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On Sunday, March 27th, 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” …
Kyiv City Council has introduced 1% tourist tax on hotels, campgrounds, motels, hostels, and other resort establishments bills. Housing and intermediary organizations, as well as entrepreneurs authorized by Kyiv City Council and who signed relevant agreements are entitled to collect the tourist tax.
First Ukrainian budget airline Wizz Air Ukraine is going to relocate their base from Kyiv Boryspil airport to Kyiv Zhulyany airport.
Starting from 27 March, 2011 Wizz Air Ukraine will operate from the airport “Kyiv” (Zhulyany). Executive Vice President of the Group Wizz Air John Stephenson announced about that at a press conference on the 14th of January, 2011.
High-speed trains will be launched between Lviv and Kyiv in spring 2012. It will let travellers to overcome the distance between these two Ukrainian cities within 4.5 hours. … there are still some discussions whether it’s possible to built stops for such trains in Khmelnitsky and Ternopil. In addition, they study opportunities and needs for the stop in Vinnitsa…
Ukraine will buy up to 10 Hyundai trains by 1st of June 2011, under the concept of high-speed connections between the cities-hosts of Euro 2012.
In Lviv the German Technical Cooperation GTZ plans to open bike rental points for Euro 2012.
The president of the bikers’ club “Rukh” Anatoly Yaremchyshyn, which collaborates with GTZ, said, that “For Euro 2012 the German Technical Cooperation GTZ plans to open bike rental points in Lviv using German grant money.
New Terminal F of Boryspil Airport, Ukraine, designed for international flights, charters and low-cost flights were not open neither in April nor on the 24th of August at the Ukraine Independence Day, as it was scheduled before. The new tentative opening date is the first-second decade of September.
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.
