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How to start business in Ukraine

Feb27
2012 Written by admin

If you decide to start a business in Ukraine, you have to register. If you are serious about opening a business in Ukraine, you first have to decide whether you will act as an individual entrepreneur or a legal entity. Business registration is regulated by Ukrainian law, and businesses should be registered with the tax authorities in the same area where your office will be located or where your residence is registered if you are a foreigner (for individual entrepreneurs).

Even if a person is already registered as an individual entrepreneur in his or her native country, it is necessary to register in Ukraine, too. If you already registered as a legal entity abroad and want to open a representative office in Ukraine, you have to submit an additional document – an extract from the register of foreign legal entities in the country of origin or any other similar document confirming the legal status of your company. To open a representative office in Ukraine, a foreign legal entity needs a special permit from Ukrainian Chamber of Trade and Industry. Registration is done by the State Registration Chamber. There are lots of legal firms providing their services on such registration and the fee for the service varies from 3000 to 4000 UAH (depending on a region of registration). And the term of registration usually takes at about 2 months.

Let me go into further detail and compare the status of a legal entity with that of an individual entrepreneur. If you are a for-profit organization, you should be familiar with the forms of incorporation under the Ukrainian law. These include the ZAO (closed joint-stock company), OAO (open joint stock company), and OOO (limited liability company), to most common types of companies. For example, to register OOO in Kyiv will cost you at about 2500-3000 UAH and the term of registration is 2 weeks.

In Ukraine, the most popular form of incorporation is a limited liability company (Ukrainin acronym is OOO). The creation of a limited liability company does not necessarily lead to a securities issue, and such companies are easier to manage, which differentiates them from joint stock companies. This form of incorporation is most popular with small and mid-sized businesses. It is similar to the LLC in the US, the PLC in Britain. You should also be aware that you may choose the name for a legal entity to be registered, but if you are an individual entrepreneur, you can only register using your own name. However, if you don’t fear the legal risk potentially resulting from errors on the part of your employees, or if you don’t expect daily cash operations, you can register as an individual entrepreneur. This type of structure has the advantage that it is much easier to close. But closing of a legal entity will take a lot of time and efforts as for a foreigner so as for any Ukrainian.

What documents are needed for business registration? To register as an individual entrepreneur, you need an application for state registration; a copy of your ID; a copy of your birth certificate; a copy of a document confirming your right to reside in Ukraine temporarily or permanently; a document confirming your residential address; and a receipt for payment of the registration fee (at about 120-150 UAH). E.g. in Kyiv to register as an individual entrepreneur will cost 1500 UAH, but in regions and other cities it’s cheaper.

The same documents are needed to register an OOO, plus a resolution to create an OOO, foundation documents (Articles of Association and a Memorandum of Association if there are two or more founders), and a receipt for payment of registration fees.

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THE MUSEUM OF SUBMARINES IN BALAKLAVA

Feb22
2012 Written by admin

The museum of submarines is a monument of military-technical and art of fortification of the Soviet period. It is located in the western hillside of Balaklava bay. It was created in 1957-1961 for the purpose of submarine’s protection, repair facility and command post of submarine forces of the Black Sea fleet from a nuclear attack of the opponent.

Here except underground plant, the tunnels and storages of fuel and a nuclear ammunition were also constructed (Object 820). It was the first and then unique in the country an underground complex on repair and hiding submarines.

Artificial “nest” for submarines, besides covers for seven boats, had the underground dry dock cut down in a rocky ground where full repair was usually made. From Balaklavsky bay the submarine came into the channel under its own power and further by means of special system of hawsers and windlasses was moving along half-kilometre tunnel. The plant was built in unti-nuclear relation of the first category of protection, and also had underground dry dock in length of 70 m, width – 10 m and depth – 7,5 m, there were big working areas as well. The biggest diameter of the tunnel is 22 m. From outside of the bay the entrance to the tunnel was blocked by large-tonnage floating caisson which was blown up by the air, and emerged. The exit from an underground complex at sea was also blocked by caisson which was taken aside, letting out submarines. The entrance to underground complex from Balaklavsky bay was well disguised. Thus the complex was completely isolated from environment. Its protection allowed to sustain a direct hit of a nuclear bomb in capacity up to 100 kilotons. The maximum height of an internal cavity of the complex reached heights of the three-storyed house.

