Daily Digest: Top news of Tuesday, July 2
- President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Toronto to take part in the 3rd Ukraine Reform Conference
- Journalists who quit their jobs at ZIK TV channel after it came under the control of pro-Russian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk called on President Zelensky to protect Ukrainian media from the influence of Moscow.
- UK pledges 9 million pounds to support independent media in Ukraine
- The Central Election Commission registered Andriy Klyuyev, former top official in Yanukovych’s administration, and scandalous blogger Anatoliy Shariy as candidates for parliament despite the fact that they hadn’t lived in Ukraine for years. The decision has sparked a public backlash
- French livestreaming platform Cercle that throws DJ sets in unusual locations all over the world held its first techno music party in Kyiv, at the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine.
- Apple filmed its new commercial for AirPods in Kyiv
- Battling red tape: Estonia’s e-government success to help Ukraine fight ‘spravka culture’
- After the embezzlement scandal in the Ukrainian army broke out in February and harmed then-President Petro Poroshenko’s re-election campaign, he promised the reform of UkrOboronProm, Ukraine’s state-run defense corporation, starting with a comprehensive independent audit. Several months later, the audit isn’t even close to happening
- Kyiv Post talked to Ukraine’s acting agriculture minister Olga Trofimtseva on her top goals while she’s in office, land market, irrigation, value-added agriculture and more
- What Ukraine can learn from Argentina, US, and Canada in agriculture
- Kyiv’s commercial real estate market has recovered since the 2014 crisis. But it struggles to reach new historic growth due to the sluggish economy
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