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Three weeks before European Championship's start, the organizers published the regulations about banned objects and rules of conduct at the Euro-2012 stadiums. Everyone who is coming to Ukraine and Poland to watch the European football championship will find these regulations useful to know. First of all, the organizers prohibit bringing objects that contradict stadiums' safety rules. These are explosives, firearms and cold steel, par...'

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This week several European national teams published the last lists of players, who pretend on participation in Euro-2012. We say 'the last', while later on it'll be European Championships applications already, and not pretenders' lists. In particular, French, Irish, German, Dutch and Ukrainian national teams have already decided on their reserves. As expected, there are no sensations, yet. Spaniards have personnel problems, th...'

Introduction of the high-speed railway operation between Euro-2012 host cities is one of the most important tasks that Ukraine has to solve within the preparation to the European football championship framework. According to information by responsible officials, it will be finally implemented at the end of May. The third and the last batch of high-speed trains that is produced by South Korean company Hyundai Rotem and is supposed to run betwe...'

British musicians from the England Supporters Band, who support England's national football team at all championships for over 15 years, recently visited Kiev and Donetsk - the cities, where their favourite team will play in June. Having spent five days in Ukraine, Englishmen made up their own opinion about country's preparation level to the final part of Euro-2012and shared it with journalists. "We arrived in Kiev from Mancheste...'

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Early this week an official presentation of continental football championship's match tickets took place on the Euro-arenas of Kiev and Warsaw. The representatives of the UEFA and of the Euro-2012 local organizational committees from Ukraine and Poland presented permits' design and told about their protection levels and when the ticket owners will be able to get them in hand. Presenting the ticket's model at the National Sports Co...'

Recently the cases of steeling funds from the payment cards by violators have increased in Ukraine. And the period of the final part of the European football championship, when the huge number of tourists from all over the world will come to Ukraine, will become, according to experts, an extra stimulus for swindlers to "earn money", and, as a result, will provoke the real wave of card frauds. "The developments of recent years s...'

The situation with excessively overpriced accommodation in Ukrainian hotels for the period of the European Championship - despite the promises of the officials to deal with the hotel owners, who went too far - remains critical. Being raised in tens of times in Euro-2012 host cities, the cost of hotel services causes indignation of UEFA officials and scares the fans, who want to attend matches in Ukraine, away. Rising of accommodation prices i...'

At the threshold of the final part of the continental football championship Ukrainian customs officers together with their colleagues from neighboring countries work on making the process of passing the border for Euro-2012 fans as simple as possible. It is planned that the guests of the championship will go through the document checking just one time - on the territory of one of two countries (for example, Ukraine or Poland). But the aficionad...'