What we’re watching
- Wednesday, June 30 at 4 p.m. Kyiv time: The future of Ukraine’s gas transit after Nord Stream 2. The event is jointly managed by the European Business Association and the Kyiv Post. It will be live-streamed on the Kyiv Post’s website, Twitter & Facebook page. Moderator: Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner. Featured speakers: Sergiy Makogon, CEO of Ukraine’s Transmission System Operator; Georgii Geletukha, chairman of the board of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine; Andrian Prokip, energy expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future; and Stanislav Kazda, strategy director at Regional Gas Company.
Top News
Highway Robbery? $3.5 billion road project wins exemption from public oversight
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World Bank loans Ukraine $350 million for pandemic response
Zaporizhia receives 35 million euro loan from IFC to transform the city
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Swedish truck company Scania wins appeal in $4.5 million claim by former distributor
Dragon Capital spends millions to revive Kyiv School of Economics
Ukraine tightens border control over Delta variant
Associated Press: China pressures Ukraine at UN rights council
Women’s Business Chamber of Ukraine promotes gender equality, fights bias
COVID-19 in Ukraine: 876 new cases, 53 new deaths, 96,180 new vaccinations
Reuters: France, Germany drop plans for Russia summit after EU outcry
Zelensky: Ukraine’s accession to NATO matter of security rather than politics
Zelensky’s interview with 1+1 TV station
Ksenia Schnaider influences global fashion trends with recycled jeans
Kyiv Post Brand Studio
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Business
Naftogaz starts importing gas for pumping it into UGS facilities – Naftogaz CEO
Naftogaz revises drilling plans to increase gas production – Vitrenko
Zelensky: Great Construction creates 200,000 jobs
IFC: A Ukrainian city envisions a smarter, greener future
Reuters: Germany, US seek to resolve Nord Stream 2 dispute by end August
Wall Street Journal: In Russia, some of the world’s biggest polluters are going green
Ukrainian e-commerce market grows by 41%
Business Wire
Empower women, advance scientific knowledge to shape the future
Corporate social responsibility is not just an obligation but a strategic business factor
Opinion
Sergii Leshchenko: Avakov puts personal interests first in siding with Firtash, Fuks
Yaroslav Zhelezniak: Corporate governance in SOEs combats oligarchs better than blacklists
Bohdan Nahaylo: The great betrayal from Merkel & Macron
Financial Times: How Europe should deal with Putin
Anna Nemtsova: Even doctors won’t take Putin’s vaccine
EUvsDisinfo: A chronicle of Kremlin contradictions
Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Why the West must stand with Ukraine
Diane Francis: Turkey’s Terminator
Pavel Felgenhauer: Russia bungles pre-planned intercept of UK navy vessel
Alya Shandra: Zelensky admits operation to detain Wagner group existed
Halya Coynash: Russia calls celebrating Crimean Tatar Flag Day ‘extremism’
Stanislav Aseyev, Andreas Umland: The Izolyatsia grinder in Russia-controlled Donetsk
Julian Hayda: Environmental justice is a critical Ukrainian issue
The Ukrainian Weekly: Tensions rising in the Black Sea
From the archives: Italy vs. Spain
Nine years ago, Ukraine was all abuzz because it was hosting the July 1 football championship between Italy and Spain on July 1, 2012, during Euro 2012. Elton John came to sing on June 30, 2012. The Kyiv Post ranked law firms in different categories. The Land of Dreams music festival was a hit. Editorials: Henry Kissinger comes to town for no reason other than money, and an appeals court orders prosecutors to drop criminal charges against ex-President Leonid Kuchma in the Georgiy Gongadze murder.
