8,000 year old Varenyk! I'd so eat it!

Tupperware first invented in Ukraine Mar 28, '06 11:54 PM ET
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Mar 22, 2006, 22:58 GMT

Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) -- Scientists reportedly have found the fossilized remnants, believe it or not, of a Pierogi, or as the locals call it, a varenyk. The fossilized snack has been dated to be more than 8,000 thousand years old.

The pierogi, which had been encased in a vacuum sealed urn-like object had been almost perfectly preserved. It belonged to a plant-munching horticultural society whose identity still eludes the scientists -- the largest horticultural tribe ever to have walked the Earth, National Geographic News reported.

Indian Paleontologist Chyja Smerdju and Ukrainian Archeologist Serhij Marcinjak of the Ukrainian National Historical Society Museum in Kiev discovered the fossil next to an adult male found at the site buried sitting upright, as if on a throne or chair in Ukraine's most mountainous region in late 2005, including a long wooden spoon that measures nearly 2 feet in length.

The researchers` analysis of their find was detailed in last week`s issue of the museum`s journal, Novitates.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

If you can't win the regular one...

Kharkiv para-olympians brought six medals from Turin

Kharkiv sportsmen won six medals on Para-Olympic Games in Turin.

Silver medals in biathlon contested Lyudmila Pavlenko and Tatyana Smirnova. Lyudmila Pavlenko also was the third two times in ski racing and once in biathlon. Another bronze got the biathlete Sergey Khizhnyak.

Ukrainian national team got the third place in the team classification winning 25 medals: 7 golden, 9 silver and 9 bronze. There were 12 Ukrainian sportsmen on 9th Para-Olympic Games in Turin.

Theres something to be said about housing weapons...

Jul 24 2005 11:53AM
Heat wave likely cause of Ukrainian arms dump explosion - ministry
KYIV. July 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Explosions at an arms dump in the village of Novobohdanovka in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region on Saturday may have been caused by spontaneous combustion of a smoke bomb, resulting from high temperatures, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry reported.

The temperature of the air rose to 32 degrees Celsius in Ukraine's southern and eastern regions on Saturday, according to the national weather center.

A woman, seriously injured in the explosion, was taken to a hospital in Melitopol.

The railway and highway linking Simferopol and Kharkiv were re- opened on Sunday morning.

In total, 120 people, and equipment provided by the defense and emergency situations ministries, were used to deal with the aftermath of the accident.

A regional commission dealing with the consequences of the fire is led by deputy regional governor Oleksandr Syn, and an Emergency Situations Ministry team is working at the scene under Deputy Minister Mykola Horbenko's supervision.

Earlier reports said that an artillery arsenal near the village of Novobohdanovka caught fire on Saturday and artillery shells began to explode as a result of the blaze. The fire was contained at 8:30 p.m., local time. Some experts said spontaneous combustion of the grass may have caused the fire.

ANIMAL INTERNATIONAL!

Jul 24 2005 9:53AM
Defenders of animals to gather in Sevastopol
MOSCOW/KYIV. July 24. (Interfax) - Animals Amnesty international organization will gather for its founding congress in Sevastopol on August 8-14.

Organizations from different countries, including from Britain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France and possibly Spain, which campaign for liberating animals held in captivity, including in zoos, will come to Sevastopol, an organizer, Alexei Sokolovsky, told Interfax.

Ultimately, we are concerned not only about animals, but also about humans," Sokolovsky said.

"Canaries in cages and pigeons with clipped wings cultivate the feeling of being unfree. There is too much 'nonfreedom' in our life. Children should not be reared, seeing animals held in cages. We don't want one living being to use another fettered living being as a toy," said Sokolovsky.

THATS RIGHT! RECORD-BREAKING SAMOVAR!

Ukrainians made record-breaking samovar

Ukraine could soon host a tea party that would even impress Alice in Wonderland, as local craftsmen have made a giant samovar capable of serving up a cup for about 1,800 people, RIA Novosty reported Friday.
According to "Fakty i Kommentarii", the huge utensil, versions of which have been used in Slavic nations for making tea for centuries, has been named Kharkov in honor of the city where it was made. It is 1.8 meters high, weighs about 305 kilograms (670 lbs) and can contain a whopping 360 liters (95 gallons) of water.

The samovar, which is seen as a key image in the plays of Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, is a traditionally handmade and expensive item. It took 40 craftsmen in eastern Ukraine three months to make this particular attribute of a cozy and hospitable household at a cost of nearly $100,000. In Chekhov's era, the water was heated up by burning wood or coal, but the newspaper said the new giant could also work on electricity.

A representative of the Guinness Book of Records in Ukraine, Igor Pidchiba, said the samovar was, indeed, the biggest in the world, which means that the Lewis Carroll's heroine and all her friends would have more than enough for everyone and probably all of their relatives.

At Least one group is United! The Sociologists??

Ukrainian sociologists united for exit-poll

The parliamentary elections day the Fund “Democratic initiatives”, Kyiv international institute of sociology and Razumkov’s center of economic and political researches will conduct exit poll, as declared Ilko Kucheriv, director of the fund “Democratic initiatives.”

According to him, 18 thousand voters on 300 polling stations will be inquired. The results will be published after the end of the vote.

