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7 facts about childhood and youth the head of UOC Ukrainian Orthodox Church. on 17 August  it is a year since the enthronement of Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufriya. To the anniversary of the enthronement of Metropolitan Onuphrius Information Center UOC has made selection of facts from public sources about the childhood and youth of the head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church. From the family of priests: The present Patriarch of UOC (Onufriy - Orest Volodymyrovych Berezovsky) was born in the family priest. His brother was also a priest. As a child present UOC wanted to be like Basil the Great . His father told him how this saint became his pray when the sun is shining it in the back, and when finished the prayer, the sun already shone in the face. But then, according to Onufriy  he forgot about it and raised so as all children. The Church and the game of football: As a child, the future Metropolitan Onuphrius always attended church, but not always  he liked it, he admits

With no one story dominating the headlines today, news of note for defence includes coverage of the Secretary of State’s visit to Ukraine, and announcement of further enhancements to the UK training programme for the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine In the papers there is coverage of the Defence Secretary’s trip to the Ukraine yesterday, where he described the conflict as a "red hot" war that shows no sign of ending soon while visiting Prime Minister Yatseniuk and Defence Minister Poltorak. Reporting is included in   the  Daily Telegraph , The Times, the Financial Times,  Daily Mail , and  The Independent , as well as on the  BBC News website . The coverage focuses on the Defence Secretary’s announcement that Britain will step up the training of Ukrainian forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, and add further defensive infantry skills, such as detecting landmines, to help reduce casualties from the conflict. The papers say that t

Valeria Lukyanova   everyone knows more like Barbie Odessa   publish ed n ew photos. She shows her doll's shapes and never stops to give advice to fans.  This time, Valeria told why for some girls sport does not help in losing weight :   Often people spend a lot of time on sports and doing it for years. And without results . Why is this happening? Often due to big appetite . Due to the presence in the diet of saturated fats , simple carbohydrates , and other food junk. As long as it is present in your diet , it is difficult to get rid of the layer of fat. What sense to train, if a person consumes more calories than it spends ? The person simply calms himself doing sports and not progressing because he is a slave of his stomach.  Recently Luk'yanova also  appeared on the famous Cosmopolitan magazine in India.    

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A commemoration concert for MH-17 took place in Kyiv. The concert was attended by President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Vice Prime Minister Zubko, Minister of Foreign Affairs Klimkin, Chief OSCE-Monitor Apakan, Head of Recovery Mission Aalbersberg, the Diplomatic Corps and the Dutch community (including the Dutch business community) in Kyiv, among others. Led by the Dutch conductor Jeroen Weierink, the Liatoshynsky Classical Music Ensemble gave a modest but touching performance of Mozart’s Requiem, and several other pieces. In addition to contributions of the Dutch, Malaysian and Australian Ambassadors, President Poroshenko held a probing speech. The President was visibly moved by the ceremony, something he told the same night during his phone call with Dutch Prime Minister Rutte.  The concert took place in the National Organ and Chamber Music Hall, a Roman-Catholic church in the center of the city, well-known for its impressive gothic architectu

Onufry is in Atlanta USA.  On Wednesday 22 July 2015 Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and All Ukraine arrived at the Atlanta for the 18th All-American Council .  On July 23 Metropolitan Onufry celebrates Divine Liturgy along with the host of bishops of the Orthodox Church in America , and then took part in the V plenary session of the 18th All-American Council , which focused on the spread of Orthodox mission .  Addressing the participants of the Council thanked   Archbishop Tikhon for the invitation and stressed the role of the missionary activity of St. Herman of Alaska in spreading the Orthodox faith in North America. He arrived not for money or treasure but only the love of Christ and the joy of eternal life - the Gospel - said the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church .

