News and everything you want to know about Ukraine
News and everything you want to know about Ukraine
Boryspil Airport is planning to open a new Terminal F, designed for international flights, already in April this year. Now the terminal B is fulfilling this function.
Its total capacity should be a half thousand people per hour.
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Yesterday, on the 25th of February, 2010 Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated Ukraine president. He has been sworn in as the country’s fourth leader since it gained independence. More than 100 representatives of other countries, including 9 presidents, 7 heads of government, 13 foreign ministers and 41 heads of international delegations came to congratulate Viktor Yanukovich with this event. Ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret, the former Parliament speaker Oleksandr Moroz, the former Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and the Head of Ukraine Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaychenko attended the inauguration ceremony. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her entourage decided not to share Yanukovich’s happiness and ignored the holiday. The first president of independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk didn’t show up at the ceremony as well.
The whole ceremony, including a double listening to the Ukrainian anthem, the inaugural speech and a chorus singing of “Mnogaya Leta” (“Many Years”) took no more than forty minutes. Yanukovych came out of the Parliament, saluted his supporters, got in the presidential “Mercedes” and literally a minute later he was in the yard of the residence on Bankova Street to meet Viktor Yuschenko.
For the first time in the history of Ukraine, the head of state was blessed by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.
Ukrainian politics is unpredictable, like anything else in Ukraine, including business, etc, etc….. Just remember the Orange Revolution five years ago!
This time Viktor Yanukovich triumphed in a contest that international observers called an “impressive display of democratic elections.” But what is that really: the Triumph of Democracy — or the Empire Strikes Back?
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This spring the city plans to begin reconstruction of Andrew’s descent. The fate of the street and the time of its reconstruction have already been discussed at the City Hall.
In Kyiv, several observation areas have been equipped with special units, which allow Kyiv residents and the guests of the Ukrainian capital to view the panorama of the city.
In particular, viewing areas near the Arch of Friendship and the Monument to the Holodomor Victims (near Lavra) will allow tourists to enjoy the city panorama with the help of telescopes.
The biggest Ukrainian Flower Clock will start ticking again approximately in April, 2010 near the Independence Square, on Instytutska Sreet. A competition for the best design of the clock has already begun. For example, one of the ideas is to put in the center of the dial the logo of Euro 2012 (a soccer ball with two flowers).
On January 28, users who tried to use services of I-Box payment terminals discovered, that the money they’ve sent via I-Box didn’t reach accounts of service providers. Considering the fact, that lots of money go through these payment terminals, including the replenishment of mobile phone credits and repayment of bank loans, people began to panic.
The Group of Companies St Sophia Homes (Kiev) has resumed the previously suspended due to problems with financing construction of 24-storied hotel complex with residential apartments on blvd. Shevchenko, 28-30 in Kyiv. Hilton Hotels Corporation will be an operator of it.
Ukraine is among the five biggest honey producers of the world in terms of gross volume of production as well as honey consumption per capita. There are about 30 varieties of honey produced in Ukraine. The country aproximately exports 83% of honey to Europe.
According to the resutls of the first round of Presidential Elections in Ukraine, held on Sunday, January, 17, 2010, Viktor Yanukovich and acting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will be facing each other in the runoff of the Ukrainian Presidential Elections on February 7, 2010.
Epiphany (Theophany) is one of the biggest Christian holidays, celebrated every year on January 6 for the Catholics, and 19th – the Orthodox.
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20 : YAROSLAV THE WISE (opera in 3 acts, by G. Mayboroda, ends at 9:40pm)
21 : RAYMONDA (ballet in 2 acts, by A. Glazunov, ends at 9:10pm)
UEFA EURO-2012 Official logo, recently presented in Kyiv, Ukraine at St. Michael’s Square by Michel Platini, has got lots of fans critisism. They say, it brings up an association with the “chupa-chups” candy or with the “flower on the grave.”
She is the 2009 Winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent Show. Her story that portrayed life during Ukraine’s Great Patriotic War against the Germans in World War II makes people cry. But not only this, but all of her works are just stunning!
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution according to which teachers should speak only Ukrainian at schools with the teaching in Ukrainian language, even during breaks. It is obvious that the main purpose of this resolution is to eradicate Russian language at schools.
Ukrainian teachers from Russian speaking areas of Ukraine are indignant: “How are they going to control us?”
The World Bank drew attention to the complex demographic situation in Ukraine. “The main problem is that Ukrainians, and especially Ukrainian men are dying too young. Average life expectancy of male in Ukraine is only 59; mortality of adult male population is comparable with the mortality in the poorest countries of the world.”
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13 : Viennese Walse (ballet in 2 acts, by Strauss, ends at 9:15pm)
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