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What we’re watching
- 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
- ICIJ: With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland
- Anti-graft agency: Yanukovych’s ex-lawyer must be fired from investigative bureau
- Russian online marketplace Wildberries launched in Ukraine, causing backlash
- Ukraine steps up fight against domestic, gender-based violence
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s little-known Ukrainian history
- Zelensky lambastes Kyiv authorities ahead of local election
- Netflix partners two Ukrainian dubbing studios
- Zelensky, Trudeau talk
- Red & green zone countries
- Government introduces new rules for implementing ‘red’ quarantine zones
- Bloomberg: Europe finds mass testing is no solution for the coronavirus
Photos: Ukrainian, Western troops engage in major joint exercises across Ukraine
Ukraine has been executing some of its largest military exercises, with its Western military partners, namely the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
Business Update
Interfax: Ukrainian pharma market could grow by 5-6% in hryvnia in 2020
Interfax: Danone sees growth potential in Ukraine, plans further investment
Interfax: Finance Ministry raises rate on 12-month government bonds to 9.5%
Interfax: Filimonov: Zelensky backs my idea of making free zone for IT specialists in Odesa
Interfax: Privatization of UMCC left in govt plan for 2020
Interfax: Dragon Capital improves its forecast for economic decline to 5.5% in 2020
Interfax: EU ready to provide 1.2 billion euros of macrofinancial aid to Ukraine, subject to constructive interaction with IMF, upholding rule of law
Interfax: Investors consider policy of state unclear – Dragon Capital CEO
Interfax: UkraineInvest presents ‘investment guide’ with 60 projects
Interfax: Commission for business protection to hold meeting in October
Interfax: Sluggish reform progress to result in frictions between Ukraine and IMF
World Grain: Ukraine grain exports behind last year’s pace
Ukrinform: Retail trade turnover grows by 5.9% in Ukraine
Ukrinform: UkraineInvest: $2.2 B to be invested in Ukraine’s economy in two years
Ukrainian Journal: Ukraine’s gross external debt hits $122.8 billion, 79% of GDP
Dragon Capital: Dragon Capital building E40 industrial park near Kyiv
Opinions
Timothy Ash: IMF will go slow on additional lending to Ukraine
Jeremy Stern: Navalny is Merkel’s ‘red line’ crisis
John Vsetecka: Desecration of genocide monument marks a new low in Ukraine’s memory wars
Judy Dempsey: How citizens of Belarus and Bulgaria are held hostage
Ambassador Joel Lion: Make peace and declare war on COVID-19
Josh Rogin: Putin ‘probably directing’ operation to denigrate Biden
Jonathan Pedneault: In Belarus, bitter humor to stem the pain
Halya Coynash: Freed Crimean Tatar civic journalist may return in Crimea
Halya Coynash: Russia sentences men to over 300 years without any crime
Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives
Chornobyl Corruption
The Kyiv Post’s 20th Anniversary Gala got the lion’s share of the coverage in this news-packed edition.
