Opera Hotel Kyiv

The Opera Hotel was Kyiv’s first five star boutique hotel which opened on December, 20th, 2006 It is situated in the heart of the city.

It is ideally located for all that Kyiv has to offer. In March, 2007 the hotel became a member of “The Leading Hotels of the World” an organization synonymous with luxury, elegance, class, and impeccable standards of service world wide.

Originally built in 1908 Opera Hotel is an elegant building that typifies the architectural heritage of Kyiv. Opera hotel is ideally located close the business district and historical attractions such as the Opera House and Vladimir Cathedral. It is therefore the ideal choice for the leisure and business traveller.

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Opera hotel offers 137 rooms and suites of delightful style, comfort and grace. Our suites vary in size and each has a separate theme based on concepts from around the world.

Hotel Website: Opera-Hotel.com

Sir.Paul McCartney wows Kyiv !

Sir Paul McCartney played a free concert on Sunday 15th June in Kyiv, intended to promote unity in Ukraine.

Crowds of this size have not been seen in Kyiv since the Orange Revolution. Some estimates say 300,000 people turned up to watch Sir.Paul in the heavy rain.

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The setting was the magnificent Independence Square in Central Kyiv.
It poured all night with thunder and lightning, but Kyiv and Sir.Paul kept rocking all night.

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This was the first time Sir.Paul or any Beatle has performed in Ukraine.It was organised by the billionaire businessman Victor Pinchuk. The same number again watched live broadcasts of Saturday’s performance on big screens in five cities around the country.

Yes, ‘Back In the USSR’ was performed to a great reception, meant as very tongue in cheek no doubt.

Paul and his band played 33 songs including some of the world’s most popular hits that have become the soundtrack to so many people’s lives. Paul played hits by The Beatles including ‘All My Loving’, ‘The Long And Winding Road’, ‘Good Day Sunshine’ and ‘Hey Jude’. He played Wings hits such as ‘Jet’, ‘My Love’ and ‘Band On The Run’ and solo songs including ‘Flaming Pie’ and his most recent hit single ‘Dance Tonight’. Show highlights included a version of the Wings track ‘Mrs. Vanderbilt’, which fans had petitioned for Paul to play and of course a storming version of ‘Back In The USSR’. The audience spanned generations and sang along with every word, the massive crowd made an overwhelming sound when they joined in with Paul on ‘Hey Jude’ and the elaborate stage featured some of the biggest screens ever used for an outdoor show as well as lasers and fireworks.

After the audience had thought the show was over, Paul returned to the stage waving a Ukrainian flag before ending the night with an emotional performance of ‘Yesterday’ and rocked up ‘Sgt. Peppers’.

Throughout the day Paul spent time meeting locals and fans that had waited over 40 years for their hero to come to this part of the world.

He was given a special performance by a choir of children that perform Beatles songs and presented with a traditional Ukrainian stringed instrument, the kobza, by the Ukrainian Beatles fanclub.

Here ‘Macca’ meets ‘Viktor’ in Kyiv. I think the two big guys got on really well. Paul is pictured with his present from the President, a traditional Ukrainian shirt.

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Cabinet appoints new boss for EU/NATO integration

Cabinet appoints new boss for EU/NATO integration

KYIV, Sept. 26: The Ukrainian cabinet has appointed Vadym Tryukhan as director of the Bureau for European and Euro-Atlantic integration and plans to fully staff it by the end of the year, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Hryhoriy Nemyrya told a briefing today. He said that Tryukhan was appointed at the cabinet meeting on Sept. 24. This body already has 22 employees. There are plans it will employ 70 public service workers from Jan. 1 2009.

“In fact, the cabinet has taken a very important step to pass to the most efficient coordination, that is, horizontal coordination,” he said. He added that the bureau would conduct strategic monitoring and analyse the methodology which is used by the EU.

“We are not encroaching upon the powers and functions of the Foreign Ministry, the Justice Ministry and the Economics Ministry,” he said. However, he added that the bureau would conduct efficient horizontal coordination, since one post of deputy prime minister for European integration was not enough for this. It was reported earlier that the cabinet had established in its secretariat a coordination bureau for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

Its major functions will be to monitor the implementation of the Ukraine-EU action plan and analyse the efficiency of EU integration policy. Tryukhan worked as deputy director of the EU department in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and deputy head of the service of the Ukrainian deputy prime minister.

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