News & Views Directory 1
This is a full directory of all 86 articles about Lviv, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Dec.30.2011 | |
Germany and Portugal will cross swords in Lviv's opening match of the Euro 2012 tournament on 9 June, as was revealed in the official December draw in Kiev's Pa... | |
Nov.23.2011 | |
A celebrity genius famed for performing stupendous mental feats has been arrested on charges of forgery and fraud, after refusing to cooperate with a Lviv court... | |
Oct.30.2011 | |
Platinum-selling U.S. songstress Anastacia topped the bill at the grand opening of Lviv's new soccer stadium on Saturday 29 October. The American singer was... | |
Sept.26.2011 | |
Lviv's mayor has assured that the remains of one of the city's oldest synagogues will not be bulldozed to make way for a new hotel. Large sections of the ci... | |
Aug.21.2011 | |
The French have snails, the Icelanders rotten shark and the Scots haggis. And as it goes, the Ukrainians themselves have a national dish that doesn't always app... | |
July.26.2011 | |
A World War II drama based on a true events that occurred in Lviv has been selected as Poland's candidate for the upcoming Oscars. In Darkness is the work o... | |
June.20.2011 | |
According to the official website of Ukraine’s Euro 2012 team, the emerging stadium in Lviv is 64 percent ready. Given that this time a year ago, the a... | |
May.26.2011 | |
Ukrainian director Maryna Vroda has won the Palme d'Or for short films at this year's Cannes film festival. With her short movie Cross, Vroda became the sec... | |
April.22.2011 | |
A woman in Western Ukraine has become her country's most prolific mother, successfully welcoming her twentieth child into the world. Leonora Naimi, from a v... | |
March.27.2011 | |
With Lviv set to be one of the host cities for Euro 2012, thousands of punters who might never have planned a trip to Ukraine will soon be descending on the cou... | |
Feb.21.2011 | |
In mid-February, Lviv's mayor Andrij Sadovy called on the government to approve the final documentation project for the city's Euro 2012 stadium. Mr Sadovy... | |
Jan.27.2011 | |
The life of one of Central Europe's most fabled writers is set for the big screen, courtesy of Lviv-born director Serhiy Proskurnia. Waiting for the Messia... | |
Dec.30.2010 | |
Ukraine and Poland have revealed their mascots for the 2012 European Championships. Slavek and Slavko are the perky pair of chaps who will be entering a televi... | |
Nov.23.2010 | |
A group of Ukrainian activists is gaining fame both at home and abroad due to a distinct dash of naked ambition. Femen, which boasts twenty topless activist... | |
Oct.18.2010 | |
Leopolis Hotel has been named Best Hotel in Ukraine at the annual World Travel Awards. The Lviv hotel beat off stiff competition, not least in Kiev, Ukraine's b... | |
Sept.16.2010 | |
Noted Lviv historian Yaroslav Hrytsak. has reached out to colleagues abroad in relation to last week's Security Services scandal. The furore began after Rusl... | |
July.05.2010 | |
Lviv will receive 10.3 billion hryvnia (one billion euro), instead of the 5.3 billion hryvnia (550 million euro) initially promised to them by the government, t... | |
Apr.22.2010 | |
After harsh criticism by UEFA boss Michel Platini about the slow progress of the final preparations for the 2012 European Football Championship, Ukrainian offic... | |
Dec.17.2009 | |
UEFA president Michel Platini has finally confirmed Lviv as one of the four cities to host the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine. Donetsk, Kharkiv, and... | |
August.13.2009 | |
The Ukraine is to take a step forward in becoming more energy self-sufficient with the announcement that 10 wind farms are to be built in the Lviv region.The co... | |
July.13.2009 | |
Chess’alcholics were in their element earlier this month in Lviv as the city celebrated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Lviv Chess School with marat... | |
June.21.2009 | |
If you're going to be hanging around Lviv this month keep your eyes peeled for the sight of dozens of Zaporozhets snaking their way through the city centre as d... | |
May.30.2009 | |
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko visited the Lviv football stadium site this week to see for himself the state of play of construction.The visit comes a mo... | |
May.30.2009 | |
A new overnight train between Krakow and Lviv has started service. The sleeper only service will depart from the Lviv main station at 11.59 p.m. and arrive in K... | |
22.05.2009 | |
Being pressured by a nationalist party, Ukrainian authorities did not allow schools to screen "Two Tangos", a movie about Holocaust. The officials felt offended... | |