Besides, Kucheriv noted that this exit poll will be conducted with the assistant of foreign organizations, and will cost 180 thousand USD.

Yes.... Only... In.... Ukraine....

THE DEAN!

Tetyana Volodymyrivna Tabenska, Dean of the Preparatory Faculty since 1997, Professor, Doctor of Chemistry was born in Kyiv. She graduated from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University in 1963. Since that time, she has been working as an instructor, lecturer, head of the Preparatory Faculty Department of Natural Sciences, and as professor of the Faculty of Chemistry and Preparatory Faculty.

Her research has been in analytical chemistry, methods of teaching chemistry, the history of chemistry, and the history of the University. She has authored over 100 publications, including textbooks, study guides for preparatory faculties ("Vyshaya Shkola", Moscow, 1982, 1984, 1990; "Lybid", 1993, 1995, 1996).

She holds the Order of Princess Olga of the 3rd Degree (1999) as well as other awards.

What!? You mean I can't go to the Banya!?

Ukraine’s Yushchenko Starts Anti-Corruption Campaign With Bath Ban
Created: 28.03.2005 15:52 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:52 MSK
MosNews


Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has started the corruption clean-up campaign with an informal ban on visiting bath houses (banyas) for government officials, The Independent daily reports.

“It’s all about showing the new face of Ukraine,” presidential spokesperson Irina Gerashchenko said. “It’s no secret that you get all kinds of unsavory types there, and they are not the people with whom officials should be mixing.”

New Ukrainian authorities believe that a traditional place where Ukrainians, and indeed Russians, go every week to wash away their sins has become the check point where officials are nobbled by corrupt businessmen, the paper writes.

In the modern Russian and Ukrainian tradition the banya has become a staple of business culture, often replacing informal meetings and even business dinners.

Yushchenko’s aide conceded that there was no way the president could physically prevent his officials from frequenting bath houses, but he had made it clear that banya-goers will be frowned upon.

Moreover, Yuschenko has already banned officials from accepting gifts worth more than $22 and from having any business interests, and has ordered them to regularly declare their outgoings as well as their income.

As soon as the former opposition leader took up the presidential post, the process of reversing the privatization of Ukraine’s biggest steel producer Krivorozhstal was launched on the grounds that the original deal was a “bare-faced robbery”. A further 3,000 privatization deals are set to be reviewed.

Cronyism, fraud and corruption are Ukraine’s biggest ills, the president declared at the beginning of the anti-corruption campaign.

According to Transparency International’s latest ranking of corrupt nations, Ukraine came 128th out of 146 — nestling between Sudan and Cameroon.

52nd State?!?

Radical Youth Movement Demands that Ukraine Joined U.S. as the 52 State
Created: 10.08.2005 16:39 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:39 MSK
MosNews


The nationalist Eurasian Youth Union Wednesday rallied in front of the Ukrainian building in Moscow, demanding that president Yushchenko resigned from his post and Ukraine entered the United States as the 52 state, RIA Novosti reported.

“Ukraine has actually stopped being a sovereign state,” the Eurasian Union leader Valery Korovin told RIA Novosti.

“The U.S. should openly place their governor in Ukraine.”

“We suggest Yushchenko resigned and ran for the president of the United States. If he succeeds, he will be able to defend the interests of the Ukrainians,” Korovin added.

The party’s activists, no more than 30, declared that since Ukraine has become the appendix of the U.S., it should change the flag.
The suggested version was a blue-and-yellow Stars and Stripes, which the activists showed to the journalists. After that they burned the American flag.

The Eurasian Youth Union is an aggressive anti-American movement, suggesting that the “Eurasians” joined their efforts against the U.S.

First it was the mushrooms at the clubs, now its in the candy bars!

Ukraine Police Find Drugs in Chocolate Bars
Created: 10.02.2006 18:47 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:28 MSK
MosNews


Law enforcement structures in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have found hallucinogenic mushrooms in chocolate bars.

On Thursday night, Kyiv police detained drug dealers in a club. Several kilos of bars have been seized, the head of local interior directorate was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.

The bars with 25 percent of hallucinogenic mushrooms were reportedly produced in Sweden and arrived from Poland, the directorate head said.

interesting...

10.02.2006
Disaster was averted at the Kerch Ship Repair Factory, when the "Rivne" navy ship began to sink.
The boat, built in 1971, has been docked at the repair factory for four years. Five people were on board when it began to sink. They tried to pump the water out and divers tried to weld the hole shut. Both attempts failed - the boat eventually came to rest on its side. The cause of the incident - the bottom of the navy ship's hull has started to rust away.

A Bargain!!!

39-Year Old Ternopil Resident Ready to Sell His Vote for 1 Million Hryvnias

23.02.2006 - Resident of the city of Ternopil Vitaliy Holovka decided to sell his electoral vote for 1 million hryvnias.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, V.Holovka spread the corresponding announcements in the city. He explains that the idea to sell his vote came to him after he became disillusioned with all the political forces of Ukraine. “All politicians think about the nation only before the election. Instead of spending huge amounts of money on election campaigns, I propose them to share their means with a concrete elector”, said V.Holovka.

Earlier V.Holovka voted at all the elections, except for the presidential in 2004, against all the candidates. He is convinced that if all Ukrainians begin doing so, their votes will be much more appreciated by politicians.