On June, 15, 16 and 17 Whitsun will be celebrated in the «Kyivan Rus Park» according to the ancient traditions, with thrilling medieval amusements. The guests will be awaited by the horse shows and theatrical stagings based on ancient Slavic bylinas. And also historical museums and expositions, horse riding, interesting competitions, master-classes, dance flash mobs and Slavic round dances.
Ancient Kyiv opens at 10:00. The program starts at 13:30.
The ticket price: a full adult ticket – 200 UAH, for pensioners and students – 150 UAH, for schoolchildren – 60 UAH, for preschool children – for free.
Ancient Kyiv in the «Kyivan Rus Park» is located in Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, the vill. Kopachiv.
Route taxis leave from Kyiv from the «Vydybitchi» metro station.
Details on the website www.parkkyivrus.com
The Interfax subscribers can save money with the “openbusiness-20” promo code for a 20%-discount for a full price adult ticket to the Principality of Kyivan Rus:
– by previous order by tel.: +38 044 461-99-37, +38 050 385-20-35
– or at the cash desk at the entrance to the «Kyivan Rus Park».
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of june 12
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
National bank of ukraine’s official rates as of 12/06/19
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
The large U.S. producer of e-cigarettes – JUUL Labs – is entering the Ukrainian market, which will be the 14th international market for the company.
“We will be represented in Ukraine by the original American product. The Cigar House Fortuna will become our distribution partner. We will be represented in the six largest cities of the country – Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhia. We plan to enter 1,000 retail outlets. Products in stores will appear in the middle of next week,” General Manager of JUUL Labs for Ukraine and the CIS Ivan Darkov said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to him, the company intends to oblige each outlet to sign a contract with the distribution partner that it will identify every customer who buys the product.
“If an outlet does not comply with the demand, the company will stop supplying its products. We do not plan to go on Facebook, Instagram, as these channels are aimed at popularizing the product mainly among young people, and also sell products through other online sales channels,” Darkov said.
He said that now the company has no official representation in Ukraine, as well as plans to open its own production.
“In Ukraine, there are more than 8 million adult smokers of traditional cigarettes. Based on the price, our product belongs to the premium segment. We plan to have over 200,000 customers for our products in Ukraine in three years,” the company’s general manager in Ukraine and the CIS said.
In addition, according to him, JUUL Labs intends to participate in the development of bills to regulate the market of e-cigarettes in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed 15 heads of regional state administrations, deputy head of the Presidential Administration Ruslan Riaboshapka has said.
“The first part of motions has arrived from the Cabinet of Ministers today for the dismissal of the heads of regional state administrations. So, governors have been dismissed in such regions as Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky, Kherson, Ternopil, Sumy, Poltava, Odesa, where the acting head has been suspended, as well as Mykolaiv, Lviv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Zakarpattia, and Volyn,” he said at a briefing on Tuesday outside the Presidential Administration’s building in Kyiv.
The Polish company UNIMOT and the Ukrainian company Wexler Group have opened Ukraine’s first fuel filling station under the brand of the Swiss network AVIA of AVIA Association, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported. The fuel filling station is located at 16 Kiltseva Highway in Sviatoshynsky district.
It is planned that by the end of this year 15 AVIA filling stations will be opened in Ukraine, three of them in Kyiv in Darnytsky, Obolonsky and Pechersky districts.
As reported, the Swiss international network of fuel filling stations AVIA Association represented by Polish-based UNIMOT signed a memorandum of cooperation in the fuel and energy complex of Ukraine with the supplier of light oil products Wexler Group.
Earlier UNIMOT received permission from AVIA International (Switzerland) to use the brand in Ukraine and announced the plan to open the first fuel filling stations in the country in 2019.
Wexler Group planned to significantly increase its presence in the retail market of petroleum products in Ukraine.
AVIA was established in 1927 as an association of several oil importers in Switzerland. In 1960, a number of international companies joined it, as a result AVIA International was formed. Currently it is present in Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
UNIMOT S.A. is an energy company whose activities include imports and sale of petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, and electricity.
