2007
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Events
b / d - work began on the expansion of the Panama Canal.
January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
January 1 - Bulgarian, Irish and Romanian become official languages of the EU (joined by 20 other languages).
January 1 - Slovenia adopts the euro.
January 1 - ISBN is increased from 10 digits to 13.
January 1 - Ban Ki-moon of South Korea becomes the new UN Secretary General, replacing Kofi Annan.
January 1 - Hong Kong bans smoking in restaurants and more than 1,200 public places.
January 1 - Belarus imposes a tax of $ 45 per tonne on oil transit through its territory (see Belarusian-Russian oil dispute 2007).
January 8 - Russia's Transneft suspends oil supplies to Europe via the Druzhba pipeline through Belarus over a dispute with Belarus.
January 11 - Transneft resumes oil supplies to Europe.
January 11 - Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the WTO.
February 14 - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov becomes the second president of Turkmenistan.
March 27 - Russian businessman Maxim Kurochkin is killed in Kyiv.
April 2 - The President of Ukraine dissolved the Verkhovna Rada, in response, some deputies said they would not comply with the decree and convened an extraordinary meeting.
April 16 - The 5th studio album "Nine Inch Nails" "Year Zero" is released, in addition to conceptual music material, the album launched a new marketing technology, now known as "Alternate Reality Game".
April 18 - A vote was held in Cardiff, which resulted in Ukraine and Poland winning the tender for the 2012 European Football Championship.
April 26 - The President of Ukraine dissolves parliament again. This decree was again challenged by deputies in the Constitutional Court.
May 12 - Ukrainian Andriy Danylko took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, losing to Maria Sherifovych of Serbia.
June 3 - Congresses of OU and BYuT expelled deputies held on their own lists ("zeroing lists"). As a result, the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation became incompetent.
June 15 - Premiere of the first Ukrainian animated cartoon series "Nikita's Fox".
June 16 - Singer Elton John gave a charity concert in Kyiv on Independence Square.
July 14 - President of Russia V.
