Wednesday, December 12, 2018

ukraine

etymology
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Ukraine-called-like-that-in-English-not-Ukraina

government 
- ministry of foreign affairs
- Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food
  • Department of International Cooperation
巴拉克拉瓦區   Balaklava has changed possession several times during its history. A settlement at its present location was originally founded under the name of Symbolon (Σύμβολον) by the Ancient Greeks, for whom it was an important commercial city. During the Middle Ages, it was controlled by the Byzantine Empire and then by the Genoese who conquered it in 1365. The Byzantines called the town Yamboli and the Genoese named it Cembalo. The Genoese built a large trading empire in both the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, buying slaves in Eastern Europe and shipping them toEgypt via the Crimea, a lucrative market hotly contested with by the Venetians. The ruins of a Genoese fortress positioned high on a clifftop above the entrance to the Balaklava Inlet are a popular tourist attraction and have recently become the stage for a Medieval festival. The fortress is a subject of Mickiewicz's penultimate poem in his 1825 cycle of Crimean Sonnets. In 1475 Cembalo City was captured by Turks and they rename it to Balyk-Yuva (Fish's Nest) which subsequently became Balaklava. During the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, the Russian troops conquered Crimea in 1771. Thirteen years later, Crimea was definitively annexed by the Russian Empire. After that, Crimean Tatar and Turkish population was replaced by Greeks from theArchipelago.[citation needed] In 1787 the city was visited by Catherine the Great. The town became famous for the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry charge due to a misunderstanding sent up a valley strongly held on three sides by the Russians, in which about 250 men were killed or wounded, and over 400 horses lost, effectively reducing the size of the mounted brigade by two thirds and destroying some of the finest light cavalry in the world to no military purpose.[4] The British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson immortalized the battle in verse in hisCharge of the Light Brigade. The balaclava, a tight knitted garment covering the whole head and neck with holes for the eyes and mouth, also takes its name from this settlement, where soldiers first wore them. Also numerous towns founded in English-speaking countries in later parts of the 19th Century were named "Balaklava" (see Balaklava (disambiguation)). During the Second World War, Balaklava was the southernmost point in the Soviet-German lines.[citation needed] In 1954 Balaklava, together with the whole Crimea, passed from Russia to Ukraine. It became part of the independent state of Ukraine in 1991. Today there are over 50 monuments in the town dedicated to the remembrance of military valour in past wars, including the Great Patriotic War, the Crimean War and the Russian Civil War.
Horodnia (Ukrainian: Городня [ɦoˈrɔdnʲɐ]) is a town in Horodnianskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It has a city status since 1957. Population: 12,356 (2015 est.).Horodnia is situated on both banks of the Chibrizh-river.For the first time, Horodnia was mentioned in historical literature at the beginning of the 17th century. There are different ideas about the origin of its name.The pride of citizens is three cannons presented by Peter I for the heroism of the people of Horodnia during the Swedish invasion in 1709.Horodnia (en ukrainien : Городня) ou Gorodnia (en russe : Городня) est une ville de l'oblast de Tchernihiv, en Ukraine, et le centre administratif du raïon de Horodnia. 
- the coat of arms in german wiki version has an eagle
- people


kiev
- ********intriguing - https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Ukraine-wish-for-the-spelling-of-Kiev-to-be-changed-to-the-name-Kyiv-which-is-an-African-surname
- legacy?
  • moscow metro station kievskaya 
Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів [lʲʋiu̯] ; Polish: Lwów [lvuf] , Russian: Львов Lvov [lʲvof]; German: Lemberg; Latin: Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of 724,713 as of January 2019. Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (also called the Kingdom of Ruthenia)[2] from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of Poland and Ruthenia. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic. After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Lviv became part of the Soviet Union, and in 1944–46 there was a population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine. In 1991, it became part of the independent nation of Ukraine.Lviv was the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia. Besides its Ukrainian name, the city is also known by several other names in different languages: Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg, Yiddish: לעמבערג‎, Lemberg, or לעמבעריק, Lèmberik; Russian: Львов, Lvov; Hungarian: Ilyvó; Serbo-Croatian: Lavov; Romanian: Liov; Latin: Leopolis; Crimean Tatar: İlbav; see also other names.利沃夫（烏克蘭語：Львів；波蘭語：Lwów；德語：Lemberg，中文译为“伦贝格”；俄语：Львов）是烏克蘭西部的主要城市，有獅城之稱，利沃夫州首府。

Mariupol (Ukrainian: Маріу́поль [mɑrʲiˈupɔlʲ], also Ukrainian: Маріюпіль, translit. Mariiupil [mɑrʲiˈjupilʲ]; Russian: Мариу́поль [mərʲɪˈupəlʲ]; Greek: Μαριούπολη, translit. Marioupoli) the city was known as Zhdanov, after the Soviet functionary Andrei Zhdanov, between 1948 and 1989. Today, Mariupol remains a centre for industry, as well as higher education and business. Following the Russian intervention in Ukraine and capture of Donetsk city by pro-Russian insurgents associated with the Donetsk People's Republic in 2014, Mariupol was made the provisional administrative centre of the Donetsk Oblast. The city was secured on June 13, 2014 by Ukrainian troops, and has been under attack several times since.

波爾塔瓦It is still unknown when Poltava was founded, although the town was not attested before 1174. However, for reasons unknown,[citation needed] municipal authorities chose to celebrate the city's 1100th anniversary in 1999. The settlement is indeed an old one, as archeologists unearthed a Paleolithicdwelling as well as Scythian remains within the city limits.The present name of the city is traditionally connected to the settlement Ltava which is mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle in 1174.[5][6] According to the chronicle, on Saint Peter's Day (12 July) of 1182, Igor Sviatoslavich, chasing hordes of the Cuman khans Konchak and Kobiak, crossed the Vorskla River near Ltava and moved towards Pereiaslav), where Igor's army was victorious over the Cumans.[5]During the Mongol invasion of Rus' in 1238–39 many cities of the middle Dnieper region were destroyed, possibly including Ltava.
- 食安中心透過食物事故監測系統，得悉新加坡食品局發出通告指，上述產自烏克蘭Baryshevska農場的雞蛋被檢出甲硝唑超出當地標準，因而禁止入口當地。中心其後聯絡烏克蘭及新加坡當局，以及本地主要進口商跟進，隨即實施扣檢安排，加強檢測涉事農場進口的雞蛋產品，要求進口商須待雞蛋產品測檢合格後才可出售。

  • note that  soybean crops started in Baryshevska grain company  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJrcpz8vt9s


敖德萨 Odessa (also known as Odesa; Ukrainian: Оде́са [ɔˈdɛsɐ]; Russian: Оде́сса [ɐˈdʲesə], Romanian: Odesa) is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transport hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the "pearl of the Black Sea", the "South Capital" (under the Russian Empire and Soviet Union), and "Southern Palmyra". Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location. A more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as "Hacıbey". After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, Hacibey and surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529 and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the city of Odessa was founded by a decree of the Russian empressCatherine the Great. From 1819 to 1858, Odessa was a free port - porto-franco. During the Soviet period, it was the most important port of trade in the Soviet Unionand a Soviet naval base. On 1 January 2000, the Quarantine Pier at Odessa Commercial Sea Port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a period of 25 years.
- Odessa /ˌoʊˈdɛsə/ is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.Odessa is said to have been named after Odessa, Ukraine, because of the local shortgrass prairie's resemblance to Ukraine's steppelandscape.

