What we’re watching
- Sept. 17 at 9 a.m. Kyiv time: 11th European-Ukrainian Energy Day. Watch online.
- Sept. 17 at 9:30 a.m. Washington/4:30 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar: “Fighting corruption effectively.” Register 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.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Lviv Oblast on Sept. 17.
- Hryvnia/$: 28.1
- Poll: Zelensky has lowest approval rating since his election
- Russian nukes in Crimea? Experts worry they may already be there
- Constitutional Court undercuts president’s power over anti-corruption agency
- Novus buys supermarket chain Billa Ukraine
- Austrian newspaper Weiner Zeitung’s interview with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other highlights from the president’s trip to Austria
- How Chernobyl has become an unexpected haven for wildlife
- France’s ambassador to Ukraine sees change in mood in just 1 year
- Credit Agricole CEO: France in for the long haul in Ukraine
Ukraine marks the 20th anniversary of journalist Georgiy Gongadze’s murder
Four police officers were convicted in the kidnapping and killing. Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was killed from two gunshots to the head on March 4, 2005. Ex-President Leonid Kuchma, implicated on audiotapes in ordering the journalist to be silenced, no longer faces any criminal charges in the murder and has denied any involvement. Gongadze was a pioneer of digital and investigative journalism in independent Ukraine, co-founding the Ukrainska Pravda news site. Read about the Sept. 16, 2020 commemoration.
Business Update
European Commission: Ukraine has the cheapest household electricity prices among 33 European capitals surveyed
Financial Times: Germany offered €1bn for gas terminals in exchange for US lifting NS2 sanctions
S & P Global Platts: Explosion shuts section of main gas pipeline in Ukraine
Interfax: Tax hikes to balance budget categorically unacceptable – EBA
Interfax: Hotel occupancy in Odesa stands at 68% in August 2020
Interfax: Government approves draft anti-corruption strategy until 2024
Market Research: Short-term outlook for construction & infrastructure projects weakens
Market Research: Medium-term outlook for agribusiness is positive
Market Research: Outlook for Ukraine’s food & drink consumption positive through 2024
Opinions
Ilya Timtchenko: Ukraine’s richest should learn how to give, but most likely won’t
George Barros: Putin sends airborne troops to Belarus exercise
Sylvie Kauffmann: Can Biden fix what Trump broke?
Hanna Liubakova: Putin risks turning Belarus from natural ally to enemy
Nika Aleksejeva: Belarus state media botch reporting on a botched abduction
Salome Gongadze: 20 years after my father’s abduction
Paul Stronski: The limits of Russian integration in Eurasia
Paul Goble: Beginning of Putin’s ‘eating’ of Belarus by mafia methods
Halya Coynash: Russia-led forces threaten to hold hostages until Ukraine agrees to fake elections
Tanya Lokshina: Justice is needed for Belarus
Halya Coynash: Language is important aspect of Ukraine’s independence
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives
