By Denis Balandin
The Forum of Rectors of Technical Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine and Poland took place at Igor Sikorsky Kiev Polytechnic Institute on April 4-8. Its participants discussed questions concerning international cooperation of Polish and Ukrainian technical HEIs. Among spectacular gains of this year's Forum were the scientific integration and exchange of experience that turned out brilliant successes.
A volunteer team of students was enlisted on the initiative of the International Collaboration Department and the Students' Council of Igor Sikorsky KPI to arrange and hold the event. In particular, 157 students of KPI received training in one of the 15 directions. The initiators succeeded in forming the groups of forum organizers who have a good command of foreign languages, experience to work with artistic amateur groups, knack for organizing excursions and doing good public relations, among others. Each direction was managed by the leader of a volunteer group of students, who controlled the effectiveness of their work and promptly helped to cover all eventualities.
Voluntary participation of students in the Forum has borne fruit. As one of the representatives of the Warsaw Polytechnic University put it, "People with a gleam of charisma in their eyes do amazing things."
After the event was over, the volunteers made comments on it.
A volunteer, who worked in the group that provided transportation, said: "We helped guests to get to roundtable venues. There was a moment when it turned out that we were lacking guides, but our leaders promptly found additional reserves. I personally communicated with many Poles and one of them even complimented me on my classy volunteer's T-shirt."
A volunteer, who was in charge of an artistic amateur group, pointed out: "Chaperoning a Polish artistic amateur group, I acquired new knowledge and experience, as well as made acquaintance with pleasant people. Eventualities did happen as two Polish students managed to be lost during an excursion. However, we found them and continued our work. It was very tough parting from them: the Poles really did not want to let us go, promising to come here again."
"We chose to practise spoken English and Polish, while we found a true dream team among the volunteers of our unit! It was a real pleasure to work with guests, and we were especially glad that they respected us and switched from English to our native Ukrainian language," girls at the Forum Contact Point noted enthusiastically.
The head of the International Relations Department of the Students' Council under Igor Sikorsky KPI stated: "I am more than happy that so many people agreed to help us. We proved that students can interact effectively with the administration. All volunteers were enthusiastic over the accumulated experience. Over the course of two days we have done a great amount of work, yet I don't believe we succeeded in doing so. The Ukrainian-Polish Forum featured sincere emotions and the atmosphere of mutual respect."
Feedback from volunteers leads to the conclusion that volunteer activities have a great future in KPI.
The author is a leader of service student detachments at Igor Sikorsky KPI
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017
НА ДОНЕТЧИНЕ ПЕРЕЗАХОРОНИЛИ ОСТАНКИ БОЙЦОВ КРАСНОЙ АРМИИ
В селе Татьяновка Славянского района Донецкой области перезахоронили останки 86 бойцов Красной армии, которые здесь погибли в 1941-1943 годах в боях с немецко-фашистскими захватчиками. Траурную церемонию и митинг приурочили к 72-й годовщине Победы Советского Союза над нацистской Германией в Великой Отечественной войне (1941-1945 гг.).
В отдании последних почестей погибшим героям приняли участие местные жители, районные и областные чиновники, а также представители Ассоциации исследователей военно-исторического наследия "Плацдарм". Именно благодаря усилиям поисковиков, которые работают на местах жестоких боёв во время обороны и освобождения Славянского района, это уже четвёртое перезахоронение погибших на территории Маяцкого сельского совета за последние три года.
Всего удалось отыскать и похоронить 323 воина, а вышеуказанные останки 86 бойцов (среди них три женщины) 12-й и 8-й армий, 3-й и 8-й гвардейских армий обнаружили в прошлом году. По словам представителя поискового отряда "Плацдарма" Алексея Юкова, к сожалению, фамилии погибших установить пока что не удалось из-за активности так называемых чёрных археологов и мародёров, которые, как правило, забирают не только оружие, но и не гнушаются личными вещами воинов.
В отдании последних почестей погибшим героям приняли участие местные жители, районные и областные чиновники, а также представители Ассоциации исследователей военно-исторического наследия "Плацдарм". Именно благодаря усилиям поисковиков, которые работают на местах жестоких боёв во время обороны и освобождения Славянского района, это уже четвёртое перезахоронение погибших на территории Маяцкого сельского совета за последние три года.
Всего удалось отыскать и похоронить 323 воина, а вышеуказанные останки 86 бойцов (среди них три женщины) 12-й и 8-й армий, 3-й и 8-й гвардейских армий обнаружили в прошлом году. По словам представителя поискового отряда "Плацдарма" Алексея Юкова, к сожалению, фамилии погибших установить пока что не удалось из-за активности так называемых чёрных археологов и мародёров, которые, как правило, забирают не только оружие, но и не гнушаются личными вещами воинов.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
ФГИ ГОТОВИТ ЗАЛК К ПРИВАТЗАЦИИИ
Согласно постановлению Кабинета Министров Украины «О проведении прозрачной и конкурентной приватизации в 2015-2017 годах», Запорожский производственный алюминиевый комбинат (ЗАлК) внесли в список объектов государственной собственности, которые подлежат приватизации в 2016-2017 годах. В настоящее время Фонд государственного имущества (ФГИ) готовит предприятие к приватизации.
На комбинате осуществлялся полный металлургический цикл: от переработки руды до производства алюминия и сплавов на его основе. Из-за убыточности производства, связанного с повышением цен на энергоносители, было приостановлено кремниевое производство в 2005 году, глинозёмное – в 2009 году, электролизное – с мая 2011 года, а с июля 2014 года по август прошлого года простаивало производство алюминиевой катанки. Сегодня 68,0095% уставного капитала ЗАлК принадлежит государству.
На комбинате осуществлялся полный металлургический цикл: от переработки руды до производства алюминия и сплавов на его основе. Из-за убыточности производства, связанного с повышением цен на энергоносители, было приостановлено кремниевое производство в 2005 году, глинозёмное – в 2009 году, электролизное – с мая 2011 года, а с июля 2014 года по август прошлого года простаивало производство алюминиевой катанки. Сегодня 68,0095% уставного капитала ЗАлК принадлежит государству.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
В ОДЕССЕ УСТАНОВИЛИ МЕМОРИАЛЬНУЮ ДОСКУ РУССКОМУ АРХИТЕКТОРУ ЮРИЮ ДМИТРЕНКО
По проектам русского архитектора Юрия Дмитренко (1858-1918) в Одессе построены гостиница «Лондонская» на Приморском бульваре, доходные дома Маврокордато на розе улиц Ришельевской и Греческой, а также на розе Екатерининской и Греческой. Один из домов известен самым длинным в Одессе балконом протяжённостью почти 200 метров.
Среди творений архитектора числится немало церковных сооружений. Во время открытия мемориальной доски настоятель храма Вознесения Господня отец Илья
сообщил, что восстанавливают, построенную по проекту Юрия Дмитренко, церковь на розе улиц Старопортофранковской и Тираспольской, которая была разрушена в 1937 году.
Коренной одессит Юрий Дмитренко последние годы жизни провёл в доме своего друга Григория Маразли, одного из широко известных градоначальников Одессы. Флигель, в котором жил архитектор, был расположен во дворе со стороны Дерибасовской. Сейчас здесь находится Одесское областное базовое медицинское училище.
Мемориальную доску архитектору здесь установили по инициативе общественной организации «Общество охраны памятников истории и культуры», а также газеты «Одесские вести».
Среди творений архитектора числится немало церковных сооружений. Во время открытия мемориальной доски настоятель храма Вознесения Господня отец Илья
сообщил, что восстанавливают, построенную по проекту Юрия Дмитренко, церковь на розе улиц Старопортофранковской и Тираспольской, которая была разрушена в 1937 году.
Коренной одессит Юрий Дмитренко последние годы жизни провёл в доме своего друга Григория Маразли, одного из широко известных градоначальников Одессы. Флигель, в котором жил архитектор, был расположен во дворе со стороны Дерибасовской. Сейчас здесь находится Одесское областное базовое медицинское училище.
Мемориальную доску архитектору здесь установили по инициативе общественной организации «Общество охраны памятников истории и культуры», а также газеты «Одесские вести».
Thursday, April 27, 2017
UGTI hopes to reinvent Ukraine as world 'Brain Basket'
UGTI's vision is to reinvent Ukraine as the "Brain Basket" of the world by engaging the untapped scientific, engineering and innovation potential of this country that can lead to the transformation of Ukrainian industries, resulting in steady growth in Ukraine's GDP per capita and the improved quality of life for all Ukrainians today and for generations to come.
Henry Shterenberg is the CEO of UGTI Inc. At present, Mr. Shterenberg is also a partner at Briggs Capital LLC, an international investment bank. With an MBA and over 20 years of work experience, Henry Shterenberg spearheads successful business operations in diverse arenas and industries. Reportedly, he expertly builds and develops companies from the ground up, with hands-on background in sales, customer service, and financial management. Mr. Shterenberg is said to be the creative, motivational and focused leader, instrumental in growing businesses through firm commitment to providing top service, building strong relationships, and streamlining communications to produce optimum results.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Military attack on Syria proves U.S. to be the greatest violator of international norms
By Vladimir V. Sytin
Russia and Iran voiced harsh criticism of a recent U.S. Tomahawk missile attack on Syria's al-Shariat air base. Moscow regards the U.S. strikes as an act of armed aggression against the sovereign state that is the ally of the member country of the UN Security Council.