Southward, near the underground channel, a special warehouse and storage for nuclear ammunition was built, and northward, protected warehouses for fuel. The underground warehouse for fuel was constructed in the form of underground vertical tanks and allowed to store up to 4 thousand tons of oil products. On narrow-gage road foodstuff, spare parts, torpedoes, an artillery ammunition and other necessary cargoes were driven and loaded at underground mooring from warehouse. There also was workshop on preventive inspection and repair of minor components of ships. The western exit from the channel was closed by the special construction consisting of precast concrete slabs of 2-metre width, 10-metre length and 7-metre height.

However, despite all uniqueness and power the underground plant in Balaklava started to lose the strategic importance. It was connected with transition of Navy fleet of the USSR to boats of other ratings. Therefore in 1994 the underground complex was taken out of service. In 1995 the last submarine of the Black Sea Fleet was moved out from Balaklava bay, and the plant completely passed to the jurisdiction of Ukraine.

Since 2003 by means of underground plant and arsenal the Naval museum complex “Balaklava” works, as a branch of the Central museum of Armed forces of Ukraine.

You can easily get to Balaklava on your own using public transport. Take the rout taxi number 12 at any bus stop in Sevastopol and get off route terminal (its name 5th kilometre (paytyi kilometr). Then get the rout taxi (in Sevastopol they call it “topic”) to Balaklava and in 20 minutes you’ll get that amazing place.

Come and meet beautiful places of Sevastopol and Crimea as well.

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8th Wonder of the World

Feb22
2012 Written by admin

3 days, 38 km.
Itinerary: Sevastopol– The Laspi Pass –The Kush-Kaya mountain – Kokiya-Kaya mountain – urochishe Inzhir – “Zaterjaynyi Mir” (The Lost World) bay – Asketi mountain – Cembalo fortress – Balaklava.

The first day.

Travelling on Cape Aya starts from Sevastopol city where we gather at 10-11 o’clock and move to Laspi Pass. After our equipment is adjusted, we start climbing the Kush-Kaya mountain, you’ll be able to see magnificent view of Laspi bay. Then, we move on further along the edge of rocky scarps of cape Aya, after we go to Kokiya-Kaya mountain, so-called “Sotka”, the military assert. The matter is that massif of cape Aya has been classified as a secret for a quite long time, therefore you will be able to see not only cliffs and bays of these wonderful places, but remains of the military past as well. From the Kokiya-Kaya mountain we observe a marvellous panorama of Balaklava bay up to Phiolent cape. From here we depart to a spring on our first overnight stop.

The second day.

Next day with small climbing past military constructions on scarps we go down Urochishe Inzhir (its local name). Near here, at the bottom of cape Aya there is a bay “Zaterjaynyi Mir” (The Lost World). Inaccessibility and wildness of hanging rocky walls, a small cosy beach (it is possible to get there only by boat) allow you to get away from daily routines and problems at least for a short time. From Kokiya-Kaya mountain you will be able to see “Zaterjaynyi Mir” (The Lost World) bay.

The third day.

For the third day we continue our tour to Balaklava bay through Asketi mountain (Ascet – once upon a time an ascetic lived here on the slope of this mountain, that’s why the mountain is called so) to Genoa fortress Cembalo and Balaklava town where our route comes to an end. On Asketi mountain (also known as the Southern Fort) there are well-preserved remains of military defences constructed in the beginning of the last century. In Balaklava you can attend the Naval museum complex (or the Museum of “Cold War» as it called by local residents), and once classified installation GTS №825.

”№825 GTS” is the only and unique in the world underground harbour (underground plant) on repair of submarines. If you have the time, you should visit it.

