One more pysanka attraction is about to impress tourists
The Seven Lovely
Pysankas Sculpture
Park is going to appear near the world’s unique Pysanka Museum situated in Kolomyia of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The
project includes creation of seven stone pysanka-sculptures by the end of
October and roundtables with sculptors, cultural leaders, art critics,
journalists and students. The sculptures are being made by seven sculptors from
different regions of Ukraine and students of the Kolomyian pedagogical college
of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian
National University.
Source: http://pravda.if.ua/news-31597.html
Ukraine reduces biological
threat
Under the terms of the bio-threat reduction agreement signed by the U.S.
Department of Defense and the Ministry of Heath of Ukraine, the Sanitary
Epidemiological Station of Zakarpattia Oblast was modernized. The Cooperative Threat
Reduction Program, also known as Nunn-Lugar, includes
establishment of nine zonal diagnostic labs. Due to the technical assistance,
the region has the opportunity to detect and respond to diseases caused by
dangerous pathogens more efficiently, to combat bioterrorism and prevent
biological weapon proliferation.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Jc0qq5Ugg&feature=plcp
Handmade
masterpieces from Kharkiv prisoners
Master’s Store, a shop selling items made at production centers of penal
colonies, was opened in Kharkiv. The range of goods is rather wide, varying
from combs and chess figures to instruments for gardening, furniture and
construction for playgrounds. The goods are made by prisoners kept in colonies
located in Kharkiv Oblast. If one wants to buy an item, he can order it (both
its delivery) by catalogue or Internet. All the funds will be spent on
expanding the production and modernizing the equipment in the centers of the
penal colonies.
Source: http://bigball.eu/ua/press-center/newsfeed/id/vjazni-majstri-vidkrili-svij-magazin-367/
Carpathian village will promote green tourism development
On Oct.15, the city of
Yaremche (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) officially launched a seven-day school on
green tourism development in the Carpathian region. The school program includes
theme lessons, trainings, seminars and roundtables on law regulation of green
tourism objects, standards of services provided by village estates, business
planning and strategies in tourist sphere, promotion of tourism of the
Carpathian regions etc. The school is
supported by Ukrainian and Romanian business organizations, Ivano-Frankivsk
regional state administration and the border cooperation program Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine.
Source:http://www.if.gov.ua/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17746
Lviv
might join a tour around European capitals
According to Morgan Williams, president of the
U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, Lviv may be included in a Prague-Vienna-Budapest
tour. Such an offer was announced at the 13th international economic
forum called “Strategies. Investments. Cooperation” held in Lviv on Oct.12.
Source http://www.tourismnews.com.ua/news-3509.html
Balloon birthday and farewell over Kyiv Oblast
On
Oct.13, Roger Lovett, native of Midhurst (West Sussex, England), who
worked as a contract senior drilling
engineer in the
Dnipro-Donets hydrocarbon basin (Ukraine), said goodbye to Ukraine and celebrated his 60th
birthday. Along with an unforgettable balloon flight over Berezivka village
(Makarov district, Kyiv Oblast) and the beauty of the surrounding nature, Lovette
was also impressed with the professionalism of the pilot. Vladislav Klimenko, a leader of Ukrainian
balloonists, is one of the 30 best pilots in the world, a member of bureau of
Federation of Ballooning of Ukraine and a founder of Kyiv
Ballooning Society.
Kyiv resident Zhanna Kobylinska initiated
the Ukrainian public movement called Open Ukraine in Positive, which can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/145106042272163/.“Good News Ukraine”
items can be sent to her at [email protected]. Kobylinska has also worked as public
relations manager for the www.ukrainecityguide.com Internet portal.