Russia has also suspended a 2015 agreement designed to prevent incidents between U.S. and Russian aircraft. Currently, the Russian Defense Ministry is taking measures to strengthen the air defense system of the Syrian army.
According to Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin Press Secretary, Washington's military attack has done severe damage to U.S.-Russian relations that are in a sad state
already. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the United States is now "one step away from military clashes with Russia." Kiss good-bye normalized relations with Russia.
Igor Konashenkov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, stated that Syrian warplanes fired missiles at a large ammunition dump where terrorists concentrated military equipment. The ammunition dump housed the shops used by terrorists to make demolition bombs filled with war gas.
It is completely obvious that the attack on chemical weapons storage facilities alleged by the Pentagon to be at the al-Shariat air base has every hallmark of a Washington's orchestrated event. Politologist Paul Craig Roberts wrote that the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would allow Exxon's Rex Tillerson, who is U.S. secretary of state, and neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a U.S. controlled gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe via Syria.
Observers think Russia's only alternative now is to tell Washington to go to hell that Russia will not permit the American evil empire to remove Assad. All chemical weapons were removed from Syria by Russia and turned over to the U.S. and its European vassals. The Syrian government has no such weapons and has no reason to use them.
As independent researcher Brian Maher put it, U.S. president Donald Trump is just a bull in a china shop. Or worse, as Winston Churchill supposedly said of former U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles - "a bull who carries his own china shop around with him."
In fact, the Trump's missile attack on Syria's air base is the most impetuous, thoughtless, reckless and stupid act from the Oval Office. Virtually every
one of those $1.4 million per copy Tomahawks amounted to a big fat nothing-burger. Analyst David Stockman noted that 36 of the 59 missiles were apparent
duds and landed other than the al-Shariat air base, including a nearby village where apparently a number of civilians were killed. A Russian general taunted that "combat efficiency of the U.S. strike was very low."
The 23 missiles that did hit the base actually missed the main runway, which, by the way, was back in operation, launching Syrian air force sorties within 24 hours. None of Syria's operational warplanes were hit, but a handful of antique MIGs that have long been languishing in the base's "repair" bone yard.
Funnily enough, the so-called American sharpshooters did annihilate several hangars and a few fuel tanks - the better for some post-attack fireworks to be posted to the War Сhannels such as CNN and Fox. What the Tomahawks surely did not hit were the non-existent chemical weapons storage facilities. With Washington's satellites monitoring al-Shariat like a cloud of bumblebees, there was not a whit of evidence of Syrian personnel running around with gas masks after the missiles hit.
Undoubtedly, Washington's military attack on Syria is unambiguously a war crime. It occurred without any UN authorization. The American evil empire is the greatest violator of international norms in modern history. The U.S. has gratuitously destroyed two Japanese cities with atomic bombs, invaded Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, organized the destruction of Libya, Somalia, conducted attacks on Serbia, Pakistan and Yemen, and organized a neo-Nazi coup against the democratically elected government in Ukraine. Only the U.S. has a list of crimes this long.
Russia and Iran voiced harsh criticism of a recent U.S. Tomahawk missile attack on Syria's al-Shariat air base. Moscow regards the U.S. strikes as an act of armed aggression against the sovereign state that is the ally of the member country of the UN Security Council.
Russia has also suspended a 2015 agreement designed to prevent incidents between U.S. and Russian aircraft. Currently, the Russian Defense Ministry is taking measures to strengthen the air defense system of the Syrian army.
According to Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin Press Secretary, Washington's military attack has done severe damage to U.S.-Russian relations that are in a sad state
already. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the United States is now "one step away from military clashes with Russia." Kiss good-bye normalized relations with Russia.
Igor Konashenkov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, stated that Syrian warplanes fired missiles at a large ammunition dump where terrorists concentrated military equipment. The ammunition dump housed the shops used by terrorists to make demolition bombs filled with war gas.
It is completely obvious that the attack on chemical weapons storage facilities alleged by the Pentagon to be at the al-Shariat air base has every hallmark of a Washington's orchestrated event. Politologist Paul Craig Roberts wrote that the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would allow Exxon's Rex Tillerson, who is U.S. secretary of state, and neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a U.S. controlled gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe via Syria.
Observers think Russia's only alternative now is to tell Washington to go to hell that Russia will not permit the American evil empire to remove Assad. All chemical weapons were removed from Syria by Russia and turned over to the U.S. and its European vassals. The Syrian government has no such weapons and has no reason to use them.