From Balaklava you can get to Sevastopol in 20 minutes, or go to some other sightseeing of Crimea or stop somewhere on the seashore.

Tour cost: 550 UAH/ 69 USD/1890 RUB

In spite of low prices, in cost of our backpacking tours all necessary are included; health insurance, accident insurance, tour registration in Life Saving Services, as well as three meals daily, transportation expenses on route, fee for passing through protected areas and still many other things. Visiting sightseeing, living not in a tent, having bath, sauna, going to a restaurant as well as rental of equipment are not included in tour cost.

Here is the link you can book a tour:

http://mounttrip.com/poxody-po-krymu/poxod-po-krymu-vosmoe-chudo-sveta-3-dnya-38-km

Hang gliding, paragliding and ballooning in Crimea

Feb20
2012 Written by admin

On the North-West from Koktebel township there’s a mountain plateau Uzun-Syrt, falling down with scarp slopes into the Bara-Kol valley. Uzun-Syrt is translated from Turkic as “long ridge, or back”. The ridge looks like a long smooth roll reminding a giant frozen sea wave. The ridge of Uzun-Syrt is situated at 13 kilometers from Feodosiya near to Koktebel and overlooks above the sea level at 268 meters high, and over valley’s neighboring at 180-200 meters.

The Uzun-Syrt ridge, or Klement’ev mountain is a natural border between steppe Crimea and mountainous Crimea.Northward from a ridge there is almost smooth steppe, and southward there’re the tops of mountains.The nature as though has intentionally created here conditions for gliders flight. The matter is that the plateau is bent in the form of an arch in length of 7 km. Here over the Uzun-Tyrt the airflows are constantly formed. Gliders can hang in the air for many hours without landing.

According to pilots, there are only two such unique mountains on the planet. One mountain is in Montana state and the second one is in Crimea, Koktebel. Klement’ev Mountain. There is always wind for 365 days a year.

As the gliders say, even those who born to crawl will be able to fly on Klement’ev mountain. Airflows round this mountain face and change in such a manner that it is possible to hang in the air the whole day without a break.

Over 90 years the hang gliders, balloonists, paragliders, aviators and cosmonauts come to this mountain from different parts of the world. Here they are tested, trained and take part in international competitions.

Koktebel became the center of gliding in 30s of the last century. Here the first All-Union glider meetings were held, which have given a start to the whole generation of the Soviet pilots and aircraft designers. The Gliding Center was found by K.Artseulov known as the pilot and the actor, he was also grandson of famous Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky.

Here in 70-80s first meetings and competitions of hang gliders and later paragliders took place. Exactly here there’re unique in their own way museums, such as Hand gliding museum in Feodosiya and Gliding and Parachuting museum in Koktebel.

Nowadays Koktebel and Feodosiya are recognized as centers of aeronautic sport. Annually, at the beginning of May in Feodosiya, the international competitions “Air brotherhood” and the championship on flights on thermal balloons are take place. You can easily participate in demonstration flight as a passenger.

At the beginning of September when “flying people” gather for the next annual meeting, the unforgettable impression remains from tens domes of paraplanes and delta planes hanging in the sky over Uzun-Syrt. Here you can take lesson with instructor or fly independently and perform fascinating flight over neighborhood.

The gliding, paragliding or ballooning flight will cost you at about 200 UAH.

Here is some contact information:

“Turautoservice”

Koktebel township

Desantniky Str., 28.

Ph.number: (06562) 3-62-22

Aeronautics Center:

Feodosiya town

Garnaeva Str., 85.

Ph.number: (06562) 4-26-65

Lastochkino Gnezdo

Feb20
2012 Written by admin

“Lastochkino Gnezdo” (Swallow’s Nest) reminds medieval castle which is situated near Yalta on the Crimean shore in southern Ukraine. It was built between 1911 and 1912 near Gaspra, on top of 40-metre high Aurora Cliff, to a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood. The castle overlooks Ai-Todor cape of the Black Sea and is located near the remnants of the Roman castrum of Charax. It became an original emblem of Southern coast of Crimea and it’s one of the most popular tourists attractions as well.

