Thursday, November 19, 2015

Russia is ready to restructure debt for Ukraine, says Putin

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia is ready to restructure $3 billion of Ukraine’s debt. Under the restructuring, $3 billion Eurobonds due on December 25 must be paid in 2016-2018 in annual payments to the amount of $1 billion.

Previously, the so-called government of Ukraine had reached an agreement on restructuring 20% of its debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton. After avoiding a default for a couple of years, Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities think they are marvelous, like a drunk driver who did not get caught or kill anyone.

In return for a four-year extension on payments of the remaining debt, Ukraine agreed to a higher coupon (interest rate) of 7.75%, up from 7.25%.

As critics have pointed out many times, lending money that does not exist to the U.S.-backed puppet regime, which is already deeply in debt, is not a good business model. It does not really stimulate the Ukrainian economy and it does not really make people better off. Finally, it is worth noting that the U.S. dollar has lost 95% to 98% of its purchasing power over the last 100 years.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

45% УКРАИНЦЕВ ЗА ДРУЖБУ МЕЖДУ УКРАИНОЙ И РОССИЕЙ БЕЗ ГРАНИЦ, А 2% ЗА ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ ДВУХ СТРАН

Согласно опросу, проведённому Киевским международным институтом социологии, сегодня 2% украинцев считают, что Украина и Россия должны объединиться в одну страну. Однако если учесть 45% респондентов, которые хотят, чтобы Украина и Россия были независимыми, но дружественными государствами с открытой границей без таможни и визовой системы, а также 7% опрошенных, которые затруднились с ответом, то получится очень серьёзный показатель для воюющей страны.

Ukrainian scientists do research in many spheres as government doesn’t pay attention

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

A group of scientists of the Institute of Physics (IOP) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is engaged in the scanning tunnel microscopy of ultrafine organic films. Molecules are applied to certain surfaces by means of special methods and then the point of a scanning tunnel microscope is used for probing the surface while a computer converts all this into a visible image.

Another team of scientists of the Institute works on the molecules that change drastically their properties – for example, the friction coefficient – under the influence of a light. Also, IOP researchers evolve methods for curing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

According to IOP senior scientific worker Anton Senenko, all the above activity relates to fundamental research whose results may be put into practice in 10-15 years. The bad news is that the government of this country pays neither a sufficiency of funds nor attention to Ukrainian researchers who have been working at the forward positions of world science for many years.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Monument to Kazimir Malevich unveiled in Konotop

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Recently, a monument to Kazimir Malevich, Russian painter and designer, has been unveiled in the city of Konotop, Sumy region. Also, Konotop devotees of Kazimir Malevich plan to open a fan club in the near future. He lived in this city with his parents in 1894-1895 and sold his first paintings Moon Night and Stork for five rubles each.

The Russian avant-gardist influenced greatly art and design. Kazimir Malevich discovered Cubism on a trip to Paris in 1912 and returned to lead the Russian Cubist movement. In 1915 he exhibited paintings more abstractly geometrical than any seen before, consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette, a style he called Suprematism. In 1917-1918 he created his well-known White on White series, austere images of a white square floating on a white background.

In 1919 he joined Marc Chagall at his revolutionary school in Vitebsk, where he exerted a strong influence on El Lissitzky. In the 1920s Kazimir Malevich returned to representational painting.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Moscow River to be fit for fishing, bathing

Plans are in hand to install 53 purification plants at the Moscow River within the limits of the Russian capital city. The first part of them will be put into operation by 2018.

Thanks to intensive purification, the Moscow River will be fit for fishing and bathing. Data from ecologists show that the concentration of petroleum products in the river has been decreasing by 10-13% in recent years, which can be partly explained by removal of industrial enterprises from Moscow and reconstruction of purification plants.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

НА СУМЩИНЕ ОТКРЫЛИ ПАМЯТНИК КАЗИМИРУ МАЛЕВИЧУ

В Конотопе открыли первый в Сумской области памятник известному русскому художнику-авангардисту Казимиру Малевичу. Именно в Конотопе он жил вместе с родителями в 1894-1895 годах и продал свои первые две работы «Лунная ночь» и «Буслик» по пять рублей за каждое произведение.

Сегодня картины Казимира Малевича реализуют на аукционах за миллионы долларов, а его имя вписано в летопись мирового авангардного искусства.

В ближайших планах конотопских поклонников творчества русского художника – открыть клуб, который бы объединял всех, для кого культура и искусство представляют особый интерес.

УКРАИНСКИЙ БИЗНЕС ДОЛЖЕН ПОВЕРНУТЬCЯ ЛИЦОМ К МОЛОДЫМ ИЗОБРЕТАТЕЛЯМ

Интеллектуальные разработки украинской молодёжи – это самый дорогой ресурс страны, считает директор Национального центра «Малая академия наук» Аксен Лесовой. Центр ежегодно находит и поддерживает одарённых детей.

Очень важно, отметил А. Лесовой, помогать им материально и не менее важно защищать их авторские права на интересные разработки. Ежегодно почти половину изобретений подают на получение патента, который стоит от 300 до нескольких тысяч гривен, и поэтому приходится искать спонсоров для этого благородного дела.

Директор Центра верит, что украинский бизнес скоро повернётся лицом к инновациям. И важно, чтобы на этот момент сформировалось поколение молодёжи, способной генерировать новые технологии, решения и идеи.