As independent researcher Brian Maher put it, U.S. president Donald Trump is just a bull in a china shop. Or worse, as Winston Churchill supposedly said of former U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles - "a bull who carries his own china shop around with him."
In fact, the Trump's missile attack on Syria's air base is the most impetuous, thoughtless, reckless and stupid act from the Oval Office. Virtually every
one of those $1.4 million per copy Tomahawks amounted to a big fat nothing-burger. Analyst David Stockman noted that 36 of the 59 missiles were apparent
duds and landed other than the al-Shariat air base, including a nearby village where apparently a number of civilians were killed. A Russian general taunted that "combat efficiency of the U.S. strike was very low."
The 23 missiles that did hit the base actually missed the main runway, which, by the way, was back in operation, launching Syrian air force sorties within 24 hours. None of Syria's operational warplanes were hit, but a handful of antique MIGs that have long been languishing in the base's "repair" bone yard.
Funnily enough, the so-called American sharpshooters did annihilate several hangars and a few fuel tanks - the better for some post-attack fireworks to be posted to the War Сhannels such as CNN and Fox. What the Tomahawks surely did not hit were the non-existent chemical weapons storage facilities. With Washington's satellites monitoring al-Shariat like a cloud of bumblebees, there was not a whit of evidence of Syrian personnel running around with gas masks after the missiles hit.
Undoubtedly, Washington's military attack on Syria is unambiguously a war crime. It occurred without any UN authorization. The American evil empire is the greatest violator of international norms in modern history. The U.S. has gratuitously destroyed two Japanese cities with atomic bombs, invaded Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, organized the destruction of Libya, Somalia, conducted attacks on Serbia, Pakistan and Yemen, and organized a neo-Nazi coup against the democratically elected government in Ukraine. Only the U.S. has a list of crimes this long.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Rectors of Technical HEIs of Ukraine, Poland discuss prospects for expansion of cooperation
Over the course of two days nearly 90 heads of technical HEIs of Ukraine and about 80 their Polish counterparts were considering the state, possibilities and prospects for expansion of cooperation, as well as tackling joint problems of Ukrainian and Polish technical higher education and the ways of resolving them.
Prior to its formal opening the Forum began with laying of flowers at a monument to Wojciech Swietoslawski, prominent Polish scientist and statesman who graduated from KPI in 1906. Afterwards the special joint meeting of the Conference of Rectors of Technical HEIs of the Republic of Poland and Ukraine, and the Association of Rectors of Technical HEIs of Ukraine, entitled "Breakthrough Projects of International Cooperation of Technical Universities of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland in Science, Technologies and Innovations: Ukrainian Satellite, Airspace Technologies, Cyber Security and Physical Nuclear Security, Clear Water, Renewable Energy", took place. Mikhail Zgurovsky, Head of the Council of the Association of Rectors of Technical HEIs of Ukraine and Rector of Igor Sikorsky KPI, and Tadeusz Slomka, Head of the Conference of Rectors of Technical HEIs of the Republic of Poland and Rector of the Krakow-based Stanislaw Staszic University of Mining and Metallurgy, presided at the meeting. Heads of technical HEIs of the two countries were introduced to presentations of the most interesting and worthwhile projects designed for expansion or establishment of cooperation, which are being implemented at Igor Sikorsky KPI, such as "Space Program of Igor Sikorsky KPI", "Modern Aircraft and Automobile Industries. Tucana Engineering Warsaw – Cooperation of Ukraine and Poland" and "Cyber Security", among others.
Lilia Grinevich, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Jan Pieklo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Jerzy Woznicki, Head of the National Council for Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, and others participated in the opening ceremony of the Forum.
Addressing Forum participants and guests, Lilia Grinevich stated: "You are forming the elite of our countries: those who will become the drivers of their innovative economy. And the fact that we are currently joining in this Forum is one of the striking illustrations showing how much Poland needs Ukraine and vice versa. Today we are very much aware who is Ukraine's partner, even not a partner, but a true friend. Therefore, it is very important to us to develop the close cooperation among various professional communities, which would be fruitful and meaningful with respect to both parties. I think cooperation of technical HEIs in all spheres will be another durable bridge that joins us."
The official part of the Forum was followed by a plenary meeting at which participants discussed general issues related to the state, experience and development prospects of cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian HEIs.
Other meetings of the Forum were held on April 7 in the form of theme roundtables devoted to the directions of activities that have significance for universities of the two countries, including "International and Foreign Economic Activities as the Factor of Internationalization of Modern European Technical University in Making It a Leading HEI", "Accreditation of Engineering Education. EUR-ACE Certification. Ranking of Curricula" and "EU ERASMUS+ Opportunities for Universities of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland - a Good Start to Develop Long-Term Cooperation".
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