Lastochkino Gnezdo survived a serious earthquake rated at 6 to 7 on the Richter scale in 1927. The building was not damaged, except for some small decorative items that were thrown into the sea along with a small portion of the cliff. However, the cliff itself developed a huge crack. For a long time, it was closed to the public due to the damage it suffered in that quake. The building would remain closed for the next forty years. Renovation and restoration on the building was started in only 1968. The project involved the restoration of a small portion of the castle and the addition of a monolithic console concrete plate to strengthen the cliff.

So let’s get back to some historical background of the building. The first building on the Aurora Cliff was constructed for the retired Russian general after Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878. The first structure he built was a wooden cottage romantically named the “Love Castle.” Later on, the ownership of the cottage passed to A. K. Tobin, a court doctor of the Russian Tsar. After his death the widow owned the cottage, but later sold it to Moscow tradeswoman Rachmaninova. She demolished an old building, and the wooden castle “Swallow’s nest” has appereared soon.

Baron von Steingel, a Baltic German noble who had made a fortune extracting oil in Baku, bought the cottage in 1911 and within a year had it replaced by the current building. The Scottish baronial and Neo Moorish styles had been introduced in the Crimea in the 1820s by Edward Blore, the architect of the Alupka Palace (1828-46).

In 1914, von Steinheil sold the building to P. G. Shelaputin to be used as a restaurant. But relatively soon the merchant died and the restaurant was closed.

For a short time after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the building was used only as a tourist attraction. In the 1930s, the building was used by a reading club of the nearby Zhemchuzhina resort. After reconstruction the building was opened again for visitors. Now there is a good Italian restourant inside, and you can also buy various souvenirs around the walls of the castle.

Full dinner or light meal in the restaurant would be a highlight of your visit to “Lastochkino Gnezdo”.

The cuisine of the restaurant is European, most notably, delicious Italian pasta which is popular among the visitors. Those who think that “pasta” is only macaroni will change their mind having tasted the specialities offered. Even Italian tourists enjoy “Pasta Imperiale”! It is almost impossible to resist the temptation to enjoy special desserts like the romantic dessert for two “Gran Desiderio”.

“Lastochkino Gnezdo” is situated at a distance of 20 km. from the centre of Yalta:

Gaspra village, Cape Ay-Todor, 9th Alupkinskoe highway
Tel.: +38-0654-237571 / 247218
Tel./fax: +28-0654-247219
E-mail: lastivka@mail.ylt.crimea.com

How to get to the restaurant:
- By car please follow the road signs from the relief road through “Zhemchuzhyna” sanatorium. The passage through the territory and parking is possible UPON RESERVATION ONLY.
- By yachts or by scheduled pleasure boats one may dock below at the restaurant.
- Groups of visitors are welcome by the restaurant’s minibus from the observation platform in Alupkinskoe highway.
- It is also possible to descend the stairs from the observation platform in Alupkinskoe highway.

The restaurant is open daily from 12:00 and until the last visitor.

Cash, bank transfers, Master and Visa Cards are accepted.

Discounts are available for groups of visitors.

Wine tourism in Koktebel

Feb18
2012 Written by admin

Wine tourism in Ukraine is rather new phenomenon, but it has already got the admirers whose number is increasing yearly. Many people are interested in process of well-known vintage wine making. It’s possibile to have a look at vineyards, to visit factories and tasting rooms. But here, except wines there is a production of amazing cognacs. They say that Koktebel is the country of cognacs, it is the truth. Vocation in Koktebel is accompanied by pleasant inebriate rest. After all Koktebel will captivate the beauty and calmness in addition with pleasant drinks. Being in Koktebel and not having tried Koktebel wines it’s not a reality. You can meet the temptation of wines at any coner and the beauty of vineyards call to try an experience of such wonderful drinks.

