Editor’s Note: Monday, June 28, was Constitution Day in Ukraine, an official holiday.
What we’re watching
- Tuesday, June 29 at 4 p.m. Kyiv time: Strategy Council – Ukrainian banking sector. Details here and on Facebook here. Watch here on YouTube.
- Tuesday, June 29 at 10 a.m. Kyiv time: Interfax-Ukraine – Does the dairy industry have a future in Ukraine? Details here.
- Tuesday, June 29 at 10 p.m. Kyiv time: Sweden vs. Ukraine in the Euro 2020 football tournament.
- 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.
In case you missed them
Stephen Butler, the founder of the London-based Strategy Council, has held numerous webinars about Ukraine in the last year. Find out more about the organization on its homepage. Here are links to webinars held in 2020-2021:
Ukrainian Banking webinar – June 29, 2021
Ukrainian Capital Markets – June 22, 2021
Corporate Governance at State-owned Enterprises in Ukraine – June 15, 2021
Private Equity in Ukraine – June 3, 2021
Strategic & Critical Minerals in Ukraine – April 27, 2021
Ukrainian Transport Infrastructure Week – April 12-16, 2021
Transport Infrastructure overview – April 12 , 2021
Focus on Ports – April 13, 2021
Focus on Roads – April 14, 2021
Focus on Rail – April 15, 2021
Focus on Airports & Aviation – April 16, 2021
UK-Ukraine Agribusiness webinar – March 16, 2021
Ukrainian IPO webinar – March 11, 2021
Ukrainian Investment Roadshow online, Dec. 7-15, 2020
Macroeconomic Outlook – Dec. 7, 2020
Ukrainian Banking Sector – Dec. 8, 2020
Infrastructure and new project opportunities – Dec. 10, 2020
Ukrainian Corporate and the International Capital Markets – Dec. 15, 2020
Investor views of the Ukrainian bond market – Dec. 15, 2020
+ interview with Kurt Volker
Ukrainian Agribusiness webinar – Nov. 24, 2020
Top news
- Sweden sends Ukraine copies of Pylyp Orlyk’s Constitution on Constitution Day
- U.S., Ukraine begin Sea Breeze 2021 exercise with 30 other countries
- Explore Ukraine: 7 beach vacation destinations
- If women in Ukraine love working in tech, why are there so few?
- Kyiv’s Central Bus restoration project shows modernization and preservation can coexist
- Selection panel accused of vetoing best candidates for chief anti-graft prosecutor
- Ksenia Schnaider influences global fashion trends with recycled jeans
- Associated Press: Ukraine, NATO launch joint Black Sea drills
- Washington Post: Spread of delta variant prompts new restrictions worldwide
- US sanctions experts to come to Ukraine next week for joint consultations
- Deutsche Welle: Candidates for German chancellor debate global security, foreign policy
- Zelensky’s questions for German chancellor candidates
- Reuters: German CDU chancellor candidate says Nord Stream could be halted if Russia abuses it
- Atlantic Council: The top takeaways from Joe Biden’s Europe trip
- Foreign Policy: Russia policy puts Biden under pressure across Europe
- Russia registers 21,650 new COVID-19 cases, 611 deaths in past 24 hours – HQ
- Over 400 Ukrainian citizens are in detention facilities in Russia, occupied territories – Denisova
- German Ambassador on Ukraine’s NATO membership: everyone fears to be in direct war with Russia
- World-class American University to open in Kyiv
- EU prolongs economic sanctions against Russia – European Council president
- Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian friends keep getting sanctioned
- China welcomes Ukraine U-turn on Xinjiang human rights call
- Artist draws Ukraine’s dark side with a ballpoint pen
- Ukrainian woman’s unyielding 20-year battle to save paralyzed husband
- Palyanitsa: a popular, classic bread
- From propaganda to protected: The Soviet mosaics left behind in Ukraine
Crimean Tatars celebrate Flag Day
Crimean Tatars rallied in central Kyiv on June 26 to celebrate Crimean Tatar Flag Day.
Business
- 27.4 = $1
- Half of Ukrainians ready to completely abandon use of cash
- European Union Council approves open skies agreement with Ukraine; Zelensky writes on Twitter: ‘The agreement will allow our citizens to get cheaper tickets & expand the geography of travel. Its signing will be another step towards entering the single European space.
- State in a smartphone: Inside Ukraine’s effort to replace bureaucracy with an app
- Ukraine invests in Kistler WiM to tackle overweight trucks
- Ukrzalyznytsia, the state railway, wants $1.5 billion in three years to upgrade passenger cars
- Electricity demand estimated to decline during 2021-2030
- US and Germany seek solution over controversial Nord Stream 2 gas project
- Capital amnesty starts in Ukraine
- Ukraine’s Naftogaz warns against ‘compromise’ deal on Nord Stream 2
- Ukraine’s coal output hits nearly 12.5 million tons from January-May 2021
- INTERVIEW: Kyrylo Shevchenko, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine
- Trade dependency keeps Ukraine out of international condemnation of China, Belarus
- Ukraine needs more gas transit for security
Business Wire
- Host your event in the Kyiv Post studio!
- Empower women, advance scientific knowledge to shape the future
- Corporate social responsibility is not just an obligation but a strategic business factor
- Privatization in Ukraine: opportunities and tips for Czech investors
- Kyiv Post Brand Studio & DTEK: 17 Sustainable Development Goals
- AVELLUM strengthens its litigation practice with hire of Mariana Antonovych
- Kinstellar expands in Ukraine with the acquisition of DLA Piper’s Kyiv practice
Opinions
- Alexei Bayer: The benefits of peace
- Andriy Boytsun: State-Owned Enterprises Weekly
- Paul Goble: Regimes like Russia’s seldom last for long
- Anders Aslund: Ukraine’s Russia sanctions target Putin’s inner circle
- Diane Francis: Putin’s Crimean crackdown continues
- Julia Mincheva: VAT for the chosen ones
- Paul Goble: Pandemic is Putin’s Chornobyl
- The Australian: Upholding freedom of the seas
- George Barros: Russia expands integration with Belarusian and Serbian militaries
- Yaroslav Bozhko: Corruption is the new hybrid weapon against the West
- Paul Goble: Russia’s Caspian Flotilla no longer only force that matters there
- Yuliia Rudenko: PACE adopts strong resolution in support of Crimean Tatars
- Paul Goble: Stalin’s rating rises in Russia
- Urmas Paet: Refraining from bilateral dealings with Russia
- Leonid Bershidsky: Why Putin is having a European moment
- David Kramer, Eric Edelman: The Biden-Putin Summit has opened the floodgates
- The Ukrainian Weekly: Tensions rising in the Black Sea
- Jon Lerner: Does Ukraine matter to America?
Dual Life
Ukraine’s war sacrifices are not evenly shared in society, Alyona Zhuk writes in the cover story. World in Ukraine: Canada.
