Creating a unique, bright and recognizable image of every community to become more attractive for tourists and investors. Public authorities in the Luhansk Oblast have seriously set on developing the image of not only the region but also its particular localities. Eastern Variant found out how it works and why it is needed. Read more
Working under employment contract brings benefits! Labor legislation guarantees safe and healthy working conditions, paid vacation and sick leave for hired workers. You will receive help in the event of a work accident, and benefits for care of small children. Workers whose employment is undeclared are ineligible for all these benefits. Read more
The reforms which Ukraine committed itself to in exchange for the EU’s macro-financial assistance include permitting private enforces to collect debt under small (up to 100,000 hryvnias) claims against public bodies and state enterprises. For the first time in history of Ukraine, a representative of an independent private profession will be able to act against the state, using powers delegated to them by the state itself and compelling the government to fulfil its contractual and other financial obligations to any natural or legal person. Read more
The Black Sea is among the oldest ones on the planet. Due to the low level of salinity and the relatively cold climate, it is inhabited by half as many living organisms as in the neighbouring southern seas – 5,600 species. There are more than 200 species of fish, including spiny dogfish and rays, dolphins and 30 species of jellyfish. Find out more interesting facts from the book “Secrets of the Black Sea”, which was published with the support of the EU-UNDP project “Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea: Special Measures” (EMBLAS-Plus). Read more
At the beginning of the 19th century, Irish gardener Denis McClair created more than four dozen landscape sites in Podillya. One of the best preserved parks is located in the village of Severynivka in Vinnytsia region. Now it is being restored, alongside with the greenhouse and the gardener’s house, which will become part of the horticultural cluster “Apple Way”. Read more
Today in Ukraine less than 17% of mineral deposits are exploited. Increasing production requires strategic public policy and transparent regulation of the field. That is why the EU provided financial and expert support to the Government of Ukraine to develop a new Subsoil Code of Ukraine based on best European practices and taking into account Ukrainian realities. Read more
Several dozens of Ukrainian universities, research and development institutions and enterprises, and a number of ministries will participate in 10 projects under the EU’s Erasmus+ program with the funding of over 9 million euros, the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science reports. Read more
An exhibition was opened in Rivne to convey information to the city’s residents about buildings in the city of the interwar period. The organizers say that they tried to present the most interesting, from the standpoint of architectural stylistics, buildings of the 1920s-1930s which survived in the urban landscape. The exhibition was presented on Saturday, 22 August in the building of the union of artists at 16 July Street.
On 30 August, in commemoration of the Rivne City Day, the Mysterious Dungeons of Rivne project was opened in the city’s Shevchenko Park. Because of the quarantine, this event wasn’t broadly announced and the number of visitors was restricted. The opening ceremony started at 8 p.m. Read more
A consignment of 50 oxygen concentrators worth the total of 25,300 dollars was procured under the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding programme. The ceremony of handing over 50 oxygen concentrators from the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding programme to medical institutions in the Luhansk Oblast took place in Severodonetsk. Read more
