Friday 24 August 2012

My dear Ukraine! I congratulate you with your state independence! Today it's holiday for all who wanted to see you independent and free state, who wanted and wants to live in Ukrainian state! I love you very much, Ukraine! 

Wednesday 22 August 2012

New language's law - the law of the russification of Ukraine

Ukraine's Parliament voted for new language's law in the second part on July 7th, 2012 in the same brutal way as the Parliament had voted in the firts part of the voting on June 5th, 2012. So on July 7th, 2012 some deputies voted not only for themselves, but also for their absent colleagues, which was the violation of Ukrainian Constitution, and even the Head of the Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn was absent during the voting for new language's law, but that law was announced as accepted by Parliament's Vice-Speaker Adam Martynyuk.Then Ukraine's citizens waited several weeks the decisions of President Viktor Yanukovych and Parliament's Speaker V.Lytvyn if they would sign this new languages' law or wouldn't sign it. Ukranians made public protests, some people began to hungerstrike on the cities' squares against new language's law, but it didn't help. Voted in unfair way and announced as voted without the presence of the majority of Parliament's deputies and without Parliament's Speaker in the session hall of the parliament, so such new languages' law was signed by Ukraine's President V. Yanukovych and Ukrainian Parliament's Speaker V. Lytvyn. And the great russification has yet increased in Ukraine...Sorrowfully...Regional councils of Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions and the city councils of Mykolayiv, Sevastopol, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Krasnyy Luch and Pervomaysk (last both in Luhansk region) has already accepted Russian as regional language in their localities during the past two weeks. It means that Ukrainian language will not be obligatory anymore anywhere in these Ukraine's regions and cities. It means that Russian officially will be the main language there. Present Ukraine's state power makes a huge russification of my dear Ukraine.       

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Ukrainian Olympic heroes.

On August 12th, 2012 London 2012 Olympic Games finished and last Ukrainian athletes came back home from British capital yesterday. Ukraine's sportsmen won 20 medals: 6 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze medals and Ukraine took 14th place in the Olympic medal count's list. Ukrainians are proud of all Ukraine's athletes, who took part in London 2012 Summer Olympics and thanks them for the great participation in these Olympic Games and for a very nice medal result. Some Ukraine's strong athlete didn't take part in the Olympics 2012 because of the different causes and sorrowfully that sometimes Ukrainian sportsmen were the victims of the unfair judges' decisions in London 2012 Olympics. But the next Summer Olympic Games are coming soon! And Ukraine's athletes will have the occasions to demonstrate that they are the best and very strong in many kinds of sport. Ukrainians believe in its sportsmen and thank Ukrainian Olympic medalists of London 2012 Olympics for their hard work and their Olympic medals. The biggest thanks for gold medalists: Yana Shemyakina in the Women's Epee Individual Fencing, Ukraine's team (Kateryna Tarasenko, Nataliya Dovhodko, Anastasiya Kozhenkova, Yana Dementyeva) in the Women's Quadruple Sculls Rowing, Oleksiy Torokhtiy in the Men's Weightlifting (105 kg), Yuriy Cheban in the Men's Canoe Sprint Single 200 m, Oleksandr Usyk in the Men's Heavy (91 kg) Boxing, Vasyl Lomachenko in the Men's Light (60 kg) Boxing; for silver medalists: Inna Osypenko-Radomska in the Women's Kayak Sprint Single 200 m and in the Women's Kayak Sprint Single 500 m, Oleksandr Pyatnytsya in the Men's Javelin Throw, Denys Berinchyk in the Men's Light Welter (64 kg) Boxing, Valeriy Andriytsev in the Men's Freestyle (96 kg) Wrestling; for bronze medalists: Olena Kostevych in theWomen's 10 m Air Pistol Shooting and in the Women's 25 m Pistol Shooting, Yuliya Kalina in the Women's (58 kg) Weightlifting, Olha Kharlan in the Women's Individual Sabre Fencing, Olha Saladukha in the Women's Triple Jump, Ihor Radivilov in the Men's Vault Artistic Gymnastics, Ukraine's team (Olesya Povkh, Khrystyna Stuy, Mariya Remen, Yelyzaveta Bryzgina) in the Women's 4 x 100 m Relay, Taras Shelestyuk in the Men's Welter (69 kg) Boxing, Oleksandr Hvozdyk in the Men's Light Heavy (81 kg) Boxing. Congratulations! You are wonderful athletes!    

Monday 6 August 2012

European football championship Euro-2012 finished on July 1, 2012. Spain's football team became European champion. But in Ukraine Euro-2012 doesn't finish yet, because some strange and incomprehensible situation is continueing - special departments of preparation for Euro-2012 still exist in the city councils of 4 Ukrainian host-cities of Euro-2012, so in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Donets city councils. Even official site of UEFA has already eliminated Ukrainian and Polish site's versions, which were done specially and only for Euro-2012.Departments of preparation for Euro-2012 were also created in these four Ukrainian city councils only after Ukraine had got the right to organize with Poland European football championship in 2012. There is no need to prepare for Euro-2012 now, because European football championship ended and the champion is known. But there are the workers in these departments of preparation for Euro-2012 and that workers get salary form city budget for their job. But...What do they do, working there? What preparation for Euro-2012 may they make nowadays? Why are budgetary money spending for such departments of preparation for Euro-2012 in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Donetsk city councils?

Friday 3 August 2012

Zolochiv

St. Mykolay Charnetskyy Greek Catholic Church, wooden church built in 2006.
Monument to fighters for Ukraine's freedom.
Zolochiv castle's bridge and gate.
Big palace of Zolochiv castle built in 1634-1636, where castle's proprietors lived with their family.
Entry's part of Zolochiv castle.
Chinese palace of Zolochiv castle was built on the beginning of the XVIIIth century, when mode for all Chinese existed in Europe.  
Chinese alcove in Zolochiv castle's garden.
Allegoric sculpture in the castle's garden.
One of Zolochiv castle's bastions.
Chapel near Zolochiv castle was built in the memory of the victims, killed by NKVS agents in June of 1941 in the castle, prison at that time (1872-1954).
The first Ukraine's monument to Vyacheslav Chornovil, wonderful Ukrainian politician in 1964-1999.
Neogothic house "Under winged lion".
Zolochiv school №1, the oldest school in the city, built in the middle of the XIXth century.
Medieval house, called villa and built in 1427 - the oldest building in Zolochiv
Jesus Crist Resurrection Church, constructed in 1682. Orthodox (Kyiv Patriarchy) church functions here now.
St. Mary sculpture near Jesus Crist Resurrection Orthodox Church.
Zolochiv city council.
Assumption of the Mother of God Roman Catholic Church, constructed in 1624-1627 and reconstructed a few in 1693.
Monument to Markiyan Shashkevych, Ukrainian priest, poet, public figure, who was born in the village Pidlyssya near Zolochiv. 
St. Mykolay Greek Catholic Church, built in 1627 and restored in 1765.
Monument to Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, writer, painter.
Zolochiv - one of the ancient cities in Lviv region. Ar first Zolochiv was mentioned as city in the archive's documents in 1423. In 1523 Zolochiv got Magderburg Right and in 1553 the privilege of annual January's fair. Zolochiv has wonderful castle with its Chinese palace, nice parks and quiet streets, ancient churches and buildings, and monuments. Copy of the coronal of the founder of Lviv King Danylo Halytskyy is in Zolochiv castle, wich functions as museum nowadays.You can discover rich story of Zolochiv and to have a fine trip, visiting this city of Halychyna, which is situated 70km east of Lviv.