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- Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m. Kyiv time. U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. Expanding energy supplies in Ukraine through private sector-led production & imports. Register here.
- Nov. 25 at noon Kyiv time. Chatham House online event: ‘Where is Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Reform Heading?’. Participants include EU Anti-Corruption Programme Head Eka Tkeshelashvili. More information here.
- Interfax: Zelensky, Yermak hospitalized with COVID-19 and Russian version of Interfax report
- Red & green zone countries
- Ukraine imposes weekend lockdown, adopts uniform nationwide quarantine measures
- Entrepreneurs protest against weekend lockdown policy
- UNIAN: Over 9 million Ukrainians to be pushed into poverty
- Interfax: Shmyhal says if nothing is done, there even won’t be places in hospital corridors
- Interfax: Transport to not be suspended during weekend quarantine
- Interfax: Difficult period with COVID-19 to continue until April
Other news
- Latest polls show conflicting party ratings, but Zelensky’s party still in top 3
- Government defines Ukraine’s economic gaps, announces plan until 2030
- DJ Mag lists three Ukrainian acts among world’s best DJs
- US sentences Ukrainian techie to 9 years for stealing $10 million from Microsoft
- Kyiv marks Remembrance Day with Western allies
- UNIAN: Ukraine survey shows popular attitudes toward EU, NATO membership
- Zelensky chairs Commission on Legal Reform
- Interfax: Biden ready to work with UK and France to resolve military conflict in eastern Ukraine
- Drone pictures of Kyiv during a warm autumn
Ukraine on the Brink: Kyiv’s Dirty Air
Kyiv suffers from some of the worst air pollution of any capital city in Europe. Air quality monitoring platforms even occasionally place Kyiv among the world’s most polluted cities. Efforts to improve monitoring and reduce contributing factors are helping, but much more is needed to clean up Kyiv’s dirty air.
Business Update
Hryvnia – $: 28.2
Interfax: Ukrainian airports cut passenger traffic by 63%
Bloomberg: US targets insurers in latest round of Nord Stream 2 sanctions
Interfax: Rada profile committee to register ‘banking’ bill required for IMF program
Interfax: NEURC approves rise of Ukrenergo tariff by 28.9% for electricity transmission for 2021
Interfax: Director of Naftogaz gas division Romaniuk heads Association of Gas Producers of Ukraine
Interfax: Issue of new mortgage loans increase by 16% in nine months of 2020 – NBU poll
Interfax: Fozzy Group opens first ‘green’ supermarket Silpo Re Cycling near Kyiv
Interfax: Business may not withstand weekend lockdown – EBA
Opinions
Oleh Kernytskyy: The issue in Ukraine’s military no one wants to talk about
Trudy Rubin: How to control the pandemic
Edward Lucas: History lessons
EUvsDisinfo: The Kremlin and the philosopher’s moan
Chris Cillizza: How Trump’s ‘perfect’ phone call foretold his 2020 loss
Pavel Baev: Russians contemplate importance of US elections for Russia
Rosa Balfour: Europe’s high expectations for a US President Joe Biden
