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- Nov. 4 from 9 a.m. to 11:30 am. European Business Association/Kyiv Post Energy Talk. Livestream on Kyiv Post website, Facebook page, and YouTube. Guests include: Kyrylo Kryvolap, adviser to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal; Erik Svedahl, ambassador of Norway in Ukraine; Oleksandr Kharchenko, managing director, Energy Industry Research Center; Alexander McWhorter, CEO, Citibank.
- Nov. 5 at 8 a.m. Washington/3 p.m. Kyiv time. Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. Energy Source Innovation Stream Register here.
- Nov 5 at 11:30 a.m. Washington/6:30 p.m. Kyiv time. Atlantic Council: Why is reform so hard in Ukraine? Register here
- Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s Oct 27 webinar with Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson.
- Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s Oct 29 webinar with John Bolton.
- Red & green zone countries
- Second Ukrainian city mayor dies of COVID-19 after probable re-election
- Private, public labs struggle to keep up with testing demand
Protesters rally against Constitutional Court, demand its judges to resign
Several hundred protesters rallied next to the Constitutional Court’s headquarters in central Kyiv on the morning of Oct. 30 to demand that the court’s 15 judges resign. The mass protest followed a number of highly controversial rulings that undermine the anti-corruption infrastructure in Ukraine. In the latest and the most scandalous of them, the Constitutional Court on Oct. 27 effectively destroyed Ukraine’s entire asset declaration system for state officials, eliminating a crucial pillar of the country’s anti-corruption system. It prompted President Volodymyr Zelensky to call an urgent meeting of the National Defense and Security Council on Oct. 29. As a result of the meeting, the government ordered to restart the declarations registry, and Zelensky ordered a draft bill that would cancel the Constitutional Court’s ruling and fire all of its judges. Read the story here.
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