ukraine digest. issue 23 (october 3, 2013)

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PACE WelcomesUkraines Eforts on Path

to Association with EU

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EuroBasket 2015:Countdown HasBegun

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Zlata Ognevich to host2013 Junior EurovisionSong Contest

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also in this issue:

Ukraines information technology industry is the worlds fth largestand the fastest growing IT outsourcing services market. TheUkrainian government actively supports industry growth through taxexemptions, and provides public nancing for development of IT andinnovation parks. The development of IT-industry is an important

priority for the modernization of the national economy, Ukraines VicePrime Minister Gryshchenko says.


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Agroup omembers othe Parlia-mentary As-sembly o the Council o Eu-rope (PACE) welcomed theeorts o the Ukrainian au-thorities to carry out reorms

and create preconditions orthe signing o an AssociationAgreement with the Euro-pean Union, according toPACEs written declarationNo. 554, signed by Europeanlawmakers on October 1.

We welcome the con-tinuing eorts o the Ukrain-ian authorities towards the

implementation o reormsundertaken to meet its ob-ligations and commitmentswithin the membership othe Council o Europe andthe creation o preconditionsor the signing the Asso-ciation Agreement with the

European Union, the docu-ment reads.

Te group o the PACEmembers said they werepleased to note that theVerkhovna Rada o Ukraineadopted by a Constitutionalmajority a number o deci-sions on this way.

Also, the PACE members

mentioned the progress inthe reorm o the Prosecu-tors Oce and the executiono court decisions. Particu-larly, they consider as a posi-tive sign that the dra Law oUkraine On amending theConstitution o Ukraine on

Strengthening the Independ-ence o Judges, which hadreceived a positive opiniono the Venice Commission,was successully included inthe agenda o the VerkhovnaRada and submitted or theconsideration o the Consti-tutional Court o Ukraine.

Rearming our ull sup-

port or the signature o theAssociation Agreement be-tween Ukraine and the Eu-ropean Union in November2013, we would like to urgeall the Ukrainian authorities,political orces and the civilsociety to make maximum

eorts to bring Ukraine clos-er to the European Union,the document said.

Te declaration wassigned by parliamentariansrom Moldova, the UnitedKingdom, Georgia, Spain,Romania, Latvia, Croatia,Armenia, Lithuania, Ireland,Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.

PACE welcomes Ukraines efforts on pathto association with EU

HE ASSOCIAIONAGREEMEN with Ukraineis protable or the EuropeanUnion, as it will open themutual access to commoditymarkets, European Com-missioner or DevelopmentAndris Piebalgs said at theeconomic conerence in Es-sen (Germany).

According to him, signing

is protable both or Kyivand Brussels. Te economicbenets are clear: EU has

just begun to emerge romthe crisis. In this situation,

our goods need expansiono sales, and your goods alsowill benet rom access toour vast market. Aer all, itscapacity is about 10 timeshigher than that o Ukrain-ian, the Commissioner said.

He added that the As-sociation Agreement withKyiv, the signing o whichis scheduled or November,is also protable or Russia.Te agreement does notprevent Ukraine rom devel-oping constructive relationswith the Customs Union andsupporting ree trade withthe CIS countries, as well asdeepening and expanding

them to the extent that itmeets the WO rules and isnot contrary to the mutualobligations with Brussels,Piebalgs said.

european integration

Ukraine will ace economicgrowth afer signingAssociation AgreementUKRAINE should expecteconomic recovery aer thesigning o the AssociationAgreement and ree tradearea agreement with the EU.Such statement was releasedby one o the worlds lead-

ing specialists on Ukrainianeconomy, senior ellow o theWashington-based PetersonInstitute or InternationalEconomics, Anders Aslund.Te number o oreign directinvestments into Ukraine willincrease and transorm itseconomy, he stressed.

It will be a completetransormation o Ukrain-ian economy, like the one

we saw in Poland, said theeconomic transition expert.He compared the economyo both countries andnoted that these were not

just neighbouring states buttheir economies were alsosimilar. Te analyst believesthat European investmentswill go into priority sectors oUkrainian economy includ-ing the increase o produc-tion o goods and serviceswhile Ukrainian companiesbecome subcontractors to theEuropean ones. According to

Aslund, Ukrainian I sectorwill increase tremendously,while agricultural sectorwould experience the con-tinuous development.

EU commissioner: Associationwith Ukraine protable forEuropean Union
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Ukraine pays special atten-tion to the developmento inormation technologyand technologic business

development. Tis was stated by VicePrime Minister o Ukraine KostyantynGryshchenko at the meeting with repre-sentatives o the leading I companies

Singularity University Labs, EMC, Intel,Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Bosch, Apple,Inopulse Ukraine, Bionic Hills and oth-ers on September 27.

An important priority or the mod-ernization o the national economy isthe development o innovation inra-structure o I-industry in Ukraine, in-cluding educational component, as wellas establishing strong tax preerences orhigh-tech companies and their experts,Vice Prime Minister said.

