Dnipropetrovsk is no longer a city with a population of 1 million inhabitants. As of March 1, 2011, a permanent population of Dnipropetrovsk is not more than one million people, according to the report of the Main Statistical Office.

Kyiv Metro Station “Republican Stadium” or “Resbublikansky Stadion”, which is located by the Olympic Stadium will be renamed to avoid confusion among tourists and visitors of the city. Alexander Briginets, the Chairman of the Committee of the Kyiv City Council has reported about it.

A UEFA sponsored investigation has uncovered nearly 200 serious hate crimes at recent football matches in both Ukraine and Poland, heightening fears the EURO 2012 finals could be seriously marred by racist incidents. The …

British company The Economist Intelligence Unit, while comparing the environmental situation in 30 capitals of European nations, did not give the Ukrainian capital a single point out of possible 10. Thus, Kyiv topped the list of the most polluted European capitals.

This holiday season in Crimea, Ukraine, will surprise tourists by helicopter flights from Simferopol to Yalta.
The trip by such an air-taxi will take about 20 minutes, and will cost, according to preliminary calculations about $ 20 per person.

Ukraine intends to introduce to the European Union a national plan of actions for liberalization of the visa regime in Brussels (Belgium) on April 5, 2011

According to a press release of JJ MA “Boryspіl” they are planning to start flights of low cost airlines from Kyiv Boryspil airport:

- Pegasus Airlines to Istanbul, starting from June 1 to October 29, 5 times a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays;

In 2011, the Southern Railway of Ukraine will introduce wireless Wi-Fi Internet at such Ukrainian train stations as Kharkiv-Passenger, Poltava-South, Poltava-Kyiv, Sumy, Kupyansk-Vyzlovy.
The introduction of Wi-Fi Internet is a part of the state program of Preparations and Holding of the EURO 2012 Football Championship Finals in Ukraine.

On Friday, 24th of March at 10 in the morning, a partial collapse of a brick wall on the eighth floor of the hotel “Kozatsky” (Mala Zhytomyrska Street, built in 1983), killed a young man, who was smoking while waiting for the bus on the sidewalk near the hotel building right in the center of the Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

Famous British alternative band MUSE are coming back to Kyiv in May 2011!
When: 24th of May, 2011, 19:00
Where: Palace of Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine
How much: Fan Zone I: 1100 UAH / Fan Zone II: 800 UAH / Sectors: 650 – 1000 UAH