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What we’re watching
  • Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. Kyiv time: Kyiv Post, in partnership with DTEK, discusses “The Green Deal: Ukraine needs to catch up on green energy.” Live stream on the Kyiv Post website, YouTube, and Facebook page.
  • Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. Kyiv time: Zelensky to address Rada with annual statement on Oct. 20
  • Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. Washington/5 p.m. Kyiv time: Atlantic Council. How Crimea’s Tatars are fighting occupation and displacement. Register here.
  • Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time. Online meeting of the Belarusian Expert-Analytical Club. To join.
  • Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. Kyiv time: Special American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine online event: Countdown to the U.S. presidential election with Fox’s Jon Decker. Watch here.
  • Oct. 21 at 8 p.m, Kyiv time: U.S. presidential election comes to Kyiv. Watch Democrat Reno Domenico debate Republican Chris Holzen; moderator Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner. Details here.
  • Oct. 22 at 9:30 a.m. Washington/4:30 p.m. Kyiv time. UkraineInvest: Your Investment Matters. Register here.
  • Oct. 30 at 8:30 p.m. Kyiv time. Ukrainian Institute in London. “Frontline Art: Representing Donbas.” Tickets via Eventbrite
In case you missed these events
  • Oct. 19: Atlantic Council’s Reimagining reform: Innovation in Ukraine.
  • Oct. 17: Ukrainian World Congress First Virtual Forum “United by Ukraine.” (Ukrainian language)
  • Oct. 15: How Does Democracy Die? An Exclusive Conversation with Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman
  • Oct. 15: Manor College’s Ukrainian Dialogue program with Ukraine Ambassador to the United States Volodymyr Yelchenko, Kyiv Post executive director/chief editor Brian Bonner, and member of parliament Solomiia Bobrovska.
  • Oct. 13: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council: Privatization Program in Ukraine 2020-2021
Top news

50,000 march against the election-stealing Belarusian dictator

As they have since the Aug. 9, 2020, election was stolen from them, Belarusians took to the streets on Oct. 18 as they have every Sunday to demand that the dictator ruling the nation since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, resign.

Business Update

$1= Hr 28.4
Fresh Plaza: Ukraine to harvest less potatoes and vegetables
Inside Business: EBRD, Ukraine agree to strengthen corporate governance
Meat Commerce: Ukrainian beef exports valued at $52 million
Interfax: DTEK Oil & Gas to invest about Hr 3 billion in drilling in 2020

Opinions

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