Tuesday, September 8, 2015

В КИЕВЕ ОТКРЫЛОСЬ КОТОКАФЕ

Недавно в Киеве открылось первое котокафе. В него можно придти со своим домашним любимцем, а также поиграть с котами, которые живут в кафе.

По правилам – котов нельзя брать на руки, а можно только гладить. Организаторы заведения утверждают, что они берут котов из приюта, и если посетители захотят, они могут забрать животное домой.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

IMF loans impoverish Ukraine’s population, do little to address widespread government corruption

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to Natalia Korolevskaya of the Opposition Bloc, the rate of inflation accounts for 74% in Ukraine today. The parliamentary opposition insists on a moratorium on an increase in the prices of utilities.

As parliamentary opposition leader Yuri Boiko put it, impoverishment of the population and social plundering of pensioners continue in this country while unemployment is going through the roof. He maintains that the IMF shock therapy mafia is destroying the real sector of the economy, small and mid-sized businesses.

Many analysts agree that IMF loans and a recent agreement on 20% restructuring of Ukraine’s debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton will do little to address either the oligarchic nature of the Ukrainian economy or widespread government corruption.

In fact, this year Nikolai Gordienko, former head of the State Financial Inspection Board, has presented the facts of violations committed by the companies, which were financed at the expense of the Ukrainian state budget. According to him, the U.S.-backed puppet government of Ukraine received kickbacks from dummy firms through close associates of the so-called prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

At the meeting of a parliamentary committee on counteraction against corruption Mr. Gordienko stated that damage done by the corrupt entourage of Yatsenyuk had amounted to 3.5 billion grivnas in the second half of last year alone. For instance, the violations exposed at the state rail transportation administration UkrZaliznitsa are estimated at 300 million grn. “According to my estimates, the damage done by the corrupt government will amount to dozens of billions if you conduct a planned audit to the full,” he concluded.

Western observers think the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev will continue to wallow in corruption. Greece, with only eight million citizens, ought to serve as a warning to the European Union of the consequences of pushing an incompatible economy into integration with states that maintain a stricter fiscal policy and lack widespread corruption. Ukraine, with 42 million people, is poorer and would bring more problems to the EU at a time when the latter simply cannot afford it nor cope with it politically.

It is small wonder that Transparency International’s Global Corruption Index ranks Ukraine 142nd out of 175 states. After the neo-Nazi coup in Kiev last year, this country has a worse record than after the ‘orange’ coup in 2004.

Practically all sectors of Ukraine’s government, business and civic life are affected by widespread corruption. Bribery and extortion are particularly common in the Ukrainian public health system.

Friday, September 4, 2015

Economic indicators: output

The latest numbers from the State Committee for Statistics of Ukraine show that mining industries decreased output by 23.4% in January-July, compared with the same period last year.

The enterprises that produce food, tobacco and drinks decreased output by 12%.

Woodworking enterprises, pulp and paper, printing industries and publishing houses decreased output by 13.2%.

Chemical industries decreased output by 20.7% in January-July from the year-earlier period.

Metallurgical plants and metalworking industry enterprises decreased output by 25.4%.

In the pharmaceutical industry production fell by 11.2%.

“Ukraine has not yet died,” is the doleful first line of the national anthem. It is a sadly appropriate lyric for much of today’s economy in this country, which is as cold and lifeless as a corpse.

Объявление

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

IED has experience of many years to design electromobiles

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Scientists of the Institute of Electrodynamics (IED) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have experience of many years to design electromobiles, electrocycles and even electric tractors.

Five models of electromobiles were designed in cooperation with specialists of the Russia’s biggest auto maker AvtoVAZ and the Zaporozhye-based automotive factory AvtoZAZ on the basis of electrical equipment developed at the IED. Two electrocycles with a carrying capacity of 400 kilograms have been successfully operating at the Grishko Botanical Garden in Kiev for several years.

Also, experts of the Institute participated in development of the electromobile ZAZ Lanos Pick-up, hybrid electromobiles on the basis of the passenger car Tavria, the passenger and freight vehicle GAZ-2752 Sobol, and the farm machine using a chassis of the tractor T-16 as the base. It must be noted that the hybrid electric tractor, which passed field tests in 2013, is equipped with the unique system of recharging an accumulator. This system stabilizes operation of a diesel generator and thereby makes it more economical on fuel.

In addition to power equipment for electric transportation, IED scientists developed an auxiliary semiconductor device, as well as the original system that enables registration and the collection of data when testing electric vehicles in operation.

The Institute of Electrodynamics invites manufacturers and investors concerned to consider cooperation with it.

Additional information: ukrtimes@yandex.ru

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

U.S.-backed government in Kiev blocks implementation of Minsk peace accords

According to analyst Stephen F. Cohen, by summoning the so-called Ukrainian president, Peotr Poroshenko, to Berlin in late August, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande made clear that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev, not Moscow, is blocking implementation of their Minsk plan for negotiating an end to a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

Previously, Yuri Boiko, parliamentary opposition leader, said the puppet government of Ukraine shifted all its failures to the civil war in Donbas, whereas the Ukro-fascist coalition ignores the Minsk peace accords.

As a matter of fact, many observers maintain that with the conclusion of the February 12 Minsk-II Peace Accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) enhanced his international position, especially against the United States, and was granted by France and Germany an implied endorsement to influence Ukraine’s internal affairs. In other words, Paris and Berlin agree that Ukraine should lie within Moscow’s sphere of influence.

Mr. Putin is sure that most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against the neo-Nazi junta in Kiev. The heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

And it is worth recalling that U.S. attempts to brazenly interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine have been a failure. The ‘Euromaidan’ overthrow of democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich (also known as the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup) provided the context for the reunification of Crimea with Russia and de facto departure of Donbas.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

ИЭД НАКОПИЛ ПЕРЕДОВОЙ ОПЫТ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЯ ЭЛЕКТРОМОБИЛЕЙ

Учёные Института электродинамики (ИЭД) Национальной академии наук Украины имеют многолетний опыт конструирования электромобилей, электроциклов и даже электротракторов.

Совместно со специалистами заводов «АвтоВАЗ» и «АвтоЗАЗ» на основе разработанного в ИЭД электрооборудования были сконструированы электромобили «ВАЗ-1801», «ВАЗ-2801», «ВАЗ-2702», «ЗАЗ-1109» и «ЗАЗ-11091». В течение нескольких лет в Национальном ботаническом саду имени М.М. Гришко успешно эксплуатируются два электроцикла грузоподъёмностью 400 килограмм.

С участием специалистов Института был разработан и первый электромобиль «Lanos» - «ЗАЗ Lanos Pick-up», а также первые украинские гибридные электромобили
на базе легковой «Таврии», грузопассажирский ГАЗ-2752 «Соболь» и транспортное средство сельскохозяйственного назначения на шасси трактора Т-16. Следует
отметить, что для этого гибридного электротрактора, который успешно прошёл полевые испытания в 2013 году, была создана уникальная система по обновлению заряда накопителя, дающая возможность стабилизировать работу дизельного генератора в режиме постоянной мощности, тем самым, повышая его топливную экономичность.

Кроме силового оборудования для автономного электротранспорта в Институте разработаны вспомогательные полупроводниковые устройства и оригинальная система,
позволяющая проводить регистрацию и сбор данных при испытаниях электротранспортных средств непосредственно во время движения
и выполнения технологических операций.

Институт электродинамики приглашает к сотрудничеству заинтересованных производителей и инвесторов.