22 June 2010, 08:55
"The Celebration of 170th Anniversary of Mykhailo Drahomanov Birth is to be held on Appropriate Level in Ukraine", Mykola Tomenko, the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declared on Monday during the working visit in Poltava region.
On Monday, M.V.Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, will stay with a working visit in Poltava region. The Deputy Chairman will visit Hadiach Ivan Kotliarevskyi State College of Culture and M.Drahomanov secondary school to present the book "Mykhailo Drahomanoutobiography." Referring to the town of Hadiach, M.Tomenko stated: "This is the native town of Mykhailo Drahomanov, one of the prominent political figures with European outlook and founder of the Ukrainian school of political science." He is satisfied that the research carried out by him and his colleagues would find its place in the libraries of Hadiach and Poltava region.
"Mykhailo Drahomanov is one of the most prominent political men of with European world-view, one of the founders of the Ukrainian political science. It is necessary to make everything possible for his heritage, as an ideology of European Ukraine, is appropriately evaluated and learned", M. Tomenko declared in the course of the discussion of the preparation for the celebration in Poltava.
Moreover, M. Tomenko emphasised that the future celebrations in Poltava regions are to be connected with the propaganda of Lesia Ukrainka creativity as M. Drahomanov was not only her uncle, furthermore he was her spiritual teacher.