456 hours poetic marathon for Kobzar set up a Guinness Record
During 456 hours about 3000 the National University Ostroh Academy students and teaching staff were reading Kobzar’s for 45 times (11 250 poems). The event was commemorated to Taras Shevchenko’s bicentennial.The result gave the university a chance to be in Guinness Record Book. On Guinness committee demand the poetic marathon was day-and-night online video broadcast. On event completing 15 kg of text in English and Ukrainian were recorded and photo and video materials were collected. It took three months to Guinness committee to check all papers and records. The National University Ostroh Academy is the first Ukrainian university to be included into Guinness Record Book.
http://comments.ua/life/478457-ostrozhskaya-akademiya-popala-knigu.html
Prestigious British magazine called Ukrainian movie the best of all tomes
Silent movie Man With The Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov topped in famous film magazine Sight & Sound ranking released by British Film Institute. 110 movie industry representatives from all over the world supported Ukrainian movie. The movie shot in Odesa, Kyiv and Kharkiv is a kind of technical manual for documentary film makers as well as the movie about movie which brings up an issue of impassive reality recording. The documentary is also a wonderful example of montage experiment on the life of a Soviet metropolitan city with elements of Ukrainization policy shown as well. Sight & Sound magazine is the world’s oldest film magazine. The first edition published in Great Britain in 1932. Sight & Sound ranking is considered to be the most recognized in film industry.
http://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2014/08/1/176740/view_print/
Dnipropetrovsk regional hospital dialysis device is unique in Ukraine
Dialysis devices recently installed in Hemodialysis Department of Dnipropetrovsk regional hospital are without equals in Ukraine. The equipment complies with European standards, provides maximum blood preservation for future clearance and can prolong patients’ life for decades. Patients admit that their life improved due to the new device, ‘Earlier during hemodialysis my blood pressure dropped very often but the new device can control everything’, a patient with 8 years hemodialysis experience mentioned. 21 devices for 120 patients were installed in the clinic due to financing by the regional state administration and local private investors.
http://onco-net.net/articles/item/u_dnipropetrovsku_vidkrito_viddilennya_dializu
Ukrainians started embroidering the future of their country
Ukrainian cultural and art campaign ‘Let’s unite Ukraine’ launched in Vinnytsia on August 1, 2014. The campaign target is to embroider a map of Ukraine. The flags of all Ukrainian regions, Autonomous Republic Crimea and The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People will be represented on the map. After Vinnytsia the map travels around all central cities of Ukraine’s regions. The campaign will be finished in Kyiv, on Independence Square on day of revolution anniversary. ‘Let’s unite Ukraine!’ initiative can become the national record in ‘Art’ category as it is supposed to be the biggest Ukraine’s map manually embroidered by the maximum number of embroiders. To set a record it is necessary to beat the previous one which is 268 people.
http://photo.ukrinform.ua/ukr/current/photo.php?id=639400
Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk are in TOP-10 cheapest cities in Europe
On the world’s largest database Numbeo Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv are included into TOP-10 Cheapest European Cities. Living standards and cost of living in various cities and countries were considered in ranking forming. Ukrainian cities received the following consumer price index: Dnipropetrovsk 40,53 and Lviv 42,19. As of middle of 2014 the most expensive European cities are Zurich (159,51), Stavanger (156,71), Geneva (150,43), Trondheim (148,12) and Lausanne (146,09). Besides Ukrainian cities Bitola (37,88), Chisinau (38,4) and Nis (41,61) are the cheapest European cities.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/dnipropetrovsk_and_lviv_are_in_top-10_cheapest_european_cities.html
