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
Top news
- Biden calls sanctions against Nord Stream 2 counterproductive
- Ukrainian Eurovision act Go_A tops Spotify’s global Viral 50 chart
- Prosecutors send case against Constitutional Court head to trial
- Dragon Capital buys Ukrainska Pravda
- US taxi service Lyft to open R&D center in Kyiv, hire techies
- The Jerusalem Post: Jewish history and Holocaust studies scholar murdered in Ukraine
- New York Post: Hunter Biden’s Ukraine salary was cut two months after Joe Biden left office
- Reuters: Ukraine decries lack of progress in joining NATO, wants to be at summit
- EU Observer: Macron says EU sanctions on Russia do not work
- Washington Post: Facebook says Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation
Belarusian seizure of Roman Protasevich
- Bloomberg: EU may sanction Belarus’s potash industry by this summer
Reuters: Belarus leader says detained journalist was plotting ‘bloody rebellion’
BBC: Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich’s colleagues fear for their lives
Coronavirus - COVID-19 vaccine tracker – Financial Times and Bloomberg
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Red & green zone countries
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 3,395 new cases, 208 new deaths, 16,387 new vaccinations
- Number of coronavirus-related deaths in Ukraine exceeds 50,000
Inspecting wreckage of MH17
Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis views the reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at the Gilze-Rijen military airbase, southern Netherlands, on May 26, 2021. Judges inspect the wreckage of flight MH17 as part of the criminal trial of four suspects accused in the shoot-down with a Russian missile of the commercial plane. All 298 people aboard were killed on July 17, 2014. (AFP)
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Business
UNIAN: Ukraine’s economic recovery to begin in Q2 this year – Shmyhal
Naftogaz strengthens management team to achieve qualitative changes in interaction with stakeholders
Expert says Ukrainian real estate market on upward trend
Kyiv airport hopes to more than double passenger traffic in 2021
Ukrzaliznytsia identifies 182 non-core assets, putting 11 of them up for sale
Business Wire
In a global race for investments, Ukraine is asleep at the wheel
5 reasons to invest in apartments for business tourism in Kyiv
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Open Letter to Prime Minister from Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
Time to liquidate Cyprus or other offshore companies?
Bankruptcy in Ukraine: key features
Opinions
Timothy Ash: Tightening the screws on Lukashenko — and Putin too
Mikheil Saakashvili: Sailors’ case proves that Zelensky was right to liquidate Vovk’s notorious court
Brian Whitmore: Did Russia assist in Belarus dictator’s act of air piracy?
Anders Åslund: Will corruption sink EU convergence?Anna Nemtsova: Putin invites Belarus plane hijacker for tea
Leonid Bershidsky: Lukashenko’s air piracy has no Western precedent
Yasmeen Serhan: The West is failing Belarus
Andrei Pertsev: Russia has crossed a new rubicon
Mathieu Boulegue: 5 key points for Biden’s Russia summit
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach: Time to open doors for Belarus
Halya Coynash: Donbas propaganda film goes hilariously wrong in Crimea
Halya Coynash: Odesa student imprisoned in Crimea for pro-Ukraine leaflets
Philip Stephens: Angela Merkel has dealt Europe’s authoritarian leaders a trump card
From the archives: Poroshenko Goes For First-Round Win On May 25, 2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was riding high seven years ago. He’s not popular anymore, after his five-year rule marred by corruption and obstruction of Ukraine’s reform agenda. . |