Saturday 22 September 2012

I don't know why, but I can't add any comment under my blog's articles after published last article about the creation of private gas monopoly in Ukraine! Did Blogger.com make some censorship here in my blog or what happened??? I can't comment neither as the author of the blog, nor as anonymous in my blog now!!!

So instead of adding the comments, I must write a new article about next events in Ukrainian gas privatization's process. So. On September 19th, 2012 private firm "Gastek" bought 23,416% state shares of "Volyngas" and nowadays owns 37,856% shares of "Volyngas". And on September 20th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 23,989% state shares of "Krymgas".
Privatization-monopolization... Where is Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine? .........

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Private gas monopoly in Ukraine?

In August 2012 Ukraine's Fund of State Property began to sell state shares of Ukrainian regional and city gas companies to private firms at specially organized auctions, thus it shouldn't be more than 25% state shares in every regional and city gas company. But why did Ukraine's Fund of State Property decide that regional and city gas companies must be more private property, than state? It's a huge question. And state shares of "Mykolayivgas" were sold the first this summer - private firm "Gastek" bought its 25% on August 1st, 2012. But "Gastek" has already 25,221% of "Mykolayivgas" earlier, so nowadays this private firm owns 50,221% of "Mykolayivgas". And state company "Naftogas" owns 50%+1 shares of "Mykolayivgas", thus "Mykolayivgas" is more state, than private city gas company in Ukraine now, but it's one of rare exceptions, sorrowfully. On August 30th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% state shares of "Ivano-Frankivskgas"and had also 10,19% shares of "Ivano-Frankivskgas" earlier, so nowadays owns its 35,19%. On September 4th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% of "Sevastopolgas". On September 5th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 26% state shares of "Dnipropetrovskgas" and, having 24,8% shares earlier, owns 50,8% shares of "Dnipropetrovskgas" now. On September 6th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% state shares of "Zaporizhgas" and because of owning of some "Zaporizhgas" shares earlier, nowadays owns its 49,76%. And on September 7th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 26% state shares of "Luhanskgas", 25,788% state shares of "Sumygas" on September 10th, 2012 and 26% state shares of "Tysmenytsyagas" on September 13th, 2012. Then "Gastek" bought 22,059% state shares of "Vinnytsyagas" on September 14th, 2012 and, having its 12,73% earlier, now owns 34,789% shares of "Vinnytsyagas". On September 17th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 15,864% state shares of "Zhytomyrgas" and, having more 35% shares of "Zhytomyrgas" earlier, has its 50, 93% now. And this day, on September 18th, 2012 "Gastek" has already bought 20,393% state shares of "Chernivtsigas" and owning its 14,69% shares earlier, nowadays has 35, 083% shares of that city gas company. Besides it the private firm "Gastek" owns 50%+1 shares of "Khmelnytskgas", 24,12% shares of "Rivnegas", 24,75% shares of "Rivneoblgas", 15,23% shares of "Zakarpatgas", 14,44% shares of "Volyngas", 10, 608% shares of "Lvivgas",10% shares of "Ternopilmiskgas". Though official owners of the private firm "Gastek" are 4 less known Cyprus private firms - "Krezer Holdings Limited", "Nesiba Venchers Limited", "Pasler Enterprise Limited", "Polara Venchers Limited", but many different Ukrainian mass media and economic analysts say that "Gastek" is controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Till March 2012 these 4 Cyprus firms had owned 3 Ukrainian private firms - "Rolux", "AgroPromKomplekt", "TernoPromService", and these 3 (also less known) firms have many shares of such Ukrainian regional and city gas companies as "Volyngas", "Zakarpatgas", "Lvivgas", "Chernivtsigas", "Ivano-Frankivskgas", "Chernihivgas" and "Vinnytsyagas". But this spring less known Ukrainian firms "Lasfano of Ukraine" and "Budbrok" and new less known Cyprus firms "Solvotore Enterprise" and "Olubera Ventures" bought the firms "Rolux", "AgroPromKomplekt" and "TernoPromService". But as it is often in Ukraine, such unkown or less known firms are like a screen of the real situation in the deals, which are controlled by very rich and influential people in Ukrainian state.
In September 2012 Ukrainian journal "Correspondent" wrote that Ukrainian private firm "Finlex-Invest" also concerns to the sphere of the influence of Dmytro Firtash. And "Finlex-Invest" owns 24,45% shares of "Cherkasygas", 15,13% shares of "Kirovohradgas", 40,82% shares of "Melitopolgas". "Finlex-Invest" has already bought 26% state shares of "Poltavagas" at special auction, organized by Ukraine's Fund of State Property on August 29th, 2012 and has also bought 26% state shares of "Lubnygas" at the similar state auction on September 11th, 2012.
All these last gas events look like a creation of Ukraine's private gas monopoly of one person - Dmytro Firtash. It looks so, isn't it?   









