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  • Oct. 13 – A conversation on Ukraine’s past & present
  • Oct. 15 – World in Ukraine: Azerbaijan
  • Oct. 22 – Recycling in Ukraine
  • Oct. 27 – Kyiv Post webinar: Ukraine’s participation in peacekeeping missions
  • Oct. 29 – World in Ukraine: Turkey

23rd Ukraine-EU Summit

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Meet UNIT.City resident Anze Jereb

Meet Anze Jereb, executive creative director at BBDO in Ukraine, a cutting-edge international advertising network. Anze discusses what it’s like to work in Ukraine as a creative advertising executive and how BBDO is thriving as a resident at UNIT.City.

Editor’s Note: The video is a paid project of Kyiv Post Brand Studio, a commercial unit of the newspaper, on behalf of client UNIT.City.
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From the archives: Wish Lists

The April 30, 2015, edition is instructive for how much has changed and not changed in Ukraine’s relationship with the European Union, in light of the just-completed 23rd Ukraine-EU Summit in Kyiv. Our headline back then was “Wish Lists.” The subheads were: “Ukraine to EU: Give more” and “EU to Ukraine: Do more.” Since then, Ukraine secured visa-free travel in 2017, but hasn’t gotten all of the investment, financial aid, lethal weapons or armed peacekeepers it was seeking then under the doomed team of President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The biggest prize: A clear commitment from the EU of Ukraine’s eventual membership still hasn’t come. The EU has its own share of disappointments. Back then, it wanted Ukraine to make more progress on rule of law, deregulation, reducing corruption, deoligarchization, fiscal responsibility and decentralization. Out of those, rule of law, fighting corruption and deoligarchization remain big problems for Ukraine with almost no progress in six years.

Read the April 30, 2015 edition