Going on vacation to Koktebel, it is definitely the sea and the sun, entertainments and excursions to museums as well as chance to visit plant of “Koktebel” vintage wines and cognacs. The plant existing today was opened in 1944. It has a full cycle of production. Here downhills, at different hight over the sea level more than thirty sorts of grapes are grown. The grape is processed and wines are aged in oak container then bottled.

The plant produces more than twenty brands of various wines having unique flavor. It’s difficult to imagine vacation in Koktebel without tasting of “Koktebel” plant production, e.g. dry, heady and dessert wines, for example, the “Kara Dag” name after an extinct volcano, and also widely known branded cognacs, such as “Koktebel”, “Crimea” and “Kutuzov”. They are aged in oak containers throughout twenty five years.

Vocation in Koktebel can include excursions in the Sunny Valley located to the West from Meganom cape. The valley is the sunniest place in Crimea. Here grapes of unique sorts have been growing here more than two and a half thousand years. You can attend the Museum of winegrowing and winemaking. Local cellars of “Arhaderesse” are also unique and they are constructed in slopes of ravines.

In the Sunny Valley such well-known Crimean wines as «the Black doctor» and «the Black colonel» are made. It’s the place of tourists attraction because the Sunny Valley has the most beautiful kinds of vineyards, braned wine shops and tasting rooms. There are all conditions for diving.

One of the most popular brands of wine made on “Koktebel” winery is dry white wine called Aligote. It freshens and gives live and has soft, harmonious ­­ taste with the expressed high-quality favor. But not every year Aligote will be pleasant for you, because the solar activity, plenty of rains or their absence can affect considerably the taste of such wine, therefore, rely on your own taste and predilections. Sometimes there is a peculiar bitter taste in such sort of grape.

You can go on excursion to the farm of duke Galitsyn, who was famous as a well-known wine maker. In “Novyi Svit” township the champagne factory was founded by Galitsyn. There are cellars in local rocks in where the bottles of excellent champagne are kept. Each bottle is put on for maturing by hand and is aged here not less than three years. The “Novyi Svit” champagne received Grand prix on a world’s fair in Paris in 1900. Exactly this sort of champagne was preferred by noblemen of Russia and an imperial family.

Vacation in Koktebel is a great chance to get you familar with the best wine making in Crimea, to taste them and to buy them directly from manufacturers.

Sights of Koktebel

Feb18
2012 Written by admin

There is amazing place near the Black sea, Koktebel township. Its name is translated from Turkic as «edge of blue altitude». It is situated in twenty kilometres from Feodosiya in a wide bay near extinct volcano the Kara Dag.

Vacation in Koktebel can bring you various impressions. Comunication with unique nature which has special energy and more close acquaintance with history of township and people who left their trace there.

One of such person is an artist, a poet, a translator, a philosopher and a literary critic Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin. The most part of his life he had lived in Koktebel. The nature inspired the artist on creation of his best works.

Holidays in Koktebel will leave much more impressions for those who aren’t just limited with swimming and beach entertainments. They can visit Voloshin’s literary-memorial museum, one of the largest in Crimea.

Voloshin built the house according to his own project. But he didn’t like the first variant constructed in 1903. After that within nine years the house was reconstructed and changed until it became like now. This house was visited by many celebrities. Here Bulgakov and Mandelstam, Aleksey Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Gumilev and Marina Tsvetaeva were regular quests. After revolution the quest-house for people of creative jobs was opened here.

Today Voloshin’s literary-memorial museum includs more than eighteen thousand exhibits. On the ground floor there is a literary exposition, and on the second – art studio.

Vacation in Koktebel seems to be going down a treat for those who is interested or engaged in hang gliding. It’s considered that Koktebel is native land of this kind of sport in Ukraine. Competitions of glider pilots were held near Koktebel on Klementyev’s grief in the twentieth-thirtieth years of the last century. To get acquainted with gliding history in Koktebel you can visit a museum which is on Klementyev’s grief. The exposition of museum is presented in four halls. There you’ll find out information about the Higher flight glider school and its history. What is more, you can admire obelisk with a glider on Klementyev’s grief which was installed in 1973 when the fiftieth anniversary of domestic gliding was celebrated.