Sevastopol or traditionally Sebastopol (/sɛvəˈstoʊpəl, -ˈstɒpəl/ or /sɛˈvæstəpəl, -pɒl/ Ukrainian: Севастополь; Russian: Севасто́поль; Crimean Tatar: Акъяр, Aqyar; Greek: Σεβαστούπολη, Sevastoupoli) is a city located in the southwestern region of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea. As a result of the 2014 Russian annexation, the city is administered as a federal city of the Russian Federation, though Ukraine and most of the UN member countries continue to regard Sevastopol as a city with special status within Ukraine.
-  The name of Sevastopolis was originally chosen in the same etymological trend as other cities in the Crimean peninsula that was intended to reflect its ancient Greek origins. It is a compound of the Greek adjective, σεβαστός (sebastos, 'venerable') and the noun πόλις (pólis) ('city'). Σεβαστός is the traditional Greek equivalent of the Roman honorific Augustus, originally given to the first emperor of the Roman Empire, Augustus and later awarded as a title to his successors.
Despite its Greek origin, the name itself is not from Ancient Greek times. The city was probably named after the Empress ("Augusta") Catherine II of Russia who founded Sevastopol in 1783. She visited the city in 1787 accompanied by Joseph II, the Emperor of Austria, and other foreign dignitaries. In the west of the city, there are well-preserved ruins of the ancient Greek port city of Chersonesos, founded in the 5th[citation needed] (or 4th) century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica. This name means "peninsula", reflecting its immediate location, and is not related to the ancient Greek name for the Crimean Peninsula as a whole: Chersonēsos Taurikē ("the Taurian Peninsula").
The name of the city is spelled as:
- note the monument to Russian ships which were sunk in the Crimean war to blockade the harbor, which is one of the landmarks in russia's new currency note issued in oct2017
-  beach between sevastopol and evpatoria  https://m.facebook.com/russiabeyond/photos/a.412408658528/10158189669463529/

bilyi slon observatory
- Perched spectacularly 2,000 metres up on a snowcapped peak in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains, the Bilyi Slon observatory has stood empty and battered by the elements for some seven decades. Abandoned only a year after it was built in what was then Polanddue to the outbreak of World War II, it became a carcass of thick sandstone walls and missing windows that looked more like a ruined castle than a scientific outpost. Now, with efforts under way to raise around $1 million (920,000 euros) in funding, scientists aim to restore the wreck and transform it into a learning centre for young researchers studying wildlife, plants and weather patterns. http://pulse.ng/world/bilyi-slon-new-lease-of-life-for-ukraines-war-torn-mountain-observatory-id6612857.html 


association/institution
- The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (Ukrainian: Організація Українських Націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya Ukrayins'kykh Natsionalistiv or ОУН) was a Ukrainian political organization created in 1929 in Vienna and acting in Western Ukraine (at the time interwar Poland). The OUN emerged as a union between the Ukrainian Military Organization, smaller radical right-wing groups, and right-wing Ukrainian nationalists and intellectuals represented by Dmytro Dontsov, Yevhen Konovalets, Mykola Stsyborsky and other figures.

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Company
- naftogaz (state oil company) http://www.naftogaz.com/www/3/nakweben.nsf/
- bank
  • privatbank
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-privatbank-idUSS8N16N05B?feedType=RSS&feedName=bondsNews  Ukraine will on Monday nationalise PrivatBank, the country's biggest lender, a move undertaken in coordination with Ukraine's international lenders and with their support, the government said in a statement late on Sunday.
- hotel

  • tokyo star
  • 烏克蘭南部敖德薩州一間酒店昨日深夜發生大火，造成至少九人死亡、十人受傷。涉事酒店東京之星（Tokyo Star）在當地深夜一時三十四分發生火警https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190818/00180_021.html

- food
  • agropbutservis 
  • exhibited at 2016 hktdc food fair
  • Agrofirma svitanok





  • exhibited at 2016 hktdc food fair
    • Druzhkovskaya





    • exhibited at 2016 hktdc food fair

      • - freia toys
      • Participated in 2016 and 17 hktdc toy fair
      - iskra pjsc
      • Participated in 2016 hktdc lighting fair spring edition
      - Europe Business Assembly

      • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170725/20100660 有烏克蘭商人借牛津之名過橋賣假獎，成立公司在各國尋找客戶領取「國際蘇格拉底獎」、「最佳城市獎」等獎項，只要付款即可領獎，每次收取高達9,300英鎊（9.4萬港元）費用。牛津大學已表明「這間公司與大學無關」。英國《泰晤士報》報道，由烏克蘭商人薩夫沃（Anton Savvov）和兒子成立的「歐洲商業議會」（The Europe Business Assembly，簡稱EBA），自稱是「全球最具影響力的非政府機構之一」，2000年至今相信已有數以千計的「交易」，獲利數以百萬鎊計。EBA提供的「商品」五花八門，有「國際蘇格拉底獎」、「年度最佳經理」、「維多利亞女皇紀念獎」等，每項通常有數名領獎者，付9,300鎊會獲得VIP待遇（包括可在頒獎禮發表講話、三晚酒店住宿、個人拍照、接受EBA雜誌《領袖時報》單對單專訪和EBA「專家會」會籍）。除了獎項，EBA亦出售「學者協會」、「國際領袖俱樂部」等的會籍，並自行出版年刊《蘇格拉底年鑑》，想刊登文章的客人須額外付費。有EBA前員工透露，上司指示他們盡量混淆EBA與牛津大學的關係，向潛在客戶說「你將成為偉大的牛津機構一分子」。另一前員工說，「花8,000鎊便能在牆上釘一張牛津文憑並不貴」。為令EBA更似牛津大學機構，除商標使用與牛津大學校徽相同字體，網站又用牛津校園照片，電郵地址用「@ebaoxford.co.uk」，又僅顯示設於牛津市內的辦公室地址。EBA亦會聘請政界和學術界名人舉辦演講，以提高獎項的可信性。
      university
      - Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukrainian: Київський національний лінгвістичний університет) is a public university located in Kiev, Ukraine. It was founded in 1948 as Kiev State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. The university is commonly referred to as "In'Yaz" (Russian: ИнЯз) which means "foreign languages." Kyiv National Linguistic University has been ranked the 4th best Ukrainian university specializing in Social Science and Arts and Humanities in the year of 2012. Kyiv National Linguistic University is the successor of the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, established by the Ministry of Education of the USSR (Decree № 524/69 of March 30, 1948). By the Decree № 592 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of August 29, 1994 the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages was renamed Kyiv State Linguistic University.
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      Trade
      - http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21618840-all-celebrations-kiev-over-ratifying-trade-deal-europe-it-russians-who
      - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f2795d64-8eb6-11e5-a549-b89a1dfede9b.html
      Ukraine adapts trade links to soften Russian economic blow
      - parallel goods

      • http://sfs.gov.ua/en/mass-media/news/391727.html On the 17th of October 2019, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted as a whole the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine on protection of intellectual property rights upon the transportation of goods across the customs border of Ukraine” (Registration No. 1230).In particular, amendments concern the definition of the terms “counterfeit goods”, “pirated goods”, “products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights”.


      investment environment
      - https://www.quora.com/Which-country-has-a-low-cost-but-a-high-standard-of-living

      Industry
      - natural gas

      • http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db4e4afa-ded5-11e4-852b-00144feab7de.html Ukraine’s parliament approved a law on Thursday intended to break monopolies and lure badly needed investment into the country’s lucrative but opaque natural gas sector. Approved by a majority of almost two-thirds, the “natural gas market law” aims to boost competition and transparency in one of the most troubled sectors of Ukraine’s recession-battered and war-torn economy.
      New state
      - Russian-backed rebels fighting against Kiev announced on Tuesday the creation of a new "state" that they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory. The proposed country - which has no chance of getting off the ground - would be founded after a referendum and called Malorossiya, a tsarist-era name meaning "Little Russia" that once described most of the area covering modern-day Ukraine. A constitution presented by rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said representatives from the insurgents' self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk "People's Republics" and other regions had agreed to "declare the establishment of a new state, which is the successor of Ukraine." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/18/separatists-ukraine-declare-creation-new-state-malorossiya/

      people
      - Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky or Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelensky[note 1] (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, actor, comedian, director and president-elect of Ukraine. Prior to his political career, he obtained a degree in law and created the company Kvartal 95, which produces films, cartoons and TV comedy shows. [1] Kartal created the 2015-2019 television series Servant of the People, in which Zelensky played the role of President of UkraineServant of the People. A political party of the same name was created in March 2018 by employees from Kvartal 95.  Zelensky was born 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, to Jewish parents.[6][7][8][9][10] His father, Oleksandr Zelensky, is a professor who heads an academic department of cybernetics and computing hardware at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics; his mother, Rimma Zelenska, used to work as an engineer. Before entering grammar school he lived for four years in Mongolia in the city of Erdenet where his father worked.
      - Oleksiy Valeriyovych Honcharuk (Ukrainian: Олексі́й Вале́рійович Гончару́к, pronounced [ɔlekˈsij ʋɑˈlɛrijɔʋɪtʃ ɦɔntʃɑˈruk]; born 7 July 1984) is a Ukrainian politician. He has been the Prime Minister of Ukraine since 29 August 2019. Before this appointment Honcharuk was a lawyer and since 28 May 2019 Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky. Honcharuk was born in Horodnia, Chernihiv Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) in 1984. Honcharuk's father Valeriy was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united). In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Honcharuk's father tried to win a parliamentary seat for this party, but he never received a mandate. The following year he was killed in an accident. Since 2005 Honcharuk worked as a lawyer and heads of law departments of various companies. Honcharuk last position as a lawyer (before joining the presidential administration) was being a lead partner at a company that specializes in real estate development.
      - Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степан Андрійович Бандера, Polish: Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera, Rusyn: Штефан Бандера, Russian: Степан Андреевич Бандера; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian political activist and a leader of the nationalist and independence movement of Ukraine. In the early months of World War II he cooperated with Nazi Germany, but after Ukrainians declared an independent Ukrainian state (30 Jun 1941), the Gestapo arrested him on 15 September 1941 and he became a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[1] In 1944, with Germany rapidly losing ground in the war in the face of the advancing Allied armies, Bandera was released, in the hope that he could deter the advancing Soviet forces. Fourteen years after the end of the war, in 1959, the KGB (a Soviet security agency) had Bandera assassinated in Munich, Germany.
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      - Jan Koum

      - Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь (/ˈɡoʊɡəl, -ɡɔːl/; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol; IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian dramatist, novelist and short story writer ofUkrainian ethnicity.[4][8] Some Ukrainian and Russian and scholars debate whether Gogol must be considered a Ukrainian or Russian or author, accusing each other of "appropriating" the writer.
      - Igor Kolomoisky

      • http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b0b04474-d232-11e4-a225-00144feab7de.html As Moscow annexed Crimea a year ago and pro-Russian separatists started seizing control of town halls across eastern Ukraine, Kiev came up with the novel idea of appointing Ukraine’s richest men as regional governors, in a bid to stop the unrest spreading to the heart of the country. Igor Kolomoisky was the first to sign up.


      - Dmitry Firtash

      • Russian linked oligarch arrested by Austria - Austria arrests Ukraine oligarch Dmitry Firtash at US request http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/77af8ed2-aab0-11e3-9fd6-00144feab7de.html By Roman Olearchyk in Kiev and James Shotter in Vienna Dmitry Firtash, the Russia-linked Ukrainian oligarch, was arrested in Austria at the request of the US, a move seen in Kiev as an attempt by Washington to put pressure on Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s intervention in Crimea. Mr Firtash, one of Ukraine’s richest men with assets in media, banking, energy and agriculture, was detained after a US federal court issued an arrest warrant following an eight-year investigation by the FBI. He is regarded as having close links with Russia and is a key player in the Russian-Ukrainian gas trade. In Kiev, the arrest was seen as a warning from the Obama administration to Mr Putin that his circle of oligarchs and business allies would face sanctions and investigation if he did not pull Russia’s troops out of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and refrain from attempts to annex it. Timothy Ash, analyst at Standard Bank, in a note to investors said the arrest was “an absolutely seismic development on so many different levels”. “Firtash . . . had close ties to Russia via the energy sector, and perhaps even to Putin,” he wrote. “Firtash’s Ostchem [chemical] company enjoyed a big gas discount from Gazprom even when [Ukraine’s state gas company] Naftogaz was still paying top dollar so had a very ‘special’ relationship.” “I think this sends a strong message to former Soviet Union oligarchs that . . . if they are to do business in/with the west they need to comply with some basic western values. I also think it sends a strong message to Russia that the west is willing to go down the financial sanctions route – unless it backtracks over Crimea and over broader policy towards Ukraine,” Mr Ash added. The arrest took place on Wednesday without incident and Mr Firtash, 48, is being held in the Austrian capital. An Austrian court is expected to decide on Friday whether the oligarch can be kept in custody. Austrian authorities will separately decide whether Mr Firtash can be extradited. Group DF, Mr Firtash’s holding company, described his arrest as a “misunderstanding” that should be “resolved in the very near term”. The group claimed that Mr Firtash’s arrest “was not connected with the situation in Ukraine, or the group’s activity in Europe and America, but involved an investment project from 2006”. Mr Firtash’s principal business assets are mostly based in Ukraine and owned through offshore entities in Vienna, Switzerland and other jurisdictions. But he has had a prominent presence in the UK for years, organising a Ukraine festival in central London last year, owning luxury property in the country and employing the likes of Lord Oxford – himself a great-grandson of a former UK prime minister and an ex-MI6 agent – as a director of Group DF. Viktor Yanukovich has been ousted, but Russia is flexing its military muscle, fearing a threat to its interests in Ukraine. Through Group DF, Mr Firtash controls much of Ukraine’s chemical industry, whose margins are heavily dependent on competitively priced Russian natural gas. Mr Firtash, as a former co-owner along with Gazprom of Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo, controlled gas supplies to Ukraine and a substantial share of exports to European markets. His close associates held high-level positions in the government of toppled Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, including former energy minister Yuriy Boyko and former presidential chief of staff Serhiy Lyovochkin. According to multiple sources, Mr Firtash had joint business interests with Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, reportedly Mr Putin’s close friend and former judo sparring partner. Although Mr Firtash was not on a list of EU sanctions targets issued last week, EU diplomats said they have been working to expand the list beyond the original 18, which included Mr Yanukovich, his son, and other close associates. Mr Firtash’s London connections have come in for scrutiny before. Senior Conservatives, including the offices of Baroness Neville-Jones and Robert Halfon, the Tory MP, have received tens of thousands of pounds in donations from Scythian Ltd, a company part-controlled by Robert Shetler-Jones, who has represented Mr Firtash in London in the past. Mr Halfon said he had received the donations because of the support of Mr Shetler-Jones and did not know anything about Mr Firtash or his activities. Baroness Neville-Jones could not be reached for comment. The arrangement is legitimate, as Scythian and Mr Shetler-Jones are in the UK. But the Electoral Commission was so concerned about the company, whose  accounts were dormant for several years, that it wrote to the Conservatives for clarification.


      festival
      - kiev fire fest
      • kiv origin and details



      ukrainian (language)
      - evolvement
      • https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Ukraine-replaced-%D0%B8-in-its-alphabet-with-%D1%96-and-%D1%8B-with-%D0%B8
      - Surzhyk (Ukrainian: су́ржик, translit. surzhyk, IPA: [ˈsurʒɪk]) refers to a range of mixed (macaronic) sociolects of Ukrainian and Russianlanguages used in certain regions of Ukraine and adjacent lands. There is no unifying set of characteristics; the term is used for "norm-breaking, non-obedience to or non-awareness of the rules of the Ukrainian and Russian standard languages".[1] It originates from transition of one language to other through "false friends of translator" words that sound same in both languages, but carry different meaning.The Ukrainian word "surzhyk" originally meant flour or bread made from mixed grains, e.g. wheat with rye.烏俄語（су́ржик）是一種語言混合現象，指烏克蘭語和俄羅斯語的混合現象。在烏克蘭東部，由於俄羅斯語使用人口較多，烏俄語的現象也較為普遍。尼古拉·瓦西里耶維奇·果戈里曾在他的文學作品中使用烏俄語。
      - comparison with russian
      • https://www.quora.com/Can-you-tell-apart-Russian-and-Ukrainian-language-in-speech
      • https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-in-pronunciation-between-Russian-and-Ukrainian
      diaspora
      - https://www.ft.com/content/762a17b2-c3f0-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9 The dilapidated façade of Lviv’s international bus station is draped with a banner advertising the new developments that are mushrooming across the prairies of western Ukraine, as cash from locals abroad floods into the property market. Ukraine is Europe’s biggest recipient of remittances in proportion to the size of its economy. More than 11 per cent of Ukraine’s gross domestic product comes from remittances and its 5m-strong workforce abroad last year sent home a record $14.4bn through wire transfers and cash carried across the border. The lion’s share of these workers are from Ukraine’s western regions around Lviv, the 1m-strong provincial capital an hour’s drive from Poland where there is a two-decade-long tradition of working both seasonal and long-term jobs across the border, from construction to vegetable picking.


