Editor’s Note: In this feature, the Kyiv Post brings together the most relevant news from the morning’s headlines.
Ukraine’s big moment turns into a major bust at the bi-annual Eastern Partnership Summit in
Lithuania where it failed to seal a landmark political association and
far-reaching free trade deal with the European Union, the Kyiv Post’s Katya Gorchinskaya writes from the event.
Business News Europe investigates the
origins of Ukraine’s mysterious
27-year-old multimillionaire Serhiy Kurchenko, who has amassed enormous wealth
in the gas trading business and acquired a huge oil refinery, a top flight
soccer club and more than 50 media outlets in just one year.
The Vilnius summit
where 28 European Union member states met with the leaders of six former
Soviet republics is overshadowed by Ukraine’s rejection on Nov. 21 of the
association agreement that it has for year negotiated and initialed with the
political union, writes Deutsche Welle.
Some pro-European
rally leaders plan to demonstrate on Independence Square until Dec. 1, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia writes, two days after the
Vilnius summit will have ended.
Belgium’s KRC Genk
soccer club flattened Dynamo Kyiv 3-1 on Nov. 28 in their Europa League group match – Dynamo remains in
second place with a chance to advance to the playoffs, writes
UEFA, Europe’s top soccer governing body.
