Viche №11, 2015

A year past since the election of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. In early June the President addressed the Parliament with the annual Message on internal and external situation of Ukraine.

Unified in views on the map of future Europe and its security Interparliamentary Assembly of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland is a modern instrument of a regional cooperation of the European Union and the European neighborhood Policy.

One of the main goals of the new Strategy of National Security and Defense of Ukraine is Ukraine's integration into the European Union and the creation of conditions for joining NATO.

Judging by recent reports from the front line in Donbass, a fragile truce is constantly under threat of collapse.

Kyiv considers the results of the summit “Eastern Partnership” to be positive. Conditions of the free trade area with Ukraine will be carried out from January, 1 2016 during which the visa-free regime is pending.

Strategy for de-occupation and reintegration of Crimea will be determined in the fall. And by the end of 2015 the government promises to create an advisory body to deal with the return of the Crimea.

Slovakia is a key European partner of Ukraine in the field of energy security.

During the period of independence of Ukraine several attempts were made to reform the energy sector. But it still did not give the desired result.

On January, 1, 2016 the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union takes effect. The half of the document is devoted to the creation of the free trade zone.

After the victory of Maidan in February, 2014, Ukraine has returned to the path of integration into the European community and now steps in this direction, guided by landmarks set out in the Association Agreement with the EU, Coalition…

At the meeting of the Constitutional Commission on May 15th the elaborated changes to the Constitution about power decentralization were discussed.

The epopee with the preparation of agreed law on local elections (for which in Verkhovna Rada the expert group was set up in February) concluded with the fact that representatives of different political forces began to record their own…

Reform of self-government is the main element of “returning to Europe”.

The answers to these questions were searched by the scientists who were gathered together by organizer and moderator of a very important “round table” devoted to the issues of decentralization of local self-government - Iryna KRESINA, Head of Legal…

Military marine personnel mobilized during the fourth wave of mobilization improved their professional skills and organizational training, acquired psychological fortitude and physical endurance at the military training area in Mykolaiiv region.

Several tens of kilometers from Odesa the settlement of migrants like Israel kibbutz appeared. In Odesa region almost twenty thousand forced migrants live presently.

A number of important issues of port industry - project of a unique collective agreement for the branches of the Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine (ASPU), volumes of assignments by the administrations of ports to the trade…

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced new Head of Odesa State Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili to the active members of the region.

In 1990, before Ukraine was proclaimed independent, the process of renaming the streets and squares in Lviv began: the soviet names which formed “the soviet” consciousness were substituted by the new, historical ones.

Novoyavorivsk is a town in Yavorivsk district of Lviv region, located at the height of 300 meters above the sea level at the joint of Roztochchya and Nadsianska lowland in a picturesque locality in the riverheads of the Shklo…

Presently, when again there are quite a lot of talks about the administrative-territorial reform, we should recall the history. Here is the old map of Poltava province...

Soviet propaganda concealed the true biography of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

From the first days of Ukraine's independence there was a question of recognition of fighters for freedom of Ukraine. But all drafts of relevant laws that came to the Verhovna Rada were not seriously considered in the Parliament.

Acquaintance with the oldest public medical institution in Ukraine coincided with magnolia blossom period. Together with other diverse vegetation they flooded area of the hospital - the legend of the capital Pechersk.

For the army commander his soldiers are always much more than just a line in the list of names of personnel.

How to reform the military medicine according to NATO and Israel models and what problems were revealed in this area during anti-terrorist operations were discussed by the participants of the parliamentary hearings “On Military-Medical Doctrine of Ukraine”.

In dream or reality, but very clearly, in the recognizable details I see people running and waving guns near the sea surf. No shots are heard.

In late May, Kyiv hosted the XIII International gymnastics tournament “Nations Cup”. According to its organizers - President of the Charitable Foundation “Sports and children”, Olympic champion Stella ZAKHAROVA, it was held rather “contrary to ...

Very few of us are able to maintain a dawn sense of life, where colored fairs, phantasmagoric toys, all sorts of miracles exist.