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Here’s the latest from the Kyiv Post:
- President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy will have an entire week to try to force early parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, his political party, Servant of the People, is polling better than the other parties. Read about the Rada’s prospects here.
- Political party People’s Front pulled out of the ruling parliamentary coalition, widely viewed as a move to prevent Zelenskiy from dissolving the parliament and calling for an early vote. .
- The Kyiv District Administrative Court suspended the chairman of the High Qualification Commission of Judges. This may have a drastic impact on judicial reform and may be used to overwrite the Commission’s decisions since the fall of 2018, including the selection of Supreme Court and High Anti-Corruption Court judges.
- Odesa activists battling dubious development projects allegedly controlled by mafia-linked officials and businessmen are pinning their hopes on the new president.
- A Kyiv appeals court reversed a ban on the construction of a controversial residential and office complex in Podil. The building, known as “Podil’s monster” violates the maximum legal height allowed in the historic area.
- Mark Etherington, the new chief deputy monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s special monitoring mission in the Donbas spoke to the Kyiv Post in his first interview since taking on his new role. Etherington said that the mission will focus on helping resolve humanitarian issues in the war-torn region.
- Ukraine’s police forces are making the switch from Kalashnikov assault rifles and carbines to German-designed MP5 submachine guns.
- Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi said he will run for Prime Minister as the head of his party, Samopomich. The party now has 26 seats in parliament.
World in Ukraine: Sweden
- Swedish ambassador Martin Hagstrom discusses his 3-year tour of duty in Ukraine, as it draws to a close.
- Sweden, one of the most environmentally sustainable countries in the world, sets an example for Ukraine.
- Swedish businesses are hesitant to invest in Ukraine, citing the ongoing war with Russia and widespread corruption.
- The Swedish-Ukrainian Business Forum will be held on May 23. Find out the details here.
- Swedes living in Ukraine talk about their activities, hopes and dreams.
Lifestyle
- A late Ukrainian-American’s rare classical music collection has found its way to the Metropolitan Sheptytsky Cultural Center in Lviv.
- Ukrainian fans of the famous U.S. art festival Burning Man have created their own version in Kyiv’s Kurenivka Palace of Culture.
- Kyiv Post’s Alyona Nevmerzhytska takes us through a trip through Jordan’s breathtaking landscapes and ancient sites.
- Ukraine’s gargantuan Mriya airplaine ended up not casting the “Shadow of Dream” over the 58th Venice Biennale art exhibition this year. However, the artists who planned the stunt, still triumphed over the Ukrainian artistic “hierarchy.”
Technology
- President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to launch 5G internet in Ukraine, currently the fastest mobile data technology.
