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Top weekend stories from the Kyiv Post:

  • At least 50,000 people rallied in Moscow for fair elections. The number of protesters has more than doubled since a similar demonstration on July 20, making it the largest opposition rally in Russia since 2011, according to observers.
  • A Ukrainian cadet graduated with distinction from a top UK military academy. Artem Baranenko has been awarded the Overseas Sword of the British Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, an honor given to the foreign graduate considered best of the class by the commandant of the academy.
  • Zelensky’s party suggested reducing number of parliament committees.Servant of the People, the pro-presidential party in the Ukrainian parliament, has suggested reducing the number of parliamentary committees from 27 to 22.
  • Netanyahu to visit Ukraine, to meet Zelensky. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to leave Israel on a two-day visit to Ukraine next week. The trip, scheduled for August 18-19, will be Netanyahu’s first visit to Kyiv in 20 years.
  • Putin riled Ukraine with Crimea bikers’ festival trip. Ukraine has protested to Russia after a leather-clad President Vladimir Putin visited the annexed Crimean peninsula to attend a bikers’ festival.
  • Muslims in Ukraine celebrated the start of Eid al-Adha. (PHOTOS).