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Kyiv Post Employment Fair goes online for first time in 16 years

The Kyiv Post Employment Fair held its biannual career event for the 16th year and, for the first time, online because of the COVID‑19 pandemic.

Business Update

Interfax: Hryvnia/$: 28.2
Interfax: Epicenter plans to develop pharmacy network, ready to buy player with 100-200 pharmacies
Interfax: Kovalska Group intends to invest $70 mln in Unit.City project
Interfax: Ukrainian wagon building may stop already in 2021 – plant managers
Interfax: Netflix becomes member of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine
Global Property Guide: Ukraine’s housing market improving
Ukrainian Agribusiness Club: Ukraine will enter top-5 grain exporting countries

Opinions

Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s Friend and Foe of the Week
George Barros: Putin dissatisfied with Lukashenko’s concessions
Diane Francis: Huawei is just the first battle
Max Boot: The worst threat to US democracy since the 1930s
Halya Coynash: Russia-led forces claim young hostage ‘spied’ for Ukraine
Tanja A. Borzel: EU to Russia – stay out of Belarus!
Halya Coynash: Mother of Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience prosecuted for solitary picket
Mark Galeotti: Putin’s UN speech masks decline in confident rhetoric
Yuliya Rimsky and Filip Sasic: Ukraine’s booming IT sector can drive positive change
Mykola Vorobiov: Zelensky puts Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic future at risk
Interfax: Ukraine, Slovakia sign agreement to reopen Uzhgorod airport

Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series — From The Archives

Kuchma rivals fear vote rigging

The 1999 presidential election — won by Leonid Kuchma — was in full swing, with fears of vote-rigging by the incumbent president’s rivals.