2008
Two events this year have significantly influenced the understanding of charity's role in Ukraine. The first was the Philanthropic Roundtable held by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Source: Effect
KIEV, Ukraine — There comes a time in the life of an oligarch when spending money becomes more important than making it. And for Victor Pinchuk, the controversial oligarch and Ukraine’s second-richest man after Rinat Akhmetov, that time is now.
Source: The New York Times
The tempest that is Ukrainian politics is felt
even in sunny Yalta. The country's continued political instability is
harming its European perspectives. This is the warning of the
participants of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) , an international
NGO that aims to bring Ukraine closer to the EU. Read the source
Source: Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
23/06/2008, Dreams of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Below is an interview with Viktor Pinchuk, who belongs to a galaxy of business persons of the first – most powerful and muddy – wave of the Ukrainian rich.
Source: "Zerkalo Nedeli"
11/05/2008, Paul McCartney to play Independence Concert
It’s straight back in the saddle for Sir Paul McCartney, after settling his extremely public personal affairs, he’ll get back to doing what he does best, he’ll perform for charity in Ukraine at the Independence Concert next month. Read the source
Source: http://jollypeople.com
05/05/2008, Here Comes Paul McCartney
The Rolling Stones might have cancelled their big Republican Stadium concert last year and played a show in the Czech Republic instead, but now Kyiv can start getting ready to welcome another titanic rock act - Paul McCartney. Read the source
25/04/2008, Macca plays Ukraine
Paul McCartney is to play a free show in the Ukraine this summer, he has announced. The rock icon will host the "Independence Concert" before hundreds of thousands of fans in the capital of Kiev. Read the source
Source: Yahoo Music
24/04/2008, Paul McCartney's Independence show
Sir Paul McCartney is to perform a special Independence Concert in the Ukraine. The Beatles legend is set to wow thousands of fans at a free show in Independence Square in the country's capital Kiev on June 14, for charity the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Read the source
Source: http://www.itv.com/
24/04/2008, Paul Announces Kiev Date
On Saturday 14th June 2008, at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Paul McCartney will perform to hundreds of thousands of people in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine. Read the source
Source: http://www.paulmccartney.com
24/04/2008, McCartney plans huge Ukraine show
Sir Paul McCartney is to perform to hundreds of thousands of fans at a free concert in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in June. He was invited by Ukrainian tycoon Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of the former president Leonid Kuchma. Read the source
Source: BBC News
07/04/2008, International Exhibition by Japanese Cosmic Girl
On 12 April, just in time for International Day of Cosmonautics, the 'Oneness' exhibition by leading Japanese artist Mariko Mori will open in the PinchukArtCentre. Read the source
Source: What's on
25/03/2008, Victor Pinchuk: interview for Flash Art
Ukrainian collector, businessman, former politician and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk is one of the most significant collectors of the former USSR, and certainly the most important in Ukraine.
Source: Flash Art
Andrew Wilson: I
had the pleasure of participating in the Davos Philanthropic Roundtable
organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation at the World Economic Forum
on Jan. 24.
Source: Kyiv Post
31/01/2008, Reflection
Exhibitions that feature both local and international art have become
increasingly common as centers of contemporary art open in places
previously considered peripheral, providing opportunities to see works
by artists from different parts of the world side hy side
Source: ARTFORUM
25/01/2008, The Making of a Davos Man
It’s not easy to generate buzz here if your name isn’t Bono or
Clinton or Gates. For a billionaire pipe-maker from Ukraine named
Victor Pinchuk, it would seem harder still.
Source: The New York Time blog
2007
24/11/2007, Intensive care for the Bukovyna cradle
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01/11/2007, 10 reasons to visit Kiev: PinchukArtCentre
Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchtik's art collection includes works by Carsten Holler, Xavier Veilhan and Olafur Eliasson, among others.
Source: Air France Magazine
10/10/2007, Viktor Pinchuk. The art of retirement
Having mixed business and politics, the Ukrainian oligarch has refound his innocence again by turning into a philanthropist and amateur supporter of contemporary art.