      Jews
      - The Golden Rose Synagogue, known also as theNachmanowicz Synagogue, or the Turei Zahav Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת טורי זהב‎) was asynagogue in Lviv, Ukraine. The Golden Rose Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Ukraine. A midtown plot of land was bought in 1580, and the synagogue was founded and funded in 1581 by Yitzhak ben Nachman (alias Izak Nachmanowicz), a financier to King Stephan Batory. Therefore, the oldest name of the synagogue was the Nachmanowicz Synagogue. It was built in 1582 by Paulus Italus ("Paolo the Italian") from Tujetsch (Tschamut) village in canton Graubünden, Switzerland, a master builder known by his guild nickname Paweł Szczęśliwy (Paul the Fortunate, in Polish). In 1595, the same Paolo, assisted by Ambrogio Nutclauss (alias Ambroży Przychylny), by Adam Pokora, and by master Zachariasz (most probably, Zachariasz Sprawny, alias Zaccaria de Lugano) built a vestibule and a women’s gallery in the synagogue. Men prayed in a hall which was spanned by a cloister rib vault with pointed lunettes above the windows. An alabaster Torah ark in renaissance style was located at the eastern wall. A bimah was located in the middle of the prayer hall. The building was topped by an attic in Mannerist style. In 1606 the building was confiscated by the Jesuits. In 1609, after paying a ransom of 20,600 guilders the synagogue was returned to the Jewish community. A local legend (first published in 1863) ascribed the merit of the restitution of the synagogue to Rosa bat Ya'akov, Yitzhak's daughter-in-law. The synagogue was therefore also called the Golden Rose Synagogue after her. Rabbi Yitzhak ben Shemuel HaLevi composed in 1609  Shir Ge'ula  (a Song of Deliverance), – which was read each year as a part of the shacharit prayer on Shabbat following Purim. The Song of Deliverance compared the return of the synagogue to the Jewish community to the salvation of the Jews from the Babylonian and Egyptian captivities. In 1654-67, rabbi David HaLevi Segal, called TaZ after his main work Sefer Turei Zahav, the younger brother of Yitzhak HaLevi and his pupil, prayed in this synagogue. For that reason the building was also named the TaZ Synagogue. In 1941, the synagogue was desecrated, and in 1943 ruined by the Nazis.
      • Three construction workers, their faces covered in white dust from stonework, meticulously toil away on what later this year will become the first city-sponsored Jewish memorial in Ukraine’s history. On a worn plaque tucked away in a corner, a Star of David sits next to a text that identifies the ruins here as the remnants of the Golden Rose, Ukraine’s oldest synagogue. Between the fenced windows on the wall opposite the plaque, someone has hastily graffitied a black swastika. Yet there is something more unsettling than the juxtaposition of a Jewish symbol and a Nazi emblem: The main opponent to the memorial project is Meylakh Sheykhet, a long-time fighter for the protection of Jewish sites in Lviv and western Ukraine. As an Orthodox Jew, Sheykhet finds it offensive to do anything less than rebuild the Golden Rose, which the Nazis burnt to the ground, as a functioning place of worship. And he makes it known in theatrical ways. read more: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1.720919
      - rivarlry with cossacks

      • [film festival introduction for "the dybbuk. a tale of wandering souls" by petrycki] the documentary was about thirty thousand jews gathering at the grave of their late spiritual leader in ukraine to celebrate rosh hashanah, facing intimidation by local right-wing extremists who erected crosses to remind them of pogroms committed by cossacks in the past.


      Tatars
      - http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21699474-eurovision-win-provides-symbolic-victory-over-russian-repression-1944-all-over-again

      archaelogical sites
      - https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-fun-weird-history-facts-not-a-lot-of-people-know The remains of a 6,000year-old temple containing human-like figurines and the remains of sacrificed animals were discovered in 2009 within a massive prehistoric settlement at Nebelovka in Ukraine. The ancient settlement- was part of the Trypillya culture (stage VIII, Nebel group ) and dates to the 4th millennium BCE. The research into this little-understood ancient society has been ongoing since the 1960s. In 2008, the Ukrainian-British archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Department of Archaeology at Durham University in Great Britain began work on a joint project to uncover the ancient settlement.

      history
      - The Pereyaslav Council (Russian: Переяславская рада), was an official meeting that convened for ceremonial pledge of allegiance by Cossacks to the Tsar of Muscovy in the town of Pereyaslav (now Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in central Ukraine) in January 1654. The ceremony took place concurrently with ongoing negotiations that started on the initiative of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky to address the issue of Cossack Hetmanate with the ongoing Khmelnytsky Uprising against Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and which concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav (also known as March Articles). The treaty itself was finalized in Moscow in April of 1654 (in March by old style calendar). According to the Russian historiography, Khmelnytsky secured the military protection of the Tsardom of Russia in exchange for allegiance to the Tsar. An oath of allegiance to the Russian monarch from the leadership of Cossack Hetmanate was taken, shortly thereafter followed by swearing allegiance by other officials, clergy and inhabitants of the Hetmanate. The exact nature of the relationship stipulated by the agreement between the Hetmanate and Russia is a matter of scholarly controversy. The council of Pereyaslav was followed by exchange of official documents the March Articles (from Cossack Hetmanate) and the Tsar's Declaration (from Muscovy). The Council was attended by a delegation from Moscow headed by Vasiliy Buturlin. The event was soon thereafter followed by the adoption in Moscow of the so-called March Articles that stipulated an autonomous status of the Hetmanate within the Russian state. The agreement precipitated the Russo-Polish War (1654–67). The definitive legal settlement was effected under the Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 concluded by Russia and Poland that re-affirmed Russia's sovereignty over the lands of Zaporizhian Sich and left-bank Ukraine, as well as the city of Kiev.
      - https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/honest-history-treaty-of-peryaslav-in-1654-ukraine-becomes-russian-vassal-for-337-years.html
      - The Ukrainian War of Independence, a period of sustained warlike conflict, lasted from 1917 to 1921 and resulted in the establishment and development of a Ukrainian republic – later a part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of 1922–1991. The war consisted of a series of military conflicts between different governmental, political and military forces. Belligerents included Ukrainian nationalists, anarchists, Bolsheviks, the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the White Russian Volunteer Army, and Second Polish Republic forces. They struggled for control of Ukraine after the February Revolution (March 1917) in the Russian Empire. The Allied forces of Romania and France also became involved. The struggle lasted from February 1917 to November 1921 and resulted in the division of Ukraine between the Bolshevik Ukrainian SSR, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The conflict is frequently viewed[by whom?] within the framework of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922 as well as the closing stage of the Eastern Front of the First World War of 1914–1918.


      • https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/100-years-ago-unification-of-ukraine-in-historical-photos On Jan. 22, Ukraine celebrated 100th anniversary of the union of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Ukrainian People’s Republic — the first attempt in modern times to form a Ukrainian state on Ukrainian territory. The two states united in 1919. Every year on Jan. 22, Ukrainians form symbolic human chains around the country to celebrate the unity of Ukraine.
      - The Ukrainian People's Republic, or Ukrainian National Republic[a] (abbreviated to УНР, UNR), a predecessor of modern Ukraine, was declared on 10 June 1917 following the February Revolution in Russia. It initially formed part of the Russian Republic, but proclaimed its independence on 25 January 1918. During its short existence the republic went through several political transformations - from the socialist-leaning republic headed by the Central Council with its general secretariat to the national republic led by the Directorate and by Symon Petliura.[1] Between April and December 1918 the Ukrainian People's Republic did not function, having been overthrown by the Ukrainian State of Pavlo Skoropadsky.[1][2][need quotation to verify] From late 1919 the UNR operated as an ally of the Second Polish Republic, but by then the state de facto no longer existed in Ukraine.[1] The 18 March 1921 Treaty of Riga between the Second Polish Republic, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and of Soviet Ukraine sealed the fate of the Ukrainian People's Republic. After the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917, many governments formed in Ukraine[1] – most notably the Ukrainian People's Republic (based in Kiev) and the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918, based in Kharkiv) and its Soviet successors. These two entities, plus the White Movement, Poland, Green armies and the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, fought constantly with each other, which resulted in many casualties among Ukrainians fighting in a Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921) as part of the wider Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. The Soviet Union would (after the 1921 Treaty of Riga) extend control over what would ultimately become the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and (in 1922) a founding member of the Soviet Union.
      - The West Ukrainian People's Republic (Ukrainian: Західноукраїнська Народна Республіка, Zakhidnoukrayins’ka Narodna Respublika, ZUNR) was a short-lived republic that existed from November 1918 to July 1919 in eastern Galicia. It included the cities of Lviv, Przemyśl, Ternopil, Kolomyia, Boryslav and Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia. Politically, the Ukrainian National Democratic Party (the precursor of the interwar Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance) dominated the legislative assembly, guided by varying degrees of Greek Catholic, liberal and socialist ideology. Other parties represented included the Ukrainian Radical Party and the Christian Social Party. The coat of arms of the West Ukrainian People's Republic was azure, a lion rampant or (a golden lion rampant on a field of blue). The colours of the flag were blue and yellow.教会や自由主義・社会主義の強い影響を受けたウクライナ国民民主同盟(UNDO)が指導的地位にあった。1920年4月、ポーランドとキエフのウクライナ政府はワルシャワ条約（英語版）に調印し、ズブルチ川を正式に両国の国境とする事を決定した。これはすなわち東部ガリツィア地方がポーランドに組み込まれる事を意味し、同地に住むウクライナ人に強い失望を与えるものだった。西ウクライナ亡命政府はこの条約を認めず、第一次大戦の戦後処理を話し合ったパリ講和会議にこの問題を取り上げるよう求めた。新たに設立された国際連盟の理事会における長い議論の末、1923年3月14日には東部ガリツィアを「その特殊な民族事情に配慮して」ポーランドが領有する事が正式に国際社会で認められた。この決定の後、西ウクライナ政府は失意の内に解散した。


