- Sept 22 at 3:30 p.m. Kyiv time. Belarus’ right to choose its own future. German Marshall Fund of the United States. Register here.
- Sept. 23 at 11 a.m. Kyiv time. The Center for Liberal Modernity in Berlin is hosting a webinar on Ukraine’s judiciary. Speakers: Anastasiia Radina, head of the Anti-Corruption Committee, a Ukrainian member of parliament; Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a Ukrainian member of parliament; Tetiana Shevchuk, Anti-Corruption Action Centre; Sergii Leshchenko, a former member of parliament and Kyiv Post columnist. Register here.
- Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time. The Atlantic Council is hosting “Bankova breakdown? Ukraine’s summer of economic shock.” Register here.
- Hryvnia/$: 28.2
- Investigation: Ukrainian oligarchs, PEPs moved dirty billions across the globe
- Crimean Tatar blogger released after 2.5 years in Russian jail
- Students object to Servant of the People party event at Kyiv university
- Ukrainian meme page ridicules local mentality, goes viral
- 2 months before US elections, Ukraine delegation heads to DC
- Belarusian protests remain strong against Lukashenko
- Zelensky at United Nations General Assembly: “It’s not just war in Ukraine, it’s war in Europe”
- Red & green zone countries
- Associated Press: Europe adopts tougher virus restrictions as infections surge
- UNIAN: COVID-19 in Kyiv – Five schools shut down, 328 classes switched to distance learning
- UNIAN: COVID-19 – Ukraine redraws quarantine zones
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Ukraine roots
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is shown in a file photo on May 21, 2018. She died on Sept. 18, 2020, at age 87 of pancreatic cancer. Her death has revived interest in her Ukrainian roots and Jewish heritage. Her father Nathan Bader (1896-1968) was born in Khmelnytsky, Ukraine. The parents of her mother, Cecilia Bader, (1902-1950) came from Burshtyn in western Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Her father left Odesa at the age of 13.
Business Update
Interfax: Ukraine appeals to IMF to start online mission in country
RFE/RL: Kremlin insider laundered millions of dollars after sanctions
Aggregates Business: Ukraine cement boss sees major opportunities from Big Construction program
CBRE: Slowing office demand, vacancy rate 12.4% and rents down to $25 per square meter in 1H 2020
Ukrinform: Ukraine’s underground gas reserves exceed 27 billion cubic meters
Opinions
Timothy Ash: 6 rules for fighting COVID-19
Josh Rudolph: The rise of the foreign funds that distort Western politics
Jen Kirby: Yes, Russia is interfering in the 2020 election
Hanna Sokolova, Pavlo Stekh: How the pandemic has changed the lives of homeless people in Ukraine
Halya Coynash: Russia sentences Seiran Saliyev to 16 years
Halya Coynash: Russia to imprison all Crimean Solidarity journalists
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives
Ukraine: From Borderland to Raiderland
The Kyiv Post lays out in stark detail the lawlessness of the business climate in September 2013 under President Viktor Yanukovych. Editorials urge Yanukovych to sign a political trade and association agreement with the European Union and to let imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko go to Germany for medical treatment. Another editorial chronicles Victor Pinchuk’s recent Yalta European Strategy conference — the last, as it turned out, to be held on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. World in Ukraine goes to Japan.