Source: Le Monde
05/10/2007, Conference probes Holocaust in Ukraine
For the first time, scholars from around the world shared documents and knowledge about the Holocaust in Ukraine at a conference in Paris.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
There was nothing to see in Ukraine because people were shot to death with guns," said Thomas Eymond-Laritaz, president of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine's largest philanthropic organization.
Source: The New York Times
The first international conference on the Holocaust of Jews in Ukraine has opened on Monday at the Sorbonne university in Paris.
Source: EJpress
The following is a transcript of an interview with Mr. Alexander Solovyev, art-critic and one of curators of the Ukrainian project "A Poem about an Inland Sea".
"To be frank, the majority of local politicians did not expect the Ukraine to be chosen with Poland to organise the European Football Championship in 2012", confesses Ivan Federenko.
Source: LesEchos
05/07/2007, Schroder was often before just as heavy-going
Yalta was all about Europe, or more precisely about the not so surprising wish of the Ukrainians to join the European Union, and there was much verbal debate on how to bring this about by 2020.
Source: Die Welt
Fallen into obscurity for 62 years, Yalta made a come back this weekend to the front page of the news. The Ukrainian town hosted a summit organized by the billionaire Victor Pinchuk.
Source: L’Echo
Yalta - there are hardly any prettier places in the Ukraine to talk about the country's future in Europe and even Gerhard Schr?der could not miss this.
Source: Suddeutsche Zeitung
19/06/2007, "LETS' STOP AIDS TOGETHER!"...
Two hundred thousand people came to Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) to listen and look at a world-known star, Sir Elton John. The concert was organized by the "ANTIAIDS" Foundation run by Elena Franchuk.
15/06/2007, Whose art is it anayway?
"I'm loving being an honorary Ukrainian at the moment," says Taylor-Wood. "So many people keep on coming up to me and asking why."
Source: Evening Standard
02/06/2007, The hottest month for art in a decade
Ukraine may not be known for its art - in recent years it has hogged the headlines for rigged elections and poisoned presidents - but don't let this put you off...
Source: Daily Telegraph
Furthermore, the Dniepropetrovsk billionaire has managed to double his capital for the last year.
Source: Korrespondent
From now on the Regional Chernivtsi City Hospital has everything it needs for this purpose. A new neonatal intensive care centre within "Cradles of hope" Program sponsored by Victor Pinchuk Foundation was opened here.
27/04/2007, MU?IZipal Art
PinchukArtCentre hosts an Exhibition titled "A Survey" presenting a Grandee of contemporary art, Brazilian Vik Mu?iz. This is exactly a rare occurrence for Ukraine when it can welcome art-stars of the first magnitude.
30/03/2007, Euro-optimism
Ukraine should not let slip its chance to join the European Union. This is the tenet, the Poland’s former president Aleksander Kwasnewskiy insisted on, as he was delivering his speech in Dnipropetrovs’k at European Debate Forum.
Source: Day
30/03/2007, Paradoxical region
“Ukrainians are Europeans!” These words of Poland’s ex-president Alexander Kwasniewski, who is one of the EU’s leading politicians, was a constant refrain in his discussion with students and lecturers of Donbas higher educational establishments, which took place in Donetsk last week.
Source: The Day
The billionaire oligarch and the former President of Poland make an unlikely campaign team to persuade the people of Ukraine that their future lies with Europe and not Russia.
Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former President of Poland, had a simple message to sell as he toured Ukraine this week: that the road to prosperity and freedom lies in completing the journey from Soviet Union to European Union.
Source: The Times
27/03/2007, Kwasniewski has criticized Ukraine’s behavior
Ukraine remains politically unpredictable for Europe and does not give any clear signals to EU, told Poland’s former president Alexander Kwasniewski. He said this in Lviv, at European Discussion Forum.
Source: Korrespondent.net
Poland’s former president Alexander Kwasniewski believes that since the last parliamentary elections Ukraine has failed to give any clear political signals to the European Union.
Source: www.pravda.com.ua
INTERFAX-UKRAINE - Ukraine should define its place within Europe, because if it remains in a “leg-split” position between Europe and Russia this is going to be dangerous and backbreaking, said Poland’s former president Alexander Kwasniewski.
