Inside News on Odessa and Ukraine
Well dear readers, it has been a long time since I have been enthused by a gastronomic discovery in Odessa, at least to the point where I wanted to write about it and share it with you all. However, just down the road from the British Council at the crossroads of Admiralsky and 5 Station [...]
OK. I thought about the final paragraphs of yesterday’s blog entry and I would like to ponder them a little more. Specifically of the questions at the end, which were posed to nobody in particular, let’s think about the organised actors involved and what they are involved in. This post would be far too lengthy [...]
In the past few days, maybe a week or so, pharmaceuticals, the costs of medicines and quality thereof, have come under the critical eye of the government. It proposes to interfere in the market and drive down the cost of medicines to the public. To be fair it does have several levers to do so, [...]
Oh dear. Dear readers, as a qualified Radiation Protection Supervisor (courtesy of RWE Nukem and the excellent tuition of Mr Nick Trafford) not to mention a Civil Engineer who knows a little bit about steel and concrete by design (and default), I am slightly dubious of the EU “Stress Tests” for the civil nuclear industry [...]
As you know dear readers, this blog steadily plugs away at occurrences in Ukraine. Very rarely do I leave that theme unless the UK does something exceptionally retarded to the point where I feel the need to comment as the feelings of anguish overtake me and cannot be dismissed. This is not such an occasion, [...]
Well dear readers, it seems that during 2010, in accordance with the readmission statement between Ukraine and the EU, 800 illegal immigrants were returned to Ukraine by the EU. 171 of those were from South-East Asia and the rest were Ukrainians and other CIS nations. 800? That is a truly fantastic figure that both sides [...]
26/04/2011 – Well, not quite big pharma, but certainly a large pharmaceutical company Nycomed are coming to Ukraine. Nycomed have done a deal with Kusum Pharm Plant Ltd in Sumy to send the medicine Actovegin here for packaging. Every little helps as far as the economy and jobs are concerned. It would be good to [...]
21/04/2011 – Well dear readers, in what some people will think is a move against the US$, Ukraine has requested that Russia trade between the two nations for energy products and transportation be conducted in Rubles……not US$. Quite obviously this would seem like a shock to many people who automatically think that all commodity trading [...]
06/04/2011 – It is a well known fact that a huge percentage of the Ukrainian economy is darker than The Force that was with Darth Vader. In fact darker than any hole in Calcutta or even a very black thing hidden in a black hole covered in a black veil on an exceptionally dark and [...]
07/02/2011 – Well dear readers, elsewhere over in cyberspace there is a debate of sorts underway regarding ex-Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, his wife Yelena and whether they should be given a Visa for the UK having, unsurprisingly, accused of theft in Russia. Now I am not going to dwell in Mr Luzhkov and family, [...]