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What did Kyiv's agenda hold on 9 November 2018?
Summary
A look back at the developments in Ukraine that surrounded 9 November 2018, from a parliamentary resolution to a mourned activist and a church agreement.
What was shaping Ukraine's public agenda on 9 November 2018? The reports from the days around that date point to three very different threads: remembrance, a death that drew attention to corruption, and a deal with the Ecumenical Patriarch.
On 8 November 2018, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution on marking at state level the 75th anniversary of the start of the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland, which took place in 1944–1951. The decision put that history on the official calendar.
On 4 November 2018, anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk died of the injuries she had suffered in an acid attack in Kherson on 31 July. Her death came after months of treatment following the assault, and it was reported as part of the wider coverage of corruption in Ukraine.
On 3 November 2018, President Petro Poroshenko signed an agreement on cooperation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Taken together, the items from 3, 4 and 8 November 2018 show a country dealing at once with the memory of forced resettlement, the aftermath of violence against an activist, and a new arrangement with a leading figure of Orthodox Christianity. As of 9 November 2018, these were the developments in the immediate record.
