http://www4.mignews.com.ua/en/articles/377478.html
Above is a link to a “stabbing incident” of a member of the top brass in Odessa……….
Below is a link the following day about the very same incident…………
http://www.reporter.com.ua/news/42174/ (Google translate and you will get the guist of it)
…………So never believe what you read in the press!!
As many as 12 million people could contract flu or other acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine in 2009-2010, Ukrainian chief public health official Oleksandr Bilovol said. “Taking into account susceptibility to the pandemic flu virus, there is a general indicator of the number of patients, which we have calculated based on WHO [the World Health Organization] recommendations and which could amount to 25% of the entire population,” Bilovol said. “About 12 million people will be down,” Bilovol said during Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s conference call with the heads of regional administrations in Kyiv on Wednesday.
These figures are based on “a tried-and-true epidemiological forecast for the 2009-2010 seasons, taking into account all the WHO’s recommendations and general information about how the pandemic developed in other countries,” he said. About 1% out of the 12 million patients in Ukraine will require hospitalization, and some 18, 000 people will have to be put in intensive care, Bilovol said. Tymoshenko instructed the heads of the regional administrations to get properly prepared based on this forecast. – Interfax Ukraine
We will see!
Busy fitting a bathroom today which has to be finished by 1200 tomorrow for a client………
……..Right, must crack on!!!
Around 66% of Ukrainians are ready to vote in the presidential elections in Ukraine, according to a survey carried out by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on October 6-23, 2009.
A total of 3,999 respondents from all Ukrainian regions, Crimea and Kyiv, participated in the study. The poll’s margin of error is 2.3%.
According to the poll, Regions Party leader Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko would receive 41% and 25% of the vote respectively and win through to the second round.
A total of 55% of voters said they would support Yanukovych in the run-off, and around 41% said they would vote for Tymoshenko.
If Yanukovych and Front for Change leader Arseniy Yatseniuk participated in the second round of presidential elections, they would receive 60% and 36% of the vote respectively.
Yanukovych enjoys greatest support in Ukraine’s eastern (47%) and southern (37%) regions. Some 16% from the country’s center and 9% of Ukraine’s western regions are also ready to support Yanukovych.
Tymoshenko is mostly supported in the west (27%) and the center (24%), and has the least support in the south (9%), and the east (5%).
Yatseniuk is mostly supported in the west (11%). Some 6% of respondents from the country’s center, 4% from the east and 4% from the south are also ready to vote for Yatseniuk.
The voter turnout during the last presidential elections in 2004 was 77.32%, compared to 73.8% in 1999. – Interfax – Ukraine
Ukraine has shut all schools and universities for 3 weeks…….at least……..to combat the piggy flu.
Now of course, all the kids will have to catch it when hanging around on street corners or on busses packed like a tin of sardines instead.
……..The election rallies and football matches which attract large crowds are continuing………
Anyone see the point of such a well thought out strategy?
Well, dear readers, as you are aware by now, Ukraine likes to leap from one crisis to another……..and this week it is H1N1 piggy flu.
This is a quick post to a friend of mine up in Kyiv who has been in hospital up there for a few days having been diagnosed with H1N1 but has now discharged himself to free up bed space for others……..as apparantly the hospital is over run with cases.
Get well soon GB.
Of course, it comes as no surprise to those who know him…….well, if anyone was likely to get it, it was him.
Eh?……….Oh, he is a banker, so with your nose in the trough for so long……..catching piggy flu was always likely!
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a bill on Friday that would raise the minimum wage by over 20 percent — a move the International Monetary Fund chief said pushed its $16.4 billion bailout “off-track.”
Uncertainty over IMF funding for Ukraine, one of Europe’s worst performing economies, prompted credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s to cut its outlook to “stable” from “positive”, while Fitch said the wage rises would pressure its own already low ‘B’ rating.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said the wage rises would place “an atom bomb under the finances of the country” and would cost an extra $10 billion.
But Yushchenko told reporters: “I would like to inform you that I have signed the bill.”
Analysts have said the issue has become a political football ahead of a Jan. 17 presidential election in which Yushchenko, his bitter rival Tymoshenko and former premier Viktor Yanukovich will run.
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn reacted to Yushchenko’s decision swiftly, telling Reuters it concerned him greatly.
“I’m very worried by the president’s agreement to this bill which puts the programme we had signed off track and in this situation I’m afraid it would be very difficult to complete the next review of the programme,” he said by telephone.
“That’s why we are going to continue working with the Ukrainian authorities in the hope they can come together again to reach a position which would comply with the technical agreement we signed with the government.”
The government has said it simply cannot afford the extra spending.
Now Tymoshenko and government have always been for the IMF help, Yanukovych and PoR have always been against it……..and Yushenko, like so often during the past 5 years has flip-flopped on the issue and has now derailed the program.
This would be the same Yushenko who recently said to the world Ukraine was the place to invest…….well obviously not if you want to rely on signed agreements and contracts it isn’t when the Presdient knowingly derails the biggest outside assistance program for the nation for no real reason. After all, he has done sweet f*ck all about the social funding during his last 5 years in office……..until now.
