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Euro 2012 Confirmed for Lviv 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... | City Focus |
Wind is the Way Forward for Lviv 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... | Business |
The Chess Capital of the World 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... | City Focus |
Rally Round Russia's Retro Auto 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... | Art and Culture |
Premier Checks up on Stadium Building Work 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... | Business |
New Sleeper trains from Krakow to Lviv 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... | Comment |
No Holocaust film at Lviv schools Being pressured by a nationalist party, Ukrainian authorities did not allow schools to screen "Two Tangos", a movie about Holocaust. The officials felt offended... | Comment |
Fashionable Week In Fashionable Lviv Twenty five collections of well–known and "neophyte" designers from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, France, Estonia and Latvia appeared on the runways of Lviv Fashion ... | City Focus |
No Crisis For The Stadium 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 ... | Current Affairs |
Cracow-Lviv In 7 Hours 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... | Current Affairs |
Wizz Air Ukraine Opens New Flights 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.
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Lviv Gets The Much Needed Help 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... | Current Affairs |
Synagogue Rededicated in Lviv 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... | City Focus |
Learn The Lingo With Lviv Life! 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... | Comment |
Election: A Close Run Thing 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... | Current Affairs |
Who Poisoned The President? 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... | Current Affairs |
President Anxious Over Euro 2012 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... | Comment |
Books Galore 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... | City Focus |
Highland Havens 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... | Art and Culture |
Train Crash Poisons Countryside 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... | Current Affairs |
New Flights Between Lviv and Madrid 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... | Comment |
Lviv Stadium Lined Up For Euro 2012 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... | City Focus |
The Lion Will Roar At Euro 2012 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... | Current Affairs |
Euro 2012: To Be Or Not To Be? 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 ... | Comment |
Rynok Renewed 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... | City Focus |
Businessman gunned down 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... | Current Affairs |
Lviv's 750th Birthday! Celebrations to coincide with the 750th anniversary of Lviv are getting underway, and the events will continue through October.
There had been settlement in ... | City Focus |
True Blue? 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... | Current Affairs |
Ukraine Through Against Swiss! 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 ... | Comment |
Archaeologists Reveal Lost World 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... | City Focus |
Pope Salutes Ukrainian Catholics 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... | Comment |
New Airline With Links To Lviv 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... | Comment |
As Easy As Pi Lviv has just witnessed two decidedly wacky world records, bringing a much appreciated does of fantasy to the late winter gloom. Medical professor Andriy Sliusa... | Comment |
Swish Hotel Opens Doors An exquisite six-story hotel claiming to offer services matching those available in four-star hotels in the West opened its doors last week in the city of Lviv,... | City Focus |
Chimney-sweeps back in business Lviv's dwindling band of chimney-sweepers is back in demand. The exceptionally harsh winter, coupled with the authorities' pleas for Lvivians to use less gas, h... | Comment |
Romanian Leader Visits Ukraine President Traian Basescu said during his visit to Ukraine that Romanians who live in this country should be strong, respected and heard.
"I have a request: Y... | Current Affairs |
Cabinet Cracking Up Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday voted to sack prime minister Yuri Yekhanurov's government over a controversial gas deal with Russia.
A no-confidence motion ... | Current Affairs |
Infamous Case Arrives In Court The trial of three former Interior Ministry officers accused of involvement in the 2000 assassination of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze opened today in the Ukraini... | Current Affairs |
'He Had Plenty Of Spirit' A 111-year-old pensioner, thought to be the oldest man living in†Britain, has died.
Former Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was known to ... | Comment |
Ukraine May Host Euro Cup! Ukraine's top soccer official on Tuesday expressed delight that a joint bid by his ex-Soviet state and Poland made the short list to stage the 2012 European cha... | Comment |
EU Verdict Over Cause Celebre The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Myroslava Gongadze, the widow of slain Ukrainian opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, against Ukrai... | Current Affairs |
Rallies of the Old Guard An estimated crowd of 10,000 people took part in an antigovernment picket in front of the government's headquarters in Kyiv on 7 November. The picket, as well a... | Current Affairs |
Royal Prize For Yushchenko Queen Elizabeth II on Oct. 17 presented Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko with a prize in recognition of his role in last year's momentous political changes... | Current Affairs |
Governor Arrested In Florida A former Ukrainian governor accused of extortion and abuse of power in the country's tumultuous 2004 election was arrested in Florida on an immigration violatio... | Current Affairs |
Identity In Flux In Ukraine Many Ukrainian adults believe their country is yet to fully integrate with the rest of the continent, according to a poll by the Razumkov Center. 60.3 per cent ... | Comment |
Rock Star Marries Political Royalty
Yevhenia Tymoshenko, 25, married Briton Sean Carr, 36, at an Orthodox chapel in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Mr Carr led his bride out to waiting press an... | Comment |
President Slumps In Polls Support for President Viktor Yushchenko has plunged after an acrimonious split in the team that led Ukraine's Orange Revolution last year and allegations of mas... | Current Affairs |
New Cabinet Announced Ukraineís president this week unveiled most of his new government of technocrats.
The new cabinet replaces his Orange Revolution team that he dismissed earlie... | Current Affairs |
Lawmaker Accused In Killing A Ukrainian legislative commission investigating the kidnapping and beheading of a journalist five years ago has issued its findings, accusing parliament's spea... | Current Affairs |
Radioactive Material Found Ukrainian authorities found radioactive material believed stolen from the now-defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant a decade ago, an official said Wednesday.
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