The Party of Regions, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense bloc, the Communist Party (CPU), the People’s Party, and the Socialist Party (SPU) would secure election into the parliament if parliamentary elections were held today. This is indicated by the results of a poll conducted by the All-Ukrainian Sociological Service, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained. Asked which political parties or blocs they would vote for if parliamentary elections were held today, 27.15% of the respondents in the poll said they would vote for the Party of Regions, 19.3% said they would vote for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 15.06% said they would vote for the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense bloc, 5.94% said they would …
Hyatt International announces the presence of Hyatt Regency Kyiv, scheduled to open in June 2007. Located in the historical centre on Tarasova Street next to St. Sophia Square, the hotel is the ideal address for business and leisure travellers alike. Hyatt is committed to innovative and individual restaurants at each of its properties, with particular attention to tailoring the cuisine to local tastes and influences. Hyatt’s award-winning chefs strive to find a niche in the local market and make the restaurants stand alone from the hotel. Restaurants at the Hyatt acquire the highest ratings and reputation in their respective locations as well as worldwide for its creativity and unique approach to fine dining. Prominent restaurants …
The idea of turning a doctor initially examining a patient into a family doctor first appeared in the Soviet Union in the middle of the 1980s. It was planned that the main task of such a doctor would be the timely prevention of risks of serious, incurable or chronic diseases and sending the patient to specialized clinics in the early stage of a disease. In addition to that, the family doctor was to make decisions on sending people to health spas, preventative hospitals and holiday homes, as well as placing people in easier jobs. At the same time, conditions were created in this system for people to undergo full medical examination (European countries are also aiming at this), since it was only possible to discover, for example, …
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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