Being in Koktebel is an excellent opportunity to enjoy the views of unique nature, for example, having visited Kara Dag Nature Reserve. It is translated from Turkic as “The black mountain”. It’s an extinct volcano which was active more than 120 million years ago.

Certainly you can combine vacation in Koktebel with excursion to natural reserve. That’s a pity, but you won’t be able to get there independently, it’s better to join the organised excursion. Excursions are carried out on an ecological path in natural reserve. Length of pathway is seven kilometres.

You can also look at numerous bays of the Kara Dag coast, having gone on excursion by boat. Small boats approach the Kara Dag coast that allows to feel all its power. You can easily sail through the well-known Golden Gate by boat. It’s a rock in shape of gate, growing up right from the sea.

Vacation in Koktebel gives you the chance to touch an ancient history of our planet, and it’s an advantage of any other vacation. After all the Kara Dag is a volcano of the Jurassic period, and it’s the only one in European part of CIS.

Visiting Koktebel will leave unforgettable memories to everyone who have been there at least once. And you will have a desire to come back here again and again.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Feb17
2012 Written by admin

Today I’m going to continue speaking about one of major Ukrainian political party “Front Zmin” (Front of changes) and its representative Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Non-governmental organisation “Front Zmin” became a civil platform for creation of political party “Front Zmin”. Therefore,”Front Zmin” is the party of a new type as it is built by a principle of “bottom-upwards”.

Only the best activists can become members of non-governmental organisation “Front Zmin” who proved the ability to take effective measures and decisions in favour of society and their country.

The purpose of party’s activity is building country’s dynamical, sustainable development where European values of freedom will be embodied as well as equality, justice, solidarity and tolerance, principles of democracy and public dialogue. And, of course, the possibility for all Ukraininan people to participate in development of a new state policy.

The tasks of the Party are the following:

creation of civil society and support of democratic transformations in Ukraine;

enforcement of human and citizen rights, principle implementation of social justice in all vital spheres for each person (public health services, education,provision of housing and food, etc.);

return to the state an active role in economical processes

termination on corruption and setting up of state machine by creation of a new quality of power in Ukraine.

707 territorial and local organisations of “Front Zmin” are operating today .

At the party the project of political education “Power of School” is carried out. Its purpose is to train candidates for party members according to European standards of management and political activity. With a help of “Power of School” all members of the party are trained. Special preparation is received by the candidates of local councils.

During the Ukrainian elections to the local councils (or local soviets) on 31st October, 2010 the political party “Front Zmin” took the third place, having got 7 % of support from Ukrainians. The peculiarity of “Front Zmin” which distinguishes it from other parties is that it got an equal support on all territory of Ukraine. In total 2827 people of the party became deputies of different levels. 12 representatives of “Front Zmin” became mayors of several Ukrainian cities.

The leader of “Front Zmin” is Arseniy Yatsenyuk. He was born on 22nd May 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Married with two children.

Education: He’s graduated from the Chernivtsi National University, law department, speciality – jurisprudence (1996); The Chernivtsi Trade Economics Institute of the Kyiv National Trade Economics University, speciality- audit (2001). In 2004 defended a dissertation and took Ph.D. in Economics.

December 1992 – September 1997 – is appointed as the President of Law firm “YUREK-LTD”, Chernivtsi.

January 1998 – December 1998 – Credit Department Adviser of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Kyiv.

December 1998 – August 2001- Chairman of the Management Board Counsellor of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Kyiv.

August 2001 – September 2001- Deputy Chief Executive of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Kyiv.

September 2001 – November 2001 – Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs in Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Simferopol.

November 2001–January 2003 – Minister of Economic Affairs in Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Simferopol.

• for the first time in the history of Crimea the deficit-free budget was approved;

• he increased in double measure financing of education, medicine and culture;

• he simplified tax system and began major accomplishment of free economic zones;

January 2003 – February 2005 – First Deputy Chairman of National Bank of Ukraine, and Deputy Head of NBU.

