What we’re watching
- Monday, May 24 at 10 a.m. Kyiv time: Zelensky to take part in Ukraine 30. Land All-Ukrainian Forum; it will be available on the forum’s YouTube channel
- Tuesday, May 25 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: Center for European Policy Analysis — The shrinking space for free and independent media in Europe. Register here.
- Thursday, May 27 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Oksana Markarova. Register here.
Top news
- Ukraine, the TV audience’s No. 2 choice, places 5th in Eurovision (VIDEO)
- Transgenders in Ukraine march to mark historic date
- Myroslava Barchuk wins annual Georgiy Gongadze Prize
- Channel 7 Odesa: Kyiv Post Review. Episode 82
- Kyiv says water supplies to Crimea possible only after de-occupation
- Ukraine parliament adopts law on accountability for crimes in Russian-occupied Crimea
- Zelensky takes aim at Ukraine’s richest oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov
Belarusian flight diversion
- ABC News: The moment Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich knew his plane was being ‘hijacked’ by his own government
- RFE/RL: Belarusian journalist arrested after his flight diverted to Minsk after false bomb threat
- Max Boot: One more international norm gets busted in the skies over Belarus
- New York Times: Belarus forces down plane to seize dissident; Europe sees ‘state hijacking’
- New York Times: Who Is Roman Protasevich, the captive journalist in Belarus?
- Ishaan Tharoor: A brazen display of autocratic power in Europe is a new test for Biden
- Washington Post: European leaders condemn Belarusian authorities after plane is forced to land and opposition journalist is detained
Coronavirus
- COVID-19 vaccine tracker – Financial Times: Bloomberg
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Red & green zone countries
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 2,533 new cases, 89 new deaths, 1,022 new vaccinations
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 4,606 new cases, 178 new deaths, 17,583 new vaccinations
Business
Ukraine seeks to increase FDI inflow to $15 billion per year from 2025
UkrInform: Ukrainian banks get Hr 17.5 billion in net profit in 2021
Zelensky appoints Mylovanov to Ukroboronprom supervisory boardUkrzalyznytsia plans to sell 182 non-core assets
Car imports up to $1.2 billion in first quarter of 2021
World Steel production rockets in April 2021
Business Wire
Host your event in the Kyiv Post studio!Open Letter to Prime Minister from Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
TIU Canada: Canada versus the oligarchs
CRI Group: Time to liquidate Cyprus or other offshore companies?
GOLAW: Key features of bankruptcy in Ukraine
Kyiv International School: Design Thinking
Winner becomes a distributor of MG in Ukraine
Opinions
Alexei Bayer: Failure and success of the dissident movement
Andriy Boytsun: State-Owned Enterprises Weekly
Paul Goble: In proposed law, Russians aren’t ‘indigenous people of Ukraine’
Rebecca Harms: Chornobyl is a disaster that still overwhelms us all
Yuliia Rudenko: Jailed Russian historian awarded Sakharov prize
Kurt Volker: A plan for NATO to get serious about Russia
Washington Post: Russia’s attack on US media has become a test case
Paul Goble: Separatists increasingly at odds, complicating Moscow’s approach to Ukraine
EUvsDisinfo: Moldovan journalists on disinformation
Leonid Bershidsky: ‘Foreign agent’ laws are a blueprint for xenophobia
Michael Albanese: The bear’s necessities
Wojciech Michnik: We need to talk about Russia, againAlan Riley: To halt Russian misbehavior, seize assets
Paul Goble: Putin said mulling new canal between Caspian and Black Sea
David Harsanyi: What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?
Melinda Haring: Ukraine’s future is being made outside Kyiv
Janusz Bugajski: Is Biden being Putinized?
From the archives: Euro 2012 looks for 12,000 volunteers
The high renewable energy tariff started in 2011 to help the fortunes of Activ Solar and the Klyuyev brothers, top associates of President Viktor Yanukovych. The costs are still showing up today. Donetsk celebrates the 75th anniversary of its Shakhtar football club. Student Ihor Indylo’s death in police custody remains unsolved. Racially motivated attacks on the rise. Yanukovych approval rating: 11 percent. Fine dining in Gorchitsa. Exploring Ukraine in Kamyanets-Podilskiy.