      Usa
      - 美國副總統彭斯日前與烏克蘭總統澤連斯基會面，重申華府將繼續支持烏克蘭，「索回」在一四年被俄羅斯吞併的克里米亞，又強調兩國關係前所未有的牢固。然而口頭支持歸口頭支持，實際行動歸實際行動，最近有消息指特朗普有意中止二億五千萬美元的烏克蘭軍事援助，令人質疑華府口惠實不至。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190904/00192_001.html


      - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/05/ukraine-bans-steven-seagal-national-security-russian-citizenship Ukraine has banned American action movie star Steven Seagal as a national security threat, making him the latest of several cultural figures to be blacklisted. The Ukrainian security service said it had forbidden Seagal entry to the country for five years, in a letter published by the news site Apostrophe. The service’s press secretary later confirmed the ban to other media.
      - curious case

      • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161203/00180_012.html 美國藝術品經銷商繼承人維頓斯坦（David Wildenstein）位於紐約曼哈頓的一間連棟屋，將以八千一百萬美元（約六點三億港元）的高價出售給一間中資企業，打破紐約歷來連棟屋成交價的最高紀錄。這棟石灰岩建築與中央公園只有一街之隔，原作藝廊之用。一名烏克蘭富豪上月曾入稟法院，控告維頓斯坦食言，拒絕以七千九百萬美元轉售物業。



      EU
      - https://www.ft.com/content/2801f726-c065-11e6-81c2-f57d90f6741a EU delay on visa-free travel for Ukrainians fuels sense of betrayal Pro-western citizens disappointed no date set for long-promised agreement

      Russia
      - friendship treaty

      • The signing of the law on terminating the Treaty on Friendship between Russia and Ukraine by Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko will make negotiations on preventing provocations and normalizing the situation in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait area even more difficult, Director of the Russian Center for Current Policy Alexei Chesnakov has told reporters. The talks began on Tuesday in Berlin at the level of aides and advisers to the Normandy Four leaders following an agreement reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "The matter is that the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, which is being terminated by Ukraine, is the basis of the entire system of treaties and agreements between Moscow and Kiev, and this termination destroys that system," Chesnakov stressed. http://tass.com/world/1035390

      - Novorossiya (Russian: Новоро́ссия; IPA: [nəvɐˈrosʲɪjə]; Romanian: Noua Rusie), literally New Russia but sometimes called South Russia[citation needed], is a historical term of theRussian Empire denoting a region north of theBlack Sea (presently part of Ukraine). It was formed as a new imperial province of Russia (Novorosiiskaia guberniia) in 1764 from military frontier regions along with parts of thesouthern Hetmanate in preparation for war with the Ottomans. It was further expanded by the annexation of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775. It at various times it encompassed the Moldavian region of Bessarabia, the modern Ukraine′s regions of the Black Sea littoral(Prychornomoria), Zaporizhia, Tavria, the Azov Sea littoral (Pryazovia), the Tatar region ofCrimea, the Nogai steppe at the Kuban River, and the Circassian lands. The region was part of the Russian Empire until its collapse following the Russian February Revolution in early March 1917, after which it became part of the short-lived Russian Republic. In 1918, it was largely included in the Ukrainian State and in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic at the same time. In 1918–1920, it was, to varying extents, under the control of the anti-Bolshevik White movement governments of South Russia whose defeat signified the Soviet control over the territory, which became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, within the Soviet Union from 1922. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been attempts to revive Novorossiya, the most significant of which has been the pro-Russian separatist movement to create a Novorossiyan confederation with the subsequent War in Donbass.
      - http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-tv-lands-hot-water-over-russian-pop-192237357.html One of Ukraine's biggest TV networks faced the threat Friday of being taken off air for filling its highly-rated New Year's Eve show with Russian pop songs beamed live from Moscow. The culture minister called the festive if at-times gaudy programme "anti-Ukrainian". The national security and defence council chief saw it as part of a Kremlin-driven "information war".
      - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/putin-offers-ukraine-s-rebel-regions-easy-path-to-citizenship Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree offering passports to people living in breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, triggering calls for more sanctions against Moscow from the incoming leadership in Kiev. “This is yet more proof of Russia’s real role as an aggressor state that’s waging a war against Ukraine,” President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said on Facebook after the order was posted on the Kremlin websiteWednesday. Ukraine “is counting on increasing diplomatic and sanction pressure” by the international community against Russia, it added. The Kremlin leader’s citizenship offer comes three days after Zelenskiy, a comic, won a landslide in Sunday’s Ukrainian presidential election. Putin has yet to respond publicly to his victory and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday downplayed the possibility of the two leaders working together. Russia also raised pressure on Ukraine by announcing new trade sanctions days before the vote.
      - free trade zone

      • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d799d1a0-a8c8-11e5-9700-2b669a5aeb83.html The Russian parliament voted on Tuesday to suspend its free-trade zone with Ukraine from January in a further deterioration in relations. Economic ties between the neighbours had been significant until political relations soured after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014.  Bilateral trade has fallen from $50.6bn in 2011 to just $12.5bn in the first 10 months of this year, according to Russian government statistics.  Tim Ash, emerging markets analyst at Nomura, said: “From January 1, 2016 it seems likely we are going to see a fully-fledged, ‘total’ trade war between Ukraine and Russia.” Trilateral talks intended to ease Moscow’s concerns over Ukraine’s trade deal with the EU ended in failure on Monday. Cecilia Malmström, EU trade commissioner, said that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s suspension of Moscow’s free-trade agreement with Kiev — long threatened in response to the EU-Ukraine trade deal — went “against the mandate, the spirit and the objective of these talks”.
      - Crimea

      • The territory of Crimea, previously controlled by the Crimean Khanate, was annexed by the Russian Empire on 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1783. The period before the annexation was marked by Russian interference in Crimean affairs, a series of revolts by Crimean Tatars, and Ottoman ambivalence.
      • The forcible deportation of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea was ordered by Joseph Stalin as a form of collective punishment for alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupation regime inTaurida Subdistrict during 1942-1943. The state-organized removal is known as the Sürgünlikin Crimean Tatar. A total of more than 230,000 people were deported, mostly to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. This included the entire ethnic Crimean Tatar population, at the time about a fifth of the total population of the Crimean Peninsula, as well as smaller numbers of ethnic Greeks and Bulgarians. A large number of deportees (more than 100,000 according to a 1960s survey by Crimean Tatar activists) died from starvation or disease as a direct result of deportation. It is considered to be a case of ethnic cleansing. For a long time Crimean Tatars and Soviet dissidents called for recognition of the genocide of Crimean Tatars. On November 12, 2015 parliament of Ukraine adopted a resolution recognizing the event as a genocide and declared 18 May as a Day of Remembrance for the victims of Crimean Tatar genocide. During destalinization the deportation was denounced by the Soviet government; nevertheless, the Crimean Tatars were denied the right of return up until late perestroikatimes.
      • http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/russia-crisis-crimea-ally-idUSL6N0V90XO20150130 Russia has handed a multi-billion dollar contract to build a bridge to the Crimea peninsula to an ally and former judo partner of Vladimir Putin who is under Western sanctions.  A government order published on Friday named Stroygazmontazh (SGM) as the contractor to build the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait to link Russia's mainland and Crimea, annexed from Ukraine last March in an act that triggered Western sanctions.  SGM is 51-percent owned by Arkady Rotenberg, an old friend of Putin who was among the first Russian businessmen to be put under Western visa bans and asset freezes over Crimea's seizure.  The company's primary expertise is in building gas pipelines and related infrastructure and it has not built a bridge before. It was unclear exactly how long the bridge would be, but the strait varies from around 4-15 km in width (2.5-9 miles).
      • The Kerch Strait Bridge (Russian: Керченский мост [kérchenskiy most] or Russian: Крымский мост [krímskiy most]) is a road-rail bridge under construction by the Russian Federation, to span the Strait of Kerch between the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea and the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai. The current connection is by the Kerch Strait ferry between Port Kavkaz and Port Krym. In January 2015, the multibillion-dollar contract for the construction of the bridge was awarded to Arkady Rotenberg's SGM Group. In May 2015, construction of the bridge commenced; it is projected to be opened on December 18, 2018.
      • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/03/10/a21-0310.pdf 中國工程機械製造商三一 重工集團在俄羅斯西北聯邦區官方合作 夥伴亞歷山大．博爾特尼科夫表示，三 一重工考慮參與建設橫跨刻赤海峽的刻 赤大橋。大橋建成後，可連接克里米亞 半島和俄羅斯其他部分。三一重工正在考慮作為設備 和裝配技術供應商參與該項目。 據俄羅斯衛星網 9日報道，上述公司 莫斯科辦公室代表向俄新社證實，公 司確實考慮將向刻赤大橋建設項目提 供機械設備。他解釋稱：「此前我們 向符拉迪沃斯托克供應過混凝土泵用 以建設連通俄羅斯島大橋。」目前正 在考慮向刻赤大橋供應混凝土泵的問 題。 俄羅斯政府 1月 30日指定阿爾卡季． 羅滕貝格所有的Stroygazmontazh公司作 為刻赤跨海大橋的設計和建設工作的唯 一承包商。俄羅斯聯邦公路署下屬機構 塔曼公路管理局將負責這個價值約 37億 美元（約合港幣 287億）的項目。
      • http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35198065 The Ukrainian government has condemned a Crimean auction of vintage wines as illegal and warned foreign buyers that international sanctions are in force. The Massandra winery near Yalta is Ukrainian government property, but new managers took over after Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014.

        • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160819/00180_001.html 在巴西里約熱內盧奧運會舉行期間，中國杭州二十國集團（G20）會議即將舉行之際，俄羅斯烏克蘭邊境地區卻戰雲密布。美國傳媒引述國防部消息人士透露，約四萬名配備坦克、裝甲車、導彈及戰機的俄軍士兵，已在邊境八個地區集結，可能以軍事演習為名，於本月廿四日烏克蘭國慶日進攻該國東部，奪取軍港及重要的軍事工業地區。烏克蘭軍隊亦加強於克里米亞半島接壤地區的火炮及坦克部署以防不測。
        • china daily report Russia hopes bridge will open up lasting link 24sep16
        • 克里米亚从十九世纪开始就成为沙皇一家喜爱的度假胜地。那里的海边建起了许多宫殿，美丽的公园环绕周围，还修建了专门的散步道路。《透视俄罗斯》在此为您介绍与罗曼诺夫王朝有联系的5条旅游路线。
          来源：«透视俄罗斯» - http://tsrus.cn/lvyou/2018/10/13/663323
        • 俄羅斯二○一四年吞併克里米亞後，於二○一七年開始在烏克蘭邊界附近建設圍欄（圖），至周四宣布已順利完工。圍欄高兩米，全長六十公里，估計成本約兩億盧布（約二千一百萬港元）。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20181230/00180_007.html
        - mh17

        • 馬來西亞航空公司MH17空難聯合調查隊的五國外長出席聯合國大會期間，簽署一份闡明參與國就該空難採取的步驟及行動的文件。五國包括馬來西亞，荷蘭、澳洲、烏克蘭及比利時。烏克蘭駐馬來西亞大使內希泰洛稱，烏國將與荷蘭簽署與空難有關的備忘文件，助烏國對俄羅斯提訟。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170918/00180_006.html
        - Ukraine’s central bank declared the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russian state lender VTB insolvent due to its declining liquidity and worsening financial position, the central bank said on Tuesday. The decision followed VTB’s comments that it may be forced to leave the Ukrainian market because its work there had been effectively paralysed after a court in Kiev ordered assets belonging to it to be frozen. VTB said the court viewed its assets as Russian property and that it had frozen them to implement a ruling against Russia at an international arbitration court in The Hague in September. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N1Y25KL- piano concerto no 1 by tchaikovsky was inspired by ukraine blind musicians performance

        uk

        Georgia
        - Ukrainian officials moved Saturday to deport the brother of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is locked in a fierce feud with the country’s leader Petro Poroshenko. An Interior Ministry spokesman said David Saakashvili was taken by police to the immigration authorities for allegedly violating Ukrainian law after having his residency permit revoked in March. “The foreign citizen was properly informed back then of the lack of grounds for his living in Ukraine, but he did not leave the territory of our country in the period established by law and stayed on illegally,” the ministry spokesman, Artem Shevchenko, told AFP. Mikheil Saakashvili had a major falling out with Poroshenko after moving to Ukraine to work as a regional governor in the wake of the pro-Western revolution in Kiev. Saakashvili had accused Kiev of stalling in the fight against corruption. Poroshenko stripped him of his Ukrainian citizenship at the end of July, when the charismatic reformer was out of the country. Saakashvili has pledged to return to Ukraine on Sept. 10 via Poland, and has challenged the authorities to try to stop him.http://www.arabnews.com/node/1154731/world

        China
        - diplomatic representation

        • !!!! the weblink of chinese embassy is org not gov http://ua.chineseembassy.org/chn/


        - official visit

        • 到烏克蘭出席「中烏政府間合作委員會第三次會議」的中國國務院總理馬凱，前日在基輔分別與烏國總統波羅申科、總理格羅伊斯曼，以及經貿部部長庫比夫會面，落實與「一帶一路」相關、價值七十億美元（約五百四十七億港元）的合作協議，並同意展開新的戰略合作。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171207/00178_010.html

        - ties

        • 美國在烏克蘭策動了兩次顏色革命，有關的歷程和美國策動的手法，都已有廣泛的披露和分析。這部片，名為紀錄，實質是按一定的政治要求剪輯，目的在於感人，不在於把真相或現實作多角度的報道，而是多有隱瞞、多有選擇。顏色革命帶來國族社會的撕裂，助長了貪污舞弊的寡頭壟斷，情況與所有經歷顏色革命的國家相同。差別是烏克蘭文化底蘊深厚，用民主選舉選出素人總統來改革政治，也一改仇俄親美的政治取向，開始與俄羅斯及分裂的共和國一同找方法來遏止內戰，重新發展。在美國十分受歡迎的「今日俄羅斯」電視台有更全面的紀錄片，可認識到烏克蘭顏色革命和現實狀況。政治教師、政治牧師、政治神父背後是龐大的政治文宣機器，他們洗腦的能力勝於任何邪教，且大有可能與邪教合作結盟，如天羅地網般控制、操縱缺乏分辨能力的民眾。他們看到的烏克蘭是別人刻意「營造」的，目的是強化他們迷信暴力、迷信港獨的感性。據說烏克蘭有過萬的科學家在中國工作，該國政府，無分左右，都積極地爭取作為中國「一帶一路」的發展樞紐，大量農產品銷售往中國，明年起中國開放市場予該國出口沒有基因改造而高質低價的農產品。烏克蘭在新總統的主政下，向中國靠攏，也與俄羅斯妥協，香港這些人知道嗎？https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190928/00184_001.html

        - http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150627/PDF/a18_screen.pdf 26日，“烏克蘭科技商務企業項目推介會”在哈爾濱科技創新城舉行。烏克蘭駐華大使奧列格．焦明接受大公報獨家採訪時指出，烏克蘭積極尋求與中國“一帶一路”的合作，烏方在鐵路系統升級和建設深水港口等大型規模項目上，邀請中方企業參與合作。同時，藉助加入歐盟的契機，烏克蘭希望與中方企業在開發合資產品方面尋求多領域合作。
        - trade
        • singtao 15jan17 a9 corn, sunflower seed oil 
        • 烏克蘭中南部是肥沃的黑土地帶，農產豐盛，歷史上是歐洲的糧倉。有專家認為，烏克蘭的農業足以供養八億人口，當地只有四千萬人口，可供出口的數額龐大，中國自然是其主要出口市場，也受益於幾年前中國提供三十億美元農業貸款額度。烏克蘭玉米、大麥出口中國已超過美國，中美貿易摩擦，中國更把進口的目標指向該國，今後將陸續增添肉類、奶類和禽產品進口。烏克蘭將會是中國農產品的重要進口來源，部分替代原來從美國、澳洲的進口。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180921/00184_001.html
        - financial
        • http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-12/10/c_137664231.htm The central banks of China and Ukraine have renewed a bilateral local currency swap agreement, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said Monday. The agreement, worth 15 billion yuan, or 62 billion hryvnias (about 2.18 billion U.S. dollars), will be valid for three years and can be extended upon mutual consent, according to the PBOC.

