• Ukraine’s Russia-friendly opposition appears to have failed to unite around a single candidate to represent them at the upcoming Ukrainian presidential elections in March 2019. The co-chairman of the Opposition Bloc faction in parliament, Oleksandr Vilkul, announced that the faction had stripped its co-chairman Yuriy Boyko, and another lawmaker, Serhiy Lyovochkin of their membership in the faction.
• The Verkhovna Rada voted down a motion to strip lawmaker Stanislav Berezkin of parliamentary immunity, whom prosecutors suspect of fleecing state-owned Oschadbank of $20 million dollars.
• The European Union is considering targeted sanctions against individuals involved in the sham Nov. 11 elections in Russian-controlled areas of the eastern Donbas oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
• Last year, more than 660,000 Ukrainians received temporary residency permits in the EU, putting Ukraine in first place among foreign migrants to the 28-nation bloc. Almost 9 in 10 of Ukrainians going to the EU for work ended up in Poland.
• A documentary film about the important but under-publicized role of women in Ukraine’s armed forces went on a tour of prestigious British venues last week.
• Lawyers and campaigners in the United Kingdom will rely on reports that they say show overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum when they launch a major legal challenge against the vote’s result at London’s High Court on Dec. 7.
• The National Bandurist Capella of Ukraine, which consists of more than 60 vocalists and instrumentalists, celebrated the 100th Anniversary of this legendary chorus in a Nov. 19 concert in Kyiv sponsored by the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, with more than 200 member companies, including the Kyiv Post.
• Irish air carrier Ryanair intends to invest around $1.5 billion in Ukraine within the next five years, increased the fleet to 15 planes, and the annual ridership to 5 million people, according to Ryanair’s Commercial Director David O’Brien.
• Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee has fined Kyiv Sikorsky International Airport Hr 681,000, as well as Master Avia – the company that manages the airport – Hr 1.8 million, for using anticompetitive concerted actions.
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