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KIEV, Ukraine, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Foreign investors are investing more in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. From January to March, capital investment in agriculture accounted for UAH 2.5 billion, 10% more than over the same period last year. Traditionally, the most attractive sectors for investors are the food industry, bioenergy and crop production, with major investors in agriculture coming from across Europe. First Vice Prime Minister Serghiy Arbuzov mentioned...
KIEV, Ukraine, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Ukraine cabinet ministers will present details of "The State Activation Program for the economic development of Ukraine for 2013 - 2014" to delegates of "ABC: Ukraine & Partners" on Thursday. The presentation will be made by Serhiy Arbuzov (First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine), Igor Prasolov (Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine) and Mikhail Korolenko (Minister of Industrial Policy of Ukraine)....
RAMSEY, Isle of Man, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Please refer to the relevant legal information at the end of this document IBS Group Holding Limited (IBSG:GR; IBSGq.DE), a leading software developer and IT services provider in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced its preliminary unaudited operating results for the fourth quarter of the financial year ending March 31, 2013 as well as full year ending March 31, 2012 (4Q and FYE March 31, 2013). FYE...
KYIV, Ukraine, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Ukraine has opened the rocket engine airframes disposal facility in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Its operation allows for environmentally friendly disposal of the RS-22 (SS-24) missile components and contributes to international security. The launch of the facility has been the result of negotiations between the U.S. President Barack Obama and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych back in April 2010. Ukraine has entered...
PRAGUE, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals(R) (IAOP(R)) published The Global Outsourcing 100 [https://www.globaloutsourcing100.com/default.asp? ](R), the listing of the world's top outsourcing service providers and advisors in a special advertising feature of the May 20 Fortune 500 issue of FORTUNE(R) magazine.IBA Group, one of the largest IT companies in Eastern Europe, ranks in the Leaders Category of the listing and is...
KIEV, Ukraine, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 25th, during a press conference at the press center of Ukrainian News Agency "Voice of UA", leaders of the communist parties of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus raised the question of foreign policy of Ukraine's priorities, and the attempts of some political forces in the country imposing their views on the Ukrainian people. It has been well-known that since 2009 the European Union has spent 2.8 billion Euros for the...
KYIV, Ukraine, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukrainian government has developed an action plan to intensify cooperation with the EU in the energy sector in 2013. The plan is based on the 7th joint Ukraine-EU report on the implementation of the 2005 energy cooperation memorandum of understanding during 2012. Ukraine intends to comply with the recommendations of the joint report, which envisions further ensuring that Chornobyl nuclear power station is safe,...
NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Week (http://www.aviationweek.com), the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries, today announced its 2013 MRO Regional Conference for Eastern Europe, Baltics & Russia. The event will examine the area's aviation maintenance market as it struggles to cope with rising fuel costs and fierce competition. The conference will be held May 14-15, 2013 at the Radisson...
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Several Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) countries represent compelling opportunities for smart grid investments but are often overshadowed by their Western European neighbors. Smart meter spending alone in the CEE region will reach $10.3 billion cumulatively by 2023, with almost all electric utilities completing full smart meter deployments over that time period. A new study released today by Northeast Group, LLC - Central & Eastern...
KYIV, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukrainian parliament voted in favor of the law regulating the country's joining the UN Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The document aims to create a complex international system of firearms trafficking control and promote cooperation between the participating parties. The...
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The Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) is a medium-sized species of diving duck found in Eurasia. Its breeding habitat is marshland and lakes with water depth of at least 3-4 feet. It breeds in southern and eastern Europe and southern and western Asia. It is somewhat migratory, and winters farther south into north Africa. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The adult male Ferruginous Duck is rich...
The Danube Crayfish or Galician Crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus), is a species of crayfish native to eastern Europe. It can be distinguished most easily from the commoner European or broad-fingered crayfish (Astacus astacus) by the relatively thinner "fingers" of the claws. Photo Copyright and Credit
Whiskered Bats (Myotis mystacinus), and related species, are small European bats with long fur. M. alcathoe is the smallest among the European whiskered bats and uses the highest-frequency echolocation calls of all the European Myotis species. It prefers to hunt in small valleys with deciduous trees and flowing water. Initial records from Greece and Hungary indicate a distribution range in south-eastern Europe. The analysis of morphological, behavioral and especially genetic characters...
The European Copper Skink, Ablepharus kitaibelii, also known as the Juniper Skink or Snake-eyed Skink, is a species of lizard from the skink family Scincidae. This lizard is found in Eastern Europe and southwestern Asia. It is found under stones and leaves in dry places, such as slopes, fields, and meadows. The Copper Skink has immovable eyelids unlike many other skinks. It has bronze colored skin with dark sides. They are small and slender and grow up to about 6 inches long. They are also...
