190 million dollars investments coming to Illichivsk
Louis Dreyfus Ukraine Ltd. plans to invest 190 million dollars in the construction of a new grain terminal in the Odesa region. According to the press service of the Odesa regional state administration, a representative of the company informed its head Eduard Matviichuk about the plan during a meeting. The three-year investment contract will soon be signed, and already this year the company plans to invest 50 million dollars in the project. The capacity of the future terminal is not specified. Louis Dreyfus Ukraine belongs to the group of companies Louis Dreyfus SAS (France). The company has been present in Ukraine since 1998, and deals with agrarian business, grain and oil-bearing crops export.
No more mosquito undercover
At long last 16 hectares of forest in the vicinity of Kaniv were returned to state ownership after this territory was leased out to several private businessmen for a term of 49 years for a laughable rent of 37 hryvnias per hectare per year, albeit for the lofty purpose of “mosquito and [other] insects’ flight trajectory studies.” This scandalous transaction was authorized by the Cherkasy regional state administration. Mykola Lisovy, public prosecutor for Cherkasy oblast, told a press conference that, although the plot had been returned to public ownership, no criminal cases against the bureaucrats at fault had been opened. He added that the prosecutor’s office had carried out an investigation and detected some breaches of decision-making procedures. However, since the plot was leased out, rather than transferred to private ownership, the state had suffered no damage, so there were no legal causes for criminal proceedings. “The prosecutor’s office challenged this decision but the regional state administration overrode it,” said Mykola Lisovy.
By Viktoria KOBYLIATSKA, Cherkasy
A new European-style stadium opens in Ukraine
In Morshyn, Lviv oblast, a new stadium was opened, following reconstruction works to make it suitable for games in the junior soccer league.
The stadium conforms to all European standards and can become a training facility for soccer teams during the European 2012 Soccer Championship, which is to be held in Ukraine. The stadium has a capacity of 1,000 covered seats. The parameters of the pitch meet European standards (105 by 68 meters); it has a state-of-the-art turf field, complete with draining and sprinkling systems. The stadium is supposed to function mainly as a facility for training and juniors’ games (aged 13-17). Meanwhile, its infrastructure allows its use as a training facility for Euro 2012 participants.
The total amount of investments in the reconstruction of the municipal stadium in Morshyn is three million hryvnias, the local soccer club FK Skala Morshyn being the investor.
