What we’re watching
- Tuesday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S-Ukraine Business Council – “Ukraine and the United States: What is the Future of this Relationship? What is the future of Nord Stream? What is the future of NATO?” Register here
- Friday, March 5 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: Atlantic Council – What should West do about Ukraine? Register here
Top news
- Ukraine signs visa-free deal with 6 new countries in Caribbean
- Postal, delivery services investment increases sixfold in 2020
- Ukrainian borshch among world’s best soups
- Folk quartet DakhaBrakha wins Aprize music award for best album of 2020
- Nestle starts to sell vegetarian ‘meat’ in Ukraine
- EBRD loans Kyiv 50 million euros to buy new subway cars
- Ukraine simplifies entry for foreign tech specialists
Coronavirus
- Red & green zone countries
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Photos: 10,000 Ukrainians take to streets to protest against Sternenko’s verdict
About 10,000 people on Feb. 27 took to the streets to demand the release of Odesa activist Serhiy Sternenko, who was sentenced on Feb. 23 to seven years in prison on kidnapping charges. The verdict, seen as persecution for his political activism, has prompted a backlash from civil society. During the rally in support of Sternenko, protesters marched from the President’s Office to the Prosecutor General’s Office, holding placards, burning flares and throwing smoke grenades.
Sternenko and his supporters have accused his political enemies, including Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff Oleh Tatarov, of fabricating the case. Hence, during the rally, the protesters also demanded the firing of Venediktova and Tatarov.
Business
UkrOboronProm: Odesa aircraft plant will produce Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters
Ukrinform: Markarova ready to help cooperate with IMF, but it’s not the main task of ambassador
UNIAN: U.S. welcomes Ukraine’s initiative on Crimean Platform
Fitch affirms Ukraine at ‘B’; outlook stable
Ukrinform: Canada will always support Ukraine – defense minister
Global Compliance News: Ukraine imposes sectoral sanctions on Nicaragua over Crimea
Ukrinform: Canada’s key role in training Ukraine’s defense forces unquestionable – Taran
UNIAN: Ukraine’s government instructed to draft bill on dual citizenship
Deadline: Hotels in Ukraine granted permits for operating casinos
Fresh Plaza: Ukraine avocado imports up 28% over past year
Washington Times: Ukraine minister sees short window for Biden to confront Russia
Business Wire
Ukraine should prove to be an agricultural superpower in a post-COVID world
Cyprus immigration guide for non-EU citizensLaw firm AVELLUM promotes new counsel in dispute resolution practice
Flower delivery Bloom.ua offers to send bouquets to employees, co-workersIndia in the 21st Century
GOLAW: Guilt and intent as conditions for tax liability from January 2021
Avellum: How to protect international investors in an unsettled tax world
Opinions
Askold S. Lozynskyj: Ukrainian nationalists and Ukrainian statehood
Alexei Bayer: Containing Putin’s Russia
Leonid Bershidsky: Vaccine passports are latest victim of sloppy government data
EUvsDisinfo: Who is afraid of Russophobia?
Emil Avdaliani: Crisis in Armenia provides ground for Russian meddling
Vladimir Socor: Armenia’s military, opposition move to oust Pashinian
Nygmet Ibadildin: As Navalny rises in Russia, Kazakhstan watches nervously
Thomas De Waal: In Georgia, a new crisis that no one needs
Nicholas Kristof: President Biden lets a Saudi murderer walk
Clara Ferreira Marques: Russia needs Alexey Navalny, warts and all
Paul Goble: Political correctness not principles dominates West
Paul Gregory: West’s ‘wokeness’ helped Russia to redefine a ‘prisoner of conscience’
Yuri Zoria: Ukraine takes action against major domestic pro-Russian actors
Eli Lake: Georgia is Biden’s first foreign policy crisis
Washington Post: Democracy is on the brink in Georgia, and Putin is delighted
From the archives: Murder Near Kremlin Wounds Ukraine
The Kyiv Post edition offered extensive coverage of the Feb. 27, 2015, assassination of Kremlin opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, including publication of one of his op-eds criticizing Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
