The known film actor and the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has visited Iraq to meet the American military men for a raising of their fighting spirit.
Schwarzenegger has arrived on military base of Kemp-Viktori in the west of Bagdad from Israel where it took part in the conference devoted to problems of safety in the Near East.
During a meeting which lasted two hours, the 13-fold world champion on body building has had time to communicate approximately to 400 military men. They pressed each other hands, was photographed for memory and has presented some of them cigars.
«I already was here in 2003 and I have told« I will return »before departure», - Schwarzenegger has declared in the speech, having repeated a legendary phrase of the cyborg played by it from a film "Terminator".
«Terminator always fulfils the promises», - the 62-year-old politician-republican has noted.
Military operation of the USA and their allies against Iraq has begun in March, 2003. As a formal occasion to start operation not confirmed statement of the American management for presence has served in Iraq weapons of mass destruction till now.
The USA have finished on June, 30th a conclusion of fighting parts from Bagdad and other Iraq cities. In Iraq there were only divisions into which problem enters doctrines of the Iraq safety force and granting of expert assistance by it. The full withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will take place till the end of 2011.
The American contingent totals at the moment more than 130 thousand military men. From the operation beginning in Iraq, according to the western mass-media, was lost not less than 4 359 American military men.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Women began to smoke half
Verkhovna Rada decided to increase the excise rate on tobacco products. Pack of cigarettes "Pryłuki special" in November, costs have grown by 2.5 UAH, Prima Lux - to 2,25 grn, "Troika" - 2,6 UAH, "Monte Carlo" - 3 UAH, "Glamor" and "Camel - 4 UAH.
- Ukrainians move to cheaper cigarettes, which are illegally imported from Russia and Moldova - the general director of association "Ukrtyutyun Valentina Khomenko. - And our companies are beginning to turn off the program on modernization of production and planning staff reductions.
Excise tax on tobacco for the first time this year raised in May. A stack of cigarettes went up by then 1,25-3 UAH. In October and September, the price of cigarettes was raised producers. In the end, because of falling demand for tobacco production in Ukraine at the 2009th fallen by 20%.
At the same time increasing the volume of smuggling of cheap cigarettes, according to manufacturers. This year, seized contraband tobacco products to 1,82 million UAH - to 26-fold higher than the same period last year. And this despite the fact that they blow around a tenth of the illegal goods.
But customs officials paint a different picture. In fact, smuggling from Ukraine are trafficked into four to six times more cigarettes than imports.
- Production of cigarettes in Ukraine, 2.5 times the capacity of the domestic market - explains the 34-year-old Svetlana Sudak from the press service of the State customs. - In Europe, the price of cigarettes is 10-12 times higher than ours. Because Ukraine among the leading suppliers of smuggled tobacco products in the European Union. And manufacturers are tentatively placed into the production of contraband component.
- International experience suggests that raising cigarette prices by 20 per cent above inflation leads to the fact that quit smoking 5 percent of smokers. But these measures are too little to overcome the massive tobacco Okura neither I, - says 24-year-old Alexander Ustinov, a coalition of NGOs "For a smoke-free Ukraine." - The need to prohibit smoking in public places, hospitals and trains, allocating half of the area establishments catering for non-smokers. In Ukraine, some of what they do. In 2005 smoked 42 per cent of Ukrainians are now - 31. Among women, smoking rates fell by half.
According to the coalition, every fifth day Ukrainian teenager lights a cigarette. Die annually from tobacco 100 thousand Ukrainians.
- Ukrainians move to cheaper cigarettes, which are illegally imported from Russia and Moldova - the general director of association "Ukrtyutyun Valentina Khomenko. - And our companies are beginning to turn off the program on modernization of production and planning staff reductions.
Excise tax on tobacco for the first time this year raised in May. A stack of cigarettes went up by then 1,25-3 UAH. In October and September, the price of cigarettes was raised producers. In the end, because of falling demand for tobacco production in Ukraine at the 2009th fallen by 20%.
At the same time increasing the volume of smuggling of cheap cigarettes, according to manufacturers. This year, seized contraband tobacco products to 1,82 million UAH - to 26-fold higher than the same period last year. And this despite the fact that they blow around a tenth of the illegal goods.
But customs officials paint a different picture. In fact, smuggling from Ukraine are trafficked into four to six times more cigarettes than imports.
- Production of cigarettes in Ukraine, 2.5 times the capacity of the domestic market - explains the 34-year-old Svetlana Sudak from the press service of the State customs. - In Europe, the price of cigarettes is 10-12 times higher than ours. Because Ukraine among the leading suppliers of smuggled tobacco products in the European Union. And manufacturers are tentatively placed into the production of contraband component.
- International experience suggests that raising cigarette prices by 20 per cent above inflation leads to the fact that quit smoking 5 percent of smokers. But these measures are too little to overcome the massive tobacco Okura neither I, - says 24-year-old Alexander Ustinov, a coalition of NGOs "For a smoke-free Ukraine." - The need to prohibit smoking in public places, hospitals and trains, allocating half of the area establishments catering for non-smokers. In Ukraine, some of what they do. In 2005 smoked 42 per cent of Ukrainians are now - 31. Among women, smoking rates fell by half.
According to the coalition, every fifth day Ukrainian teenager lights a cigarette. Die annually from tobacco 100 thousand Ukrainians.
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