24.04.2009 | |
Twenty five collections of well–known and "neophyte" designers from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, France, Estonia and Latvia appeared on the runways of Lviv Fashion ... | |
30.03.2009 | |
The financial crisis will not influence the cost of a Euro 2012 stadium in Lviv. "I would like to tell you that the cost of work will not change because of ... | |
20.02.2009 | |
Polish and Ukrainian Railway announced that the re-opening of the Lviv-Cracow train connection will probably take place in May 2009. The State Territorial-B... | |
18.01.2009 | |
Wizz Air has opened a new connection between Luton and Lviv. The low cost airline will be flying four times per week from Luton to the "Lion City" - Lviv. ì... | |
28.11.2008 | |
The European Investment Bank agreed to assist Lviv in organizing Euro 2012. It granted a big credit to the Lviv City Council. The money will allow Lviv to get e... | |
Jan.9.2008 | |
A prewar synagogue has reopened in Lviv after a painstaking programme of renovation. The Synagogue of Aaron and Israel is one of only two Jewish temples in L... | |
Nov.21.2007 | |
Mastering those crucial Ukrainian phrases is no walk in the park. First of all, everything's written in cyrillic, and second, if you live on the other side of t... | |
Oct.8.2007 | |
Unofficial results for last week's general election reveal that pro-Western parties have won a majority of seats in parliament. However, with no outright victor... | |
Sept.11.2007 | |
President Viktor Yushchenko has expressed frustration that Russia is not cooperating with the investigation into who poisoned him on the eve of the Orange Revol... | |
Sept.5.2007 | |
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko has chided his government over its allegedly slack preparations for the Euro 2012 Soccer Cup. The President stated to t... | |
Aug.21.2007 | |
Bookworms have a banquet in store this September when the XIV National Book Fair arrives in the Lion City. Some 140 scribes are set to descend on Lviv, a quarte... | |
Aug.3.2007 | |
If you're in Lviv but don't have time to get out to the Carpathian mountains, why not drop into the National Museum (Svobody Prospect 20) for a glimpse into the... | |
July.17.2007 | |
Disaster struck the Lviv region on Monday when a train carrying phosphorus derailed as it approached the Polish border. Fifteen carriages overturned, six of whi... | |
June.25.2007 | |
Madrilenos have had a stroke a luck this month as Ukraine International Airline has launched a brand new service between Lviv and the Spanish capital. The fl... | |
May.25.2007 | |
After the elation of winning the host's baton for the European Cup, Ukraine and Poland now face the reality of getting their houses in order for 2012. Here i... | |
Apr.20.2007 | |
The wait is finally over and it's great news for Ukraine and Lviv. As part of the victorious Euro 2012 joint bid by Poland and Ukraine, Lviv will will host som... | |
March.27.2007 | |
The hourglass is fast running out. On April 18th, we'll know whether Ukraine and Poland have won their joint bid to host Euro 2012. Ukraine and Poland are down ... | |
Nov.17.2006 | |
As the celebrations for Lviv's 750th birthday die down, one present will endure for decades to come. The city's ancient market square has been given a lavish ma... | |
Nov.17.2006 | |
The owner of one of Europe's most lucrative Christmas bauble factories was gunned down on Tuesday in Lviv. Bohdan Datsko, head of Halimpeks co., was being dr... | |
Sept.28.2006 | |
Celebrations to coincide with the 750th anniversary of Lviv are getting underway, and the events will continue through October. There had been settlement in ... | |
Aug.9.2006 | |
After the elation of 2004's Orange Revolution, the camp of defeated prime minister Viktor Yanukovich is now talking wryly of a 'Blue Revolution' as Ukrainian po... | |
June.27.2006 | |
There were jubilant scenes in Lviv's bars yesterday as Ukraine fought their way through to the quarter finals of the World Cup. It was a brave performance from ... | |
April.7.2006 | |
Archaeologists badgering away in Lviv have discovered a 15th century graveyard at the very heart of the city. The cemetery has been earmarked as part of a Chris... | |
March.17.2006 | |
Pope Benedict XVI has issued a statement commemorating the Soviet-staged "Synod of Lviv" in 1946, which inaugurated years of persecution for the Ukrainian Catho... | |
March.17.2006 | |
A new small Polish airline plans to begin flights next month with discount fares to Germany, Denmark and Ukraine, its president said in remarks published Saturd... | |
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