What we’re watching
- Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. Washington/5 p.m. Kyiv time: The U.S.-Ukraine Business Council will host a webinar “Moving Ukraine’s Independence Forward.” Register here and for more information, go here.
- Sept. 23 at 10 a.m./5 p.m. Kyiv time. The Atlantic Council is hosting “Bankova breakdown? Ukraine’s summer of economic shock.” Register here.
- Hryvnia: 27.8
- High court temporarily blocks Surkis brothers’ $350 million legal victory
- Ukrainian security agency arrests Islamic State warlord in Kyiv
- Authorities bust cocaine hidden in banana freight container in Odesa port
- Ilya Ponomarev: ‘I don’t believe Kremlin ordered poisoning of Navalny’
- When government can’t help orphans in Ukraine, charities step up
- UNIAN: Sytnyk faces 2 years in prison for selling land in Crimea and usurpation of power
- Belarus opposition leader foils special op to expel her by destroying passport
- Reuters: Nobel laureate Alexievich denounces Belarus ‘terror’
- Associated Press: Nobel laureate warns arrests won’t stop Belarus protests
- Green & red-zone countries
- UkrInform: Additional payments to doctors to be raised by Hr 3,500 on average
Business Update
Interfax: Ukraine reduces cheese export by 18%, raises import by 2.4 times
Interfax: Ukrhydroenergo jointly with USAID, World Bank to build solar storage capacities
Interfax: Kuleba invites Portuguese investors to take part in privatization in Ukraine
Interfax: Zelensky during visit to Khmelnytsky NPP discusses possibility of financing completion of third, fourth power units
Interfax: ICU Investment Group improves forecast for GDP decline in 2020 to 5.7%
Interfax: Number of ship passages on Dnipro River 10.6% down in eight months – Sea Ports Authority
Opinions
Trudy Rubin: Kremlin’s murder of opponents can’t be accepted as new global norm
George Barros, Mason Clark: Lukashenko expels opposition to support Kremlin operation
Daniel Drezner: Will there be an ‘October surprise’ in foreign policy?
