Fifteen original events about wine, winemaking and gastronomy tourism took place as part of Odessa Wine Week in Odesa from May 18 to May 23.
The event was attended by 87 speakers and experts from Ukraine (from Odesa to Zakarpattia) and from 18 countries (from Austria to Japan).
The event aroused great interest of wine, tourist, business and media communities – about 3,000 visitors attended the locations of Odessa Wine Week these days.
The program consisted of activities of various directions: industry, cross-industry, educational, mass. In particular, the congress part included more than 40 topics of reports and discussions.
Wine Future Forum
Winemakers, marketers, journalists discussed the prospects of the wine industry.
In particular, the discussion “The Future of Wine: the View of Winemakers” was attended by the winemaker in the fifth generation, chief winemaker of Chateau Changyu Moser XV Lenz Moser (Austria), CEO of SHABO winery Giorgi Iukuridze (Ukraine, Odesa), owner of Vinos de La Luz group of companies Ricardo Nunez (Argentina), the owner of Stakhovsky craft winery, number one tennis player in Ukraine Serhiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine, Zakarpattia), the winemaker, CEO of “PIERA 1899” Piera Martellozzo (Italy).
As a result of the discussion, the winemakers came to such conclusions about the future of wine: wine brands will become more personalized, trends on rose and sparkling wine are likely to continue, online tastings will not be able to replace traditional ones, in Ukraine, the consumption of Ukrainian wine will grow (this will not happen tomorrow, but in the near future), and there will be more wineries in Ukraine.
Participants in the forum also discussed, listened to reports and presentations in the panel “Government, grants, banking programs to support winemaking. Investments in winemaking.” They listened to fellow winemakers from Ukraine and Moldova, marketers and economists, Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Roman Leschenko. They learned from foreign participants about their experience, investment and government programs to support winemaking in Argentina and Valpolicella region (Italy).
In the panel discussions “Promotion of the brand “Ukrainian wine.” Creating a wine business card of Ukraine,” the experts discussed how to crack the prejudice of Ukrainian consumers to Ukrainian wine. They discussed how to write and talk about wine in a fascinating and professional way. They offered ways to create and promote the “Ukrainian wine” brand. They decided what honest winemaking was – business, creativity or suicide.
In Ukraine, they finally talked about wine journalism – the first discussion panel on this topic was held at the Wine Future Forum. Can Ukrainian wine journalism help winemakers to create and promote the “Ukrainian wine” brand? What do we need for this? We were looking for an answer to this, and the idea of creating the Association/Bureau for the Development of Wine and Brand Journalism arose.
All-Ukrainian tasting contest “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards”
Some 65 Ukrainian companies (305 wine samples) took part in the competition.
The evaluation used a specialized tasting program of the English company Gustos Life, which uses blockchain technology (eliminates the possibility of changing the ratings of experts during the competition and after its completion).
A feature of the competition examination is a combination of the methodology of sensory analysis and the work of the jury, which consisted of 16 qualified and certified experts. The work of the jury could be watched live.
According to the results of the competition in the category of wines, 30 wines won gold medals, 49 wines won silver medals, while in the category of strong drinks there were seven gold medals and seven silver ones.
The winners of the competition are given the right to place the logo of the award on the product label.
A solemn ceremony of awarding the winners was held with the participation of national and regional media, wine and business communities.
“Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety”
This competitive project is aimed at promoting the brand “Ukrainian wine,” the formation of the image of Odessa Black wine as a business card of Ukrainian winemaking in the world – by analogy with Saperavi (Georgia), Feteasca (Moldova), Malbec (Argentina), Carmenere (Chile), Shiraz (Australia) and others.
Some 32 samples of wine from the autochthonous grape variety “Odessa Black” were submitted to the competition.
During the project, the best glass of the world-famous Riedel brand was officially chosen for the local wine “Odessa Black.” From nine variants of glasses, wine experts chose glass № 4 from the Performance collection.
