Nice and quiet Dubno, city in Rivne region.

Several weeks ago I visited nice and quiet city in Rivne region - Dubno. And here are some photos from this lovely place in Ukraine.

The gate and the bridge of Dubno castle - Ukrainian fortification of XVth century and the main sightseeing in the city.

Ancient castle' smithy.

Castle's cave and entrance in it.

Fortificated wall and ditch of Dubno castle.

Ostrozki princes' palace - one of the building of the historical complex "Dubno castle".

One of Dubno castle's towers.

St. Yan Nepomuk Catholic Cathedral - architectural monument of XIXth century.

St. Illya Orthodox Church, built in 1905.

Lutsk Gate - three-storey building which was important Dubno fortification.

St. Transfiguration Orthodox Church, the first Dubno Orthodox Church built in 1643.

Former Bernardine monaster, the oldest Dubno Church, built in the beginning of XVIIth century). Here is St. Mykolay Orthodox Church nowadays.


Interesting monument to Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko, which consists of the statue of young T. Shevchenko, old blind kobzar and little boy nearby.



House of Children's Creation (former Contracts's House) - architectural monument of XIXth century.

Some Ukrainian news

There are some news from Ukrainian reality.
Good news are prohibition to use former chapel by Dognal's sectarians as their church on Pluhova street in Lviv. I wrote earlyer about this new Ukrainian dangerous sect here: http://thoughtsanddreamsfromukraine.blogspot.com/2011/06/everyone-has-right-to-choose-religion.html
Another good news are complaints of 45 oppositional deputies from BYUT and "Front zmin" ("Front of changes") (the first signed deputies under complaints - Serhiy Sobolyev, Andriy Pavlovskyy from BYUT and Arseniy Yatsenyuk from "Front zmin") to Constitutional Court about non-recognition of the Law about Pension reform, because Pension reform was accepted in unconstitutional way on July 7th, 2011 - the number of present deputies wasn't equal to number of the deputies which voted for this reform! Present deputies in parliament were much less than the number of voted deputies on parliament's screen.
And other good news are appeals of Association of Ukrainian Banks and of BYUT's deputy Serhiy Teryokhin to National Bank of Ukraine to cancel Bank's decision about obligatory showing and copying! of the first page of Ukrainian passport for all who want buy or sell foreign currency in the places of currency exchange since September 23th, 2011.
And farce's news are news about some documents of the criminal deal against ex-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, which are dated with unexisting date - April 31th, 2011! And three days ago Tymoshenko's lawyers also said that Tymoshenko's original signature wasn't on Ukrainian-Russian gas contracts of January 19th, 2009. There was only her facsimile. So it's a big question why she's in the prison now.

Palestine

Palestinian bid for full membership in the UN and for statehood is examining in these days in New York at the UN Assembly. I don't know what decision will be approved, but one day Palestinian state must be exactly created. Because the peace at the West Bank and in sector Gaza will come only when both nations, Israeli and Palestinians, will have their states and will form peaceful relations between each other. No war in the Holy Land anymore! I believe that as Palestinians thus Israeli want to live peacefully without military conflicts. And world must help them in it.

Possible EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

All Ukrainian newspapers and TV-channels talk about possible EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). But the majority of Ukrainians can't understand how EU may sign such AA with Ukrainian state power nowadays. Association Agreement gives development of political, trade, social, cultural and security links between two sides of the signed deal. And Ukrainians know that democratic values are very inportant in EU countries and that's why people want to join to the European Union. But how can such AA be signed in the present time?
When former Minister of the Ministry of Iternal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko is still arrested during almost nine months and former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko is still arrested during almost two months, though court doesn't prove their guilt yet, but all people know that these politicians are oppositional leaders towards present Ukrainian power.
Simple Ukrainians can't find job just to feed their families, while Ukrainian newspaper "Dzerkalo Tyzhnya"("The Mirror of the Week") wrote that "Chornomornaftohas" had overpaid 150 millions dollars from state budget for sea drilling rig in the Black Sea, so the real price for this drilling rig is much, much lower. While Ukrainian newspaper "Ukrayins'ka Pravda"("Ukrainian Truth") writes that Ukrainian President decided to rent two new airplanes for himself, also taking money from state budget. While informational agency UNIAN informed about 50 millions hryvnyas of state money, which were uneffectively used by National Television and Radio Companies, so this is a question where these money "traveled". And site "Nashi Hroshi" ("Our Money") reported about almost 260 millions hryvnyas of state money for the technical-material center's building of Lviv Employment Center. In Ukraine employment centers don't find any jobs for unemployeds and I really don't understand why these centers exist and are financed, but I'll write apart one article about Ukrainian employment centers.
So simple Ukrainians read such news and only think how it's possible just to live in Ukrainian state, when state power doesn't take care about them. Many Ukrainians have some relative which lives and works abroad and helps financially. But a few days ago National Bank of Ukraine obligated Ukraine's citizens to show their passports in currency exchange to buy or to sell even 1 euro, 1 dollar etc since September 23th, 2011. Yeh, it's "very nice" power's step to create a dictatorship in Ukraine.
And may it be signed Association Agreement between EU and Ukraine in such conditions of the Ukrainian reality?