P.S. The article's dates were taken and analysed from the different informational and mas media sites - smida.gov.ua, gasua.com, RBC Ukraine, UNIAN, "Economic Truth" (the part of "Ukrainian Truth"), "Correspondent".

Monday 10 September 2012

Ukrainian Paralympic heroes.

London 2012 Paralympic Games has finished yesterday. The official Paralympics' result for Ukrainian paralympians is thirty two gold, twenty four silver and twenty eight bronze medals. Ukrainian paralympians are real heroes in Ukraine, because in spite of the difficult life, especially for such persons, like paralympians, they fight with all difficulties and won every day of their lives. All Ukrainian paralympians are strong people and athletes - they continue to live, to win and to wish new life's victories.A lot of thanks for all Ukrainian participants of Paralympics 2012! Participation in the Paralympics is a nice life's victory for every athlete, but, of course, every sportsman wants sport's victories. I wish all Ukrainian paralympians the winning medals on the next Paralympics 2016. 
And Paralympic Games 2012 became the most resultative in Ukrainian history of the Paralympics. It's necessary to name and to know all Ukrainian winners and medalists of the Paralympics 2012. A lot of medal were got by Ukrainian sportsmen in the athletics - eight gold, seven silver and seven bronze! Many thanks to Roman Pavlyk for two gold and two bronze medals in the running 100m, 200m, 400m and in long jump competitions, to Yuriy Tsaruk for two golds in the running 100m and 200m, to Mariya Pomazan for two gold medals in shot put and discus throw competitions (though the official results show one gold and one silver of M.Pomazan, but neither Mariya, nor Ukrainians didn't understand why the gold medal was taken out in discus throw competition and the competition's results were changed after the announcement of the results and after the medal ceremony), to Ruslan Katyshev for gold and bronze medals in long jump and triple jump competitions, to Andriy Holivets for gold in shot put competition, to Oksana Zubkovska for gold in long jump competition, to Inna Stryzhak for one silver and two bronze in long jump and in the running 100m and 200m competitions, to Oksana Boturchuk for silver and bronze in the running 100m and 400m, to Oleksiy Pashkov and Vasyl Lishchynskyy for their bronze medals in discus throw competitions, to Viktoriya Kravchenko for silver in the running 400m, to Anastasiya Mysnyk for silver and Svitlana Kudelya for bronze in shot put competition. 
Ukrainian sportsmen were also strong in the other kinds of sport and Ukrainians are very proud of them and say them "very great thanks" for their hard work and their Paralympic medals. So Yehor Dementyev won two gold medals in cycling road competitions - in men's individual C 4-5 road race and C5 time trial. Davyd Khorava, Dmytro Solovey, Oleksandr Kosinov won gold medals and Yuliya Halynska and Nataliya Nikolaychyk won bronze medals in different judo competitions: men's -66kg, men's -73kg, men's -81kg, women's -48kg, women's -52kg correspondingly. Antonina Khodzinska won silver and Yuliya Klymenko, Viktoriya Safonova and Mykhaylo Popov won bronze medals in singles' table tennis competitions (6 and 7 class). Vasyl Kovalchuk won gold medal in one shooting competition (mixed R5-10m air rifle prone-SH2) and Alla Lysenko got gold medal in one rowing competition (women's single sculls). Ukrainian men's football team is silver medalist in 7-a-side competition and Ukrainian mixed coxed four team is bronze medalist in the rowing, and Ukrainian women's volleyball team is also bronze medalist in sitting volleyball. Anton Datsko won silver in one wheelchair fencing competition (men's individual foil) and Lidiya Solovyova won bronze in women's powerlifting (-44kg).