The best wine from the “Odessa Black” variety was Aliberne Reserve Limited Edition, 2017, Gigineishvili Wine House. The Ukrainian native received the first official glass.
Tasting
– Ricardo Nunez, a winemaker with extensive experience, the owner of the Vinos de La Luz group of companies (wineries in Spain, Italy, Argentina, the United States), conducted an author’s tasting of eight wines of his international company.
– Circular tastings were held by 18 wine companies of Ukraine – partners and participants of Odessa Wine Week.
– Tasting on alternative aging under Bousinage technology was conducted by Wood International LLC.
The conference “Innovative tools in viticulture in the context of climate change” brought together leading winegrowers and oenologists from Ukraine, Moldova, France, Italy and the United States. This is a very important professional event for winegrowers, during which experts shared methods of ensuring sustainable viticulture, discussed current issues of the industry and ways to solve them.
OENOVITI International Network 2021 international symposium
The online symposium was attended by 18 scientists from 15 countries on five continents.
Topic: “Challenges in viticulture and oenology: geographical indications of wines and wine tourism, authenticity, innovation.”
OENOVITI International Network (OIN) is a unique international community of researchers in the field of viticulture and winemaking. Ukraine has been represented by the Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies in this prestigious scientific institution since 2015.
“Enogastronomic tourism – a driver for the development of tourist destinations”
Organizer: Department of Culture and Tourism of Odesa City Council.
The conference brought together representatives of tourism, restaurant and wine industries, who discussed enogastronomic tourism as a growing sector of the world tourism market.
They listened to thorough reports on grant projects in the field of enogastronomic tourism, in particular, on the “Wine and Taste Road,” on tools for the promotion of enogastronomic roads and wine tourism operators in Ukraine, on the experience of author’s tours.
Participants in the discussion “Wine and Tourism” talked about wine as a driver of regional development on the example of Bordeaux, watched presentations of wine and enogastronomic locations of Ukraine (Wine Culture Center SHABO, Chateau Chizay, Wine Station, Koblevo wine location) and the United States (Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery).
Participants in the discussion “Odesa cuisine – a tourist magnet of the region” talked about the phenomenon of Odesa cuisine, identified the top five dishes of local Odesa cuisine and offered ideas for the promotion of Odesa cuisine in the world.
The moderators and participants in Odessa Wine Week events were high-class professionals: Yevhenia Nikolaichuk (the co-founder of “Like a Local’s Wine Bar,” a sommelier school teacher, WSET4), Tetiana Ponomarenko (the expert in wine marketing, advertising and PR, an associate professor of journalism, advertising and publishing of Odesa Mechnikov National University, the coordinator of projects on wine journalism), Volodymyr Pechko (the head of UKRSADVINPROM), Vladyslav Blumberg (the president of the Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Odesa region), Ivan Bachurin (the president of the Association of Sommelier of Ukraine), Anna Sarkisyan (the dean of the Faculty of Wine and Tourism at the Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies), Maksim Urakin (the sales and marketing director at Interfax-Ukraine and the editor of Open4Business), Maria Kalenska (an enogastronomic expert, the ambassador of Odesa cuisine in London).
At Odessa Wine Week, the exposure area was organized with the participation of Ukrainian wine companies and producers of goods, services and technologies related to winemaking.
All the main events of Odessa Wine Week took place in the halls of Premier Hotel Odesa and even in the open air in front of the hotel (the AGSOLCO Ukraine exposition).
For the general public, the highlight of the program was the project “Wine Flight” (“Air Tasting”), a horizontal flight with tasting the top five Ukrainian wines and culinary specialties of Odesa cuisine on board the UIA aircraft.
This is a joint project of Odessa Wine Week and UIA to promote the “Ukrainian wine” brand.
The air tasting was attended by 130 guests, the UIA team, sommelier Hanna-Yevhenia Yanchenko, brand chef of Le grand cafe Bristol Hotel 5* Odesa Stefan Whiteinadan and showman Kolya Serga.
