Movies in English in Kiev again!

As I wrote a few days ago, "Kinopanorama" is under construction for now. But you can watch movies in English in Butterfly Ultramarine and "Zhovten" cinemas!

1. Butterfly Ultramarine Cinema

www.kino-butterfly.com.ua/cinema3.htm

Address: Uritskogo st., 1a
Metro station - "Vokzalna"

Map:

Butterfly Ultramarine

Movie: "WhiteOut" (triller)

Whiteout Trailers

When:
October, 1-7 - 4.15 p.m.

Tickets -20-35 hrn.

This is a post from Al at Butterfly Ultramarine forum :):

Dear Administrators, There not many sources where we, English-speaking community may have a pleasure to watch movies in English. I would recommend you to advertise your service much wider. Not many people know about your “once-per week movie in English. We went this week and there were only TREE people in. You have no idea – how many people would love to see movies not in Russian and Ukrainian languages! One more thing: please ask your support personal not to walk in and out during movie. It is very disturbing. Good luck!

2. "Zhovten" Cinema

www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua

Address: Konstantinovskaya st., 26
Metro station - "Kontraktova Pl."
Free parking

Maps:
Zhovten

or

zhovten-kino.kiev.ua/text/17

Movies:

"Stoic" : October, 6-7 - 7.40 p.m.

"Moon 2112" : October, 6-21 - 11.50 a.m., 3.50 p.m., 7.50 p.m., 9.35 p.m.

Tickets - 16-35 hrn.

What does "Zhovten" mean? In Ukrainian it means "October". So it's good time to visit the "October" cinema :).

Europe Days in Ukraine

The official launch of Europe Days will take place at 2p.m. on May, 16 on the stage at Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev. The European village will be located on Khreshchatyk and opened from 2p.m. until 5p.m.

As usual Europe Day will close with a concert at Maidan Nezalezhnosti from at 4p.m. until 9p.m.

Europe Days events also will take place in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Lutsk, Kryvyi Rig, Poltava, Simferopil.

Happy Easter!

Yes, it is Easter in Russia and Ukraine today.



If you want to know more about Orthodox Easter, I can recommend you a great blog "Windows to Russia" from Kyle Keeton.

All you ever wanted to know about Easter

Ukrainian newspapers&magazines

Almost all newspapers and magazines in Ukraine are in Ukrainian or Russian. I’ve found a few newspapers&magazines that are in English or have English version. Write me if you know more!

KyivPost – the most popular Ukraine's English-language newspaper that is available for free at many of the hotels and restaurants that attract Westerners.
www.kyivpost.com

The Day Weekly Digest. It’s a very popular Ukrainian newspaper, but only some articles have been translated into English.
www.day.kiev.ua

Zerkalo nedeli (A Mirror of the Week). It’s another very popular Ukrainian newspaper, but probably about 5% of the articles have been translated into English.
www.mw.ua


Two not very popular magazines (I’ve never heard about them before)

The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law (UJBL)

“Ukrainian Journal” magazine

Emergency phone numbers

There is no the universal emergency phone number in Ukraine. Probably we'll have universal phone number soon and it'll be 112. But for now Ukraine has a different emergency number for each of the different emergency services:

101 - Fire
102 - Police
103 - Medical
104 - Gas leaks

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME!!!

Sunday, March 29, 3 a.m. is time to change your clocks forward one hour! Don't forget!

Botanical garden in Kiev

Have you ever been in Botanical garden in Kiev? I’ve been there today. Look at pictures that I’ve taken. It’s so beautiful. Highly recommend you to visit the garden.














Botanical garden
Open: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (but you can enter only before 3.30 p.m.)
Closed: Monday, Tuesday
Tickets: 10 hrn., for kids – 5 hrn.

How to get there:
Trolleybus №14, bus 62, marshrutka 238 from metro “Pecherska”

Buy tickets near the entrance to the garden, keep them, and go straight on through the garden to this building (about 10 minutes):



Show tickets at the entrance again, come in and enjoy!

About blog and me

Hello!

My name is Irene, I live in Kiev, Ukraine. This is a big country (48 million population) in the centre of Europe. Do you know that the centre of Europe is located in Ukraine? Surprised? Also Ukraine was a part of former USSR and passed through very difficult times.

A lot of foreigners visit Ukraine and some of them live here for years because of their business or ministry. Sometimes they face a lot of problems. Another language, unknown traditions, laws and rules...

This blog will help you to survive, live and have fun in Ukraine. No politics, no long stories, only useful information about everyday life in Ukraine. Comments are welcome! Please write what would you like to know or tell your stories about living in Ukraine.

Let's start! And sorry for my English, I'm Ukrainian :).