Euro-2012 News Online

On June 23, the biggest in the world water revolving ball was set close to Donbass Arena stadium. The ball the weighing 30 tons has been created by German professionals with the special Tittlinger breed granite. Its diameter reaches more than 2,7 m. Despite its gigantic size, it looks like a soccer ball.

Grey element on its cover is polished granite, and the black ones have sandblasting and acrylic coverage. Ball stand is also huge, 360 cm in diameter and weighing 12,5 tons.

An enormous granite ball will revolve under the pressure of two water streams. Rotation is carried out due to water pressure and ideally round form. Deviation in granite ball form from that of ideal ball makes less than 0,1 mm.

The ball doesn’t spin yet, but after all dusty works in the stadium’s south side are finished, it’ll start operating.

It should be reminded that on July, 1^st Donetsk Shakhter starts subscription sales to the brand-new Donbass Arena stadium.

Government of Ukraine will allocate a billion hryvnyas to Kharkov for Euro-2012 organization.

711 mln out of the sum will be spent for city airport reconstruction, above 200 mln to finish the building of Metallist stadium, the rest is going to be spent for roads infrastructure development.

By November, 30 Kharkov, Donetsk and Lvov are to provide confirmation to UEFA, that heading works for Euro-2012 are carried out as scheduled. Otherwise the cities will lose their right to host the matches.

We remind that after the extraordinary governmental meeting where amendments to the state-run special purpose program on Euro-2012 organization were accepted, officials had meeting with the President.

Deputies of Verkhovna Rada have found sources to finance organization of the Championship, as Delo newspaper reports.

A bill previewing provision of tax remissions for Kharkov, Donetsk, Lvov and Kiev which are preparing to host the Championship had been registered in Verkhovna Rada, Delo informs.

The bill authors are BYuT (Block of Yulia Timoshenko) deputies Alexander Feldman, Oleg Geiman and Regions Party deputy Victor Korzh. They suggest that all the profit fund raised from land taxes and administrative fines should remain in host-cities’ budgets.

In accordance with the Budgetary Code currently in force, only Kiev and Sevastopol

can have 100% of tax proceeds from land tax and individual income. At present local budgets get half the amount of road fines.

In addition, the deputies suggest transferring to local budgets 50% from private property enterprises profit tax.

On June, 22^nd Cabinet of Ministers approved of the project and reconstruction title of Olimpiyskiy NSC in Kiev.

The project’s been ratified with previously set total construction budget of 2,114 bln hryvnyas.

At the same time the Government previewed total construction budget increase in case if there’s need for additional amendments.

Earlier Verkhovna Rada’s formed a short-term investigating committee to check on law observance during Olimpiyskiy NSC reconstruction in Kiev.

Cabinet of Ministers is planning to involve Dnepropetrovsk hotel infrastructure in providing help to Donetsk with hosting Europe Football Championship in 2012, as Ukrainian News was informed by Vasily Vovkun, Minister of Culture and Tourism.

He marked that Ministry had suggested attracting hotel infrastructure of Dnepropetrovsk to help Donetsk, provided that transport connection is regulated between the cities.

Besides, Mr. Vovkun reports that the Cabinet’s intending to attract lower category hotels if they improve their service level to reach higher category hotels’ level.

He claims that, in accordance with revision of state-run special purpose program on Euro-2012 organization it’s been previewed re-equipment of 33 hotels, reconstruction of 11 hotels, building 84 hotels in Kiev; re-equipment of 35 hotels, reconstruction of 3 hotels, building 16 hotels in Donetsk and Donetsk region; re-equipment of 32 hotels, reconstruction of 33 hotels, building 31 hotels in Lvov, Lvov region and also Lutsk and Ivano-Francovsk; re-equipment of 36 hotels, reconstruction of 13 hotels and building 18 hotels in Kharkov, Kharkov region, and Poltava.