Новости за 27.04.2017

Back in the 1990s, a young biology teacher in a public school in Lviv dreamed that Ukraine’s rundown schools will someday be revitalized. Two decades later, this former teacher, Liliya Hrynevych, is the country’s education minister. During her first year in office she has been busy with a new law on education that, among other […]

Oleg Yarovyi, a 29-year-old businessman from Kyiv, never planned to leave Ukraine. He and his wife Inna both used to work in the advertising business, owned an apartment and had lots of friends in the Ukrainian capital. But after Inna was offered a job in Warsaw in 2015, the Yarovyis decided to move. Soon after […]

Up to 1,000 foreign volunteers will teach some 100,000 Ukrainian children English, German and French languages, as well as leadership skills at school day camps this summer. About 600 schools will be turned into learning camps under the Go Camp initiative, launched in 2016 as part of a Go Global project. Yulia Mishyna, Global Office’s […]

When it comes to seeking work abroad, more Ukrainians are looking west rather than east. With Russia’s war on Ukraine grinding on in the Donbas and economic prospects in Ukraine still shaky, Poland could soon overtake Russia as the main attraction for Ukrainians looking for work abroad. Apart from cultural links and higher salaries, Poland […]

PJSC Sberbank (Kyiv), a subsidiary of Russia’s Sberbank, has filed an appeal against the ruling of Kyiv Economic Court dated April 18 to ban the use of the Sberbank trademark in Ukraine in a dispute with Ukraine’s state-run Oschadbank. The financial institution used its right to file an appeal in the period provided by law, […]

Nearly half of Ukraine’s teachers are of retirement age or nearing it, according to recent polls by the CEDOS think tank. Meanwhile, the teaching profession is not considered prestigious and does not pay well. As a result, public education in Ukraine tends to be less lively and more old fashioned in many schools, especially in […]

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko during a working visit to Romania held meetings with the prosecutor general under the Supreme Court of Appeals and Justice of Romania and the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate of this country. “During the meetings, they discussed the issues of bilateral cooperation during the processing of urgent requests […]

The number of hostages held in the occupied territories has reached 127, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukraine’s representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group Iryna Gerashchenko said at a meeting with Director General of the Foreign Policy Department of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry Francisco Duarte Lopes. “I […]

France is known for style, fashion, beauty — and trend-setting culinary schools that have attracted a following among Ukrainian chefs. One of them is Kyivan Olena Chebanenko, who graduated from two French culinary schools — the Institute Paul Bocuse in Lyon and the Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in Paris. “Nowadays it’s becoming very popular […]

Like a month ago, 82 percent of Russians said they approve of the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin as president of Russia and 18 percent are unhappy about it, Levada Center told Interfax. The percentage of Russians who approve of Dmitry Medvedev’s work as prime minister of Russia has decreased to 44 percent from […]