You're reading: Daily Digest: Top news of weekend, Sept. 22-23
  • The biannual Kyiv Post Employment Fair welcomed over 1,400 job seekers, as well as 50 companies, at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv on Sept. 22. It is the highest attendance that the career event has seen in its 13-year history. See the photo gallery here.
  • Odesa activist Oleg Mykhailyk suffered gunshot wounds in Odesa on Sept. 22. Mykhailyk is one of the leaders of self-financed and civil society-based political party, Syla Lyudei (Power of the People), and an active critic of Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov.
  • In five years, GDP per capita in Ukraine will grow by 1.5 times, according to the analysts of the International Monetary Fund.
  • Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is a big problem, says Swedish economist and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Anders Aslund, who blasted the country’s weak property rights.
  • People in Ukraine’s annexed Crimea lack drinking water.
  • The issue of Ukraine’s occupied territories to be discussed at the 73rd session of UN General Assembly.