What to do while in Ukraine

KIEV, Ukraine --  The city of Kiev has declared a state of emergency after the Ukrainian capital was paralyzed by an unprecedented snowstorm that has stalled car, railway and air traffic. The city was hit by about 50 centimeters (20 inches) of snow in the past day, more than it usually receives per month during this season. Tractors, armored vehicles and other heavy equipment were dispatched Saturday to clear roads blocked by kilometers-long traffic jams. Desperate to get home, some Kiev drivers simply abandoned their stalled cars on the roads and set out on foot. Kiev's main airport, Boryspil, was working with delays, the smaller Zhulyany airport was closed and Ukraine's International Airlines grounded all its planes until Sunday morning. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/23/3302355/ukrainian-capital-paralyzed-by.html#storylink=cpy

The head of the powerful Orthodox Church in Cyprus said in an interview published on Saturday that he favoured the debt-ridden island nation leaving the euro. “It’s not easy, but we should devote to this as much time as was spent on entering the eurozone,” Archbishop Chrysostomos II said in an interview with the Greek daily Realnews. “The euro cannot last,” said Chrysostomos, who this week offered to help bail the country out of its financial crisis by putting the church’s considerable assets at the government’s disposal. “I’m not saying that it will crumble tomorrow, but with the brains that they have in Brussels, it is certain that it will not last in the long term, and the best is to think about how to escape it,” he said. The Orthodox church is the largest landowner on the island and also has stakes in a wide range of businesses, including in the country’s Hellenic Bank, with total assets estimated to run into tens of millions of euros. On Wednesday, Chrysostomos met

The British former world champion David Haye has recorded a video of his performance of dance «Harlem Shake»  and threw a new challenge to Klitschko brothers - dancing. "Robots can not dance tango, they just can not get it right. But I challenge you, the Klitschko brothers! Show your «Berlin Shake» or «Kiev Shake», show me what you can do "- cried Hay." But there is nothing special to prove what we suggest you see. Surely even David  Haye would dream of such a plastic, which demonstrated the dance of Vladimir.

Tony Oursler's exhibition  agentic iced etcetera  at the PinchukArtCentre  in Kiev, Ukraine, is the first major solo exhibition by the artist in Eastern Europe.  Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera  features specially produced new works -- including a Ukrainian speaking installation -- as well as some of the most iconic pieces by the artist. The New York-based risk-taker has been a pioneer of New Media and video art, and  is known for projecting moving images onto objects. In the video below, Eckhard Schneider (General Director, PinchukArtCenter) talks about the mission of PinchukArtCentre, and Bjorn Geldhof (Deputy Artistic Director, PinchukArtCenter) speaks about the significance of Oursler's oeuvre. Finally, Oursler himself talks in detail about his new works on view: Oursler is today among the most important as well as the most influential artists of our generation. Formally, he has has developed a wide-ranging use of materials such as resin, glass, fabric, steel and