 Hello, welcome to Ukraine Pavilion at Expo 2020. My name is Ivan Sidorenko. I'm Ukraine Pavilion Director. Please follow me. So, what are we seeing here at the entrance? What is this machine? This is some robot machine in the form of our Ukrainian emblem. But this is not traditional emblem. We include to our traditional emblem elements of Dubai. It's a well-known building, Burj Al Arab and Burj Khalifa. What's here outside? Here is one of our exhibition stands, modern sun protective system. And it has like motors and moves around? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what's the architecture and the idea here? The idea of this building is the shape of a wheat, you know, shape of a wheat. And in the facade we have national Ukrainian ornaments. It's kind of like Ukraine's number one part of the economy is agriculture, right? Yeah, yeah, this is right. So, we Ukrainians are well-known, like the biggest grain exporter and oil exporter. Please welcome inside. And please welcome inside. And yeah, Ukraine is well-known, like a country, one of the biggest grain exporters and oil exporters, agri-exporters in the world. And this exhibition installation called We Widfield. This is the ground area of our pavilion. And, you know, this installation demonstrates the transformation of our country. Because, yes, we are well-known, like one of the biggest agrarian exporters and this is symbol of this wheat brought from Ukraine. What type of culture is Ukraine exporting to the EU, for example? And it's big quantities. It's potentially much growing, right? Very big quantities, yeah, yeah. Not only grain and sunflower oil also exports a lot of meat products, dairy products. Actually, Ukraine is kind of like much bigger than Germany in terms of area. It's kind of like Germany plus France is very big country, no? Yeah, Ukraine is very big country, maybe one of the biggest in Europe. And here you have, for example, an example. Here we have our utility vehicle called SHERP. SHERP is a utility vehicle produced in Ukraine. This vehicle can take all terrain, sand, snow, ice, jungle, everywhere. Also, water. So, it is used in Ukraine for rescue missions and used all around the world. For example, in the United Nations World Food Program to deliver food in most complicated areas in the world. I did a separate video interview with them. Yeah, please, this guy can give you an interview about SHERP. Nice. And what do you have around here? Let's go and show you. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Here we have our electric bike Delfast. This is also produced in Ukraine. It can have a range up to 300 kilometers per one charge. It looks like a fast bike. Yeah, yeah, this is a fast bike. Also, we have a lot of... In this world record. Yes, yes, like one of the fastest electric bikes. And also we have a charging station for electric bikes and vehicles. And here, this looks cool. This is also a prototype of an electric bike, Ludovic Bike Locomotive. This prototype, so they are planning to launch manufacturing in the next year. Nice. And here we see something to do with space, right? Yes, correct. We have an example of our collaboration with another country. So we joined Ukraine and UK project called Spacebit. So within this project we are going to launch this robot, our Sagumu to the Moon. This robot, this is actually a prototype of this robot. We'll explore moon caves and lava tubes in the Moon. And within this robot we'll allocate a flag of Ukraine made from titanium. So next year we'll have our flag, Ukrainian flag in the Moon. That's very soon. Yes. So the whole rocket and everything is all scheduled in the plans. I hope, yeah. Then next year we will have this mission completed. What's the idea here? The main square with the big screen here, the square. So the main idea, this installation called WeWitfield. And the main idea is to show our visitors the process of transformation of our country from one of the biggest Ukrainian exporters to our main aim to be innovative technological country with sustainable energy decisions and IT products. Is it true that Ukrainian software engineers are the best in the world? Yes. Even better than Israel and India and everything? I believe yes. I believe yes because in Ukraine we have many universities that can educate very good IT staff. And also in Ukraine we have a lot of companies. So for example there's a lot of outsourcing happening through companies that are doing big, big outsourcing in Ukraine, right? Yes, yes. All right. So now we are going to our media room. Corridor? I hear some... Here we demonstrate some videos about Ukraine, about our history, about our beautiful places. Nice. This is all we do about Ukraine. Nice. So there are for example a whole bunch of different places to visit? Yes, yes. So actually last year, so this summer we have a lot of visitors