Sunday, 31 July 2011

Mourning Day for dead miners

Today is proclaimed Mourning Day in Ukraine for the victims of the explosions in two mines. At least 26 dead and 2 wounded in the mine "Sukhodilska-Eastern" in Luhansk region and 11 dead and 4 wounded in Bazhanov mine in Makiyivka, Donetsk region. Totally 37 lives were lost for their relatives and friends.
Deaths of the miners is this high price for coal industry in Ukraine. Ukrainian miners have a high risk to die or to be injured and then to become invalid after working in a mine. Many Ukrainian mines have very old technical equipment and sometimes mine's equipment can be used since 1950 years till nowadays!
But all mines must be inspected if they are safe for people's work and if the equipments are working without any infringement! Why must people take a risk and go in the mine like go on a visit to the death? They have a right to work without such risk, to have a normal worked day and much higher salary then they have now. When some mine works with some technical violations, this mine must be repaired. Or when the mine has older equipment, so its equipment must be changed. And when mine is just dangerous for people's staying there, that mine must be closed. Why don't proprietors think about human lives of their workers? How may lives of the miners be equaled a nothing while coal industry is one of the mainest in Ukrainian economics?

Friday, 29 July 2011

Explosion in the mine. Again...

17 dead, 2 wounded and 9 disappeared miners after the explosion in the mine in "Sukhodilska-Eastern" in Luhansk region. 4 dead, 4 wounded and 7 disappeared miners after the explosion in the mine in Makiyivka, Donetsk region. Two explosions in the mines for one day. Deaths of the miners again. Sorrowfully, but such explosions often happen in the mines and the miner's profession is the most dangerous in Ukraine. Ukrainian miners very often work illegally or even in the illegal mines, called "kopanky". But even when Ukrainian miners work in the legal mine, they can work in the conditions with technical violations of the mine and practically always in the very hard conditions for human health. And Ukrainian miners usually don't have normal worked day and work over quota, getting little salary for their job. But they haven't choice to change a job, they must work for their families. So every day Ukrainian miners go to the work and don't know if they will come back home alive...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Just wish You a wonderful day.

p.s. the photo of one bush in Lviv Botanic Garden. I call it "He & She".

Friday, 22 July 2011

Sunny virtual excursion in Shevchenkivskyy Grove in Lviv. :)

Homestead (1910) from the village Tukholka, Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna. Here is small pysanka museum now.


Church
was built in 1863 in the village Tysovets, Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna.

Chapel
(1863) from the village Tysovets in Lviv region.

Oil rural factory or "oliynya"
in Ukrainian from Lviv region (the beginning of XIX century).


St. Ivan Lavra,
amazing wooden Church was built in 1763 in the village of Kryvky, Lviv region


Cossack boat
for 40 person, found in Rivne region.

Hives
from Ivan-Frankivsk region, where nowadays the bees are also there. :)


School
from Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna (XIX century).

Saw-mill or "tartak"
(in Ukrainian) from Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna (the beginning of XX century).

Woolen cloth rural factory
from Transcarpathia, etnic region Boykivshchyna (the middle of XIX century).


Smithy
from Lviv region, etnic region Boykivshyna (1870).


Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Church,
wonderful example of Lemkivshchyna architecture.

Small mill and well
from Transcarpathia, ethnic region Boykivshchyna (the beginning of XX century).


Bee-keeper's home
from Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna (XX century).

Watermill
from Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna (the beginning of XX century).



The oldest museum's homestead
, built in 1749 from the village Lybokhora in Lviv region, ethnic region Boykivshchyna.


The richest homestead
in the museum from the village Verbovets in Ivano-Frankivsk region, ethnic region Pokuttya (the beginning of XX century).


Windmill
from Chernivtsi region, ethnic region Bukovyna (the beginning of XX century).


Typical peasant home from Bukovyna, Chernivtsi region (the end of XIX century).


St. Trinity Church (1777 year) from Bukovyna, Chernivtsi region.



Hutsul homestead is called hrazhda (the end of XIX century, Ivano-Frankivsk region, ethnic region Hutsulshchyna).

Friday, 15 July 2011

Journalism & journalists in Ukraine

Every day less and less articles or TV-programmes are objective in Ukraine. I don't know even what to read or to watch on TV sometimes, because Ukrainian journalists became very loyal toward the state power. The last sadest news of Ukrainian journalism became yesterday, when three sites of the popular newspapers "Hazeta po-ukrayins'ky" ("Newspaper in Ukrainian"), "Ukrayins'ka pravda" ("Ukrainian truth") and "Ukrayins'kyy tyzhden" (Ukrainian week) began to show IP-addresses of their commentators!!! Is it freedom of the opinions in the country? No way! Nowadays when someone writes anything on these three sites, the question "where is a commentator" can be known for all through commentator's IP-address, shown on the site. And when somebody writes something "not very nice" for the power on these sites, so what can be then? This world is such that "not very nice" information or activity is different for every state power. For example, in Belarus the simple applauses on the street are punished with a few-day-staying in the prison now, because in the last time street's applauses were the unique method to show people's dissatisfaction of Belarus' power. And this week Skype agreed with the proposition of Russian power to give information about Skype's Russian users to state bases, though till that time the way of Skype connection was the one real "freedom's island" for Russians.
So do Ukrainian journalists enjoy such way of life as exists in the neighbouring countries?

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Was the acception of Pension reform indeed?

Today Pension reform must be accepted finally. It's continueing reform's voting now in Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). It's necessary 226 deputies (minimum!) to accept any law in Ukraine according to the Ukrainian Constitution. But only 133 deputies are present in the parliament's hall plus 3 deputies are sitting in the parliament's presidium, though the parliament' screen shows a number of 350 deputies! This last information of the deputies' presence was known at 19:49 from several Ukrainian media.
So may Pension reform be accepted in such illegal way?