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What we’re watching
- Sept. 15-16: Zelensky to visit Austria
- 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
- OCCRP: Deutsche Bank will pay $583,000 to settle violation of sanctions
- Militants demand to inspect Ukrainian lines, open fire when rejected
- US Treasury sanctions Ukrainian lawmaker for election interference
- In rare interview, ex-chief of staff Bogdan talks about Zelensky, Yermak
- Top fashion designers create a collection for Ukrainian utilities workers
- Dobrodiy Club offers orphans career advice and happiness
- Odesa finally evacuates sunken tanker Delfi after a year
- Ukraine extends entry ban to include transit passengers
- UNIAN: Ukraine makes another review of quarantine zoning
- UNIAN: Zelensky compares fight against COVID-19 with Chornobyl clean-up operation
- Interfax: Armed Forces’ Commander-in-Chief Khomchak infected with COVID-19
- UNIAN: Ukraine reports record number of daily PCR tests
- Emerging Europe: Cyberattacks in Belarus compound discontent in country’s IT sector
- Associated Press: Top Belarus activist says authorities threatened to kill her
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Business Update
Interfax: NBU head expects further decline in interest rates
UNIAN: Ukraine becomes global leader in sunflower oil shipments
Interfax: Cabinet seeks to create multilingual website Visit Ukraine
Ukrinform: Tetiana Popova’s interview with Luke Harding
Time: As energy secretary, Rick Perry mixed money and politics in Ukraine
Interfax: Water shortage in Crimea is due to its militarization
Interfax: Security and defense funding at 5.92% of GDP for 2021 is higher than in 2020 – Danilov
Interfax: Auto insurance in Ukraine accounts for 36% of total premiums collected
Interfax: NBU’s inflation target for 2021 remains at 5% – NBU governor
Interfax: Naftogaz proposes that group conducts seismic surveys of shelf near Odesa
Interfax: G7 Ambassadors recalls Ukraine’s commitment to reform Ukroboronprom in line with OECD principle
Opinions
Orest Deychakiwsky: Build on existing laws to support Belarus
Askold Krushelnycky: Trump apologists reduced to contriving fantasies
Klimkin, Ivanov, Umland: Putin’s new constitution spells out modern Russia’s imperial ambitions
Liliia Hrynevych and Ivanna Kobernyk: Ukraine’s education sector reforms are under threat
George Barros: Lukashenko begins targeting the Kremlin ahead of meeting Putin
Paul Goble: Moscow Patriarchate nativizing its church branch in Belarus
Mykhailo Honchar: Will Nord Stream 2 fall victim to Navalny’s poisoning?
Bohdan Ben: Meet the 75-year-old icon of the protests against Lukashenko
Willy Fautré: Deep concerns in Brussels about the fight against corruption in Ukraine
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series: From The Archives
Kyiv Post chief editor’s last edition in 1999
Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner served in the summer of 1999. In this edition, his last of that tenure, the front page includes Stefan Korshak’s profile of Odesa, Evgenia Mussuri’s feature on an American couple’s aid program to the people of Shchors, and Katya Gorchinskaya’s explanation of President Leonid Kuchma’s language policy.
