Ukraine Digest: Aug. 8-9
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What we’re watching
Olympic medals
- Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony: Ukraine medals and results
- Ukraine wins silver in sprint cycling at 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Ukraine wins bronze in women’s high jump at Tokyo Olympics
- Ukraine wins second bronze in artistic swimming at Tokyo Olympics
- Ukrainian canoeists win silver at Olympic Games
- Khyzhnyak wins silver in Olympic middleweight boxing
Top news
- Explore Ukraine: Exquisite wine tasting during harvest season
- Odesa film festival to welcome cinephiles back to Black Sea
- Only 24% of state-owned companies profitable in Ukraine
- Ukraine’s space industry goes after private money
- Ex-heads of Kharkivoblenergo and Kharkivvodokanal jailed
- Maidan torture suspects released from pre-trial detention center
- Artist Oleksandr Roitburd dies at age 59
Business
- 26.8 = $1
- Gas transit did not increase in July, despite the shutdown of gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine
- River cargo up 39% on Dnipro in first 7 months of 2021
- EBA asks MPs not to support bill allowing sale of alcohol, tobacco products only in specialized stores
Business Wire
- Host your event in the Kyiv Post studio!
- KP Brand Studio & DTEK: 17 Sustainable Development Goals — Climate Action
- Shell to open its one of the largest sites in Ukraine in Bila Tserkva
- Revival of ‘revenue houses’ in Kyiv
- Kyiv Post Brand Studio & DTEK: 17 Sustainable Development Goals — Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Staying safe in Ukraine with the Safor app
- Italian Design Day 2021
- La Fête Nationale
- Star hotel takes starcity to another level. What first Radisson in Odesa has to offer
- Easyfish.club: fish market trends, from producers to consumers
Opinions
- Taras Revunets: 30 years on, ‘Chicken Kyiv’ still haunts Ukraine
- Alexei Bayer: Slavery — American and Russian
- Diane Francis: Land of the rising robot
- Anne Applebaum: Tucker Carlson’s self-loathing international tourism
- Trudy Rubin: China is pushing a big COVID-19 lie
- Vladimir Socor: EU and conflicts in the Black Sea region (Part 3)
- Vladimir Socor: EU and conflicts in the Black Sea region (Part 2)
- Mark Katz: Great power clashes will reshape America
- Katia Glod: A nation in chains
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Heather Ashby: Get smart, again!
- Bohdan Ben: How small and medium enterprises getting Ukraine out of poverty
- Vasil Sikhaulidze, Batu Kutelia: Georgia is first victim of Russia’s war on democracy
- Kris Osborn: Russia and China strengthen joint military-to-military exercises
- Peter Dickinson: The 2008 Russo-Georgian War
From the archives: Russian road to victory easy in Georgia
Read Stefan Korshak’s first-hand account of Russia’s swift and brutally successful war against Georgia in August 2008.
Read the Aug. 14, 2008 edition
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