in Ukraine from Gulf region, from UAE especially, yes. And within this exhibition, within this media zone also we'd like to demonstrate all of our visitors, our beautiful places, our beautiful cities, mountains, a lot of green, a lot of beautiful building castles, churches. So I invite all our visitors to visit our country. You will have a great experience. There's amazing cheap flights with the Whizare, and there's also fly Dubai, there's all these good airlines going from the Emirates to a different place in Ukraine. I heard that Lviv is for example a very popular place for certain... We have a lot of popular places. Kiev is a capital and a very nice city. So Lviv is a very beautiful place. Odessa our city near the sea and many many other small cities. We have ski resorts, we have sea resorts. So in Ukraine every visitor can find activity as they wish. 30 years. Yes, yes. Our country celebrated 30 years of independence this year. But I want to underline the history of our country. It takes from 7th century. We have very ancient history. So from Kiev's carousel to... Cruise vikings. No, actually it's not a vikings. But maybe some of their people live in Russia. Maybe it's true. In the TV show, the Vikings TV series, they go to Kiev, I think. I'm not believe that viking series is 100% historical series. But yes, according to our history documents maybe some people from Scandinavia live and rule in Kiev. Maybe this is correct information. Maybe some Danish people there. Maybe, yeah. All right. So let's go to the second floor. And one thing I notice here is the wind power. How much wind power is there in Ukraine? Because there's so much potential to do a lot. We have around 10% of alternative energy from all our energy production. Around 10% to 15%. This could grow much faster. Yes, but this is growing very fast. And I suppose near this time we will have much more part of sustainable energy of alternative energy in our energy production. So this floor. What are we looking at here? This floor is called in dialogue with culture. So we are present our culture within our traditional Ukrainian arts called Vytnanky. Vytnanky is traditional arts well known from 16th century. So originally it was made from textile, you know. And now for exhibition purposes it was made from paper. And each Vytnanky shows some famous person, some significant place or event from Ukraine history. I think a couple of these you could say. Yeah, I can. This is while inventors of EX-ray was Ukrainian. This is about EX-ray. So I would like to show you this picture. This is a symbol of our first Ukrainian constitution document, constitution of Philip Orlik. This is document early 18th century. One of the first constitution document in the world. All right. Let's go there. And so many different here. And the artists who conceptualized made these are all Ukrainian? Of course. All Ukrainian artists. And so here is our place, start-up and key corner. Here is represented some small Ukrainian companies and start-ups also. Ukraine has a lot of potential with the start-ups, right? Yes. A lot of things happening. Even some of them became very big. Like there are some big tech companies of Ukraine. Yes. We have such examples. Also, I would like to show you our future project. This is a gambling city resort, Dunaya. We are going to build this resort in Odessa region. Odessa is the city near the sea. And this resort will be located some hotels and casinos. It will be something like a gambling city. It will be a little bit like Las Vegas of Ukraine. Las Vegas of Ukraine, yes. So they can be like comedians. But we are with sea, you know? With the sea. Las Vegas with the sea. So on every side of the every casino would be beaches. Yes. Yes. We are going to launch this project next year and have some tourist and visitor flow in 2025. Odessa is a very popular place to go have some beach fun, right? Yes. And parties and stuff like that. Yes. This is the most popular place. Also, I would like to tell you. Can we have a quick look around here? Yes, of course. Yes, just to have a look. There are a few startups highlighted. Yes. For example, fishing now is Uber for fishing. You can book a boat for fishing in every place in the earth. Nice. With the captain. Yes, of course. Yes. Nice. That's cool. So you don't have to... Yes. Some small air filters. Some educational games. Yes. This is solar gaps that produce electricity. And it looks like it doubles as a window shade. Yes. And it might even turn with the sun or maybe not. Yes. Window shade. Yes. And producing electricity. Correct. It says smart solar blinds. That's a very smart way to do things. Because everybody has windows that sometimes they want to put blinds on. Yes. What's happening with this? This is an exoskeleton hand for medical purposes called uni-exo. Nice. Which is used for rehabilitation