Ukraine got the most medals in swimming competitions. Ukrainian swimmers got seventeen gold, fourteen silver and thirteen bronze medals on these Paralympic Games in London! Nataliya Prolohayeva won three gold and got one silver in the swimming 50m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 100m freestyle. Maksym Veraksa won three gold and got one bronze in the swimming 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m individual medley, 100m breaststroke. Yevheniy Bohodayko won two gold and got two silver in the swimming 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 50m butterfly, 100m backstroke. Viktor Smyrnov won one gold and got one silver and one bronze in the swimming 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 100m backstroke. Andriy Kalyna won one gold and got one silver in the swimming 100m breaststroke, 200m individual nedley. Oksana Khrul won one gold and got one silver in the swimming 50m butterfly, 100m breaststroke. Oleksiy Fedyna won one gold and got one bronze in the swimming 100m breaststroke, 50m freestyle. Eskender Mustafayev became the winner in the swimming 50m freestyle, Hennadiy Boyko was the winner in the swimming 50m backstroke and Dmytro Zalevskyy - the winner in the swimming 100m backstroke. Viktoriya Savtsova became the winner in the swimming 100m breakststroke and Khrystyna Yurchenko - also the winner in the swimming 100m breaststroke (in another classification). Dmytro Vynohradets got two silver and one bronze in the swimming 50m backstroke, 150m individual medley, 50m breaststroke. Olha Sviderska got two silver medals in the swimming 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle. Danylo Chufarov got one silver and one bronze in the swimming 400m freestyle, 200m individual medley. Kateryna Istomina, Yana Berezhna and Hanna Yelisavetska got silver medals in the swimming 100m butterfly, 100m breaststroke, 50m backstroke correspondingly. Serhiy Klippert got two bronze medals in the swimming 100m backstroke, 400m freestyle. Oleksandr Mashchenko also got two bronze medals in the swimming 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley. And Oleksandr Holovko, Ani Palyan, Yaryna Matlo and Iryna Sotska got bronze medals for Ukraine in the swimming 50m backstroke, 50m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 50m backstroke correspondingly.                    
Congratulations!!! Such people as Ukrainian paralympians must be nominated with the prize of Ukraine's hero, because they are heroes indeed in Ukraine. Ukrainian state power must give financial prizes for all Ukrainian winners and medalists of Paralympics 2012 for their gold, silver and bronze medals, as Ukraine's present state power promised and declared before the beginning of the Paralympics. It's need to keep promises, especially before such persons, as paralympians. 
Paralympians are the examples for imitation in the life. They teach others how not to drop the hands, but to go ahead, winning the difficulties.       

