Viche №3, 2012

From the speech of the President of Ukraine Viktor YANUKOVYCH at the opening of the tenth session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the sixth Convocation on February 7, 2012…

From the speech of the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn during the opening of the tenth session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the Sixth Convocation on February 7, 2012…

- 2011 has become the year of global social turmoil that swept from North Africa to Europe and the United States.

Last year GDP grew to 5 percent, and inflation, however, decreased to 4.5 percent (instead of the expected 8 percent). In general, Ukraine entered into2012 with good economic rates.

“The recession is when your neighbor loses his job and the crisis is when you lose your job”. This famous phrase of the thirty-third U.S. President Harry Truman is now more than ever relevant.

The terms of the gas contract-2009 caused serious economic difficulties for the official Kyiv. Unreasonably high prices for gas (compared with the other countries) reduce our competitiveness in the global market.

Outlining the prospects of Ukrainian foreign policy and the possible ways of its implementation in 2012, we can not miss the economic component which often became the substance of foreign actions that already occurred last year in the activity…

In the past Ukraine participated in all space projects of the former USSR. Although the “laurel wreath” went to our neighbor, instead of us, the names of the founders of the domestic cosmonautics are closely connected with Ukraine.

This is the most romantic building of Ukraine’s capital. It’s a fabulous place where above the head a clear sky is thickly studded with bright stars, where everything is permeated with unique and alluring glow.

Constitutional modernization has not yet become a dynamic part of the society. But it is time to reflect on its meaning and gradually move to the understanding from scientific positions of the meaningful orientation of this important political process.…

If the year 2011 was marked by the revolutionary events, the year 2012 has to become a real year of the election campaigns, voting and electoral disputes.

- The ninth session of the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation was one of the most fruitful.

Implementation of hryvnia in circulation was scheduled for the first half of 1992 - several months after the adoption of the Resolution of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the national currency in Ukraine”.

The sharp decline in the international trade, commodity prices fall, declines in the international tourism and reduce of the amounts of remittances significantly affected the balance of payments of many countries in all regions of the world, leading to…

- During 20 years of independence a significant work has been made in relation to the equipment of the Armed Forces with new and modernized weapons and military equipment.

Members of the parliamentary hearings on the topic “Creation in Ukraine of favorable conditions for development of software industry” are convinced that the information technology (IT) will be a leader among the most promising areas of the national economy.…

Participants of the parliamentary hearing “Ethno national policy of Ukraine: achievements and prospects” tried to answer this question.

200 milliard hryvnias will be raised, according to the Ministry of Agricultural Policy, to the agricultural sector after the land market is opened.

In February it will be 50 years since academician Borys Paton was elected to be the president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

According to the statistics, during elections of 2010 over 225.6 thousand deputies were elected to 12088 local councils.

Last year at the beginning of December, and we informed our readers about this event (“Viche” № 23/2011 and № 1/2012), in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at the meeting of the Advisory Council for Local Self-Government the state…

Sixteenth birthday is a momentous event in everybody’s life.

– Now the murder of hostages will become a part of our rules... From now if someone tries to free hostages, he will take dead bodies.

“Dear editors! This summer on my way back after the holidays at Kinburnska Spit, I, Kravchenko Olena, got in an extraordinary situation. The boat by which we sailed to Ochakiv began to drown.

In Sevastopol dolphinarium in Artbukhta the International Day of the Black sea was celebrated and the role of Sevastopol dolphinarium in environmental protection and rehabilitations of the sea was discussed.

Renovation and reconstruction of the Andriivkyi Uzviz, which was approved by KMDA within the framework of conception of its transformation to the cultural and recreation center, began already in October, 2011.

Famous Kyiv antiquarian and art critic Yakiv Berdychevskiy bartered 15 cigarettes for a book “Operative Surgery” which was presented to Napoleon by his doctor Sabatier.

A lot of people like complaining about present hard times which are considered to be especially unfavorable for creative personalities. There is an idea that presently in the society artistic professions are leveled.

In capital Yaroslaviv Val, which by a miracle protects itself from the invasion of sky-scrapers, Kyiv M.I. Verykivskyi Children School of Arts № 2 is modestly hidden and brings up young talents among ambassades and fashionable hotels.