What we’re watching
- Thursday, May 27 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar with Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova. Register here.
- Thursday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Understanding Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy in Russia. Watch here.
- Wednesday, June 2 at 3 a.m. Kyiv time: Ties that bind — Canada, US, and Ukraine More information here.
- Wednesday, June 16: Biden meets Putin in Geneva, will discuss Ukraine
In case you missed it
- Atlantic Council on May 25: Reform of the Security Service Ukraine. Watch here.
Top news
- Reuters: Biden, Putin to meet in Geneva on June 16
- 8 pictures to watch at Molodist film festival
- NABU extends list of suspects in bank fraud case against Bakhmatyuk
- BBC: Awkward conversation looms for Biden and Putin
- Bloomberg: Lawyer says Giuliani investigators seized Ukrainian emails
- CNN: Investigators seized more info in case against Rudy Giuliani than previously disclosed
- Reuters: Russia fines Google, Facebook for failing to delete banned content
- OCCRP: Report shows sanctions and asset recovery can reduce graft
- UNIAN: Ukraine among countries responsible for major coal power air pollution in Europe
- BBC: How Putin became a spy and married Lyudmila
- Shmyhal: Ukraine sets itself large-scale goals to combat climate change
- German Greens favour supplying defensive weapons to Ukraine
- Turkey says support of Ukraine’s territorial integrity “matter of principle”
- Belarusian seizure of Roman Protasevich
- Ukraine suspends air travel with Belarus
- West condemns, punishes Belarus after dictator hijacks Ryanair plane to seize journalist
- Roman Protasevich: A Belarus activist who ‘refused to live in fear’
- Ukraine International Airlines supports flight ban over Belarus
- Peter Dickinson: Ukraine bans Belarus flights over Lukashenka’s air piracy
- Reuters: Belarus opposition media struggles at home and abroad
- Lukashenko’s statement moved to May 26
- Washington Post: Belarus ruler Lukashenko needs Russia’s Putin as a lifeline
- Reuters: Companion of detained dissident journalist may face charges in Belarus, Russia says
- Reuters: Canada slams ‘outrageous’ Belarus behavior, Minsk says Canadian embassy to shut
- German FM: Lukashenko to pay ‘bitter price’ for incident with Ryanair
- RFE/RL: Belarusian court sentences opposition politician, pro-democracy activists
- BBC: Who is Roman Protasevich?
- BBC: Belarus plane – what we know and what we don’t
Coronavirus
- COVID-19 vaccine tracker – Financial Times: Bloomberg
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Red & green zone countries
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 2,608 new cases, 249 new deaths, 14,056 new vaccinations
Podcast: How Kremlin propaganda grooms Donbas teenagers
It has been just over seven years since the start of Russia’s invasion and aggression in Eastern Ukraine. The war has slowly dragged on with no end in sight. Meanwhile, children in occupied Donbas swallow pro-Kremlin propaganda on a daily basis.
Business
UkrInform: Large and medium-sized enterprises make Hr 166 billion in profits
Nord Stream 2: Biden says sanctions ‘counterproductive’ to US-European ties
Ukraine’s first grid-scale battery energy storage system comes online
Ukraine’s postal service adapts to surge in demand from China
Ukraine interested in expanding cooperation with Germany in energy sector – Shmyhal
Business Wire
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5 reasons to invest in apartments for business tourism in Kyiv
Opinions
| Tetiana Shevchuk: Weekly anti-corruption update in Ukraine
Paul Goble: Belarusian hijacking creates both opportunities and problems for Moscow Judy Dempsey: Europe is finally waking up over Belarus Viktoriia Aliyeva, Tymofii Brik: How Ukrainians view robots and artificial intelligence? Oleksiy Honcharuk: US diplomatic signals go unheard in Ukraine New York Times: A state-sponsored skyjacking can’t go unanswered David Kramer, Eric Edelman: Lukashenko’s threat to the international orderAnatoly Oktisyuk: Lukashenko pushing himself into the Russian bear’s arms Halya Coynash: Russia demands insane 9-year sentence against Chubarov Halya Coynash: Mothers of 3 Crimean Tatar prisoners fined for protesting Paul Goble: 1921-23 Russian famineGrigory Ioffe: Belarus stages what it sees as major security operations Washington Post: It’s time to respond forcefully to Belarus dictator Pavel Baev: The Arctic prelude to a ‘stabilization’ summit Benjamin Schmitt: Time to block Nord Stream 2 Edward Lucas: Kleptocracy threatens democracy From the archives: Follow the Kyiv Post’s coverage of Belarus After Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko rigged his reelection as president last August, the Kyiv Post grouped its coverage under the hot topic heading “Protests in Belarus” for convenience. |
