Editor’s note: In this feature, the Kyiv Post brings together the most relevant events from morning headlines.
Four investors want to buy Platinum Bank, according to Forbes. The list includes Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM, Boris Kaufman’s Vertex, Russian Alfa Bank and Delta Bank. According to Forbes’ source, all four companies made offers of $130-150 million for the bank.
According to deputy chairman of Central Election Committee Andriy Magera, previously convicted people have the right to run for the post of Ukraine’s president, while they can’t run for the parliament, reports Korrespondent. Magera was referring to Ukraine’s Constitution.
On July 5, 2013, Verkhovna Rada is set to hold the last meeting of the second session of the seventh convocation, writes Dzerkalo Tyzhnya. The third session will start in nearly two months on Sep. 3, 2013. President Viktor Yanukovych will not deliver the closing speech. Deputies will conduct an hour of questions to the government before voting on several projects and closing the session for the summer.
Ukrainian athlete Bogdan Bondarenko jumped 2.41 meters high at the championship in Switzerland, breaking Ukraine’s high jump record that stood for 28 years, reports Kommersant. The previous best was held by Rudolph Povarnitsyn, who jumped 2.40 meters in 1985.
