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Gennadiy Trukhanov
Gennadiy Leonidovich Trukhanov (born 17 January 1965) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Odesa since 2014. Since 2022, he has focused on constructing fortifications, prioritizing budget policies to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense units, and establishing a city humanitarian aid center for refugees. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Odesa's authorities have prioritized fortifications and support for the Armed Forces. On July 23, 2023, a Russian missile strike damaged the Transfiguration Cathedral. Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov condemned the attack, emphasizing Odesa's resilience. Odesa has received global humanitarian aid, with four centers established to support refugees. City officials have assisted in housing, feeding, and finding jobs for displaced persons. As of January 1, 2024, over 85,500 people in Odesa had registered as internally displaced. Trukhanov also formed a historian group to review Odesa's history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Odesa, Ukraine
Throughout Odesa, Ukraine's history, the office of Novorossiya Governor and Odesa mayor was closely aligned and often was held by the same leader. List of Mayors See also * Timeline of Odesa References {{Reflist, 2 Mayors of Odesa, Lists of mayors of places in Ukraine, Odesa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition Bloc — Party For Peace And Development
Opposition Bloc, formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development until June 2019, was a Ukrainian Political parties in Ukraine, political party that was founded in 2019. On 8 June 2022, the party was banned in court. The ban was not appealed and the party officially ceased to exist on 25 July of the same year. The creation of the party was the result of a schism in the Opposition Bloc party, a party of the same name founded in 2014. By January 2019, two wings of this party had nominated two different candidates for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.Opposition split. How Boyko and Vilkul divide the legacy of "regionalists" Ukrainska Pravda (18 December 2018) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boryspil International Airport
The Boryspil International Airport () , also known as Kyiv Boryspil Airport, is an international airport in Boryspil, east of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger air traffic, including all its Continent, intercontinental flights and a majority of international flights. It is one of two passenger airports that serve Kyiv along with the smaller Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany), Zhuliany Airport. Boryspil International Airport was a member of Airports Council International. Since 24 February 2022, the airport does not operate any scheduled, charter or cargo flights due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. History Early years On 22 June 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered the establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil. On 7 July 1959, the new airport (named Kyiv-Tsentralnyi) received its first scheduled flight. It was Aeroflot's Tupolev Tu-104 en route fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffet
A buffet is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves. A form of '' service à la française'', buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants, and many social events. Buffet restaurants normally offer all-you-can-eat food for a set price, but some measure prices by weight or by number of dishes. Buffets usually have some or mostly hot dishes, so the term cold buffet (see Smörgåsbord) has been developed to describe formats lacking hot food. Hot or cold buffets usually involve dishware and utensils, but a finger buffet is an array of foods that are designed to be small and easily consumed only by hand, such as cupcakes, slices of pizza, and foods on cocktail sticks. The essential feature of the various buffet formats is that the diners can directly view the food and immediately select which dishes they wish to consume, and usually also can decide how much food they take. Buffets are effective for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). ''Buses, Trolleys & Trams''. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK). Republished 2004 with or 9780753709702.) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded or pneumatically raised trolley poles. Overhead line#Parallel overhead lines, Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the electrical circuit. This differs from a tram or streetcar, which normally uses the track as the return path, needing only one wire and one pole (or pantograph (transport), pantograph). They are also distinct from other kinds of Battery electric bus, electric buses, which usually rely on Automotive battery, batteries. Power is most commonly supplied as 600-volt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moratorium (law)
A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law. In a legal context, it may refer to the temporary suspension of a law to allow a legal challenge to be carried out. For example, animal rights activists and conservation authorities may request fishing or hunting moratoria to protect endangered or threatened animal species. These delays, or suspensions, prevent people from hunting or fishing the animals in discussion. Another instance is a delay of legal obligations or payment ('' debt moratorium''). A legal official can order due to extenuating circumstances, which render one party incapable of paying another. In the context of capital punishment, it can be referred to as a temporary suspension of its practice, or suspension of verdicts resulting in execution Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ukrainian Week
''The Ukrainian Week'' (, ) is an illustrated weekly magazine and news outlet covering politics, economics and the arts and aimed at the socially engaged Ukrainian-language reader. It provides a range of analysis, opinion, interviews, feature pieces, including travel both in Ukraine and outside, and art reviews and events calendar. Its first editor-in-chief was Yuriy Makarov. History and profile ''The Ukrainian Week'' is published in Ukraine by ECEM Media Ukraine GmbH (Austria),Statement of the Ukrainian Week about harassment for publishing after holding the World Newspaper Forum (Заява «� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition Platform — For Life
The Opposition Platform – For Life (; , OPZZh) was a Russophilia, pro-Russian and Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic Political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine banned after the 2022 Russian invasion. The party was the successor of For Life (, Russian language, Russian: За жизнь) formerly All-Ukrainian Union "Center" from 1999 to 2016, a small pro-Russian political party. It was registered in December 1999.Who is who on the list? Opposition platform – "For life." With whom and with what the elections are going to Medvedchuk and Rabinovich Espresso TV (5 July 2019) In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Skoryk
Mykola Leonidovych Skoryk (, born 27 November 1972 in Odesa) is a Ukrainian politician who was Chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration. Career On 9 September 2012, Skoryk took part at the Chornomorets football club's ceremony which was held at the newly built football stadium. On 23 December 2013, he congratulated coach Roman Hryhorchuk and the club's general director, Sergei Kernitsky on their championship participation. For that, they awarded him with the black and blue coloured T-shirt with number one on it and some souvenirs. During the same meeting he also praised the team for winning bronze medals back in 1974 and added that he would like to see current "sailors" to join this football club. On 25 February 2014, he held a meeting in Odesa with various NGO politicians which included such parties as Batkivshchyna, Party of Greens of Ukraine, Rodina, Svoboda, and Youth Unity. On a day prior to it, he addressed to the people of Odesa:In these difficult times it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda until 2014, when she handed over the position to Sevhil Musaieva. In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital. The murder of the founder Heorhii Gongadze in the fall of 2000, who had protested against increasing state censorship, drew international attention to the state of press freedom in Ukraine and sparked protests against President Leonid Kuchma in 2000–2001. In July 2016, Ukrainska Pravda journalist Pavlo Sheremet was killed in an explosion. As of 2020, the masterminds behind the murders of Gongadze and Sheremet remain unknown. History Early Years: 2000–2004 In December 1999, journalists Heorhii Gongadze, Olena Prytula, and Serhii Sholokh traveled to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interfax-Ukraine
Interfax-Ukraine () is a Ukrainian news agency. Founded in 1992, the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German. The company owns a 50-seat press centre. The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022) SPARK-Interfax is a service that collects information on legal entities and individual entrepreneurs from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ... and Moldova. It helps to identify connections, monitor changes in companies, and conduct business analysis. History Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv. In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv. References External links * News agencies based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euromaidan
Euromaidan ( ; , , ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by President of Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Ukraine's parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU, but Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it. The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of Yanukovych and the Second Azarov Government, Azarov government.Kiev protesters gather, EU and Putin joust , Reuters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