Friday 7 September 2012

Before parliamentary elections'2012

On October 28th, 2012 parliamentary elections will be held in Ukraine. But the opposition's leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko won't participate in these elections, because they're imprisoned. Y.Lutsenko was already moved in the Menska colony №91 in the village Mokoshyno of Chernihiv region on August 31th, 2012 and Y.Tymoshenko are temporaly in the Central clinic hospital of Ukraine's Railway in Kharkiv because of her health's worsening since May, 2012. Only a few positive news are that former Minister of Defence in the government's cabinet of ex-Prime Minister Y.Tymoshenko Valeriy Ivashchenko was released from the prison and placed under house arrest because of his bad health on August 14th, 2012. So parliamentary elections are coming, but Yuliya Tymoshenko, the main opponent of present Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and two Ministers of her previous government's cabinet Y.Lutsenko, V.Ivashchenko can't take part in the elections. Can it be the fair parliamentary elections in October of 2012, if politician Y.Tymoshenko had got almost half per cents of the votes in the presidential elections in February of 2010 and nowadays she's imprisoned?   
Another Ukraine's politicians created so-called "united opposition" and one electoral list of "united opposition" under party's brand "Batkivshchyna" for the next parliamentary elections. These politicians included Y.Tymoshenko and Y.Lutsenko number 1 and 5 in that electoral list, though they both can't participate in any elections till they're found guilty and stay in the jail. That's why those two politicians' surnames won't be in the electoral list of "united opposition" according to several courts' and Central Electoral Commission's decisions. If the politicians of so-called "united opposition" wanted Tymoshenko's and Lutsenko's participation in the parliamentary elections 2012, so that "united opposition" had to strike every day and several times per day for their freedom, but instead of this united opposition's politicians created and thought only about electoral list since the beginning of 2012. So why did those united opposition's politicians decide to lie Ukrainian voters and to include Tymoshenko and Lutsenko in their electoral list, if those opposition's leaders are jailed? It looks like a few (or more than a few?) cynical lie, created for Ukrainian voters. It's no need to cover with Tymoshenko and Lutsenko surnames in the electoral list. Especially if number 2 and 3 of electoral list of so-called "united oppostion" Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Anatoliy Hrytsenko said that V.Yanukovych and Y.Tymoshenko were equal and called people to vote against these both politicians before the second round of presidential elections in February of 2010, and it gave needed difference of the votes to win for V.Yanukovych. And especially if there are many persons in the electoral list of "united opposition", who worked against Y.Tymoshenko in the past. So it's hard and impossible to compare electoral list under party's brand "Batkivshchyna" for parliamentary elections'2012 and "Batkivshchyna" party, ruled by Y.Tymoshenko, when she was free. 
But people worry and anger the most that all parties didn't give full information about their candidates in the electoral lists on Central Electoral Commission's site. All political parties! So UKRAINIAN VOTERS CAN'T KNOW WHERE THE CANDIDATES WERE BORN, WHERE THEY LIVE AND WHERE THEY HAVE HOUSES, APARTMENTS, LANDED PROPERTIES. How can people vote, if they don't know who these candidates are? And the 63th article of Ukrainian Law "About the elections of the people's deputies of Ukraine" directly writes about the necessary information about candidates in the people's deputies in the parliament, which must be obligatory written on the official site of Central Electoral Commission (CEC). According to this 63th article Ukrainian voters must know and see the birth places and the living addresses of the candidates in the people's deputies on CEC's official site. Does Central Electoral Commission break Ukrainian Law? Do political parties think that people must to choose "a cat in a sack", as Ukrainians say about unknown and blind way of the choice? Can the elections be recognized fair, if the voters can't know even such simple information about the candidates in the deputies?                    

Saturday 1 September 2012

Buchach

Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God Greek Catholic Church was built by famous architect Bernard Meretyn in 1764. Ioan Heorhiy Pinzel, called Ukrainian Mikelangelo, had made the iconostatis, the amvon, the altars, the relief compositions "St. Mykolay's Miracle",  "Annunciation", "Angel-protector", "Travel to Emmaus", "Head's Cutting off of Ivan the Forerunner", the allegoric sculptures of Toviy, Faith, Courage in this Church.


Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God Greek Catholic Church from the other side.


Memorial-tomb of the victims of Stalin's repressions near the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God Greek Catholic Church.


Buchach was perfectly planned, using its relief and natural resources. Buchach locates on Opillya, the part of Podilska Hill, and city's streets are often located on the different knolls, so the difference of the altitude exists between Buchach streets and that's why the stairs are often constructed between the streets. The streets and some separate buildings are also strengthened with specially constructed walls. All together creates just amazing view of the city. You can see some buildings, located on the streets with the difference of the altitude on this and two next photos.