        - technology
        • 烏克蘭是近二十年中國國防科技的重要來源，包括技術轉移、武器出售，以及烏克蘭的科學家到華工作。二○一四年烏克蘭的「顏色革命」帶有斷絕中國國防科技來源的因素，但革命之後，美國沒有足夠資助，烏克蘭還在出售關鍵的國防科技給中國。近來包括中國與烏克蘭飛機設計公司Antonov合建全球最大的運輸機，北京的公司也在洽購該國屬全球最大和最先進生產直升機引擎和部件的Motor Sich公司。美國已不停地警告烏克蘭政府不要向中國出售這些公司與技術，但似乎沒用。顏色革命推翻親俄羅斯的民選政府，換來親美政府，在東南部和克里米亞半島都形成了近乎內戰的對壘。表面上，烏克蘭政府在各個方面攻擊俄羅斯，購買美國武器，引進美國和北約的軍事顧問，但該國剛揭露醜聞，總統波羅申科涉從俄羅斯走私武器回國並以高於市價幾倍售給軍隊。而即使烏克蘭與美國制裁俄羅斯，烏國最大的外貿夥伴是俄羅斯，且還在增長，令人詫異烏克蘭究竟是否在與俄羅斯為敵？https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190316/00184_001.html
        • 7日，烏克蘭哈爾科夫國立航空航天大學與江蘇省「兩機」（航空發動機和燃汽輪機）關鍵零部件產業技術創新戰略聯盟簽署戰略合作框架協議，雙方將在無錫加快國際技術轉移中心建設。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190508/PDF/a14_screen.pdf
        • 27 日，中烏第三代半導體產業技術研究院在 江蘇如皋成立。中國工程院院士王子才表 示，第三代半導體及智能製造是中國國家 戰略新興產業，中國政府正加大力度推進 該產業發展。 據介紹，該研究院由烏克蘭國家科學 院（單晶研究院）、江蘇省如皋高新區、 江蘇卓遠半導體發起成立，研究院將發展 與建立寬禁帶半導體功能材料與功率器件 檢測中心，聯合中國、烏克蘭、德國等產 業專家共同開發包含碳化硅、氮化鎵、 金剛石等下一代半導體晶體材料和功能材 料。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20191028/PDF/a14_screen.pdf
        • 廣州高新區近日正式與烏克蘭國家科學院弗 蘭采維奇材料問題研究所簽訂合作備忘錄， 雙方將攜手共建新材料平行實驗室，並在此 基礎上建設中烏先進材料（黃埔）協同創新 中心。該研究所將與國內多個科研院所展開 聯合攻關，將先進材料（黃埔）協同創新中 心建成粵港澳大灣區新材料開發和應用領域 創新平台。據悉，弗蘭采維奇材料問題研究 所是歐洲最大的材料科研院所，在核電、航 空、航天、軍工及其他裝備製造領域的先進 材料研製方面處於全球領先水平，是新材料 理論研究、合成工藝以及產品製造的權威科 研機構。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/01/16/a08-0116.pdf
        - agricultural land
        • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20160601/00184_001.html從長遠一些的角度看，內地工業和服務業發達地區實在可以由地方政府帶頭，用地方基金的形式，與黑土地區的國家合作建設農副產品供應基地，減輕內地的土地與成本壓力。例如，烏克蘭今年開始準備通過土地改革招標出售一百萬公頃國家土地。珠三角的城市，如深圳、廣州、佛山、東莞等或可組織政府控制的公營基金參與投標，購買烏克蘭肥沃的農田土地。在地方政府的產權控制和資金支持下，再讓烏克蘭和中國內地的企業、農戶經營，全數產品供應回珠三角城市居民。只要保證有機和食品安全，這將比進口美加澳紐或本地生產更有成本效益，以騰出土地作建設與綠化之用。
        • http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-04/19/c_136220305.htm Newly sown fields, well-kept houses and modern farms -- the rural area surrounding Koryukovka settlement shines like a pearl among the string of abandoned villages in a remote corner of Ukraine's northern Chernigov region. After experiencing labour force outflow for decades, Koryukovka gained new life in 2013, when it attracted the interest of investors from Central China's Henan province. The Chinese state-owned Huangfanqu Farm entered into a joint venture called Fanda with a Ukrainian partner and has already invested more than 10 million U.S. dollars in the development of farming in Koryukovka district, changing the lives of locals.
        - animal feed
        • Ukraine has been approved to export sunflower meals and sugar beet pulp to China, State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection said in a statement on Monday. According to the statement, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has approved seven Ukrainian companies for sunflower meals deliveries and two Ukrainian companies for sugar beet pulp supplies.http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/21/c_136767182.htm

        - military

        • https://www.ft.com/content/e8aed9f4-a1dc-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2 Aviation experts were stunned in recent weeks to learn that Skyrizon, a little-known Chinese company, had become majority shareholder in Ukraine’s Motor Sich, one of the world’s top makers of engines for military cargo aircraft and helicopters, with an exalted lineage dating back to Soviet days. But just months after a senior Ukrainian official enthusiastically hailed the aviation partnership, a Kiev court has frozen the Chinese shareholding in Motor Sich. In a ruling last month it said that the deal was a “conspiracy to weaken the [Ukrainian] state”.

        - aviation

        • http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2111493/chinese-firms-stake-ukraine-military-aircraft-engine A court in the Ukraine has frozen the shares controlled by a Chinese firm in one of the world’s largest aircraft and helicopter engine manufacturers, according to Ukrainian media reports. The move effectively blocks the firm’s controlling stake in the aerospace manufacturer Motor Sich, whose products include military aircraft engines.
        • 今年北京航展上，中国与乌克兰共同展示在航空发动机合作上取得的新成果。记者在现场看到，北京天骄航空与乌克兰马达西奇公司联合参展，共同展示出重点合作的6款航空发动机实物，备受瞩目。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170920/PDF/a23_screen.pdf
        • 中國飛機引擎技術一直被看弱，華企北京天驕航空產業投資有限公司和信威集團，近日收購烏克蘭航空發動機企業馬達西奇公司一半股份，被視為彌補技術上不足。報道指馬達西奇公司屬烏國國防工業集團，更是前蘇聯的重要國防企業，主要經營軍用飛機，巡航導彈和直升機的發動機，曾為世界上最大的運輸機An-225設計引擎。有報道指，美國曾阻止該公司被中國收購惟不成功。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191217/00178_011.html
        - port

        • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/04/08/a04-0408.pdf 中國港灣工程有限責任公司（中國港灣）當地時間6日在烏克蘭首都基輔同烏海港管理局下屬機構代表正式簽署黑海港疏浚項目合同，這是該公司繼今年初順利完成烏南方港疏浚項目後再次中標同類項目。根據合同，本次疏浚淤泥總量約200萬立方，工程總造價約1,500萬美元，竣工日期為今年底。

        - transport cooperation
        • http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2016-05/11/content_38432551.htm China and Ukraine have agreed to facilitate two-way travel to promote business and tourism, local media reported Wednesday.  The agreement was reached Tuesday during the Ukrainian-Chinese consultations on consular issues at the level of heads of consular services, according to a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.  "The two sides have reached an agreement in principle on the implementation of practical steps for mutual simplification of the travel regime, developed a roadmap for joint actions in liberalizing visa procedures and a plan for the effective cooperation of the involved authorities of the two parties in providing appropriate assistance to citizens abroad," the statement said.
        - roads

        • http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-10/11/content_33104827.htm The private Chinese company Xinjiang Communications Construction Group Co Ltd has signed two agreements with Ukraine's state road agency Ukravtodor on the modernization of state highways in western and central Ukraine. The deals worth $95 million were signed in Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry by Shen Jinsheng, chairman of the Xinjiang Communications Construction Group, and Slavomir Novak, an acting head of the Ukravtodor. The first agreement envisages that the Chinese company will conduct the reconstruction and the road safety improvement works on Striy-Ternopil-Kirovograd-Znamenka highway, which stretches from western to central Ukraine. The other deal stipulates that the firm will carry out a major overhaul and a pothole repair on several sections of the Kiev-Kharkov-Dovzhansky highway, which links the Ukrainian capital with Russian border.

