Only in Ukraine....
The blog dedicated to stories, news articles, events that truely exemplify the country of Ukraine. The sketchier the better! How can you not love Ukraine after stories like this!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Instead of making a movie entitled "Night at the Museum" why not make one entitled... "A Night at the Verhovna Rada!"
BYuT will stay at night in the parliament
The members of BYuT faction intend to block electrical control unit of the VRU during all night. Olexander Turchynov a member of BYuT faction told the journalists.
He noted that people’s deputies will be on duty at the electrical control unit. But he refused to tell exactly number of people’s deputies. “If it will be necessary we will be on duty up to the morning,” he said.
Turchynov also said that BYuT proposed the “Our Ukraine” faction to join the duty.
Moreover, according to him, BYuT will block parliament work until the VR gives consent to make a decision on raise of social payments and to solve problems in tariffs policy.
ForUm
How Ukrainians filibuster...Block the Light Switch!

Opposition continues to block electrical control unit
Today in the morning the BYuT and “Our Ukraine” factions continue to block electrical control unit in the VRU, the ForUm’s correspondent informs.
At the entrance of the hall there are several tables the deputies sit at, and near the electrical control unit room the deputies gathered chairs and wooden boards that block it.
Meanwhile, there is no light still in the VR and voting system does not work. Some deputies of the Party of Regions gathered around the tribune. The first vice speaker Adam Martynyuk already occupies his place.
ForUm
....Too bad the electrician came!
Electricians switched on the light in the VR
The electricians switched on the light and renewed the voting system in the VR. The vice speaker of the VR Adam Martynyuk registered the people’s deputies, the ForUm’s correspondent informs.
Martynyuk also informed that it is managed to renew light in the VR not because the BYuT representatives stopped blocking electrical control unit but due to undertaken measures of electricians.
Martynyuk informed that now only one screen of voting system is operation and expressed a hoe that soon all malfunctions would be obviated.
ForUm
Friday, February 16, 2007
Burglar Locks Self In Church For Five Days, Lives On Wine
A Ukrainian burglar who accidently locked himself inside a church survived for five days on sacramental wine before surrendering to police, Sehodnia newspaper reported on Friday.
The break-in specialist's unplanned stay inside a religious building took place in the village of Klevan, in Ukraine's western Rivne province.
The man, identified in the report as a professional thief working under the name Volodymyr, entered Klevan's Christian Orthodox church early in the morning, before Sunday service.
His plan to remove the church's gold fixtures among other valuables went awry after he fell asleep, while attempting to file the lock off of an attic door.
Volodymyr only woke up later in the evening, after church service had been completed and the village priest had locked the building up tight. The Klevan church is closed most weekdays.
The burglar's reported intoxication while committing the break-in contributed to his error, said Myhailo Melnik, a Klevan police spokesman.
A search of the premises by the suspect uncovered interior keys opening the church safe, from which he removed the equivalent of four hundred dollars.
The keys however did not open any exterior locks. Burglar bars and tough doors prevented the man's exit, until priests returned the following Thursday.
During his stay inside the 28-year-old subsisted on dry bread, and a total 12 litres of sacramental wine used during church services.
Volodymyr reportedly confessed his guilt shortly after the priests arrived. He returned the stolen money and surrendered voluntarily to police, Melnik said.
The maximum jail term in Ukraine for breaking and entering is five years, but Volodymyr is hoping the judge hearing his case will show mercy, according to the report.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Don't Drink and Fall!
Drunk Ukrainian falls from moving truck
February 03 2007 at 02:53PM
Warsaw - A drunken Ukrainian trucker wearing nothing but his underpants had a lucky escape after falling from his cabin while driving on a main road in central Poland, local police said on Friday.
The 43-year-old landed directly in front of a car which was trying to overtake his truck, but the vehicle's driver successfully swerved to avoid him, said Mariusz Gierula, spokesman for Plock police.
The Urkainian had 2,5g of alcohol per 1 000g of blood, police said. The blood-alcohol limit in Poland is 0,2g.
He risks up to two years in prison for driving offences. - Sapa-AFP
Underground Telephone Service??
Security Service of Ukraine Disclosed Underground Telephone Office
MIGnews.com.ua
Officials at the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Department in Kyiv detained group of businessmen who created underground telephone office.
As SSU department press-service in Kyiv informed, businessmen had been receiving from Internet international traffic of negotiations with the help of IP-technology and substituted foreign numbers of telephone subscribers to the number of Kyiv providers of fixed and mobile communication.
It gave clients of illegal telephone operators opportunity to reckon international calls as city ones. Cost of minute of talk reduced by four-ten times. Businessmen made money ten thousands of dollars by difference in rates.
When law enforcement in Kyiv cleared up the way of committing a crime, they managed to find and detain plotters in Kharkov. There underground telephone office was situated in the Kyivskiy district of city in the office of commercial firm which was involved into translations from foreign languages. As a result of search, routers, modems and GSM-equipment were seized in the amount of nearly UAH 200,000. Thus substitution of telephone traffic had been carried out.
Investigators at the SSU department in Kyiv have been investigating criminal case on crime secured by the first clause 361 article (unauthorized interference into the work of electronic computers, computer-aided systems, computer networks or electrical communication networks) of the Criminal code of Ukraine.
Hitlers Car is in Ukraine??

Hitler Car Found in Ukraine
A Nazi-era sports car which was found in a scrap heap in Ukraine is to be auctioned by Christie’s in Paris next month. The D-type from Audi fore-runner Auto UNI0N, commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche, is widely recognised as the grandfather of the modern racing car as it was the first to put the driver in front of the engine. Only around 20 Auto UNI0N series cars were produced in the years leading up to WWII, and during the war they were hidden in a mineshaft by factory workers who didn’t want them used as scrap-metal for the war effort. After the war they were discovered by the Russians who took them to their own country where they vanished, apparently lost forever behind the Iron Curtain. It is thought they were taken apart and studied in a bid to extract knowledge of the hi-tech vehicles. A fanatical American car collector scoured the Ex-Soviet UNI0N searching for the cars, and eventually came across the D-Type, one of only two in existence, lying dismantled in a junkyard in Ukraine. He took the parts to the UK where it was restored to its full glory by experts Crosthwaite and Gardiner. This piece of automobile history is now set to be sold for upwards of twelve million dollars.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Ukraine Construction Workers Level Apartment Building By Accident
Ukrainian police arrested three construction workers for accidentally levelling an apartment building, the Sehodnia newspaper reported Monday.
The incident happened in the historic old town section of the Black Sea port Odessa. A two-story block built in the early 20th century was half flattened.
Labourers working without a permit removed load-carrying walls, internal beams, and roof supports in an attempt to perform major repairs to a second-floor apartment.
A substantial portion of the building caved in, leaving five families homeless. No injuries were reported.
Police arriving to investigate were initially unable to locate the workers, but residents assisted the police in tracking them down.
One construction worker was found hiding in an adjacent apartment building, a second underneath a table in the rubble, while the third had locked himself into the remains of a toilet.
All three were taken to a central police station for questioning.
Central Odessa with its extensive pre-revolutionary architecture is among the most visually charming cities in the former Soviet Union.
Poor maintenance over nearly a century has made sudden collapse a danger in some older buildings, especially if unqualified labourers interfere with sometimes frail internal support walls.
Only in Ukraine...!

