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"Today we are facing serious changes in the software industry as a whole and particularly in the pattern of demand – these changes raise new challenges and open window of opportunities. Western customers, the main clients for the Ukrainian software industry, put out some new requirements in contrast to those they had at the dawn of this industry’s development," says Dmitry Sverdlik, CTO at Innovecs, an American business technology outsourcing company headquartered in...
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...
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the US-Ukraine Observer: American professional basketball players David Wood, James Bartolotta, Paul Grant, Anthony Bonner and William Alexsen recently brought together for a visit to Ukraine to spread spiritual diplomacy - the concept of ending conflicts within and among nations by relying on spiritual values. Several years ago Mikhail Gorbachev called Spiritual Diplomacy: "The New Road to...
BRUSSELS, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Union is taking necessary steps to be technically ready to sign the Association Agreement with Ukraine later this year after the European Commission supported a proposal on the issue, passing the decision on to the European Council, which comprises the 27 EU member states, for a final decision. This means a signing ceremony by the two parties at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius in November is now a step closer...
AMSTERDAM, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KEY RESULTS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN 1Q13 Revenues of USD 5.6 billion; organic(1) growth of 1% YoY EBITDA of USD 2.3 billion, up 3% organically YoY EBITDA margin increased 0.9 p.p. YoY to 42.0% Total mobile subscriber base increased 4% YoY(2) to 215 million Net income attributable to VimpelCom shareholders increased 28% YoY to USD 408 million "VimpelCom Ltd" ("VimpelCom", "Company" or "Group") (NYSE: VIP), a leading global provider of...
KYIV, Ukraine, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council of the European Union has approved ratification of the amended EU-Ukraine visa facilitation agreement. It is expected that the agreement will come into force starting July 1, 2013, said Ukraine's commissioner on foreign policy and integration processes and representative to the EU Kostiantyn Yeliseyev. The agreement expands the categories of Ukrainian citizens eligible for the simplified procedure of getting free...
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the US-Ukraine Observer: Former U.S. Department of State and Senate Foreign Relations Committee official Dr. Bruce Rickerson has observed that the European Union's decision on signing an Association Agreement with Ukraine will have profound implications on Ukraine's relations with the E.U., Russia, and the United States, yet has been delayed over calls to free former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia...
KYIV, Ukraine, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "We think Ukraine has done a lot to meet the conditions voiced by the EU at the end of 2012," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary János Martonyi at the VI Forum Europe - Ukraine in Budapest, reports lb.ua. The minister expressed hope that the Association Agreement (AA) between Ukraine and the EU would be signed and the countries still in doubt would eventually vote in favor of the AA. Moreover, Minister Martonyi said that Ukraine...
“Generic and innovative drugs market in CIS countries 2013. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan” is the new market research report added to ReportsnReports.com store. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Keep current with the changing CIS generic and innovative drug segments. Survey conditions and track market development in Russian Ukraine and Kazakhstan to 2015. Generic and innovative drug segments in CIS countries have played a huge role in supporting the pharmaceutical industry. Meanwhile,...
KYIV, Ukraine, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) says it has found no political motives on the part of the Ukraine Government in the arrest of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, as has been alleged by her legal team. When asked in an interview with news agency Interfax if the Court would describe Tymoshenko's arrest as politically motivated, Roderick Liddell, the European Court's Director of Common Services, replied: "The court...
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The Tarpan, Equus ferus ferus, is an extinct species of Eurasian wild horse. The last specimen died in captivity in Ukraine in 1918 or 1919. The Tarpan was first described in 1774 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, who had first seen the horse in 1769 in the region of Bobrovsk, near Voronezh. Polish farmers often crossed the tarpan with their domestic horses. The result was a small horse breed, the konik. Koniks and other similar horse breeds are now being used to bring back the tarpan from...
The Russian Desman (Desmana moschata) is a small semi-aquatic mammal. It inhabits the Volga, Don and Ural River basins in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It constructs burrows into the banks of ponds and slow moving streams. It prefers small, overgrown ponds with abundance of insects and amphibians. The Russian Desman often lives in small (usually non-kin related) groups of 2 to 5 animals. It appears to have a complex (but largely unstudied) communication and social system. The Russian...
