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29/06/2009 | General

Gazprom will use its planned South Stream pipeline to carry a third of its gas exports to Europe by 2015, chief executive Alexei Miller said Friday in an apparent warning to Ukraine, which now handles the bulk of the transit.
Gazprom and Italy's Eni recently agreed to expand the capacity of South Stream, which will run under the Black Sea, to 63 billion cubic meters of gas - or 35 percent of Gazprom's exports to that region, Miller said.

25/06/2009 | Business

Yulia Tymoshenko said that Ukraine would make full payment on time for gas imported from Russia in June. "We are putting gas into storage in Ukraine according to plan. We did so in April and May and made 100 percent payment," Tymoshenko told a news conference broadcast on television. "In June, we have again put into storage 1.1 billion cubic metres. And we will again pay for it without fail."

21/06/2009 | Sport

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko congratulated boxer Wladimir Klitschko on Sunday on his successful defense of the WBO and IBF world heavyweight belts. Klitschko, 33, defeated Uzbekistan's Ruslan Chagaev with a technical knockout after nine rounds in front of a crowd of 61,000 at the Schalke 04 stadium in Germany on Saturday. Tymoshenko said in a message published on the Ukrainian government's website: "I sincerely congratulate Wladimir Klitschko, who has defended his IBF, IBO and WBO world champion titles with another spectacular victory. Last night he proved yet again that Ukraine has no equals in the world ring."

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Dorina Alexa asks: I would like to send a request to the National Archives of Ukraine, being interested, specially, in Bolgrad town. Could you tell me the correctly address to send my request?

If you are interested in Bolgrad town you may contact Odessa oblast state archive (Bolgrad city is located in Odessa oblast). The official site is only on Ukrainian unfortunately. The address of the archive is Ukraine, Odessa city, Zhukovskogo Str., 18. Contact e-mails: initochko@te.net.ua and gaoo@te.net.ua

Leon asks: Are there trains from Ternopil to Lviv? Is a schedule available?

There are a lot of trains going through Ternopil city to Lviv city. Here are several of them: Cherkassy-Ternopil-Lviv train (departure from Ternopil at 07:34 local time), Odessa-Ternopil-Lviv (08:20), Kherson-Ternopil-Lviv (9:50), Mariupol-Ternopil-Lviv (10:40), Moscow-Trenopil-Lviv (11:39), Kiev-Ternopil-Lviv (15:42).

Paul McCullough asks: I would like to visit the village of Stariava in August. My idea is to travel by train to Lviv and from there by bus back to Stariava. Does this make sense or do you have other suggestions for travelling from Slovakia to Stariava?

Nice plan, I have found that there are the following buses going from Lviv to Stariava village from Lviv bus station #8 (located at main railway station). First one: departure at 8:15, arrival at 10:15 local time; second one: departure at 20:10, arrival at 22:10.

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