Month: April 2015

Periwinkle already blooms in the woods (PHOTOS)

30.04.2015

We found periwinkle near the lake at the entrance to the village of Sobatyno in Irshava district. It is now just blooming.

According to Ukrainian popular beliefs, periwinkle symbolizes the trinity: childhood, mature age, old age; father, mother, child; spring, summer, autumn; eternal unfading love, ageless life, memory, and therefore, Ukrainians for centuries have used periwinkle in wedding wreaths and planted it at graves which symbolizes memory.

Collecting periwinkle before the wedding, weaving wreaths with it for the bride was a whole ritual. Bridesmaids and girls would go for periwinkle in garden, park or woods and shear off the leaves, singing special songs.

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Two more persons have become honorary citizens of Mukachevo

30.04.2015

At today’s session of Mukachevo city council, the deputies by their decision awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of Mukachevo” to Stukalo Oleg – Major, deputy commander of the mechanized battalion of the 128th Mukachevo mountain infantry brigade (posthumously) for personal courage and heroism in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to military oath and invincibility of spirit.

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Chief customs officer of the region Vadim Symchera met with journalists of Transcarpathia

30.04.2015

Today, April 30, the head of the Transcarpathian customs office Vadim Symchera held a press conference with representatives of the regional media.

The head of the customs office said that the length of the customs border served by the Transcarpathian customs office is 467 km, there are 19 crossing points to Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. The number of persons carrying out transactions with goods and registered with the customs office is 3152, 1192 of them have carried out foreign trade operations since the beginning of the year.

Vadim Symchera also informed the media that during the period of January-April 2015, the Transcarpathian customs office issued 36,551 customs declarations, of which almost 12 thousand were for import, more than 17 thousand were for exports and just over 7 thousand were for transit.

Speaking on the activities of the Transcarpathian customs office, Vadim Symchera noted that despite certain problems in the economy, there has been no outflow of economic operators that carry out foreign trade operations at the ​​customs office. It is attributed to the geographical location of the customs office, the presence of a significant number of checkpoints on the state border, transport logistics.

– During January-April this year, we have noted the increase in the share of taxes paid by foreign trade entities who are not registered with the office – such entities have paid more than UAH 582 million for customs clearance of goods. This represents 65.4% of total transfers. In 2014 the volume of such taxes accounted for over UAH 283 million, representing 57.3% of total transfers, – Vadim Symchera said.

According to him, as a result of close cooperation between the customs office and the trade community, since the beginning of the year over UAH 890.5 million of taxes has been transferred to the state budget, and the total volume of transfers in January-April this year is higher that that for the same period of 2014 by 80% or UAH 395 8 million.

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Uzhgorod residents are invited to see exotic plants of the city (Announcement)

30.04.2015

Uzhgorod residents and guests are invited to May 3 at 14:00 to attend the open tour “Exotic plants of Uzhgorod”.

Uzhgorod sakuras attract May tourists. Which else exotic trees can we show to visitors to the city?

You will have a chance to see Juda’s tree, paradise apples and many other unique trees already this Sunday – the Tourinform reported.

When: May 3 at 14:00.

Venue: Uzhgorod, on Teatralna Sq., near the monument to St. Nicholas’s helper.

Admission is free!

“Maisya fest” is postponed for a week (Announcement)

30.04.2015

Due to the unfavorable rainy weather expected on May 1-3, the organizers of the “MAISYA FEST” decided to postpone the event for a week.

“The organizers consulted and decided to postpone the festival for a week (preliminary, 9-10-11 of May). The main reason is the weather forecast. We hope you will understand and apologize for any inconvenience. But a festival in rain is even bigger inconvenience for participants and for visitors,” – one of the organizers of the event Serhiy Denisenko wrote on the event page on facebook.

Transcarpathian ofganization of the Writers Union elected a new chairman (PHOTO)

30.04.2015

Regional writers elected their official representative unanimously

On April 28, in Uzhgorod, there was a report and election meeting of members of the regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. The head of the organization Vasyl Husti – known poet, novelist, translator, winner of the regional awards – summed the results of his work for three years in the office.

Vasyl Husti described the years 2012-2015 as “troubled, financially poor and full of unprecedented social and political upheavals,” but assured that the regional Union organization was not only a witness but also an active participant in the events.

Along with that, there have been many cultural events in the life of the union over the last three years. First of all, it is the addition of six new members to the organization. So now the regional organization of the NUWU has 37 members, three of which write in Hungarian, and two – in Russian.

Vasyl Hust thanked the union members for their participation in the celebration of important regional and state holidays, meetings with readers and creative youth, art festivals and publishing forums, scientific conferences both in the region and far beyond. The head of the writers’ organization expressed special pride in the significant achievements of his colleagues – Miroslav Dochynrts, who in 2013 became the winner of the National Shevchenko Prize, as well as Galina Malyk and Oleksandr Havrosh whose selected works were recently included in the Gold list of recommended literature for children.

After speeches of the participants of the meeting, the election of new chairman took place. Absolute majority of the writers’ organization – 35 of 37 members – participated in the voting. The result of the voting is unprecedented: writers unanimously supported the candidacy of Vasyl Husti showing big respect and trust for the leader.