What to do while in Ukraine

In Kiev, 18.5% of female students work part-time as prostitutes to earn money for their education. The reason behind this trend is the high cost of a good education in private universities and the low income of their families. There is strong reaction from some social groups and student groups against this trend, but this trend is spreading like a virus among poor students who see this as a means to paying for their expensive costs of higher education. Euro 2012, which Ukraine co-hosted with Poland, encouraged youth into prostitution, because this event provided a big chance for female students to start their career successfully, and they managed to establish good contacts in Europe for their future business. Westernization of the Ukrainian society without providing social security to people is playing havoc with the social fabric of this Eastern European country where the government is withdrawing support to people in all important sectors including education and healt...

After a high profile year, during which the country co-hosted the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (with Poland), Ukraine’s air transport industry suffered the potentially disastrous loss of one of its two main carriers, AeroSvit . Passenger numbers across the country’s main airports had passed the 13 million mark in 2012, with Kiev’s two airports (Borispol and Zhulyany) handling almost 9.4 million on their own. Since 2012, Kiev Zhulyany (the original airport serving Kiev) has been growing rapidly, and promoting itself as a more efficient alternative to Kiev Borispol. In the first half of 2013 its passenger numbers have more than doubled to over 800,000 passengers.  Given that the country is bigger than Spain (but smaller than France) and has a population of well over 40 million people, there is clearly considerable scope for air traffic demand to grow, as the country’s economic prosperity rises thanks to its energy industries. UIA grows rapidly to fill Ae...

Two activists of Femen movement  tried to disrupt the Nina Ricci fashion show at Paris Fashion Week. A few minutes after the show started the two half-naked activists stormed the podium and shouting «Model, don't go to brothel». Stood up in front of photographers, the girls showed the slogans written on the bodies of activists «Fashion dicta-terror»  and «Model, don't go to brothel».

The preparatory process comes to the end for champion WBA / WBO / IBF / IBO heavyweight division Wladimir Klitschko (60-3, 51 KOs). He will fight the regular WBA champion Alexander Povetkin (26-0, 18 KOs) it will take place on October 5th in Moscow (Russian). In these days of Vladimir focuses on their functional training, swimming kilometers in the pool among the peaks of the Austrian Alps.

Today is the final day of Eurobasket 2013 in Slovenia Next  tournament the EuroBasket 2015 will take place in Ukraine. Ukrainian side presented a logo of the European championship 2015. In a press conference dedicated to the event, attended by Acting President of FIBA Europe Siriel Kumans, FIBA Europe Secretary General Kamil Novak, Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul, president of the FBU, Alexander Volkov and tournament director Eurobasket-2015 Yevhen Rudakov. Promo video of EuroBasket 2015:

Ukraine kept Italy without a score during the first five minutes of the final quarter and used an 8-0 run to extend their lead to 59-48, in a game that had never seen a gap wider than six points during its first 30 minutes. Game Hero: Eugene Jeter provided Ukraine with a pair of safe hands all night and finished with a game-high 20 points and a team-high four assists. Stats Don't Lie: Italy out-rebounded Ukraine 44 to 40 but as fatigue started to take its toll in the second half, their field goal percentage dropped from 44% to 32% at the final buzzer. Ukraine meanwhile shot poorly at the start but finished on an excellent 46% from two-point range, scoring 22 points in the paint to Italy's 10. Ukraine coped better with fatigue on Friday in Ljubljana to defeat Italy 66-58 , earn a place in the game for 5th place at EuroBasket 2013 and secure their first ever participation in the FIBA Basketball World Cup . Additionally Ukraine will host next  EuroBasket ...