- Constitutional Court destroys crucial pillar of Ukraine’s anti-graft infrastructure
- Officials’ asset disclosure register, major part of anti-graft infrastructure, shuts down
- Inquiry reveals An-26 aircraft crash causes
- After outcry, parliament restores accreditation of investigative journalism outlet
- Infamous populist Lyashko loses special election to reenter parliament
- Boryspil mayor dies from COVID-19 during re-election bid with coronavirus-denying party
- Kyiv restaurants, foodies brace themselves for colder season
- American Peace Corps volunteer, local philologist teach Ukrainian slang online
- Red & green zone countries
- UkrInform: Ukraine extends emergency regime until December 31
- Ukrinform: Number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals exceeds 25,000
- UNIAN: Lviv Mayor Sadovyi self-isolating after wife tests positive for COVID-19
- Reuters: Germany and France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe
Business Update
Hryvnia – $: 28.4
Interfax: DTEK Renewables posts Hr 440 million net profit in the first half of 2020
Ukrinform: French company to help modernize Ukrainian railway rolling stock
Interfax: Demand for IT specialists rises by 20% in Sept due to resumption of industry growth
Interfax: Real wages in Ukraine 9.7% up in September
Interfax: Mobile operators launch 4G at 23 more stations of Kyiv metro
Interfax: Kharkivgaz confirms death of two employees from explosion at gas station, eight injured
Interfax: UIA suspends work of another five foreign representative offices due to staff reduction
Interfax: Government lifts limits for salaries in state-owned companies – resolution
Interfax: Shmyhal says Ukraine quickly bringing position closer with IMF
Opinions
Roger McDermott: Russian military tests ‘mobile echelon’ in Kavkaz 2020
Paul Goble: Armenia, Russia seeking to exploit ethnic minorities against Baku
Steven Pifer: A consequential election for Ukraine
Edward Lucas: Why Borat isn’t funny
Nina Jankowicz: Disinformation will poison our democracy
Walter Russell Mead: What in the world if Trump wins?
Isabel Ivanescu, Ezgi Yazici: Russia-Turkey competition escalates across theaters
George Barros: Putin intensifies Russian-Belarusian military integration
Tetyana Bohdanova: Digital political campaigning ramps up – with little oversight
Halya Coynash: The final brutality in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars
Halya Coynash: Constitutional Court rules against fighting corruption and EU integration
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series: From The Archives
Dead End
The Kyiv Post revisits its 2008 groundbreaking series, “Ukraine’s Greatest Crimes,” and finds that even then-President Viktor Yushchenko and law enforcement were so impotent as to not be able to find out how he was nearly fatally poisoned with dioxin during the 2004 presidential election campaign that he ultimately won, following the Orange Revolution. Business Focus: Human Resources Services. Vox Populi: If you could make a movie about Ukraine, what would it be? Halloween madness in Kyiv. Two front-runners emerge in the 2010 presidential race: Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko.
