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Bubka: Ukraine's Olympic Committee will sell tickets to 2012 Olympics only through official channels
President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Serhiy Bubka has informed the committee's secretary general, Volodymyr Heraschenko, of his suspension due to recent reports about his alleged intention to sell tickets to the London 2012 Summer Olympics on the black market, and promised that all tickets to the event received by the national committee will be sold only through official channels, reads a posting on the committee's Web site. 3 days ago at 11:20 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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National Olympic Committee President Serhiy Bubka says the NOC has no excess tickets to ХХХ Olympic Games 2012, due to take place in London, UK, reads a statement made by the NOC press service. "The Ukrainian NOC has no excess tickets to the Olympic Games and all the tickets received will be distributed via official channels only," the statement quotes Bubka as saying. This statement follows a row sparking around the mass media reports about the NOC general secretary Volodymyr Heraschenko's intention to sell tickets to the London Olympics, assigned to the Ukrainian NOC, to touts.Bubka says he is worried about these allegations and has already initiated an internal investigation. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Bubka on May 22 suspended Heraschenko pending an investigation into the general secretary's presumable willing to sell tickets to ХХХ Olympic Games 2012 at the black market. Read more here. 3 days ago at 10:41 |
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The trade unions of the employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on May 24 are to hold a rally at the building of the President’s Administration and Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in protest at the catastrophic state of science in Ukraine, Chairman of the Trade Union of the National Academy of Sciences Anatoliy Shyrokov has said. May 22 at 10:48 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The European Parliament will vote on a new resolution on Ukraine on Thursday, May 24, the Delegation of the European Union in Kyiv has reported. May 21 at 18:52 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Inflation in Ukraine in 2012 may be limited to 5%, which is below the government's forecast of 7.9%, according to Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Serhiy Arbuzov. May 18 at 19:15 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that under his presidency the pressure on business in Ukraine has fallen by 5.5%. May 18 at 13:30 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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GENEVA - Laos, a small nation dependent on aid and rice farming, wants to join the World Trade Organization. WTO powers including the United States, China and the European Union want it to. May 18 at 10:34 | Reuters |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a decree on the Constitutional Assembly. May 18 at 09:26 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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European officials who met this week with imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on May 17 that authorities are impinging on her privacy. May 18 at 07:48 | Associated Press |
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Poland’s Jan Tombinski will this summer replace Portugal’s Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira as head of the European Union delegation in Ukraine, EU officials revealed on May 16. May 18 at 00:09 | Jakub Parusinski |
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko has said that without the discount on Russian gas secured under the Kharkiv Agreement, the Ukrainian economy would not have been able to maintain its balance of payments. May 17 at 16:17 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine ranked higher than any other Eastern European country in the Nation Higher Education Systems rating developed by Universitas 21, the international research network of 24 universities and colleges. Ukraine occupied the 25th position out of 48 evaluated countries. Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Russia and Slovakia placed at positions 26, 27, 28, 32, and 35, respectively May 17 at 14:36 |
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U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia has stated that Washington opposes the isolation of Ukraine as a response to the political persecution of opposition leaders in the country. May 16 at 17:44 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on May 15 brushed aside Western concerns about his government's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as misguided and unwarranted, indicating that Kiev was unlikely to change its mind. May 16 at 15:42 | Reuters |
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"Provocations by the lawyer of Yulia Tymoshenko, Serhiy Vlasenko," made the employees of the penitentiary service post details of the former premeier's treatment procedures and leisure time at Kharkiv Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, deputy head of the department of State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region Andriy Lapinsky reported. May 15 at 18:31 | Interfax-Ukraine |