after some operation or other medical... Enjoy the wood. What do you enjoy with the wood here? You can enjoy the map of the world and can put some sticks in the places that you visited. You know? You buy this map and put these points in the place that you visited. You've been to all of them already? No. Unfortunately, no. Unfortunately, no. But I'm trying to visit... They're all here. Nearly all of them are here, the Expo, the World Expo. 192 pavilions as far as I remember, right? I think so. It means there's only like 20 left or something? Yes. Absolutely. So I have a good opportunity to visit all these countries in UAE. In Expo 2020. All right. And so this is a liberal data shell. This is a product which aims to control quantity of products. And quantity of products in the supermarket and some storages. So where can we go now? Yeah. Let's go to the third floor. William is cool both during the day and the night. In the night there's like this thing moving outside and the show and stuff. Yeah. So pavilion is more work like each pavilion in the Expo from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pavilion has 2,600 square meters and four floors. This was multiple years of work to prepare everything and build it and everything? Yes. Yes. It was work. The process started in 2018 and it was some process. So this is the third floor of our pavilion. There we have our cuisine restaurant with Ukrainian chef. What would be the borscht? Yes. You can taste traditional Ukrainian dishes like borscht, vareniki, potato pancakes. This is all... Kotlet Kiev style. This is a delicious stuff, right? Yes. Kiev classic cake. This is all traditional Ukrainian cuisine. So I'm inviting the visitors of Expo to visit our Ukrainian pavilion restaurant. Every day until 10 a.m. Yes, until 10 a.m. The name of our restaurant is Malvy. This is Ukrainian flower. And... It gets busy in the evening, right? Yes. Right now it's 5 p.m. It's a little bit early to eat. So this is a presentation of our project. Yes, Strolls. This is a sustainable project in Ukraine. So these guys made Strolls for drinking cocktails from resizable... Recycle. Yes. Yes. From these things? Bamboo? Not a bamboo, like cane. Cane Strolls. And you also have DJs and stuff? Oh, thanks. Nice. That's awesome. I love Strolls. You also have DJs doing some parties and some... Yes, we have this place for some business events, for some culture events. And also there is... Is this a Ukrainian athletics club? Yes, yes. All right. And our club? Football club. You have a bunch of... Ah, football club. Yeah. Located in Dubai. So there's a... Dynamo Dubai. There's a football academy. Yes. Here in Dubai for the kids to learn... Yeah, yeah. To play like Chevchenko. Absolutely correct. Right? To be like Chevchenko Rebrov and another famous Ukrainian footballist. There's a good... Hopefully a chance you can qualify for the Qatar World Cup, right? You just need to win a few more matches, right? Yes. As far as... So this is our audio system. The main feature is the dynamics is made from coconut shelf. This is made from coconut shelf. And this is a corner. Speakers also? Yes. This is a corner where we demonstrate some Ukrainian AT products, AT development companies. And they have their own representative coming here sometimes? Yes, of course. Yeah, yeah. But not all the time? No, not all the time, but during some business events, we have a lot of big business events, business programs. Yes, of course. All representatives are here to speak with visitors. This is presentation... Is this real? E-Residency? In Ukraine? Yeah. This is not for... So I could get my E-Residency if I just... You can... You can... Can you cut it? Yeah, no problem. So this is actually the presentation of our digital state project called GIA. We have this pro-project, this really implemented already pro-project that we are proud of. Even all Ukrainian citizens can have almost all government services, passport, COVID-19 certificate, driving license in their smartphone. And taxes? Also, yeah. Yeah, everything. Yeah, registration of business, so taxes, everything. Nice. And it's easy to use. Everybody can use even more elderly people if you know how to use it. You know, maybe some of the people that do not use smart smartphone or it's difficult to use smart smartphone, maybe have some problem. But most of the Ukrainian citizens have GIA in their smart smartphones and this application is really easy to use. The E-Residency, does that work also for foreigners? Or is it a lot to do with the Ukrainian citizens? So, I... Cut. We have this pro-project only for IT and some don't. Okay, please cut it. So here, already 2.5 million Ukrainians use it. Yes. There's a few million more, right? Yeah. How many? 30? In Ukraine, about 40 million. 