Kostyantyn Gryshchenko convinced

o the need to improve the quality oeducation in the I sector and harmoni-zation o the educational process to theneeds o I businesses.

Te number o experts in the eldo inormation technologies in Ukraineat the beginning o 2013 was about 250thousand, including 45 thousand arecertied highly qualied specialists. Weshould create such opportunities or thedevelopment o I industry, so that ourexperts can work in Ukraine Grysh-

chenko said.Vice Prime Minister o Ukraineurged leading I-companies developtraining programs in cooperation withUkrainian universities actively.

IT is one o themost important

sectors o economy,

which Ukraine

can compete in the

world

technology

Ukraines inormation tech-nology (I) industry isthe worlds h largestand the astest growing

I outsourcing services market. Sincethe year 2000 Ukraine has been a lead-ing player in the soware developmentspace, and has been ranked at the topo I outsourcing service providersin the global market. More and morecompanies come to Ukraine select-ing it as a preerred destination or

their R&D oces. Strong engineering

education, popularity o engineeringproessions among the youth, and richhistory o the soware developmentindustry make Ukraine one o themost attractive Europe destinationsor the I outsourcing and sowaredevelopment businesses.

Te history o Ukraines sowaredevelopment industry is deeply rooted.Ocially, December 25, 1951 is con-sidered as the beginning o the com-puter science era when the Ukrainianacademician rom Kyiv, Sergey Leb-

edev, introduced the rst computer inthe entire Continental Europe.

A rapid growth o the industrywas recorded in the middle o 1990s,when a large number o independ-ent soware development companiesemerged. Based on a 60 plus year his-tory o the extensive network o edu-cational and scientic constitutions,the Ukrainian soware developmentand I outsourcing services industryis rapidly developing into one o the

most important sectors o the Ukrain-ian economy.Te Ukrainian government actively

supports industry growth throughtax exemptions, and provides public

nancing or development o I andinnovation parks. Governmental sup-port promotes industry growth andurther expansion o the soware de-

velopment and I outsourcing serviceecosystem in 20122013.

During the last decade Ukraine hasbeen the leading provider o sowaredevelopment and I outsourcing ser-

vices in the Central and Eastern Euro-pean region. Ukraine is ranked rst inthe volume o I outsourcing and so-

ware development services provided,in the number o I specialists work-ing in the industry, and in the numbero I graduates.

Te post crisis eects have beenovercome, the industry is developingat a rapid pace o 20% - 25% growth a

year while new companies are openingtheir R&D oces in Ukraine. Aer therecent tax exemption legislation orsoware development companies hasbeen accepted, such global vendorsas Google, Microso, Samsung, andHuawei expressed interest in establish-ing R&D centres in Ukraine.

Te industry actively penetratesinto dierent regions. All leadingcompanies are extending their ocenetworks to the main regional centres.A range o new companies appeared in

so-called unpopular regions. Teseare large industrial and cultural centressuch as Chernigiv, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankivsk, Sumy, ernopil, Zhitomyr,Luhansk, Lutsk, Poltava, Khmelnits-kiy, where there were no appreciablecompanies until recently.

Ukraine still boasts the most im-pressive gap in Europe between GDPper capita in the country and GDP percapita in the soware developmentindustry. Tis could be an important

economic incentive or specialistsand businessmen to enter the prot-able and well-paid market o sowaredevelopment and I outsourcing ser-

vices.

Ukraine ranked at thetop of IT outsourcingservice providers in theglobal market
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The countdown orEuroBasket 2015 o-cially started orUkraine aer the

FIBA Europe leadership madepublic the Ukrainian logo and

visual identity o EuroBasket2015 on Sunday, at a specialceremony and press conerence

at Stozice Arena in Ljubljana, aew hours beore the EuroBas-ket 2013 medal games. It was acolorul transormer basketball.When assembled, it reminds oneo a Cossack dancing the nation-al hopak.

EuroBasket 2015 qualierswill be held in six Ukrainian cit-ies: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Donetsk,Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa.Tere will be teams rom 24 Eu-ropean countries that will have

to play 90 games within 20 days.Ukraines male team appears

to have started the big holiday byplacing sixth in the current Euro-pean championships, contrary toall basketball moguls and eventeam coaches expectations,receiving the entrance ticket tothe Big League, EuroBasket 2014in Spain, or the rst time in 21years o independent nationalbasketball.

Now it is up to the Ukrainiangovernment to keep up the goodjob. Oleksandr Vilkul, DeputyPrime Minister o Ukraine, saidduring the launch ceremony that

every eort would be exertedto make it the most spectacularEuropean basketball champion-ships.

We are building state-o-the-art sports arenas that will createa new cluster in Ukraines econo-my aer EuroBasket 2015. Teseacilities will accommodate more

than 100 kinds o sport, saidVilkul, adding that nine traininggrounds will be built with centralbudget money, including threesuch ully equipped acilitiesor the Ukrainian national teamtraining in all kinds o sport, andsix ones or junior sports schools.

