Ukraine Digest: Oct. 7

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Special & events coverage ahead

• Oct. 7 – UkrInform: Rada to vote on Razumkov’s removal from speaker
• Oct. 8 – World in Ukraine: Germany
• 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

Top news

• Odesa mayor and his kingmaker Galanternik charged with organized crime
• ​​Nuclear giant Energoatom’s accounts blocked over long-running debt
• Zelensky sends cryptocurrency law back to parliament
• Nova Poshta to launch its own cargo airline
• RFE/RL: Ukrainian bank tries to delete recording after assault on journalists
• Saakashvili on 6th day of hunger strike
• Holocaust Memorial Center names 159 Nazi soldiers who killed Jews in Babyn Yar
• Washington Post: In Ukraine, plans for world’s largest Holocaust memorial can’t escape modern feuds
• UkrInform: Kuleba calls for greater NATO presence in Black Sea region
• Stoltenberg: Ukraine and Georgia will join NATO ‘not tomorrow’
• Financial Times: From Panama to the Pandora papers – what’s changed in offshore tax
• New York Times: Holocaust memorial in Ukraine draws critics, crowds
• COVID-19 in Ukraine: 15,125 new cases, 314 new deaths, 59,428 new vaccinations

Kremlin Watch 

• RFE/RL: 15 years since murder of prominent Kremlin critic
• RFE/RL: NATO accuses Moscow of ‘aggressive actions’
• The Hill: Fiona Hill says Trump was fixated on Putin, not Russia
• Vladimir Kar-Murza: How much time do you still need after 22 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule?
• Russia puts the freeze on EU, gas supplies limited, prices spike

Watch the Kyiv Post webinar — ‘Ukraine’s Infrastructure Needs: What’s The Cost?’

Infrastructure is the lifeblood of any economy. Ukraine is situated ideally with two seas, navigable rivers, many airports and an extensive network of roads and railways. But massive investments are required. Join us for an expert discussion on “Ukraine’s infrastructure needs: What’s the cost?” The discussion was moderated by Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner. Speakers included Arup Banerji, the World Bank’s regional country director for Eastern Europe; Dmytro Martynenko, managing partner of Quarter Partners; Taras Yeleyko, deputy chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine; and Yurii Vaskov, deputy minister of infrastructure of Ukraine.

• Bohdan Nahaylo: Remembering those who compelled us not to forget Babyn Yar
• Joy Neumeyer: ‘Fortress Europe’ won’t let migrants in
• Oleg Fonarov: How Covid caused a boom in outsourcing to Ukraine
• Carl Bildt: Why Saakashvili’s arrest may be one crisis too many for Georgia
• Mark Katz: Moscow won’t side with Washington against Beijing
• Ben Dubow: Russia’s rage reveals YouTube’s strength
• Yuliia Rudenko: What Pandora Papers tell about Zelensky’s offshore companies
• Toomas Ilves: Alexei Navalny and the West’s Schröderizatsiya
• Halya Coynash: Russian court ignores falsified evidence in trial of Crimean Tatars
• Why journalism in Ukraine is a very risky job

From the archives — Odesa Mob Rule: Leaders in Black Sea port have unchecked powers

With Odesa Mayor Hennady Trukhanov and an associate facing criminal charges over the corrupt sale of land plots, it’s a good time to take a look back at the Kyiv Post’s Aug. 17, 2018, investigation of how Trukhanov runs the Black Sea port city of 1 million people.

Read the Aug. 17, 2018 story here