Top stories from a new issue of the Kyiv Post:
- New technologies solve old mysteries, as a Ukrainian nonprofit endeavours to recover and rehabilitate Jewish burial sites throughout the country.
- A charity is helping the forsaken elderly of Ukraine’s Donbas region to find comfort in peace.
- Ukraine and Turkey fall short, fail to sign a free trade deal. A long-awaited free trade agreement between Ukraine and Turkey will have to wait some more, as the two Black Sea neighbors failed to finalize the pact despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ankara on Aug. 7.
- Getting away with murder: The Kateryna Gandziuk case. Before she died, Gandziuk told journalists that she suspected Vladyslav Manger, a powerful Kherson Oblast official, of ordering her murder.
- Hong Kong protesters are drawing strong inspiration from the Ukraine revolution. Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have been reignited with a vengeance. Some activists and lawmakers there say they are inspired and instructed by the successful revolution in Ukraine. They see similarities in the two struggles and feel connected.
Politics and government:
- First session of the new parliament is to be held on August 29. Read more here.
- Vitali Klitschko’s shortcomings as mayor are easy to see. As world heavyweight boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko was a beloved figure to Ukrainians. As mayor of Kyiv, his record is much more divisive.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky promotes Ukraine to Turkish business community, but experts skeptical. Ukraine will become a haven for foreign business in the next five years — at least, that’s what the president thinks.
- Zelensky’s first moves cast doubt on the future of judicial reform. Zelensky and his team have said that judicial reforms carried out under his predecessor Petro Poroshenko have failed, but their plans are also off to a shaky start.
Business and economy:
- Summer of hryvnia chasers as investors move on Ukrainian bonds. The hryvnia was one of the world’s best-performing currencies in 2019 as foreign investors rushed to buy up hryvnia bonds in record amounts over the summer.
- Six suspects announced, one detained over Rotterdam+ coal pricing scheme. According to NABU detectives, in three years, the scheme resulted in Hr 18.8 billion ($748 million) worth of losses to Ukrainian electricity consumers.
Latest Kyiv Post podcast:
- The risk of a second Chornobyl. There are clear warning signs that Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are not 100-percent safe. We discuss why it is that, more than thirty years after the Chornobyl catastrophe, the Ukrainian nuclear power industry is still falling short on safety and security.
