L'UNIAN ou Agence ukrainienne d'information indépendante sur les nouvelles (en ukrainien : Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН) est une agence de presse ukrainienne basée à Kiev. Elle produit et diffuse des informations politiques, économiques et financières, ainsi qu'un service de reportage photo.
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European Square is a square located in what is known as the Old Town or the Upper Town, in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is also located at the north-eastern end of the Khreschatyk, the city's main thoroughfare. Other streets connected to the square are Tryokhsvyatytelska Street, Volodymyrskyi Descent, and Hrushevsky Street.
In 2013–14 the square was one of the centres of the EuroMaidan protests.
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The Ukrainian House International Convention Center, is the largest international exhibition and convention center in Kyiv, Ukraine. The five-storey building is the host venue for a variety of events from exhibitions, trade fairs and conferences to international association meetings, product launches, banquets, TV-ceremonies, sporting events, etc.
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Hotel Dnipro is a four-star hotel located in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on European Square, next to Khreschatyk Street and near Maidan Nezalezhnosti.
The hotel was built in 1964 in a location which originally was occupied by Kyiv's Hotel Yevropa. The interior and design of the restaurant in the Hotel Dnipro was made by the architect Irma Karakis.
Formally state owned, in July 2020 the hotel was sold to the private real estate company Smartland. Smartland won an open auction with their bid of ₴1,111,111,222.22).
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Saint Volodymyr Descent is a street in Kyiv located between the Pechersk and Podil city districts. It stretches from European Square to Postal Square.
The city street splits two city parks located on the slopes of Saint Michael Hill. The two parks are connected by the Bridge over Saint Volodymyr Descent, also called the Klitschko Bridge or the Kyiv Glass Bridge, which opened on 25 May 2019.
The street started to form in 1711 in place of the so-called Old Pechersk Road that used to connect Pechersk with Podil. As a city street it was known originally as Khreshchatyi Drive and later as Paved Street becoming the first city's street paved with cobblestone. Sometime in 1810s it became part of a long Aleksandr Street that stretched all the way from Arsenal Square to Contracts Square, while the descent was unofficially referred to as Aleksandr Descent. After the occupation of Kyiv by the Soviet troops in March 1919 the long street was renamed as Revolution Street. When Kyiv became the capital of the Soviet Ukraine in 1934, the street was renamed once again, now as Sergei Kirov Street after the soviet government official Sergei Kirov. During the Nazi occupation the street along with the modern Hrushevskyi Street carried the name of the Nazi political figure Fritz Todt.
During the World War II when Kyiv was freed from Nazi occupation, the former long Kirov Street was split at the Stalin Square into Kirov Street and Volodymyr Descent that stretched from the Stalin Square to Contracts Square. In 1955 the street was shortened and part of it between Postal Square and Contracts Square was renamed Zhdanov Street after the Soviet official Andrei Zhdanov.
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The Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander also called Cathedral of St. Alexander of Kyiv is a Latin Catholic co-cathedral located in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Kyiv had a large Polish Catholic minority, which, however, lacked a proper Catholic church. There existed only a small church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apostles Peter and Paul on Pechersk, built at the end of the 18th century. Polish landowners, taking advantage of Tsar Alexander I’s visit to Kyiv, submitted a request to build the Catholic Church of St. Alexander to commemorate the imperial visit. Permission was granted, and the site chosen for construction was a square in the middle of the former Słoboda Lacka, a district where Poles had settled since the time of Yaroslav the Wise.
Construction lasted as long as twenty-five years, primarily due to a lack of funds, but also because of the restrictions imposed on everything Polish and Catholic in Russia after the failure of the November Uprising. The original design was significantly scaled down. Construction was completed in 1842. On 30 August of that year, the church was solemnly consecrated by the Archdeacon of Kyiv, Justyn Stejgwiłło, who at the same time became the first parish priest of the church. The church was on a cruciform plan, with a dome at the intersection of the aisles in the style of classicism.
After 1905, the tsarist authorities eased restrictions on churches other than Russian Orthodox. In Soviet times a planetarium occupied the premises. On 3 August 1937, the then parish priest S. Kwaśniewski, was arrested and accused of conducting counterrevolutionary activities. On 21 September 1937, he was executed by firing squad. The church was closed down. After the fall of communism the building was renovated and became the co-cathedral of the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.
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