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A bird’s-eye view of Kyiv: The first snowfall of the season

If you missed last week’s snow, here is a bird’s-eye view of some of Kyiv’s most famous sites after the first snowfall of the season.

Business Update

Hryvnia – $: 28.4
Interfax: Some 15 business centers to enter Kyiv office market in 2020-2021
UkrInform: Ukrainian banks receive almost Hr 40 billion of net profit since year-start
Interfax: Ukraine climbs 20 positions in road quality rating while overall the nation ranks 92nd among nations on the Legatum Prosperity Index
Interfax: Antimonopoly committee permits Dragon Capital to acquire Finance.ua, Minfin.com.ua
Interfax: Guaranteed Buyer’s settlements with RES electricity producers reaches 40.6% since early 2020
Concorde Capital: Ukraine retail sales speed up to 8% growth in the first 10 months of 2020

Opinions

Timothy O’Brien: Trump’s sound and fury will signify nothing
EUvsDisinfo: What have pro-Kremlin media strategists achieved in Belarus?
Nika Aleksejeva: Belarusian activist Telegram channels are losing audience
Michael Gentile: The elephant in Mariupol