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The article reports on a reform initiative by Ukraine's Ministry of Education, Science, Youth, and Sports to integrate children with mental and physical disabilities into mainstream education. The ministry has ordered schools to upgrade infrastructure, train teachers, and hire new staff in order to enable 120,000 special needs children in Ukraine to study alongside their peers in primary and secondary schools.

The article discusses co-hosting the Euro 2012 soccer championship in June 2012 is helping Ukraine to develop. It has been informed that the event has become the starting point for a general upgrade of the nation with heavy investments in roads and railways, power grids, stadiums, theaters, museums, concert halls and airports. It has been informed that the event would create more than 1,000 temporary jobs and it would boost tourism by 30 to 40 percent.

The article looks at the various aspects of neo-pagan groups residing in Ukraine, located in Eastern Europe. It is given that around 80 neo-pagan groups, including the Ukraine Rodnovery Association and Fire Clan of the Original Orthodox Faith, are active in the country. It is given that the neopagans love rock music and are using theater to show their real traditions of native faith and culture.

The article offers information on how the company Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) in Ukraine performed well in business during the financial crisis. It informs that the key business of MHP is chicken farming and to sell its poultry products in its own chain store in Nasha Ryaba. It states that in the third quarter of 2009, the company put 76,000 tons of chicken on Ukrainian table alone despite financial crisis. It further tells that the company has planned for building a larger facility.

The article analyzes the likely impact of the new tax code which went into effect in Ukraine on January 1, 2011, on the country's economy. It is stated that, the new tax code is biased against small businesses and is in favor of large businesses. Head of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Anatoly Kinakh says that, the new tax code will be detrimental for small businesses, and it threatens the country's economic recovery.

The article reports that Ukraine will soon start mandating preschool education for 5-year-olds. Teachers have been assured by the education officials that changes will not mean a heavier burden for them or their charges. It is stated that education, comprising the number of years of mandatory schooling, has been a battleground in a domestic war since long, over Ukraine's foreign policy.

The article presents views of several teachers of former-Soviet Union countries on educational conditions during the communist regime in Soviet Union. Ante Colega, a Croatian professor, said that in communist society, academic freedom and expression were restricted. Guliko Mchedlidze, a historian in Georgia said that history curriculum at the time was based on viewpoint of the communist government. Viorica Bolocan, a Romanian teacher, said that several authors were banned during the regime.

The article focuses on the working life of the journalists of Croatia, Georgia and Ukraine, compared to the conditions before 1991. It states that when Georgian music journalist and editor, Bidzina Makashvili, wrote an article about hippies and their freestyle and ideas, the newspaper "Young Communist," did not publish it, as they considered it dangerous for communist youth. According to the financial writer of Moldova, Vlad Bercu, there was no specific journalistic style before 1991.

The article focuses on the working life of the people of Croatia, Georgia and Ukraine, of various professions, compared to the conditions before 1991. It states that poet and writer, Tomislav Marijan Bilosnic, participated in the Croatian Spring, a movement that championed greater rights for Croatians within Yugoslavia, but he was imprisoned for a year and his books were banned. According to actor, Vitalie Rusu, there is no difference in working as an actor in both the periods.