Photo Gallery

1. Parliamentary Deputy Oleksandr Volkov of the Party of the Regions and Oleksandr Bystrushkin, the head of the Presidential Secretariat's main department of humanitarian policy and preservation of the national cultural heritage (right)		2. Oleksandr Bystrushkin, the head of the Presidential Secretariat's main department of humanitarian policy and preservation of the national cultural heritage		3. Parliamentary Deputy Valerii Sushkevych of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
4. Parliamentary Deputy Valerii Sushkevych of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc		5. The Kyiv municipal administration's deputy head Vitalii Zhuravskyi		6. The Kyiv municipal administration's deputy head Vitalii Zhuravskyi (left) and the Ukrainian Soccer Federation s President Hryhorii Surkis
7. The Ukrainian Soccer Federation s President Hryhorii Surkis		8. The Ukrainian Soccer Federation's President Hryhorii Surkis		9. The Dynamo Kyiv soccer club s President Ihor Surkis
10. The Dynamo Kyiv soccer club s President Ihor Surkis		11. Family, Youth, and Sports Minister Yurii Pavlenko		12. Family, Youth, and Sports Minister Yurii Pavlenko
13. Labor and Social Policy Minister Liudmyla Denysova		14. Economics Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn		15. The guard at the sending off ceremony for the Ukrainian Paralympic team

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, 126 Ukrainian athletes will participate in the Paralympic Games, which will take place in Beijing from September 6 to 17.

Ukrainian Paralympic athletes will participate in 11 events.

President Viktor Yuschenko recently increased the stipends of Ukrainian Olympic, Deaflympic, and Paralympic athletes from UAH 1,600 to UAH 2,500 for winners of gold medals, from UAH 1,300 to UAH 2,000 for winners of silver medals, and from UAH 1,000 to UAH 1,500 for winners of bronze medals.

001 - Parliamentary Deputy Oleksandr Volkov of the Party of the Regions and Oleksandr Bystrushkin, the head of the Presidential Secretariat's main department of humanitarian policy and preservation of the national cultural heritage (right)