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Written by admin on 12 November 2011
Kiev, Nov 12 (IANS) A friendly football match between Ukraine and Germany here Friday will be the first match organised in the renovated Olympic stadium which will host the final of Euro 2012 Championship.
Ukrainian fans are waiting for the victory of their team. It is a matter of honour for the Ukrainian footballers to beat Germany in the first match in the new stadium.
‘We will try not to disappoint more than 70,000 fans. Our main task is not to give psychological advantage to Germany. We should believe in our ability to fight equally with such a rival,’ Oleg Blokhin, the coach of Ukrainian national team said on the eve of the match.
Domestic experts believe that the main task for Ukraine is not only good play, but also showing the world its readiness for Euro 2012, Xinhua reported.
Some 300 volunteers of the Euro 2012 host city will take practical training examination on the eve of the match. They will help foreign guests to find their way near the stadium, as well as orient them how to find their seats, food booths etc. The volunteers will be working next to the stadium, on bus parking areas, at the intersection of major streets and in the exits from the subway stations.
The Kiev Olympic stadium was opened Oct 8. After the reconstruction, the arena contains nearly 73,000 seats. The stadium is supposed to host group matches, a quarterfinal and the final game.
The Euro 2012 will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between June 8 and July 1.
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Written by admin on 09 November 2011
Kiev, Nov 9 (IANS) Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs plans to teach English to about 27,000 police officers ahead of the of Euro 2012 football championship, the government said.
Nearly 14,000 officers in Kiev, Kharkiv, Lvov and Dotetsk regions where the tournament will be held, as well as some 13,000 police officers in other regions will be taught English, Xinhua reported.
The lessons will be carried out at universities, police institutes and civilian education facilities.
A total of 8,000 students, graduates and employees of the interior ministry’s educational establishments will help the police communicate with foreign visitors.
The tournament will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between June 8 and July 1, 2012.
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Written by admin on 04 November 2011
Kiev, Nov 4 (IANS) Ukraine will build shelters for stray dogs in big cities ahead of the Euro 2012 football championship, the government has announced.
‘It is extremely important for Ukraine to solve the problem of stray dogs in a civilised manner. This case become topical on the eve of the Euro-2012,’ Mykola Zlochevsky, minister of environment and natural resources, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
The new shelters will be built in accordance with European animal asylums. They will first start in the capital Kiev.
Stray dogs have been a big problem in Ukraine. It is estimated that nearly 30,000 dogs run loose in Kiev.
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Written by admin on 26 October 2011
Kiev, Oct 26 (IANS) A Ukrainian student has received a patent for making a flying electric car that can remain airborne for about an hour.
‘Eco-Grieg’ is a hybrid electric vehicle and helicopter that is cheap to run. It is also ‘absolutely green’, Alexander Avramenko, a student at the Ukrainian Small Academy of Sciences, told Xinhua.
Almost everyone can drive it as it has automatic transmission and a desk control console, he said.
The inventor said he expected his product could soon go into mass production.
He said his innovation could be used in areas where road transportation is not permitted.
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Written by admin on 20 October 2011
Kiev, Oct 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is ready to rent facilities on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula for naval pilot training, Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said.
In line with a 1997 bilateral agreement, Russia occasionally uses the Nitka Naval Pilot Training Centre in Ukraine as the training facility for its naval pilots.
‘We have discussed the use of the Nitka facility. Russia proposed (again) to rent it,’ Serdyukov said Wednesday after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykhailo Yezhel.
Serdyukov said the Russian defence ministry is willing to upgrade this facility and use it jointly with Ukraine.
According to Russian estimates, the rent of the Nitka centre would cost Russia about $700,000 annually.
The facility was built in the Soviet era for pilots to practice their skills in taking off from and landing on an aircraft carrier’s deck.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the facility remained under Ukrainian jurisdiction. The Ukrainian Navy does not have an aircraft carrier, while Russia has only one – the Admiral Kuznetsov – and plans to build at least three nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the future.
The centre provides naval aviation training facilities such as a launch pad, a trampoline, a catapult launching device, a glide-path localiser, a marker beacon, and an optical landing system.
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Written by admin on 27 September 2011
Kiev, Sep 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Four women activists were arrested Tuesday for staging a topless protest near Ukrainian capital Kiev’s main sports arena during a visit by UEFA chief Michel Platini.
The demonstration – ‘Euro without prostitution’ – was held as Ukraine along with Poland prepares to host the 2012 European Football Championship. Platini arrived in Ukraine Monday for a two-day inspection of the facilities.
Police arrived at the Olympiisky National Sports Complex and detained the activists, who are members of the Femen group.
Topless protests have been organised on many occasions by Femen activists, most of whom are university students, to attract public attention to various domestic and international problems.
‘Femen demands that UEFA initiate an explanatory campaign for football fans about the impermissibility of sex tourism and funding the sex industry, and the Ukrainian authorities criminalise the visiting of prostitutes,’ the group said in a statement.
Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but reports say the country remains one of the main suppliers of prostitutes to Western Europe. In 2005, Ukraine toughened penalties for human trafficking and forced prostitution.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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