March 2005 – September 2005 – First Deputy Chairman of Odessa Regional State Administration.

September 2005 – August 2006 – Minister of Economic Affairs of Ukraine.

• he achieved recognition of Ukraine as a state with market economy by EU countries and the USA;

• he created preconditions for the introduction of Ukraine to WTO;

• he liquidated corruption schemes of tender purchases.

September 2006 – March 2007 – First Deputy President’s Chief of Staff of Ukraine – Representative of the President of Ukraine in Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Presidential envoy of Ukraine concerning performance monitoring of Security Service of Ukraine, a member of NBU Board.

• He set up effective cooperation with the Cabinet of Ministers, particularly, forced the government to improve social standards in the state budget for 2007.

March 2007 – December 2007 – Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine, a member of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

For the first time ever he achieved simplification of a visa regime of EU for Ukrainian citizens;

• he provided successful rescue operation of Ukrainian citizens from a zone of military actions in Gaza Strip;

• he created and financed call-centres for labour migrants with his own funds;

• he carried out successful negotiations with Russia on specification of the “Big contract» and set up partnership relations with management of Russian MFA.

December 2007 – November 2008 – the Head of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

• he liquidated corruptive Tender Chamber of Ukraine;

• he achieved taking a decree where deputies’ salary for the missed plenary sessions is not calculated.

Since November 2008 – People’s Deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VI calling, a member of Committee of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine concerning public health service.

Certificate of income.

The amount of his total income for 2010 is 736,879 thousand UAH. This sum includes the salary as People’s Deputy (178,846 thousand UAH),bank deposit interests (550, 419 thousand UAH), incomes from scientific and teaching activity (7, 614 thousand UAH). The politician owns land plot of 3012 sq. m, dwelling-house (298,3 sq.), apartment (342 sq.), country house (114,5 sq.), garage (45 sq.), car Range Rover of 2006.He has 4 million 339 thousand 452 UAH on banks’ accounts, he put 28,232 thousand UAH in statutory funds of enterprises. Last year Yatsenyuk’s wife got 370,105 thousand UAH of incomes from entrepreneurship and 94,330 thousand UAH frombank deposit interests.

Why Ukrainians do not wish to insure their life?

Feb16
2012 Written by admin

In Ukraine the new stage of struggle for available funds of population is about to start. By different estimations, people keep their cash “in stockings” from $10 to 20 bln. So commercial banks and insurance companies are ready to get into an argument for such titbit. Recently they have presented, according to their opinion, an irreplaceable and competitive product – life insurance. But the officials who are responsible for this sector of business, assert, that insurers’ customers can lose their money put up in policies.

During the USSR period people were insured a lot and willingly. Insuring their life with a help of Gosstrakh people aimed to kill two birds with one stone: for some years to save money, and at the same time to secure themselves against emergency. But in the beginning of 90 unreimbursed policies had the same fate as deposits in Sberbank. According to official figures the State debt on Soviet insurance was 8 bln UAH. (10 mln UAH, or 0,12 % were given as a compensation to relatives of died investors in 2004). According to acknowledgement of the President of Insurance Companies League Alexander Filonuk, as a result today insurers should break the wall of people’s mistrust.

However, insurers are tuned to be optimistic. And how, all they have received annual tax odd before their main competitors – private Pension funds. Today only insurance companies and their customers have unprecedented tax benefits from the state. Firstly, the employer is interested to give money for insuring his employees, because these sums (up to 15 % of salary schedule) are allowed to calculate as gross expenditure, that is, they are tax free.

Insurers promise, that they invest money put up by citizens in profitable spheres of business, as a result custormers will get a quite good income. But…the state is not responsible for risk of such investment and if there is losses instead of incomes, citizens will earn nothing.