Slovenia says EuroBasket2013 has cost it 26 million euros.Ukraine is up or considerablylarger expenditures. Cabinet es-timates point to 7.5 billion hry-

vnias including some 3.4 bil-lions worth o construction omodern runways at Odesa andDnipropetrovsk air terminals;1.4 billions worth o develop-ment o inrastructures in theEuroBasket host cities. Four pri-

vate investors have signed up orthe project.

Te Cabinet expects someone million ans to attend Eu-roBasket 2015.

Te nals will be held in Kyiv,with two prestigious companies United Basketball Investmentsand DeVision competing orthe construction o sports a-

EuroBasket2015:countdownhasbegun

cilities. Vilkul says it has beenagreed with the FIBA Europeleadership that the nals willbe held in Kyiv, using the sportsacility that will have been builtby UBI, and that the second onewill accommodate the semi-nals.

Tere is no secret aboutUkraine being under the obliga-tion to build sports arenas in sixcities. Tats a lot, but it can be

done Well closely watch whatis being done You can rest as-sured that we will let no riskspassed unnoticed, FIBA EuropeSecretary General Kamil Novaktold Te Day newspaper. He issure that Ukraine will organizethe best tournament in the his-tory o basketball, in 2015.

In August this year, Ukrainehosted the U16 EuropeanChampionship Men, demon-strating the highest level o or-

ganization. Now the nationalteam o Ukraine has become amajor sensation at EuroBasket2013 and jumped into elite rankso European basketball. Ukrainemade everybody in Europe talkabout its success. In two years,our national team will be evenstronger or the EuroBaskethosted in our Ukrainian cities.I am convinced that EuroBasket2015 will be the best in history,

Olympic champion and FBUPresident Oleksandr Volkov toldTe Day newspaper, adding thatthere are some 100,000 childrenplaying basketball in Ukraine.

EuroBasket

2015 qualiers

will be held in six

Ukrainian cities:Kyiv, Kharkiv,

Lviv, Donetsk,

Dnipropetrovsk,

and Odesa.

Ukrainesgovernment

expects some one

million fans to

attend EuroBasket

2015

sport
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Zlata to host 2013 Junior Eurovision

Battle of Almaerupts again in

Crimea

To mark the 160thanniversary sincethe start o theCrimean War,

nearly 150 history enthusiastsrom Belarus, France, GreatBritain, Russia and Ukrainegathered in Vilino village or

the International Military andHistorical Festival Te Bat-tle o the Alma. Participantsreenacted what is consideredto be the rst battle o theCrimean War took place justsouth o the Alma River in theCrimea.

Previously Ukraine Digestreported on the BalaklavaBattle o 1854 reconstruction,which was held in Sebastopol.

On July 6 Prince Michaelo Kent, who was visiting

Ukraine this summer, wit-nessed such military and his-torical estival with more than150 volunteers in uniorm oXIX century.

Tese reconstructions areparts o a series o events held

in Ukraine and the UK to cel-ebrate the common historic

heritage, which is the Crime-an War (1853-1856).

Another vivid project inthis eld is the monumentto the nurse o creole originMary Seacole, which will beerected in London in 2015

to refect the link betweenthis brave woman and our

country. On September 9-13Martin Jennings, amousBritish sculptor, traced thehistoric places in Crimeaassociated with the nurseMary Seacole, the rst wom-an who entered the city o

Sebastopol to treat troopsrom both sides.

Te wait is over: Host broad-caster NU o Ukraine havenally revealed the hosts othe 2013 Junior Eurovision

Song Contest to be held inUkraine: imur Miroshnych-enko and Zlata Ognevich.

Junior Eurovision SongContest host imur Mirosh-nychenko is a amiliar namein the world o Eurovision ashe is a Eurovision Song Con-test commentator and alsohosted the international nalo JESC in Kyiv with Ani Lo-rak in 2009.

Stunning co-host Zlata

Ognevich is well known orher perormance o the mem-orable song Gravity on thebig stage o Malmo Arena or

the Eurovision Song Contestin May 2013. It was an im-mediate avourite that sawher triumphantly bring thirdprize home to Ukraine.

Host nation Ukraine havenot only declared 2013 theYear o Childrens Creativityin their country but are nowapplying it to the Junior Eu-rovision Song Contest as BeCreative!

Zlata: Ukraine has so

many gied children andpeople who are always will-ing to show the beauty andrichness o Ukrainian culture

through their dances, songs,paintings. What we can showour guests is our big heart,our hospitality and our talent.Be creative! perectly refectsus.

Te 2013 JESC will be heldon November 30 at the Na-tional Palace o Arts Ukrainain Kyiv. It is the 2nd timethat Kyiv and Ukraine will behosting the Junior Eurovision

Song Contest.

For more information, please, contact

Oksana Kyzyma,

Press Secretary of the Embassy of

Ukraine to the UK

Tel.: 020 7727 6312

E-mail: [email protected]

Address: 60 Holland Park,

London W11 3SJ

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