Background information on Ukraine

It's time to start investigating information relating to Apimondia 43.  The organizers have sent out a publication, providing some information on beekeeping in the host country of Ukraine as well as what one might expect from the congress itself.  The basic statistics for the nation are found a several places, including Apiservices.com  and the mainstay Wikipedia.org.  Finally a prominent beekeeper and scientist in the country, Alexander Komissar, has produced a detailed web site on bees and beekeeping.  If anyone  has more information to share about Ukraine and its beekeeping, please let me know.