus to open borders to Ukrainians on April 1
- US State Department’s 2020 report on Ukraine’s human rights practices
- The Guardian: Hunter Biden calls Trump ‘vile’ in new book and denies Ukraine allegations
- Zelensky praises parliament for passage of important laws
Coronavirus
- COVID-19: 10,533 new cases, 286 new deaths, 14,433 new vaccinations
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Russian atrocities
- New York Times: Fighting escalates in eastern Ukraine
After 1-1 draw with Finland, Ukraine meets Kazakhstan next
Ukraine hosted the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification football match in Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium on March 28, 2021, a match that ended in a 1-1 draw. The team hosts Kazakhstan on March 31 at 2:45 p.m.
Here’s a preview of today’s match
Business
Interfax: McDonald’s Ukraine invests Hr 700 million ($25 milion) in chain development in 2020
Interfax: Kiy Avia posts Hr 35 million ($1.25 million) in losses in 2020
Interfax: Ukrainian pharma market expands by 13% in 2020 – experts
Interfax: Tax amnesties often hurt tax collection in long run – IMF resident representative in Ukraine
Interfax: Ukraine should refrain from returning to control over gas prices, solve problem of imbalance in energy – IMF
Interfax: Number of restaurants & cafes in Ukraine drops from 18,600 to 14,700 in 2020
Kyiv has only 48 days of low traffic according to the Tom-Tom ranking
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
Bohdan Nahaylo: The appalling move by Germany and France
Peter Dickinson: Putin plots Ukraine peace talks without Ukraine
Janek Lasocki: How Zelensky can challenge Ukraine’s media magnates
Paul Goble: Moscow won’t complete vaccinations until 2024
David Ignatius: Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh continues to rankle
Andrei Kolesnikov: A Kremlin-KGB remake
Halya Coynash: Record prison sentence for Christian faith in Crimea
Halya Coynash: Russian invaders sentence elderly Ukrainian woman to 12 years
From the archives: Banking
With today’s Kyiv Post Legal Talks on non-performing loans in Ukraine’s banking sector, the newspaper highlights some of its deep dives into the troubled sector:
Unpunished Bank Fraud – Feb. 14, 2020
Legal Quarterly – Oct. 5, 2018
Unpunished Bank Fraud – June 8, 2017
Legal Quarterly – Dec. 23, 2016
