2019 Presidential Election
- The Central Election Commission has registered 37 candidates for president of Ukraine.
- The list of observers from the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission is still pending approval from Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry. Two Russian nationals on the list might be an issue.
- Kyiv Post’s chief editor Brian Bonner went to the AmCham’s Annual Members Appreciation Reception, which turned into a campaign rally for President Poroshenko’s re-election. Here’s how it went.
National News
- Fugitive and recently convicted in absentia to 13 years in prison ex-President Viktor Yanukovych gave a press conference in Moscow. It was extensively covered by Russian state media but, as the Kyiv Post former editor, Katya Gorchinskaya, noted, “barely made a ripple in the news flow in Ukraine. The nation has moved a long way past him and the wounds he inflicted.”
- NAZK opened a registry of persons and companies convicted for corruption or linked to corruption cases.
- Three experts from Toronto and Ukraine shared their views on the degree of anti-Semitism in modern Ukraine and the role of Jews in the country.
- Justice Ministry will appeal the ruling of the Kyiv District Court to suspend U.S.-born Ulana Suprun from serving as Acting Health Minister. Minister Petrenko called the decision “absurd and irresponsible.”
- Olga Trofimtseva was appointed as Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy instead of Maksym Martyniuk, who was fired.
Business & Technology News
- Uber Eats launched in Ukraine. For now, the delivery works from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in central Kyiv. Read more
- The Finance Ministry took over the national energy company Ukrenergo in a move to transform it into PJSC with European standards.
- Lviv airport is reportedly in talks with Qatar Airways and expects the representatives of the airline in late February.
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