What we’re watching
- Friday, March 5 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: Atlantic Council – What should West do about Ukraine? Register here
- Thursday, March 11 at 4:30 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council – A conversation with Anders Aslund – Register here
Top news
- Ukraine lags in transparency on defense industry spending
- Ukrainian photography in spotlight of new artsy magazine
- Crimean Tatar fashion offers a cultural breakout
- Silent pandemic of domestic violence haunts Donbas
- Kharkiv teacher bullied into resignation named Ukraine’s teacher of the year
- Parliament aims to cancel clock change, Ukraine to stay with UTC+2
- Zelensky organizes 30 weekly policy forums to commemorate Ukraine’s independence
- Verkhovna Rada to contemplate Motor Sich nationalization
Coronavirus
- Shmyhal: COVID-19 in Ukraine entered third wave
- Interfax: Ukraine records over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for second day in row
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Video: Explore Kyiv’s underground with local ‘Diggers’
Discover a new side of Kyiv with the city’s Urbex community. Yaroslav, an experienced explorer of Kyiv’s dark underground and member of the local “Digger” community, spends his days giving tours of Kyiv’s hidden tunnel systems and secret underground passages. He shares his expert understanding of the history of Kyiv’s unique underground as a member of the community of “Diggers” that continue to search for new discoveries buried deep beneath the city.
Business
Central bank rate hike
Interfax: NBU raises key policy rate to 6.5%, seeks to dampen inflation.
National Bank Deputy Governor Yurii Heletii explains fed policy
NBU: Consumers continue shift to non-cash payments
Bloomberg: Ukraine unexpectedly hikes rates to combat inflation surge
Other business news
Interfax: Shmyhal announces 5 key issues in talks with IMF
Interfax: Export of grain through Ukrainian seaports decreased by 13.8% in 2020 – Stark Shipping analysis
Interfax: Shmyhal denies reasons for the resignation of Naftogaz boards’ head
Interfax: Government expects to attract billions of hryvnias through tax amnesty
Business Wire
Ukraine should prove to be an agricultural superpower in a post-COVID world
Cyprus immigration guide for non-EU citizensLaw firm AVELLUM promotes new counsel in dispute resolution practice
Flower delivery Bloom.ua offers to send bouquets to employees, co-workersIndia in the 21st Century
GOLAW: Guilt and intent as conditions for tax liability from January 2021
Avellum: How to protect international investors in an unsettled tax world
Opinion
Iuliia Mendel: Zelensky aims to end Ukraine’s oligarch eraHalya Coynash: 5 years in prison for insisting that Crimea is Ukraine
Joshua Huminski: How to think about Russia
Roman Leshchenko: Ukraine can feed the world
E.J. Dionne Jr: The crisis Biden can’t duckSteven Pifer: How to solve the Nord Stream 2 dilemma
Brian Whitmore: Spring showdown looms in Belarus
Editorial: Oligarch TV
Editorial: Soft sanctions
Jennifer Rubin: It is not hard to figure out why freedom is in decline
From the archives: No Revolution Here: News Media In Ukraine Remain In Same Hands
To go with today’s cover story, a look back more than five years ago at media ownership in Ukraine. Some things never change.