The passengers tasted the best five Ukrainian wines according to the tasting contest “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards,” which took place the day before as part of Odessa Wine Week:
Cabernet Grande Reserve, 2017 – SHABO;
El Captain Pinot Gris, 2019 – 46 Parallel;
Riesling Rhine, 2016 – Prince Trubetskoi Winery;
Riesling, 2019 – Villa Tinta;
Aliberne Reserve Limited Edition, 2017 – Gigineishvili Wine House.
Wine tasting was combined with the tasting of local dishes of Odesa cuisine.
The Odessa Wine Week program ended with the open-air gastronomic festival “Taki Da, Vkusno” on the territory of the Odesa film studio. The participants in the festival presented to the mass audience of visitors branded culinary products and wine brands.
The Odessa Wine Week project received strong partner support. Odessa Wine Week partners took part in the events, shared their experience and opportunities, and joined the organization of events. The fact that so many leading organizations and companies have joined the event is a very positive sign that gives faith in the good future of Ukrainian winemaking.
The general news partner of Odessa Wine Week is Interfax-Ukraine
Official support
– Odesa Regional State Administration
– Odessa City Council
Authors of the Odessa Wine Week concept:
– Expo-Yug-Service Company
– Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies
Odessa Wine Week organizers:
– Expo-Yug-Service Company
– Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies
– UKRSADVINPROM association
General partner: SHABO company
Official partner hotel: Premier Hotel Odesa
Innovative partner: AGSOLCO Ukraine
General media partner: Drinks+ communicative media group
Partners:
– JMJ Oak Alternative
– Goodwill Consulting: financial consulting for winemaking business
– Koblevo trademark
– ODESSA champagne of Ukraine trademark
– Wine and Taste Roads project
– Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Odesa region
– Frumushika-Nova family winery
– Aromic-Aromafishki company
Scientific partner: Tairov Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking
Digital partner: Gustos Life
Multimedia partner: Sertsevyna
Information partners:
– Wine Guide of Ukraine project
– Technologies and Innovations media group
– Odesa Life city edition
Printing partner: ALFA PRESS printing house
Wine Flight project partner (Air Tasting): UIA
Information support:
▪ Airport Odessa magazine
▪ Facebook public “Wine of Ukraine”
▪ Open4Business.com.ua
▪ Easy Quizzy
The official photographer of Odessa Wine Week is Arsen Fedosenko
Organizer of the conference “Enogastronomic tourism – a driver for the development of tourist destinations”: the Department of Culture and Tourism of Odesa City Council
Organizers of the project “Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety”:
▪ RIEDEL company
▪ MIRS Corporation is the official distributor of RIEDEL in Ukraine
▪ Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies
▪ IKPMG Limited, Maria Kalenska
Organizers of the “Wine Flight” project (“Air Tasting”): UIA and Odessa Wine Week.
General project partners: Crédit Agricole Bank and MasterCard.
Project partners: MIRS Corporation – the official distributor of RIEDEL in Ukraine, Bristol Hotel 5* Odesa, Odesa International Airport.
Organizer of the conference “Innovative tools in viticulture in the context of climate change”: UKRSADVINPROM association
Organizers of the OENOVITI International Network symposium:
Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies, Ukraine
OENOVITI International Network, Bordeaux, France
Project details: https://odessawineweek.com/
Project news: https://www.facebook.com/odessawineweek/
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘B’ with a stable outlook, the agency said on its website.
Ukraine intends to increase the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) by 2025 to $15 billion per year, while at the end of 2020 their outflow amounted to $420 million, and in 2021 the National Bank predicts a recovery in FDI inflows at the level of $3 billion.
Ukraine in 2020 climbed from 80th to 63rd place in the Social Progress Index among 163 countries with score of 73.38 points versus 66.97 in 2019, according to the index data.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revised its inflation forecast from 7% to 8% in 2021, expecting inflation to return to the 5% target in H1 2022.
