Rivne policemen will learn English

Rivne’s policemen and their head Oleh Salo will learn English at the Ostroh Academy. An agreement has been signed by the head of Ukraine’s UMVS (Ministry of Internal Affairs) in Rivne oblast Oleh Salo and the rector of the Ostroh Academy (OA) Ihor Pasichnyk. The preparations for the Euro-2012 championship require law-enforcement officials to have at least a basic command of English. In Pasichnyk’s opinion, the project to engage volunteers who would translate for law-enforcement officials, could be simplified if the policemen were taught basic English at the academy. The rector and general hope that such a creative tandem will become an example to be emulated throughout Ukraine. The image of Ukrainian law-enforcement officials, at times gloomy and even rude, should be changed — they should be friendly and smiling, believes the OA’s rector. Pasichnyk presented Salo with a collector’s coin depicting the Ostroh Academy, and a legendary Ostroh Bible in Rafail Torkuniak’s translation. Salo, on behalf of the entire oblast department, presented the academy and its students with Ukrainian publications: a six-volume book by the Catholic University’s pro-rector Myrolsav Marynovych and Valerii Voitovych’s anthology of Ukrainian myths. The general promised that he himself would join the students’ ranks in order to improve his English before the Euro-2012 championship.