- Prodan quits. Myroslav Prodan, who was acting head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine for two years, resigned from his post on Sept. 5. Prodan said he had resigned to avoid a conflict of interest, as he was about to take part in the selection competition for the job of head of the State Fiscal Service.
- New Bayer plant. German pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant Bayer has opened a $200-million seed plant in Zhytomyr Oblast, 100 kilometers southeast of Kyiv. The plant will produce 750,000 bags of corn seeds per year.
- More pressure on journalists. A court has given the Prosecutor General’s Office access to the phone records of Kristina Berdynskykh, a journalist at the Novoye Vremya magazine. Berdynskykh became the second Ukrainian journalist whose cell phone data was disclosed to authorities this week.
- Peaceful summer. Despite many ceasefire violations, the summer of 2018 became the most peaceful one since the beginning of the conflict in Donbas, according to the OSCE representatives in Ukraine.
- Zhadan in Brussels. Famous Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist Serhiy Zhadan read extracts from his novel “Internat” for the audience in Brussels. The novel has grim portrayals of the situation in eastern Ukraine and the problems of its people.
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