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What did Ukraine's institutions decide in late February 2018?
Summary
A look back at two developments in the days before 27 February 2018: a locomotive deal with General Electric and a new head of the Constitutional Court.
What was Ukraine's institutional agenda as of 27 February 2018? Two reported developments from the preceding days stand out, one in industry and one in the judiciary.
On 23 February 2018, Ukrzaliznytsia, the national railway operator, and the American corporation General Electric signed a seven-year contract worth a billion dollars. It covered the supply of locomotives and diesel locomotives.
Two days earlier, on 21 February 2018, Stanislav Shevchuk was elected head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
The two events were unrelated, and the reports from the time link them in no way. Taken together, they show a week in which a major supply contract for the railway and a leadership choice at the country's constitutional body were both settled.
