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The 13th International Festival “Kyiv Summer Music Evenings” will start on May 30. It will run every wekend till July, 11th. The Festival is held on the summer stage of the Central Park of Culture and Rest.
Alyosha (real name Olena Kucher, born on May 14th, 1986 in Zaporizhzhya), Ukraine’s participant in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, successfully presented her song Sweet People in the second Semi-Final. She rocked the place with a powerful expressive covering a range of no less than four octaves vocal performance of her melancholic song, the key message of which is environmental protection.
On May 29th, celebrations of All Ukraine Bicycle Day (Veloden’) will take place in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. During this day, the center of Kyiv, starting from the European Square, will become a human chain of thousands of cyclists. The celebration program of the day will be full of events and guests.
The festival of rockabilly & psychobilly culture “Ukrabilly Vybuh!” will be held in Kyiv Bingo club on April 24-25th, 2010. The festival will be held for the sixth time, and it will gather 16 bands from Ukraine and other countries on stage.
It looks like this year Kyivans and guests of the Ukrainian capital will not be able to see traditional barrels with kvass on city streets.
Ukrainian Boryspil Airport and all others are closed. Ukraine airports have suspended their operation due to volcanic ash clouds over Europe.
According to the web-site of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine, clouds of volcanic dust didn’t lead to the closure of any of Ukrainian airports.
On Saturday, April 17th, 2010, Ukraine International Airport Boryspil may stop working, according to the reports of the press service of the airport.
On Sunday, March 28th, the so-called “Daylight Saving Time” will be introduced on the territory of Ukraine at 3 pm Kyiv time. All clocks have to be adjusted forward one hour, so we will “lose” one hour.
Daylight Saving Time (or summer time as it is called in many countries) is a way of getting more light out of the day by advancing clocks by one hour during the summer.
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10 : RIGOLETTO (Opera in 3 acts, by G. Verdi, ends at 21:40, in Italian)
11 : LA BAYADERE (Ballet in 3 acts, by L. Minkus, ends at 21:30)
12 : Concert Mugam (works of Azerbaijani composers)