The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January-February 2021 decreased by 55.3% compared to January-February 2020, to $ 256.5 million from $ 573.2 million, the State Statistics Service has reported.
The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in March 2021 accelerated year-over-year to 8.5% from 7.5% in February, from 6.1% in January and from 5% in December 2020.
The total public debt of Ukraine in March 2021 decreased in hryvnia by UAH 38.68 billion, to UAH 2.514 trillion, in dollars – by $ 1.24 billion, to $ 90.17 billion, the Ministry of Finance said.
Prices in the Ukrainian industry in March 2021 increased by 1.6%, while in February – by 7.8%, in January – by 5.2%, the State Statistics Service reported.
Industrial production in Ukraine in March 2021 increased by 2.1% compared to March 2020, which was the first month of the introduction of quarantine due to COVID-19, and the growth adjusted for the effect of calendar days was 2.4%, the State Statistics Service has said.
Ukraine since the beginning of the 2020/2021 marketing year (MY, July-June) and as of April 30, 2021 had exported 38.92 million tonnes of grains and legumes, which is 22.9% less than on the same date of the previous MY.
The transport enterprises of Ukraine in January-March 2021 reduce transportation of goods by 3.6% compared to the same period in 2020, to 135.3 million tonnes.
The volume of construction work performed in Ukraine in January-March 2021 decreased by 12.8% compared to the same period in 2020.
Retail turnover in Ukraine in 2020 increased by 12.7% compared to 2019, which is associated with significant growth in the e-commerce segment and high domestic demand.
Publisher of “Open4Business”, PhD in Economics, Maksim Urakin
The international project Odessa Wine Week – a series of events focusing on key areas of development of the wine market and enogastronomic tourism will be held for the first time in Odessa from 18 to 23 May 2021.
Odessa Wine Week unites the efforts of the Ukrainian wine community, aimed at promoting and promoting the brand “Ukrainian wine”, the creation of a wine business card of Ukraine, the integration of Ukraine into the world wine community.
Odessa Wine Week events will bring together leading wine experts, scientists, oenologists, winemakers, government officials, national and foreign wine associations, tourism industry, HoReCa, retail, sommelier, wine traders, producers of related products and technologies, marketers, guilty experts, journalists.
The program includes events of various orientations: branch, cross-branch, educational, mass.
Event formats: offline, online, hybrid (offline + online); live broadcasts.
Odessa Wine Week speakers represent Ukraine, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, USA, Argentina, China.
In particular, the program includes famous winemakers Lenz Moser (“Chateau Changyu Moser XV”), Frederic Frank (“Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery”), Ricardo F. Nunez (“Vinos de La Luz”), Roberto Chipresso (“Winecircus”) ), Olga Bussinello (Consortium for the Protection of Valpolicella Wines), leading French scientists – oenologists and microbiologists Stephane Badé, Jean-Philippe Robbie, Guillermo Martins.
Odessa Wine Week partners are actively involved in the program – leading Ukrainian industry brands and organizations: SHABO, TM Koblevo, JMJ Oak Alternative, TM ODESSA champagne of Ukraine, the project “Roads of wine and taste”, the Association of winegrowers and winemakers of Odessa region , Frumushika-Nova.
Odessa Wine Week locations :
▪ Premier Hotel Odesa – conference halls “Sapphire”, “Onyx”, “Aquamarine”; Mare DiVino restaurant; Roof Bar
▪ Laboratory of Sensory Analysis of the Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies (ONAHT)
▪ Odessa film studio
Online platforms: Facebook, Youtube.
Odessa Wine Week events (according to the calendar principle):
► All-Ukrainian tasting competition “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards”
■ May 18, 19: work of the tasting commission.
Laboratory of sensory analysis of the Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
Offline with live broadcast on YouTube channel.
Awards of the competition:
Gold medal (86-95.5 points); Silver medal (82-85.99 points); Diploma of the contestant.
The winners of the competition have the right to place the logo of the award on the product label.
