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The 2012 John Smith Fellowship Programme Applications |
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| From 1st November 2011, the John Smith Memorial Trust is inviting applications for its 2012 Fellowship Programme to take place over three weeks in June 2012.
Applications for Fellowships are invited from the following countries:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine
The Fellowship aims to strengthen and deepen awareness of good governance through a three week programme in the UK and placements that show the workings of organisations within a long established democracy. Selection is based on a combination of the leadership potential of the applicant and the quality of the action plan they propose. Action plans are pieces of work or policy problems which Fellows want to explore while in the UK. The "ideal" candidate will be aged 25-40, working in politics, local administration, business, the media, the arts or civil society, with a track record of achievement in the area of good governance and public service.
Good written and spoken English is essential.
All application information and deadlines can be found on the JSMT website: How to Apply |
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| Help us understand cultural differences in coping with distressing events!
A study about distressing events, identity and culture is looking for:
- People born in the UK
- People who were born in the former USSR and currently live in
- the UK.
Participants are asked to complete questionnaires (in English or Russian)
that take 30 minutes.
For more information about the study and the opportunity to complete its
questionnaires (in Russian) click on the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dEFidWFzaFFXZS
1UNWJXRHFxRGM0OFE6MQ#gid=0
Those who take part in the study can enter a prize draw to win an ipod nano.
For more information please contact:
Tal Moore,
Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the UEA
Email:
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Telephone: 07582892415
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UEFA EURO’S 2012: Job Description: Assistant Country Manager - Ukraine |
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| SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Ability to work at a fast pace, whilst maintaining attention to detail
- Russian / Ukrainian & English speaker; fluent
- Strong effective communicator
- 3 Years relevant experience including staff management
DIRECT REPORTS
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Senior Account Manager – SHARP
You will be employed by RPMC to work as our Assistant Country Manager on the ground in Ukraine for the UEFA Euro’s 2012 football competition. You will be based in our local Destination Management Company (DMC) offices to work with the appointed team on the ground and to ensure RPMC standards are being met and project actions are completed in a timely manner on every aspect of the SHARP programme.
Although you will be based in Kiev, you will be expected to travel to each of the host/venue cities in Ukraine and also to London, as required for status update meetings with the two account teams.
It is expected that you speak, act and dress in an appropriate manner at all times, as you are representing RPMC.
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UEFA EURO’S 2012: Job Description: Country Manager - Ukraine |
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| SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Ability to work at a fast pace, whilst maintaining attention to detail
- Russian / Ukrainian & English speaker; fluent
- Strong effective communicator
- 3 Years relevant experience including staff management
DIRECT REPORTS
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Senior Account Manager – SHARP
- Senior Account Manager – McDonald’s
You will be employed by RPMC to work as our Local Country Manager on the ground in Ukraine for the UEFA Euro’s 2012 football competition. You will be based in our local Destination Management Company (DMC) offices to work with the appointed team on the ground and to ensure RPMC standards are being met and project actions are completed in a timely manner on every aspect of the SHARP programme.
Although you will be based in Kiev, you will be expected to travel to each of the host/venue cities in Ukraine and also to London, as required for status update meetings with the two account teams.
It is expected that you speak, act and dress in an appropriate manner at all times, as you are representing RPMC.
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Baritone Michael Minsky's Ukrainian Recordings: A Historical Treasure |
| | Michael Minsky was a brilliant opera star who sang in virtually every major concert hall in the United States.
Born in Russia in 1918, Minsky studied music at the University of Kazan and the Moscow conservatory. When WWII broke out, however, he was drafted into the Red Army and was soon captured by the Nazis.
He ended up in a slave labour camp and then in several “displaced persons” (refugee) camps after the war.
Although ethnically Russian, in the camps he was surrounded by Ukrainians and soon fell in love with the people, the music and the culture.
He joined several choirs, including the Don Cossack Choir and the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. From 1948 to 1984 Minsky sang with such Ukrainian musical luminaries as Ivan Zadorozny, Volodymyr Bozyk and Hryhory Kytasty.
In 1949 Minsky and the Bandurist Chorus traveled to America, where they were received at the White House and performed many concerts.
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Olympics 2012: Help at the Olympics |
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| The UK Ukrainian Sports Supporters Club have been taking part in discussions with the Ukrainian Olympic Committee, the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee and the Ukrainian Embassy in the UK about the Olympics in 2012. The discussions have focused on providing help and assistance to Ukrainian Olympians and Paralympians during the games as well as a cultural programme to coincide with the games.
During the Olympics the Ukrainian Olympians will require support and assistance in a number of different ways, including drivers, translators and guides.
We call upon members of the UK Ukrainian Sports Supporters Club interested in volunteering during the Olympic games to come forward.
If you are interested in volunteering, please send an e-mail to:
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Ukrainian LP Records Give-Away |
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| I have 97 Ukrainian LPs (33⅓ rpm long playing records) a single from the Black Sea Cossacks and a load of 78s (the older 78 rpm records) as well.
Anyone interested can email me, simply put a referance to "Ukrainian" as the subject as if they go in to my Junk mail I may delete them.
Regards Keith Staniforth
My email address is:
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Press Reslease: The Iron Tsar - The Life and times of John Hughes |
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| This is the remarkable story of a dynamic Welsh entrepreneur who at 55 left his family and success behind in London sailing to the barren Ukrainian Steppe where at the invitation of the Tsarist government, he set up a modern iron and steel complex and built a new city. In so doing, he introduced modern capitalism to Russia and played an important role in industrialising the country.
The Book
Born in Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, John Hughes was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur and inventor, running a complex foundry in Newport by the time he was 36. He then moved to London where despite being only semi-literate he became a very successful industrialist.
In 1870 aged 55, he left his family behind, sailing to Russia with one hundred British workers and all the equipment to build a modern iron and steel works. The company he founded became an important foundation stone in the industrialisation of Russia.
As well as the iron works, he built coal mines, railways and a whole town for his workers where he took a keen interest in their welfare. The town he established became known as Hughesovka and is now the modern Ukrainian city of Donetsk with a population of over one million. This extraordinary story of Hughes’ life and times is interwoven with links to some of the most famous people of the period.
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UK Ukrainian Sports Supporters Club |
| | | Do you want to get tickets for Ukrainian teams when they play in the UK? Such as England vrs Ukraine, 1/4/09.
If the answer is yes, you should join the UK Ukrainian Sports Supporters Club.
Every member will be able to obtain a ticket for each of these games and any other games.
Ukrainians in the UK have been supporting Ukraine and Ukrainian football teams at every opportunity since Ukraine became independent.
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To overcome the problems encountered getting tickets for Ukraine vrs Scotland last season in Glasgow, a group of Ukrainians decided it was time to form a supporters club. The main objective of the club is to obtain tickets for matches for its members. The club will form relationships with official bodies and similar organisations in Ukraine.
The club also provides a social network for Ukrainian sports supporters – strengthening the existing spirit of Ukrainian supporters in the UK. The club is a non-profit organisation run by members – for members. The small membership fee of £10 will cover costs at are incurred – particularly transaction costs in obtaining tickets.
For more information visit the supporter’s club website:
www.ukrainiansupporters.org.uk or e-mail:
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The Rule Of Law In Ukraine: Report by Sir Brian Neill & Sir Henry Brooke |
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Westminster Foundation for Democracy Awarded |
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Press Room 