What we’re watching
- 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.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, had a Ukrainian connection. Her father was a Jewish emigrant from Odesa.
- Hryvnia/$: 28.2
- Russia sentences 7 Crimean Tatars to long prison terms
- World in Ukraine: France
- Kyiv not Kiev: Wikipedia changes spelling of Ukrainian capital
- New restaurants liven up dining scene in Kyiv amid COVID-19 shakeout
- UNIT.City CEO: We want to build the city of the future
- Supreme Court criticizes judicial corruption in statement on judge Vovk case
- Zelensky party lawmaker escapes arrest, claims exposure to COVID-19
- 45% of Ukrainians will fall below actual poverty level in 2020: study
- Parliament passes law allowing sale of pharmaceuticals online
- After explosion, Ukraine repairs gas transportation pipeline
Kyiv Post Podcast: From Ukraine, With Love
The week’s news in 9 minutes with Elina Kent & Alex Query.
Business Update
UNIAN: European Parliament demands halt to Nord Stream 2 project
Interfax: Ukraine’s airports cut passenger traffic by 63%, airlines by 66% in Jan-Aug
Interfax: Avangard loses half of its capacities due to NABU case against holding’s owner
Interfax: State Statistics Service confirms assessment of Ukraine’s GDP fall at 11.4% in Q2 2020
Opinion
Sergii Leshchenko: Why incumbent mayors are set to win in big cities
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives
Financial Free Fall?
Ukraine’s banking crisis, which cost taxpayers at least $20 billion, didn’t appear out of nowhere in 2014. Already, by the autumn of 2009, the problems had been building. Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko was investigating a $13 billion scandal over the central bank’s secretive refinancing of banks in which insider profited enormously. Some of those banks went bankrupt, including Nadra, Rodovid, and Kyiv.