► International Symposium 2021 OENOVITI International Network
May 18, 19, 20. Online (Zoom).
“Challenges in viticulture and oenology: geographical indications of wines and wine tourism, authenticity, innovation.”
Participants – scientists from 15 countries.
OENOVITI International Network (OIN) is a unique international community of researchers in the field of viticulture and winemaking.
Ukraine has been represented in this prestigious scientific institution since 2015 by the Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies.
► Conference “Innovative tools in viticulture in the context of climate change”
May 19, 10.30-15.30. Premier Hotel Odesa, Sapphire Conference Hall.
Offline + online
Top topic: “Ensuring sustainable viticulture, current problems and ways to solve them.”
► Author’s tastings from OWW guests and partners for HoReCa and retail representatives
May 19, 12.00-15.00, Premier Hotel Odesa, Mare DiVino restaurant
► Wine talks “The future of wine: the view of winemakers”
May 19, 16.00-18.00. Premier Hotel Odesa, Onyx Conference Hall.
Offline + online
Meeting with famous winemakers, guests and OWW partners.
Обладнання та технології для виноробної та алкогольної промисловості; експозиції виноробних компаній.
► Circular tastings from OWW partners and participants
May 19, 15.30-18.30, Premier Hotel Odesa, Roof Bar
The wines of the participants of the All-Ukrainian tasting competition “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards” and the finalists of the project “Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety” are presented in circular tastings.
► OWW exposure area
May 19, 20, 10.00-18.00, Premier Hotel Odesa.
► Wine Future Forum
May 20, 9.30-18.00, Premier Hotel Odesa, Sapphire Conference Hall
Offline + online
▪ State, grant, banking programs to support winemaking. Investment in winemaking. Experience of Argentina, Italy.
▪ Digital wine marketing and social media.
▪ Promotion of the Ukrainian wine brand. Creating a wine business card of Ukraine.
► Project “Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety”
Selection of the optimal Riedel glass for local wine Odessa Black.
The project aims to promote the brand “Ukrainian wine”, the formation of the image of Odessa Black wine / Odessa Black as a business card of Ukrainian winemaking in the world – by analogy with Saperavi (Georgia), Fetyasca (Moldova), Malbec (Argentina), Carmener (Chile), Shiraz ( Australia) and others.
● The first stage. It took place on April 22 at the ONAHT Sensory Analysis Laboratory. Competitive selection of wines, tasting of 32 samples. 10 wines passed to the second stage.
● The second stage. Selection of the optimal Riedel glass for Odessa Black wine, work of the expert commission – May 20, 10.00-14.00, Premier Hotel Odesa, Mare DiVino restaurant.
► Solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the tasting competition “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards” and participants and winner of the project “Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety”
May 20, 18.30-20.00, Premier Hotel Odesa, Aquamarine Conference Hall.
In order to disseminate information about the best Ukrainian wines, the awards will be held in the form of a spectacular ceremony with the participation of national and regional media, wine and business communities.
► Conference “Food and wine tourism – a driver for the development of tourist destinations”
May 21, 10.00-18.00, Premier Hotel Odesa, Aquamarine Conference Hall.
Offline + online
▪ Food and wine tourism – a growing sector of the world tourism market:
– Cases of the UNESCO Gastronomy Bridge.
– Wine is a driver of the region’s development. Bordeaux experience.
▪ Odessa cuisine is a tourist magnet of the region.
▪ Wine and tourism: the best examples of local projects. Presentations of wine and enogastronomic locations.
▪ The influence of the media on the creation of a positive tourist image of the region. Oenogastronomic journalism.
▪ Grant projects in the field of enogastronomic tourism. “Roads of wine and taste of Ukraine”.
► “Air tasting”
May 22, 12.00-14.00, Odessa airport.
Air travel with tasting on board the UIA plane of the top 5 Ukrainian wines – winners of the All-Ukrainian tasting competition “Odessa Wine & Spirit Awards”, as well as culinary specialties of Odessa and Bessarabian cuisine.