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Buchach Regional Polyclinic is also situated on separate knoll and has its stairs and the wall-strengthening.

       And on this photo the whole street has its ancient wall-strengthening.


Some people build the houses on the forest knolls of Buchach, what looks very charming.


                                    Regional Cultural House was built in 1905. 


City Council's House was built by the architect Bernard Meretyn and was decorated with many sculptures by the architect and sculptor Ioan Heorhiy Pinzel in 1750-1751, and it's restored now.


Because of council's restoration it's possible to see only council's tower and present Buchach council is situated in another building.


                                     Buchach fountain.


Monument to Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, writer, painter, public person (1994).


                              Strypa River's landscape. 


Assumption of the Mother of God Roman Catholic Cathedral was constructed in 1763. The sculptor and architect Ioan Heorhiy Pinzel created the sculptures for the cathedral's altars and married here, and his children were also baptized in this cathedral.


One of the entrances of the Assumption of the Mother of God Roman Catholic Cathedral. 

Wall-fence around the Assumption of the Mother of God Roman Catholic Cathedral.


           This pharmacy was built in 1932 and is the oldest pharmacy in the city.


Memorable table on the house, where Shmuel Agnon, Jewish writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1966, was born in 1888. 


                         Wonderful Buchach landscape and Strypa River.


God's Fair Cross Greek Catholic Church (constructed in 1765-1771 by Gotfrid Goffman) and Monastery (constructed in 1751-1753) of Basilian Order. Count Mykola Pototskyy donated many money for the building of Basilian Church and Monastery, and founded school (later gimnasium) for poor children at Basilian Monastery in 1754.   


God's Fair Cross Greek Catholic Monastery of Basilian Order and the bell-tower (constructed in 1854) nearby, and its wall-strengthening..


The view of God's Fair Cross Greek Catholic Monastery's Complex from castle's mountain.


The ruins of Buchach castle, which was built in XIVth and reconstructed in XVIIth century. The first written mention about Buchach castle is dated 1379 year and Ukrainian family Buchatski were the founders and the first owners of the castle in the XIVth century.

                                       Buchach castle's ruins.


                                     Buchach castle's ruins.


St.Mykolay Orthodox Church was constructed in 1610 thanks to Mariya Pototska, the wife of Stefan Pototskyy, the owner of the city at that time, and at once the sister of Petro Mohyla, Kyiv Orthodox metropolitan, who decided to construct Orthodox Church in Buchach. Cross dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Holodomor (famine's genocide of Ukrainians in1933) was set in 1993 near St.Mykolay Ukrainian Autocefal Orthodox Church. 
   

                                  Sobeskyy's source, opened in 1683.


                                 Buchach State Tax Service.


                                        Jesus Christ sculpture (2003).


St. Ioan sculpture, made by the sculptor Ioan Heorhiy Pinzel in 1750.


Coat of Arms of the city of Buchach on St. Ioan sculpture.


The city of different nations' cultures and amazing landscapes, the city built without the relief's changes, but with clever using of geographical location and natural conditions. It's Buchach in Ternopil region! Buchach is like a place of quiet harmony between people and nature. I walked there and didn't want to go away, but wanted to enjoy my visit more in this really charming city. But I hadn't many time for a walk and I didn't see such Buchach sightseeings and monuments as St.Mykhayil Church (1910), St.Mary the Virgin figure (sc. I.H.Pinzel, 1751) at the city's entry, memorial to Sichovi Striltsi (Ukrainian soldiers in the early of the XXth century), memorial to the fighters for Ukraine's freedom, tomb of UPA soldier Yarolsav Kosarchyna "Bayrak", Musician school (1897), "Gold Linden" (place, where Poland and Turkey had signed Peace's Bill in 1672), two monuments to the victims of nazism, Glory's memorial to the soldiers, died during the Second World War, etc.What I was in time to watch, You can see on the photos here. But I think that I'll come again to this nice city. And You're welcome to Buchach.