Kyiv

The founder of information agency ‘Novy Region’ Alexander Shchetinin was found dead in Kyiv on the night of August 27. The press service of the Kyiv Office of the National Police reports that the people who discovered his body contacted the police at about midnight.

Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has allowed investigators to access the safe-deposit box of Pavel Sheremet, journalist of Ukrayinska Pravda who was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv on July, 20, 2016. The court order was published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions

During the night of August 22 unknown individuals logged part of the Bychok forest reserve, which is part of Holosiivskyi National Park. Activist Mykhailo Pohrebyskyi reported on Facebook

Asphalt concrete pavement on the roads where a military parade rehearsal is taking place has been massively destroyed, Kyivavtodor [Ed.: the municipal company dealing with roads in Kyiv] claimed on Friday, August 19.

The family of judge of Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals Yaroslav Mamchur owns a luxury house and apartment in Kyiv worth ₴35 million ($1.4 million) in total.

During the weekends, holidays and days off related to religious holidays, traffic on Sahaydachnoho Street in Kyiv will be restricted between 12pm and 10pm, according to an order issued by the Kyiv City Administration.

Leyla Kondakova, a journalist at Delo.ua was attacked in the Podil district of Kyiv on Friday, July 29. The attack was reported by Kateryna Venzhyk, Editor of Delo.ua

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is planning to ask the Prosecutor General’s Office to change the pretrial restrictive measure for the infamous developer Anatoliy Voytsekhovskyi, he said during the session of Kyiv City Council.

Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office investigators and SBU officers are conducting searches in Boryspil airport.

Two unknown men beat the chief of the business media outlet Business.Censor Serhii Holovniov on the night of July 25 in the Kyiv district of Podil, not stealing his belongings.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs banned the ‘Cross Procession’ from Kyiv, Minister Arsen Avakov announced on Facebook.

Kyiv law enforcement is investigating two bomb threats on the route of the ‘Cross Procession’ in Sviatoshyno district and in Boryspil city direction, the press service of the National Police in Kyiv reports.

A total of eight cars crashed in a road accident on the Odesa—Kyiv highway, killing three people.

A petition to rename Suvorov Street to Sheremet Street was filed at the website of the Kyiv City Council and published on its petitions website.

Kyiv hospitals have found ways to circumvent the electronic Prozorro procurement system launched earlier this year.

Over five hundred activists of the ‘Civic Corps of Azov,’ trade unions and miners marched from the Cabinet of Ministers building to the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry in Kyiv demanding to reduce utility rates.

The murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet is a crime aiming to destabilize the situation in the country, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Artem Shevchenko wrote on Facebook.

Kyiv City Council leases out a land plot in picturesque Pushcha Vodytsia area to International Tennis Academy Ltd, belonging to MP Ihor Kononenko.

UNESCO demands that Kyiv city authorities take down outdoor advertising in the St. Sophia Cathedral buffer zone.

Unidentified attackers threw flares and smoke bombs at the Kyiv office of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation a.k.a. ‘Rossotrudnichestvo’

The accounts of Kyivenergo and over 100 other energy companies all over Ukraine have been unfrozen and providers of utility services are able to resume preparation for the winter season.

On July 12, Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polishchuk, who are suspected of the murder of journalist Oles Buzyna were beaten in the building of Kyiv prosecutor’s office.

Russian special services are preparing provocateurs, masking them as participants of peaceful processions.

Members of the Kyiv City Council renamed 5 streets, an alley and an avenue, changing the toponyms that were related to the communist heritage

Kyiv city authorities developed a vision for development of the City Zoo to upgrade it to European standards.

The Ministry of Justice is considering selling the building of Lukianivske pre-trial detention center (SIZO) through a public-private partnership modality.

Several hundred activists walked through downtown Kyiv on Sunday, June 26, with a 39-meter long Crimean Tatar flag.

The Head of the State Department of Affairs Serhiy Borzov received a free 190 sq.m apartment from his department, Nashi Groshi with Denys Bigus reports.

Ukraine has launched its first fisheries police to replace the previous fishery enforcement unit closed down last year.

MP Igor Lutsenko has proposed the establishment of an interagency commission to counter illegal construction.