Ukraine Digest: Oct. 3 - Oct. 03, 2020

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What we’re watching

Zelensky will take part in Ukraine-European Union Summit in Brussels on Oct. 6.

Top news

Oct. 25 local elections

Coronavirus

Business Update

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Interfax: Microsoft plans to invest over $500 million in Ukraine
Reuters: EU grants Baltic grids 720 million euros to unplug from Russia
UNIAN: NBU launches joint project with Poland, Lithuania
Interfax: IKEA finds no evidence of using illegally harvested timber from Ukraine
Interfax: German ambassador says judicial reform key to increasing German investments in Ukraine
Interfax: Zaporizhstal tops list of largest VAT refund recipients in September
Interfax: Net sale of foreign currency by NBU in interbank FX market amounts to $200 million in September
Interfax: Westinghouse CEO sees extending business with Energoatom after 2025

Opinions

Editorial: Fokin off
Editorial: Governance failure
The Ukrainian Weekly: Events in Ukraine on Oct. 6 in 2019
Dmytro Taranenko: How are things going in Ukrainian aviation industry?
George Barros: Russian Slavic Brotherhood participants return home
Judy Dempsey: Is peace possible between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Halya Coynash: Armed raids of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sevastopol
Halya Coynash: Kherson regional head commissioned killing of Gandziuk

Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives

Grenade attack on Natalia Vitrenko rattles presidential race

The question of who commissioned the hand-grenade attack on Natalia Vitrenko, a member of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, remains as unanswered today as it did on Oct. 2, 1999. She was campaigning in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast when two grenades were lobbed at her entourage. Between 33 and 47 people were injured, including Vitrenko, who suffered minor shrapnel injuries. Rivals blamed each other, but in the end, Leonid Kuchma waltzed to re-election in an unfair election. The rest of the 32 pages is a Kyiv Post classic — with the likes of Katya Gorchinska, Stefan Korshak, Greg Bloom, Vitaly Sych, Anna Stepanenko, and Jake Rudnytsky writing.

Read the Oct. 7, 1999 edition