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Our 22nd edition of the Kyiv Post Legal Quarterly is published – and it’s all about agriculture. Highlights:
- Conflicts of interest? Plenty of them as MPs with ties to agroholdings decide public policy
- Trade restrictions curb sales of agricultural products
- Ukrainian berry market grows fast despite serious hurdles
- Why does Ukraine export more commodities than pricier finished goods?
- Lawyers talk about best way to end ban on farmland sales
- Ukrainian tech firm makes farming look like video game
- Ukraine’s agricultural sector needs more small, medium enterprises
- Cartoons
Other news – only 13 days until Ukraine’s parliamentary election:
- The annual Ukraine-European Union Summit wrapped up on July 8 with President Volodymyr Zelensky focused on ending Russia’s war and the EU’s Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker pledging support; the Ukrainian president also said that the High Anti-Corruption Court will start hearing cases ni September. Tusk, in farewell remarks, said he is proud when critics call him a “pro-Ukraine maniac.”
- What do we know about the top 120 members of Zelensky’s party, Servant of the People? Quite a lot, thanks to staff writers Oksana Grytsenko and Vyacheslav Hnatyuk. Zelensky’s party is the leading all polls.
- Zelensky says he’s willing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as he dismisses a joint program between Ukrainian and Russian TV channels as acheap but dangerous PR stunt.
- The Museum of Election Trash in Kyiv displays the artifacts of elections past.
- Political revenge? Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze is Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European integration. So it’s assumed she would have a lead role in the July 8 Ukraine-European Union Summit. Not so. She was locked out. A likely reason is that she is running on the party list of European Solidarity, the party led by ex-President Petro Poroshenko, who Zelensky trounced in the April 21 presidential election.
- Kolomoisky’s kangaroo courts strike again? Two strange rulings — one against a central bank deputy governor who had a hand in nationalizing billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky’s money-bleeding PrivatBanki in 2016, and another one against a low-cost SkyUp Airlines, which is putting a dent in business for Kolomoisky’s Ukraine International Airlines. Coincidence?Investigative journalists don’t think so.
- Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to persevere in Russia’s war. “Ukraine has been living for a long time a difficult and delicate situation, for over five years wounded by a conflict that many call ‘hybrid’, composed as it is by war actions where those responsible are camouflaged,” the pope said.
- Oleksandr Danylyuk, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, is interested in becoming Ukraine’s prime minister.
- The National Bank of Ukraine says Ukraine’s hard-currency reserves stood at $20.6 billion on July 1, enough to pay for 3.4 months of imports.
- Ukraine’s Finance Ministry estimates Ukraine’s debt repayment in 2020 at Hr 351 billion, nearly $13.7 billion, slightly less than this year’s total and more than 25 percent of the state budget.
- Ukraine has for the first time started receiving oil from the United States, driven by a need to find other sources to replace Russian oil, whose export to Ukraine the Kremlin banned in April. Previously, Russia supplied Ukraine with 40 percent of its oil.
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