40 million people, all right. So this is our company, LigaZakon, with their products for external markets. This is some IT decisions for law lawyers. This is analytics of legislation, base... So you just tell them the problem that you have and automatically calculate what laws should you do? Yes, yes. And how you will win the lawsuit? Yes, yes. That would be great. All right. Analysis of contra-gans and many other services. This is IAX, our manufacturer of home security system. You know, smart home system. Also, we have a presentation of our Ukraine Invest. This is authority under cabinet of minister, which engaged in attracting foreign direct investment to Ukrainian economy. In this screen, you can see information about our state support of investment activity, some guidance, sexual opportunities in the investments, in all sectors of economy. There's so much potential. So much potential for the Ukrainian economy to grow every year. It's already growing every year, right? Yes, yes. It's growing much faster than I would guess in all other EU countries. Maybe, yeah, yeah. Because it's starting from lower, right? So there's so much potential. If you invest, you might get double your money back. Of course, yeah. And I believe, but you know, last year we have a lot of legal implementation about investment, investment activities. For example, low about PPP, public-private partnership. You know, low about investment NANI. And we will have a lot of new government support activities for investment. Do you mind if I ask this question? I always wonder, how soon before Ukraine joins the EU? I don't know. Hopefully soon? Maybe. I hope it will be in the nearest time. All right. I'm waiting. I'm looking forward to this. Many people in Ukraine would like this, right? Yes, many, many, many people. That would help grow the economy very fast. Many people in Ukraine will be looking forward, of course, to join EU. Me also. Hopefully before World Expo 2025. 2025. Maybe, maybe. USF, this is Ukrainian start-up fund. This is institution under Ministry of Finance that help our enterprises to attract some government support, government money to develop their products and start-ups. I guess there must be thousands of start-ups, right? Yeah. And hopefully the next Google Facebook could be there. I'm confident. All right. In Ukraine we will launch something big, you know, something influential to the world economy like a Google Facebook and others. So, our last floor. Getting nice views from here. Yes, yes. We have a nice view views. We can see UK Pavilion and we have this floor called in dialogue with art. So, there we have a contemporary art project called Ellipses. And now my colleague, Daria, will tell you a little bit more about this. All right. I will call my colleague Art Kurator. Good day. Checking out the eyes here over the Ukraine pavilion. All right. So, maybe she can have the microphone? Yeah, sorry. Can you cut it? Yeah, it's kind of cut. So, this is the last floor of our pavilion. Yeah. We have a very beautiful view outside. The views to UK pavilion. And this floor called in dialogue with art. Here you have all the eyes. And my colleague Daria will tell you a little bit more about this area. So, maybe she can have the microphone? Yeah. Yeah. Is there a way you can clip it on your like this? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, okay. Well, maybe in the middle. Okay. Or if you want, you know, you take a little bit. Okay, that's good. That's good. Yeah. All right. Okay. So, maybe let's start right here. Okay. Okay. So, on this floor, we would like to show that Ukraine is making a dialogue with the whole world in the context of contemporary art. So, as you saw from the previous floor, we are in dialogue with the world with different topics and items like technology, culture, for example. And here we are on the territory of contemporary art. With this exposition, we would like to show that Ukrainian art scene is very bright and powerful. And the exposition called Ellipsis, the curator of the exposition is young Ukrainian curator Anna Avetova. And she creates this exposition to show not only Ukrainian, not only Ukrainian young artist, but also well known in the world. For example, Viktor Sidorenko, who's... For example, are we looking at here? Yeah. This is from... This one? Yeah. Okay. This one is Yegor Zyguro work. It's a sculpture. On this exposition, there is a few works of these artists because there is two brother who is working with sculptures. This work, for example, these fingertips also. So, this is like... This is a fingerprint login for your phone, no? Yeah. Could be. All right. You got there. It says... It's his brother, Nikita Zyguro. All right. This is another one work of these artists. Let's see this one. Apple. Yeah. Because people are so obsessed with their iPhones, right? Is there a comment to this? Probably. The whole planet. By the way, this is recyclable