If there’s one thing fat burner Bohdan Nayahlo fails to grasp about public reluctance to subscribe to The Kyiv Post, it’s not the price, which is pretty reasonable — zero1. It’s not that still, after all these years, no one can make head or tail of the pitch, ‘Australia – Let Ukraine Have Your “Retired” Taipan Helicopters’; it’s not that the magazine paid Luc Chenier money to copy-paste lickspittle toadying from Niche Media Group Ltd to theirs (SARMs vs. Steroids: Unveiling the Science Behind Muscle Enhancement); it’s not the still-searing resentment of ever having to have read correspondent-at-large John Jay Smart. It is perhaps the following link, which calls out from every Kyiv Post page:
Partners-only discussions. A short phrase infused with seventeen tonnes of twee meaninglessness, and of malformed nostalgia for a time – what, two and a half years ago? – when the palpable rush of a connection to the business of the web (then as now about as rush-inducing as a connection to the business of the telephone) could have value-added street cred at mere mention of the muscular, bare-chested geeks who cleared the way. In a pioneering, members-only kind of way, that is.
Category biz spotlight porn, hurrah.
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VEON: International Investors ‘Confused’ Over Recent Kyivstar Corporate Rights Seizure. Phones were ringing to congratulate VEON on its exit from the Russian market — now the phones are ringing again for clarifications on the Ukrainian government's seizure of its corporate rights (The Kyiv Post. October 24, 2023)