Designers volunteers " Agents of Change " developed   new schemes for the Kiev Metro. The new location is twice bigger than the previous . W e found that the size of 120 cm is preferred. This makes it easy to place the scheme in different carriages.  Unlike the old patterns of text is now located horizontally. This simplifies reading the inscriptions. Around the text is now more space , so the station names do not stick together in a solid mass . Also, the designers have identified interchanges between direct metro line. Agents of changes to the new scheme " cultural place ": important historic and cultural buildings, which are located next to metro stations. T he most noticeable difference from the previous scheme and similar schemes with other metro - we showed landmarks are located near metro stations. Inside the team we jokingly call it " cultural layer ". This is not a list of monu

Ukrainian painter Daria Marchenko created a picture of the " Face of War" , picture of  president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The painter has used about 5,000 cartridges from automatic , rifles, machine guns , which were brought from the area of ATO in Donbass region.  Daria Marchenko : - Each element of this portrait could take or save a soldier's life , one way or another it is his destiny. Painter encourages to think anyone before they picks up a gun about  the role of the bloody political ambitions in the history of civilization, and that nothing is more precious than human life. 

Suspension from 10-11 century with a personal mark of Rurik ovichi was  found during the examination at the settlement Kleschin , Pleshcheeva lake in the surroundings Pereslavl in the Yaroslavl region .   Scientists say that the suspension is quite rare ( total scientists have known little more than 50 such symbols ) was a symbol of royal authority and confirming the authority of its bearer .  Finding trapezoidal metal pendants with princely sign of the trident indicates that the new settlement to the north-east of Kievan Rus , at the end of 10-11 centuries controlled the princely power and have high status. Since we got only half of the suspension, to determine what exactly is the sign belonged to Prince , it is impossible , but it can be assumed that this is the trident of Vladimir , Yaroslav , or someone from their closest relatives, who reigned in the 10-11 centuries.  The trident shape - a shape were signs

The dress created by the young Ukrainian designer LARA QUINT, for the most bearded woman in the world ( Conchita Vurst ) picked up stylist Thomas Reyberger . Conchita likes noble gray color . Moreover Reyberger suggested to wear a dress with a white shirt sleeves .  Conchita is popular in in Japan - and hopefully Japan will like wear clothes made in Ukraine too.

Konoplyanka and his first day in FC Sevilia. The video of the first training of Konoplyanka as part of the Spanish Seville . Midfielder of the national team of Ukraine did exercises , both individually and in cooperation with the players of his new club Sevilia . 

In Odessa   Oleg Gulyak introduced  new form  of  Ukrainian military.  A new form of the most universal and made in Ukraine. A complete set consists of more than 20 units , that is, except his jacket , trousers and jackets men get as many other necessary clothing .

100 American Humvee arrived in Odessa on a ship from USA. 100 Humvee arrived in Odessa this morning http://t.co/TXX7vY0hJf pic.twitter.com/xH28vz0Zjc via @GeoffPyatt — Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) July 18, 2015 Сто американських «Хаммерів» прибули в Одесу – Пайєтт http://t.co/e5RDCKaJ0E pic.twitter.com/27ziiieybe — Hromadske.TV (@HromadskeTV) July 18, 2015

Ukraine provides unlimited opportunities for investments with its highly-skilled professionals, proximity to the core transport hubs of the region and being driven by a new generation of leaders. Ukraine is Open for U !

Kraz   ( Ukrainian truck producer ) starts to use Cummins and Wechai engines for trucks instead of Russian's engines from Yaroslavl motor plant . A long-time "partner " - Russian factory YaMZ ( Yaroslavl Motor Works) refused to supply engines for KrAZ . This is due to purely political reasons , as in business - no questions for KrAZ. We buy monthly about 200 YaMZ 's engines. To Lose market for YaMZ is much easier than to find and we have already switched on the engines and sets of MMZ , Wechai , Ford, Toyota, Cummins , Deutz, Caterpillar. Under variousreasones Russians refused to supply of the entire range : the relay, electronics, components and assemblies sets etc . We have done a tremendous job for the replacement of Russian components . Now we buy the same in Europe, Turkey , China, gave orders Ukrainian plants. We have found replacements which quality higher than Russian's . In is likely that  American Cumm

The wife of the US president and her daughters came to the UK with an educational project. Its purpose - to provide basic education 62 million girls around the world who have no access to school. In addition, she will meet the younger son of Prince Charles - Harry and visit one of London's schools. Mishel Obama came off the plane in the dress  colors of Ukrainian flag.