However, insurers are worried about other issues now: deficiency of distributors’ networks and lack of insurance agents. Perhaps, the biggist problem for insurance business is low incomes of people. If there’s not enough money to make both ends meet for a normal standards of life, so what thoughts about insuring such life can come to a head. As experience of other countries shows, the insurance boom starts when average incomes reach $300-400.

As explained by the Head of Insurance Authority Department of State Financial Services, Vladimir Parnuk within condition of incompleted legal framework “life” business in Ukraine can result in considerable losses for the customers. For example, the contract can be drawn up in such way that the first 3-4 years a person makes payments in favour of the insurer. And if he suddenly changes his mind and demands to get back his money, he will be given a simple answer, that there isn’t no money.

French insurance giant AXA Group which is the owner of two large risky companies “AXA Insurance” and “AXA Ukraine” are intended to enter the Ukrainian market of life insurance. Ouestioned experts of the market consider that AXA Group was forced to enter “life” market of Ukraine in 2010 not only because of perspective of such business, but also plans of Ukrainian competitors about risky insurance. Insurer AXA Group in Ukraine is presented by two large insurance companies – “AXA Insurance” (former company name “Vesco”) and “AXA Ukraine” (“Ukrainian Insurance Alliance”). According to magazine “Insurance TOP”, for the first 6 months in 2009, “AXA Ukraine” company has collected 162 million UAH of insurance premiums. “AXA Insurance” – 135 million UAH, having taken according to such indicator the 11th and 13 th places in a rating of the largest insurers of Ukraine.

Gipsies. Who are they?

Feb15
2012 Written by admin

Gipsies came from India. They first appered in Europe in the beginning of 14th century, in Ukraine – in the beginning 15th century.

Who are they, gipsies? On the one hand, Gipsyness is a glamour of mysteriousness for all other nationalities and ethnic groups. Such glamour is actively supported by the gipsies. As a rule, they do not discuss their problems of the life with others. They show it for other people as dramatized picture, as a theatricalized performance.

On the other hand, Gipsyness is a severe life realities of the whole ethnic group. Its cruelty lies in a number of phenomena. First of all, it is despotism of baron in relation to mass, the head of the family in relation to its members, despotism of seniors in relation to younger.

Cruelty of realities of Gipsy life is not limited with lawlessness and rough justice in Gipsy’s community. It complicates with living circumstances. Cruelty of realities of Gipsy life is not limited with lawlessness and rough justice in Gipsy community. It complicates with living circumstances. Assumed as a basis financial relationships in a Gipsy family usually mother provides family with food. Generally, gipsy women do not participation in a social production, they don’t have constant earnings either. That’s why you can see them at the station or crossroads of any city trying to capture you on the pretext of fortunetelling. But be very carefull, they can easily hypnotize and bamboozle you out of money or jewellery. Other members of Gipsy family who work, do not consider that it’s their obligation to support family financially. Therefore the average Gipsy family practically is on poverty border.

Сruelty of realities of Gipsy life lies in its isolation, the matter is that activity of Gipsy’s community is isolated from environment. The mentioned isolation, self-isolation is a result of interaction of objective and subjective factors. Among objective factors are environmental ignorance of gipsies, of their language and customs.The first place among subjective factors takes unwillingness of leaders of Gipsy community to have contacts with other representatives of different community.

Gipsy as certain social type has particular features. The first place takes among them is nimbleness. For the gipsy who, generally, doesn’t have neither education nor intelligence, there is no such concept as nimbleness. He got used to do everything at his own peril.

In relations to other people gipsies unceremonious. It’s nothing for them to tell a lie, mislead or deceit someone. Such features, obviously, are transferred from one generation to another as a character feature of the whole nation.

Boundless freedom is pecular to the gipsies. This freedom includes free speech, freedom of movement, freedom of action and free choice. The gipsies themselves add freedom of behaviour and freedom of morals which are treated as permissiveness. They are convinced, that all people they live around should show mercy to them, help them both in inconvenient and inconvenient situations. Moreover, they not only expect such mercy, they demand it, organising detours of apartments and houses making their children to cadge and frequently to steal.

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