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Representatives of the Green faction in the European Parliament have criticized an agreement to design and erect a new safety shell over the damaged fourth reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant signed between the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant state company and France`s Novarka, according to Ukrainian Journal. “These funds could be used more efficiently,” Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle on Tuesday. As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 17, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant signed two important contracts, one to build a new steel structure to seal off the damaged unit 4 with the Novarka consortium and another one to complete the spent nuclear fuel storage …
President Victor Yushchenko welcomes the support by Ukraine’s main political forces for his plans to reform the national army and make it professional, according to the President`s press-office. He believes such an army will strengthen the country’s defense capability and protect its interests in the world and says the Armed Forces of Ukraine “have been the most trusted state institution over the years of independence, and the people’s trust in the army has even been growing in the past several years.” As supreme commander-in-chief, Yushchenko wants to reform the post-Soviet military system but thinks these reforms should be planned and introduced carefully. The president issued a decree in December 2005 to abolish …
September 19 the Italian football club Roma won over Dynamo (Kyiv) 2:0 in the first round of group stage of the UEFA Champions League in Rome. The referee Alain Hamer from Luxemburg serviced the match. Roma chief coach Luciano Spaletti fielded goalkeeper Doni (Brazil), left winger Max Tonetto, right winger Marco Casetti, holding midfielders Juan (Brazil; substituted by defender Matteo Ferrari in the 82nd minute) and Philippe Mexes (France), midfielders Daniele De Rossi, Laberto Aquilani (substituted by midfielder David Pizarro (Chili) in the 83d minute), Simone Perrotta, Taddei and Mancini (both from Brazil; forward Ludovic Giuly (France) substituted Mancini in the 61st minute) and forward Francesco Totti. Oleksandr Demianenko, …
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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At the recent convention of Ukraine`s Regions party, the man at the centre of attention was not Viktor Yanukovich, prime minister and party leader, but Rinat Akhmetov, the country`s richest man. Sitting in the front row, two seats from Mr … more
“The true independence for Ukraine is famine, so Ukrainians must make their choice between independence and wealth,” the leader of the Ukrainian Fraternity Party Dmitry Korchinsky said in an interview to a REGNUM correspondent commenting on the … more
Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky believes that today most Ukrainians comprehend the question of Ukrainian territorial integrity in different ways. He made the statement to a REGNUM.ru correspondent in Kiev today, on August 24, on the … more
“Korrespondent” magazine in the frameworks of the TOP 100 annual project named 100 the most influential people of Ukraine. The first line of the rating received Prime Minister of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, who heads the Party of Regions. The … more