        - freight transport
        • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160117/00180_006.html與俄羅斯交惡的烏克蘭，早前新建成一條連接中國的貨運鐵路，於前日正式投入測試。列車將會由烏克蘭的南部出發，繞過俄羅斯，最後抵達中國，被視為對抗俄羅斯封鎖的方式之一。烏克蘭運輸部長匹沃瓦爾斯基在社交網表示：「這是個歷史性時刻。現在烏克蘭並不只是東西方貿易的橋樑，也可以發揮本身的市場潛力。」該列列車有十個車卡，載有二十個貨櫃，當日由烏克蘭南部港口伊利喬夫斯克出發，經黑海至格魯吉亞，再到阿塞拜疆，後經裏海至哈薩克，最後到達中國，預計需時十二日。列車主要運送鐵，並會由中國帶回建築材料及消費品。若試運成功，最快於二月開通貨物運輸。烏克蘭自前年與俄羅斯交惡後，遭到俄方的貿易禁運，拉攏中國亦正好配合「一帶一路」的經濟合作方針。
        • http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-antonov-china-idUSKCN11D1F4 Ukraine hopes to attract $500 million of investment from China to complete an updated version of the world's biggest aircraft, the Antonov-225 Mriya, the president of manufacturer Antonov said on Wednesday. The Antonov-225 is a cargo plane designed as part of the former Soviet Union's space programme. The only one completed is still in use and can carry up to 250 tonnes up to 4,000 km (2,485 miles).  Work to manufacture a second plane was started in 1988 and never completed, but Antonov has now found a potential investor in the Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC).  Antonov President Oleksandr Kotsiuba said it could take around five years to complete the aircraft once a contract between the two sides is signed.  The two companies signed a cooperation agreement in August under which Antonov planes could be manufactured jointly in China.
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        • Mainland visitors to Ukraine hit peak. China Daily - 2017-02-16 - BUSINESS
        - electricity

        • 中國機械工程（01829）公布，與烏克蘭的第一光伏發電（Solar Farm－1 LLC）簽署了項目合同，項目範圍包括建設一座200MW光伏電站及配套輸變電線路。公司作為總承包商，將以EPC總承包的方式，負責項目設計、設備採購、施工、安裝、調試及人員培訓等工作。http://invest.hket.com/article/2046271/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E6%A9%9F%E6%A2%B0%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%EF%BC%881829%EF%BC%89%E8%88%87%E7%83%8F%E5%85%8B%E8%98%AD%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E7%B0%BD1.7%E5%84%84%E6%AD%90%E5%85%83%E5%90%88%E5%90%8C

        - chinese medicine
        • 甘 肅省衛生計生委主辦的烏克 蘭醫務人員中醫藥研修班昨 日開班，8名烏克蘭醫生將 在甘肅中醫藥大學附屬醫院 進行為期 2個月的學習與實 踐。此次研修班學員已是甘 肅為烏克蘭培訓的第三批中 醫 ， 2013 年 至 2014 年 期 間，已有 25 名烏克蘭學員 在甘肅進修中醫。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/12/01/a40-1201.pdf

        - delegation from china
        • 23 日，絲綢之路城市聯盟聯合烏克蘭駐華大 使館於京舉行 「一帶一路中烏文化交流周 」代表團的啟航儀式。據了解，此次活動 是中烏建交以來，交流團一次成行人數最 多、規模最大的一次，其中七名來自香港 內蒙古社團總會的成員將帶着中國多項世 界非物質文化遺產，包括馬頭琴、蒙古長 調、呼麥、熱貢唐卡等前往烏克蘭展示中 華文化風采。 此次活動是中烏兩國建交25周年系列 活動的重要組成部分。而香港內蒙古社團 總會是此次活動中唯一的香港身影，也是 活動的主要支持機構之一。在啟航儀式上 ，五名身着蒙古族傳統服飾的團員表演了 蒙古族傳統的呼麥、馬頭琴等傳統蒙古音 樂。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170425/PDF/a22_screen.pdf
        • 二○一九年十二月十八日至二十五日，我奉命帶經貿代表團出訪烏克蘭和土耳其，以期擴大政府和企業間的人才、技術、資金、貿易等方面的交流與合作. 代表團依然應邀拜會了烏克蘭國家議會和數字化轉型部，分別會見了烏國議會常務副議長斯蒂芬丘克．魯斯蘭和數字化轉型部副部長亞歷山大．博恩雅科夫，就有關營商環境、法律政策以及區塊鏈合作等事宜進行了座談和交流。代表團又出席了烏克蘭FISON公司與中國山東德塔區塊鏈科技有限公司、新海軟件股份有限公司合作建設區塊鏈研究院和戰略合作協議簽約儀式。代表團就匆忙趕往烏克蘭國家經濟部，與經濟部副部長兼投資招商局長弗拉基米爾．斯塔夫紐克及有關官員會談，共同探討了在基礎設施建設、技術合作、企業重組和農業開發等方面的相關政策和途徑，商定了全面合作和建立友好交往城市等相關事宜，約定明年四月份在濰坊簽訂友好交往協議。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200130/PDF/b3_screen.pdf
        • 代表團一行上午拜訪了第聶伯市商會，因為頭一天的安排因故取消，有約在先，商會常務副會長尼娜．阿列諾維奇和有關官員才破例與我們會見，就組織企業互訪和開展全面交流合作進行洽談，並達成一致意見，與我們商務局簽署合作協議。　下午，經第聶伯市商會給我們聯繫，代表團參觀了烏克蘭航空航天博物館，南方機器製造廠的一位退休老專家為我們做了講解。博物館收藏有前蘇聯第一枚制導導彈、第一枚運載火箭、第一個航天器。這些都是南方中央設計局和南方機器製造廠聯合研製生產的。據了解，從上世紀五十年代起，前蘇聯就在第聶伯市設立南方中央設計局和南方機器製造廠，為前蘇聯設計製造了半數以上的洲際導彈和數種型號的運載火箭包括航天器。該局和企業研製生產的SS-18重型洲際彈道導彈，是世界上威力最大的導彈，可攜帶十枚五十五萬噸當量的分導式核彈頭以及四十多個誘餌。在世界上可謂首屈一指。直到現在，南方機器製造廠仍是烏克蘭最大的航空航天生產企業。講到這些，老專家的自豪和驕傲溢於言表。當老專家講到，現在整個工業體系全毀了，烏克蘭只能給美國人做配件，以至老淚縱橫。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200203/PDF/b4_screen.pdf

        - chinese language
        • http://www.chinadailyasia.com/lifeandart/2017-01/25/content_15563490.html 
          More Mandarin learners in Ukraine

        - sinologist
        • http://www.chinadailyasia.com/lifeandart/2016-07/22/content_15466791.html Iryna Yaremchuk is in Beijing on a visiting program for young Sinologists that has been organized by the Culture Ministry and the think tank Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "It's a very good chance to meet Sinologists from different countries. We know our problems and learn from each other during such exchanges," says the 36-year-old Ukrainian linguist. The program, which began on July 3 and ends on Friday, aims to assist foreign Sinologists with their research work as well as let them experience Chinese culture.
        - http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170427/PDF/b12_screen.pdf為慶祝中國 與烏克蘭兩國建交二十五周 年，為期六天的 「一帶一路 」中烏文化交流周現於烏克 蘭首都基輔進行中，今次文 化周的開幕禮已於四月二十 四日在基輔烏克蘭宮舉行。



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        - delegation from hk

        • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/28/a16-0428.pdf「『一帶一路』中烏文 化交流周」於本月 24 日至 30 日 在烏克蘭基輔舉行。絲綢之路城 市聯盟日前聯合烏克蘭駐華大使 館在京為代表團舉行啟航儀式， 7名來自香港內蒙古社團總會的 成員帶着中國多項世界非物質文 化遺產，包括馬頭琴、蒙古長 調、呼麥、熱貢唐卡等前往烏克 蘭展示中華文化風采。
        - investors from ukraine
        • Hket 28apr16 a12 restaurant in hollywood road
        - music
        • 香港新進國際級女鋼琴家黃子芳早前首次喺香港舉辦大型協奏曲音樂會，包括貝鈞奇等唔少城中名人都有捧場，貝鈞奇都鍾意聽音樂，仲話運動同音樂的關係好密切，除咗好多運動盛事開幕閉幕都會有主題曲外，音樂節奏仲會影響住運動嘅速度，聽住音樂跑步健身都可以維持得耐啲啦！佢仲話連印度摔跤都會有佢哋嘅音樂喎。唔通佢睇完早前嗰套印度電影後印象深刻？呢日音樂會與首度來港嘅烏克蘭國家功勳廣播交響樂團演奏，活動所有收益扣除成本後，撥捐予大中華文化全球協會同傳藝慈善教育基金會作慈善用途http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20170927/00176_091.html
        - ukrainians in hk
        • 烏克蘭詩人蔡素非（Sofiia Zaichenko）2017年毅然選擇來港，到浸會大學修讀博士，研究當代中國詩歌。精通五種語言的她，希望能將中國新詩翻譯成土耳其文、俄文，她還當起中國文化的友好大使，把中國文學帶到「一帶一路」沿線國家。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190522/PDF/a14_screen.pdf

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