A joint project of Odessa Wine Week and UIA to promote the Ukrainian wine brand.
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► XI gastronomic festival “Yes, delicious”
May 22, 23, 11.00-20.00, Odessa Film Studio.
A two-day festival, the participants of which present branded culinary products and wine brands. The basis of the festival menu are dishes and drinks of local Odessa cuisine. The festival is accompanied by an entertainment program for the whole family.
Large selection of delicious food, excellent conditions for outdoor recreation, live music and shows on the festival stage, entertainment program on the “Territory of children’s games and creativity”, original photo areas.
The festival is very popular with residents of Odessa and guests of the city, is held in Odessa for the eleventh time. https://www.facebook.com/takidavkusno
More about each event and conditions of visit: https://odessawineweek.com/
Project news https://www.facebook.com/odessawineweek/
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Official support
▪ Odessa Regional State Administration
▪ Odessa City Council
Authors of the Odessa Wine Week concept:
▪ Expo-South-Service Company
▪ Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
Odessa Wine Week organizers:
▪ Expo-South-Service Company
▪ Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
▪ Public Union UKRSADVINPROM
General partner: SHABO company
Official partner hotel: Premier Hotel Odesa
Innovation partner: AGSOLCO Ukraine
General news partner: Interfax-Ukraine
General media partner: communicative media group Drinks +
Partners:
▪ TM “Koblevo”
▪ JMJ Oak Alternative
▪ TM ODESSA champagne of Ukraine
▪ Wine and Taste Roads Project
▪ Association of winegrowers and winemakers of Odessa region
▪ Frumushika-Nova
Scientific partner: NSC “Institute of Viticulture and Enology. VE Tairov »
Digital партнер: Gustoslife
Information partners:
▪ Wine Guide of Ukraine Project
▪ Technology and Innovation Media Group
▪ Open4Business.com.ua
Multimedia partner: “Core”
Printing partner: printing house “ALPHA PRESS”
Information support:
▪ Interlingua foreign language courses
▪ «Easy Quizzy»
Organizer of the conference “Food and wine tourism – a driver of tourist destinations”: Department of Culture and Tourism of Odessa City Council
Organizers of the project “Best Riedel glass for Odessa Black variety”:
▪ RIEDEL Company
▪ MIRS Corporation is the official distributor of RIEDEL in Ukraine
▪ Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
▪ IKPMG Limited, Maria Kalenska
Organizers of the OENOVITI International Network symposium:
Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies, Ukraine
OENOVITI International Network, Bordeaux, France
Conference organizer “Innovative tools in viticulture in the context of climate change”: public union UKRSADVINPROM
The new team is going to strengthen the educational direction of the contest and expand the circle of its potential participants
NGO Presszvanie Ukraine, the initiator of the contest for journalists PRESSZVANIE, is reshuffling its board. Journalist and blogger Denys Bezliudko will become Chairman of the Management Board. The board will include Chief Editor of the magazines Dengi and Korrespondent Oleksandr Kramarenko, as well as Marketing Director of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency Maksim Urakin.
“The new board of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine includes experienced media managers who have raised more than one generation of journalists. These are professionals for whom freedom of speech and journalistic ethics are integral parts of life. This team is able to provide the PRESSZVANIE contest with new avenues for work meeting the challenge of the times,” ex-head of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine Dmytro Slipenko said.
“I probably went through all the stages, I was a nominee and a winner, participated in the work of the Supervisory Board of the contest and in organizing the work of PRESSZVANIE. The strategic plan is to grow the contest into a permanent media community, a platform for communication, training of journalists and development of the industry as a whole,” Bezliudko said.
“For me, this is a new challenge and an opportunity to repay the debt to the profession, since until now I have not been particularly active in the interests of the professional community in general. What do we do? We will create a platform for passing on the most interesting ideas and visions. We will involve those colleagues whom the old media simply did not notice until recently. Professional ratings are an opportunity for recent debutants to raise their personal capitalization, which is very important for each of the media professionals and for the market as a whole,” Kramarenko said.
