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  • Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. Washington/5 p.m. Kyiv time: Webinar: “Privatization program in Ukraine 2020-2021: State Property Fund of Ukraine” organized by the U.S-Ukraine Business Council. Register here.
  • Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. Washington/Oct. 16 1 a.m. Kyiv time: Webinar “Ukrainian Dialogue: Zelensky’s first year leading up to America’s presidential election.” Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S. Volodymyr Yelchenko, member of parliament Solomiia Bobrovska, and Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner. Register here.
  • Oct. 17 at 3 p.m. Kyiv time: Ukrainian World Congress First Virtual Forum “United by Ukraine.” More information here. Media contact: olha.domanska@ukrainianworldcongress.org
Top news
Coronavirus

Kyiv Post cartoons

Laughter is the best medicine

Business Update

$1= Hr 28.3
Bloomberg: Ukraine has no ‘special goal’ for hryvnia rate
UNIAN: Court compels SBI to investigate Sytnyk for ‘usurpation of power’
Interfax: Criminal case opened against Naftogaz management
UNIAN: Shmyhal names 3 tools to attract investment to Ukraine
Reuters: IMF calls on Ukraine to follow criteria for central bank governance
Interfax: UK may provide Ukraine with 2.5 billion pounds in credit
Interfax: Naftogaz expects profit in 2021-2024
Interfax: NBU may lower key policy rate if economic growth slows significantly
Interfax: Ukrainian hoteliers establish Association of Hotels & Resorts of Ukraine
Interfax: SBU says tax officers, commercial banks’ employees involved in work of money laundering center cased billions of losses to state

Opinions

Editorial: Zelensky hoodwinks EU
Editorial: Divided central bank
Bohdan Nahaylo: Homage to Britannia
Sergii Leshchenko: Inside Kolomoisky’s grand scheme to take power
Alexander Query: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week
Halya Coynash: Russia fakes statistics about deaths from COVID-19 in Crimea
Peter Dickinson: Putin’s fear of democracy is fueling the crisis in Belarus
Grigory Ioffe: Post-Lukashenko Belarus
Andreas Kluth: Trump or Biden, the US and Europe will split
Taras Semeniuk: Winners and losers of EU-Ukraine Summit
Kseniya Kirillova: Can Belarus and Karabakh inspire patriotic surge in Russia?
Anders Aslund: Ukraine’s reforms in doubt as political climate changes
Paul Goble: China turning Russia’s taiga into a desert
Vladimir Socor: Russia’s regime-change experiment in Belarus (Part 1)
Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukraine wants a step-by-step plan towards future EU membership
Andrew Greco: Turkey reinforces positions in Idlib to pressure Russia
Philip Bump: Trumpworld’s latest effort to undermine the Russia probe
George Barros: Protests in Kyrgyzstan may fuel Kremlin action in Belarus
Yuri Lapaiev: Russian disinformation shadows Ukrainian-British-US Joint Endeavor 2020 exercise

Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives

The Most Successful Expats

The Kyiv Post ranks the richest and most influential expatriates in Ukraine. The Constitutional Court delivers President Viktor Yanukovych more powers. Op-ed warns of Yanukovych’s march toward dictatorship. Bill Clinton comes to Ukraine for Victor Pinchuk. Feature on Shcholkine, the Azov Sea city in Crimea.