Ukraine Digest: Oct. 2 - Oct. 02, 2020

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Gone In The Sky: What happened and why in Antonov An-26 crash
Participate in Kyiv Post photo contest to win prizes
Deutsche Welle: Alexei Navalny blames Vladimir Putin for poisoning
People killed, villages destroyed as fires intensify in Luhansk Oblast
US Senator Chuck Grassley’s remarks on Ukraine investigation

Coronavirus

Red & green zone countries

Kyiv Post Cartoons

Business Update

$1= Hr 28.3
Bloomberg: Ukrainian politics again get the better of a would-be reformer
Zelensky’s interview with Chinese state media Xinhua
Chinese ownership group asks Ukraine’s lawmakers to investigate raider attack on Motor Sich
Ukrinform: Ukraine’s exports hit $4.2 billion in September
Screen Daily: Why film production is thriving in Ukraine

Opinions

Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Vladimir Socor: Belarus a blip, Russia looms large on Macron’s Baltic visit (Part 2)
Timothy Ash: Ukraine – a wake-up call?
Lauren Van Metre: Care for Ukraine’s veterans
Kara Swisher: Vindman knew Trump would end his career
Timothy Ash: US election risks for Ukraine and other emerging markets
Halya Coynash: Appeal against 24-year sentence of Markiv begins in Italy

Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives

Russian reunion pleas drowned in catcalls

The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, but Russia never gave up trying to get Ukraine and Belarus to reunite. Russian State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov (1947-2015) spoke in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, to cheers and jeers with his speech calling for reunification. Unfortunately, while the show of nationalism was welcomed, Ukraine’s economy was deeply tied to Russia’s economy — making independence a bit hollow, the Kyiv Post’s editorial points out.

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