art, recycling art. It's made from... This is a plastic work. It's made from plastic. With remaking of plastics with a special technology. Are they world famous, these artists? Yes. Now they are with the expo. Yes. They're young but very well known. Their works are all around the world in the collections also and outside expositions also. Nice. What's happening here? Yeah, this very nice work. A lot of visitors would like to communicating with these sculptures. This is part of the big project of Viktor Sidorenko. He's very well known in the world because he has a lot of international expositions around the world. And this is just a part of the big project, Levitation, which is called Levitation. This project combines paintings and sculptures. With this work, the artists would like to show how we are communicating with the world, how we are communicating with ourselves, with the society. So this is the works about our internal and eternal, what is in every person, inside and outside. It could also just... It could be people attending the expo and flying over the pavilions. Yes. Sorry about my comments. What are they dancing about here? AR dancing? Yes, this is not the art exposition. This is one of the Ukrainian company who is representing their product here. But they are very artistic, you see. They are very... Is it VR dance? Yes. It's a real dance. We are. So you can actually dance next to somebody famous, maybe? Yes. This is a famous singer. There was a famous singer. Nice. And everybody could dance around. Nice. Is that Tina? Tina, yes. All right. There is another VR. Yes, yes. Where you can shop with the famous singer. No, I'm joking. Something else is happening here. Right. And another... Oh, it's all three from a VR company, the same? Yes. Yeah. There you can jump into your brain, maybe. Yeah. And look. And you have a bar. Yeah. With... You're actually serving alcohol, right? Yeah. That's like... It must be popular in the evening, right? Yeah, in the evening, yes. With the DJ and music and everything? We're going to film the DJ and music, maybe, in a couple of weeks. All right. What are we looking at here in the walls? Yeah, let's see. This is paintings of palm, which is a symbol of friendship between UAE and Ukraine. Actually, the beginning of UAE is Ukraine, right? UA. Oh, UAE. Yes. All right. Yes. All right. This is digital works. This is very famous Ukrainian artist, his murals, street arts, all over the world. So, a lot of people could know this name, because a lot of street arts are all around the world in different, different countries. And now he's working in digital way. And it's censorship? Yes. Okay. Okay. That's okay. Yeah. This is another artist, but the same digital art. I mean, the same way of creating art, this is digital. So, basically, the artist creating in digital way, the works, and then you could print them like this, or you could make a sculpture like this. This is the same artist. You see this small sculpture? Could you guess what is this? Yes. It's a wobbly guy. This is a cloud. Ah, it's a cloud. Cloud. It's working. Working cloud. Character from the cartoon or movie. All right. So, it's just like a computer code? Kind of. Yes. Yes, digital. And, by the way, this is a spider, because this artist trying to show a different everyday situation, but in artistic way. So, if you look, you could see that this is spider. You don't have too many spiders in Ukraine, no? Not some bad ones. No, no, no. They're friendly. No. Yeah, friendly spiders. All right. That's very cool. And the eyes was, yeah, I filmed it just before. Yeah, it's great. It's like looking out. Yes. The eyes. All right. So, and it goes all the way around there, actually. Yeah, let's see the paintings. Yeah, let's go there. Yeah. This is two young Ukrainian artists. This is Rita Maikova and Anna Kostritzka. You see, the scenario of these paintings are very phantasmagoric. So, especially here. This is abstract art. And this is very interesting media. This is also paintings, but it looks like 3D because of the way of painting, you see. So, it's kind of like a painting that becomes a sculpture? Yeah, probably. It's something in the middle. And she calls herself Queen Elizabeth? No, no, no. No, this is the name of the work. Oh, okay, yeah. No worries. Yeah, I can see the resemblance. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Whoa. What is this? Yes, small corner of art also. Who is this guy? This is just an imagination of the artist. Right. That's what happens when you spend one week at the expo. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. And this is small planets. Nice. Like, this could symbolize the ambitions of Ukraine to put astronauts on Mars. We could say so, yes. Yeah, all right. We could. Cool. All right. Thanks a lot. Thank you for the wonderful tour here that we had. Thank you. Thank you.