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The first joint memorial to Soviet soldiers and warriors of OUN- URA in Ukraine was sanctified in Krykhovytzy village of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on occasion of the 566th anniversary of the village. According to the press service of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, village chairman Vassyl Vladin noted that the place for the memorial was prepared as early as in 1992. “We, evidently, are the first who united the perished people and call upon everybody not to sow discord among the Ukrainian nation”, noted the village chairman, stressing: “It is our history and it is not necessary to speculate in it”. According to the information of the City Council, the memorial was built at the expense of the local community and …
President Viktor Yuschenko has addressed the leadership of AvtoKrAZ Holding Company (Kremenchuk, Poltava region) with the initiative of starting mass production of fire-fighting equipment for the needs of the Emergency Situation Ministry. Ukrainian News learned this from AvtoKrAZ spokesperson Natalia Orel, with references to the phone talk between President Viktor Yuschenko and director general of the company Serhii Sazonov. Particularly, Sazonov confirmed the enterprise’s readiness to produce such equipment based on KrAZ chassis. At present, the plant has elaborated design of such vehicles in three modifications with 4×2, 4×4 and 6×4 wheel formulas. During the talk, Yuschenko said his request was due to the …
Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev are seeking to sign their former striker Andriy Shevchenko on loan from Chelsea. The potential transfer coup was revealed by Dynamo president Igor Surkis in remarks reported on the club’s website. Surkis claims he is not surprised that Shevchenko has failed to enjoy the success in London that he did with Dynamo and AC Milan. He said: “I said in every interview that there was a possibility that Shevchenko wouldn’t play well for Chelsea. I can say even more. “I’ve asked Shevchenko to ask his board to let him go to Dynamo (Kiev, Ukraine) on loan. “If we qualify for the (Champions League) group stage we’ll have only 24 hours to do all the paperwork.” …
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