Yurii Anikeev wins draughts world championship
Yurii Anikeev from Kharkiv bested in rapid at World International Draughts Championship held in Izmir, Turkey.
Ukrainian managed to defeat three international grand masters from Latvia, Senegal and Belarus.
Another Ukrainian sportsman, Artem Ivanov from Dnipropetrovsk, secured bronze medal.
Ukrainian sportswomen Viktoria Motrychko and Olha Baltazhi took 5th and 6th places.
At team classification Ukrainian men’s team became a champion, and women’s team – vice-champion.
http://www.ukrainegoodnews.com/yurii-anikeev-from-kharkiv-wins-draughts-world-championship.html
Pysanka made of 15,000 mirror pieces can be seen in Kyiv
A new art object, silver pysanka, can be seen near Kyiv Pecherks Lavra.
The pysanka is made of 15 000 mirror pieces.
The installation is 3.5 meters high.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/pysanka-made-of-15-000-mirror-pieces-installed-in-kyiv.html
‘See Ukraine: Docudays.ua on tour’ in Greece
May, 13 international tour ‘See Ukraine: Docudays.ua on tour’ will start in Athens.
The program includes show of documentaries, photo exhibitions, meetings with filmmakers and photographers, discussions with civic activists and human rights defenders.
The Greek tour will last for two weeks.
The festival partners are the Association of Ukrainian Diaspora in Greece and Ukrainian Greek Opinion.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/see-ukraine-docudays.ua-on-tour-in-greece.html
27-years-old man breeds ostriches in Volyn Oblast
27-y.o. Viktor Melnychuk from Volodymyr-Volynskyi city (Volyn Oblast) rents a land and breeds ostriches.
The idea came to him at the age of 16. In 2006 Viktor realized his idea with the support of his family.
First, he bought a couple of birds, later more and more – soon the number of ostriches reached 20.
The young farmer breeds the birds for sale, each of them costs $1,000, the egg price is UAH150. The most expensive are pysankas, the price starts from UAH1,500.
Viktor dreams of creating a tourist place where everyone could come and see exotic birds, ‘I also plan to breed other birds, pheasants, peacocks’.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/27-years-old-ukrainian-breeds-ostriches-in-volodymyr-volynsk.html
No grades, no teachers – a unique school opens in Kyiv
In cooperation with French School 42 and under the auspices of social organization ‘Osvitoria’ a unique innovative school UNIT Factory (Ukrainian National IT Factory) will be opened by K.Fund. The school will graduate IT specialist by School 42 standards.
The School 42 was founded in 2013 as a private school of programming. The studying is 24/7 and peer-2-peer, i.e. collaboration system. The French school has very little in common with a traditional education format: there is no grades, no written summaries. The students study by working at projects in so called ‘deep studying’ regime.
More here:
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/no-grades-no-teachers-a-unique-school-opens-in-kyiv.html