“The award will receive more nominations for traditional journalism and the involvement of representatives of the new media – bloggers – in the project. In addition, an educational program, as well as other projects to improve the qualifications of media representatives, will be created under the PRESSZVANIE brand and with the participation of leading industry professionals,” Maksim Urakin said.
Reference
PRESSZVANIE is an annual award for journalists and editors that can be received for leadership and professionalism since 2005. The project develops an educational platform and is held under the auspices of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine, which mission is to create conditions for the development of Ukrainian journalism.
The new team is going to strengthen the educational direction of the contest and expand the circle of its potential participants
NGO Presszvanie Ukraine, the initiator of the contest for journalists PRESSZVANIE, is reshuffling its board. Journalist and blogger Denys Bezliudko will become Chairman of the Management Board. The board will include Chief Editor of the magazines Dengi and Korrespondent Oleksandr Kramarenko, as well as Marketing Director of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency Maksim Urakin.
“The new board of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine includes experienced media managers who have raised more than one generation of journalists. These are professionals for whom freedom of speech and journalistic ethics are integral parts of life. This team is able to provide the PRESSZVANIE contest with new avenues for work meeting the challenge of the times,” ex-head of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine Dmytro Slipenko said.
“I probably went through all the stages, I was a nominee and a winner, participated in the work of the Supervisory Board of the contest and in organizing the work of PRESSZVANIE. The strategic plan is to grow the contest into a permanent media community, a platform for communication, training of journalists and development of the industry as a whole,” Bezliudko said.
“For me, this is a new challenge and an opportunity to repay the debt to the profession, since until now I have not been particularly active in the interests of the professional community in general. What do we do? We will create a platform for passing on the most interesting ideas and visions. We will involve those colleagues whom the old media simply did not notice until recently. Professional ratings are an opportunity for recent debutants to raise their personal capitalization, which is very important for each of the media professionals and for the market as a whole,” Kramarenko said.
“The award will receive more nominations for traditional journalism and the involvement of representatives of the new media – bloggers – in the project. In addition, an educational program, as well as other projects to improve the qualifications of media representatives, will be created under the PRESSZVANIE brand and with the participation of leading industry professionals,” Maksim Urakin said.
Reference
PRESSZVANIE is an annual award for journalists and editors that can be received for leadership and professionalism since 2005. The project develops an educational platform and is held under the auspices of NGO Presszvanie Ukraine, which mission is to create conditions for the development of Ukrainian journalism.
Many people, who have become vegetarians, risk gaining negative experience of eating poor quality seasonal fruit and vegetables, says nutrition expert Veronika Vero, who is also an author of health improvement programs.
“In my practice, I often noticed the presence of nitrates in seasonal fruit. Since vegetarians often have an increased sensitivity to tastes, such people may have a stronger reaction to nitrate-containing food than ‘omnivorous’ people,” Veronika said.
According to the expert, after long body purification, consumption of any contaminated food may cause at least an allergic reaction or even a serious poisoning. This is connected with changes in vegetarian’s metabolic processes.
“The body of a person consuming both animal and plant food can accumulate toxins for years, but finally this may cause liver cirrhosis or another serious disease. As to vegetarians, their bodies response immediately as they do not accumulate toxins,” Vero said in a program on healthy nutrition on the Expert Club YouTube channel.
She said people, who decided to become vegetarians, first of all should focus on self-improvement and self-education, because learning healthy nutrition programs is one of the most important tasks of a person, who decided to refuse from eating meat.
Veronika Vero, a vegetarian and healthy nutrition expert, spent more than eight years of training at a research and development center. She is the author of several programs, seminars, as well as physical, mental and energy retreats.
The full video is available on the Expert Club YouTube channel.
EXPERT, EXPERT CLUB, FRUIT, HEALTHY NUTRITION, MOROZOV, URAKIN, VEGETARIANISM, VERO