Source: Interfax
They say that “Lencom” theatre is slow to move. Maybe, this is just the reason why its visits are so notable for the people of cities where it comes for its tours, all of a sudden?
Source: UNIAN
27/02/2007, Lencom starts its tour in Kiev
The leading director of “Lencom” theatre, a people’s artist of the USSR, a laureate of the state prizes of the USSR and Russia Mark Zakharov said at the press conference that his theatre came for a tour in Ukraine, after a five-year pause.
Source: Commersant
27/02/2007, “Lencom” came to Kiev
The ranks of Moscow theatre performers thinned out a bit yesterday: the crew of "Lencom" theatre packed their suitcases and rushed for a tour to Kiev. And if you say something like "How, have they come again?” this would sound out-of-place here: you shouldn’t confuse a non-repertory theatre performance with a tour!
Source: Gazeta po-Kievsky
- “Lencom” takes all of its stage settings with it only when the theatre leaves for a tour in St. Petersburg and Israel”, the theatre’s artistic director Mark Zakharov told us at “Borispol” airport.
Source: “Gazeta po-Ukrainsky”
This Russian actress needs no extra promo hassle; even those who don’t quite remember their last going to the play will easily recall her vivid characters in Criminal Talent, The House Swift Has Built, The Formula of Love, and To Kill a Dragon. Still, there is much more nonetheless interesting roles of her, both comic and dramatic, played both at theatrical stage and in cinema.
Source: Den
Aleksandr Abdulov, an actor and a director, confides in having to support three families. Nevertheless, he feels ‘quite comfortable’ about it. ‘You take my job away from me and I’ll die’, he says.
Source: Delo
‘Are you from Ukraine? Your big boss with quite a few security guards was here a moment ago’, – an elderly resident of the Alpine village Davos could hardly keep in his admiration.
Source: Korrespondent
05/02/2007, Davos Optimism and Kiev Sadness
“In 1996 I conducted the first Ukrainian session in Davos”, the former Prime Minister Yevgeniy Marchuk noted, holding a glass of vodka in his hand. - under the title “Where is Ukraine heading?” - - just like the present-day Ukraine, ten years later. Let's raise our glasses to living for as long as it takes to see clearly where our country has arrived at last.”
Source: Expert
05/02/2007, «The Davos dilemma»-2007
The contradiction between a favourable economic situation and disturbing political tendencies is obvious for everyone.
Source: Profile
With a great thrill we followed the space flight of the American “Shuttle” last September. To a great extent it was because “our” Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper was taking part in the voyage.
Source: “Siliski Visti”
One of the most interesting non-political (hurray!) events was held yesterday. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation held awarding ceremony of Zavtra.UA Program Scholars.
16/01/2007, Kiev has acquired international art pieces
The PinchukArtCenter opened today in Kiev, becoming the largest private museum of its kind in Ukraine and nearly all the CIS. The Center is opening with an exhibition “The New Space” where works of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Russian artists are exhibited with masterpieces of international art stars of the last decade. Kiev is represented by Irina Kulik.
Source: “KOMMERSANT-RUSSIA”
2006
06/11/2006, Grants: effective?
There have been established the foundations within the Financial Industrial Groups (FIG) for diverse projects: from immortalizing of fighters for Ukraine's independence to the business education development. One of the first, who took this way, was Interpipe Corporation.
Source: The Expert Ukraine
19/10/2006, Spielberg calls home for poignant premiere
HIS films have brought home the horror of the Holocaust to millions. Yesterday Steven Spielberg came home to Ukraine to launch a film about survivors of the Holocaust in his ancestral homeland.
Source: The Times
A documentary film based on the accounts of Holocaust survivors in Ukraine can help undermine activists who try to deny the attempt to eliminate European Jewry, U.S. filmmaker
Steven Spielberg said on Wednesday.
Source: KIEV (Reuters)
Steven Spielberg may have grown up eating Ukrainian beet soup, but it was only that the 59-year-old Hollywood legend first set foot in the country of his four grandparents, to promote a new film about the destruction of its Jewish population.
Source: KIEV (AFP)
