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  Ukraine
However the suppression of the Ukrainian free farmers by the Polish nobility, further imposition of Serfdom and the suppression of the Orthodox church pushed the allegiances of Cossacks away from Poland and towards Orthodox Russia, which was one reason for the later downfall of the Polish-Lithuanian state.
Ukrainians played an important role in the frequent wars between East European monarchies and the Ottoman Empire, however much of the Cossack culture and identity was supressed by Tsarist Russia, which had as little use for independent - or autonomous - Cossack state as previously Commonwealth did.
Ukrainian and Russian are spoken by 55% and 45% respectively, but considered to be a native language by 67.5% and 29.6% of population, according to the 2001 Census.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/uk/Ukraine.htm   (2878 words)

  
 Ukraine, The
Ukraine Or Ukrainian Or Ukranian Or Kiev Or Kyiv
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukraina, /ukraˈjina/; Russian: Украи́на, Ukraina) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south.
On Ukrainian territory (Rus' in the narrow sense), the state of Kievan Rus' was succeeded by the principalities of Halych and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which were merged into the state of Halych-Volynia.
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 Ukraine - Gurupedia
Thus, the Ukrainian nation is distinguished as the first nation to fight the Axis powers during WW II in Carpatho-Ukraine and one that saw one of the greatest bloodsheds during the War.
The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains or steppes and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dniepr, Donets, Dnister and the Southern Bug as they flow down into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
The dominant religions are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an Eastern Orthodox church, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which practices eastern Christian rites but recognises the Roman Pope as head of the church.
www.gurupedia.com /u/uk/ukraine.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Regional > Europe > Ukraine
In Ukrainian territory, a state of Kievan Rus' was succeeded per principalities of Halych and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which were merged into the state of Halych-Volynia.
A Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains, or even steppes, and tableland, crossed by streams, lakes, and wells throughout like a Dnieper, Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow in a south into the Black Sea and the little Sea of Azov.
A distant 2nd is the Eastern Rite Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which practices similar Liturgical rite to Eastern Orthodoxy, but is inside communion with the Catholic see and recognises the primacy of the Roman Pope as head of the Church.
ukraine-vr.generalanswers.org   (2689 words)

  
 The Ultimate Ukraine - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south.
The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains, or steppes, and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dniepr, Donets, Dnister and the Southern Bug as they flow south into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
Ukrainian (the only official language) and Russian are the principal languages.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Ukraine   (2362 words)

  
 Guide to Ukraine - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Though the Ukrainian government treats tourists with some distain and makes travel difficult with complicated visa requirements, ornery border officials, impossible ticket agents, and annoying checkpoints, most visitors agree that this country is worth the hassle.
The western half of the country is particularly "Ukrainian," with the best-preserved cultural traditions and the dominance of the Ukrainian language.
Ukrainian folk art is most famous for its elaborately decorated, blown Easter eggs, but other crafts such as intricate carvings and elaborate needlework are beautiful and unique as well.
www.openlist.com /vacations-p8928.htm   (599 words)

  
 Ukrainians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Ukrainian origins are overwhelmingly Slavic while non-Slavic nomads who mostly lived in the steppes of southern Ukraine had little influence on the ancestors of modern Ukrainians.
Ukrainians are predominantly of the Orthodox Christian faith.
Historical regions • List of Ukrainian territories: by area · by population • List of raions • Lists of cities: by population · by subdivision • List of urban-type settlements • List of villages ...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainians   (1002 words)

  
 Ukrainians - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ukrainians are a people who live in Eastern Europe, although according to Ukrainian tradition their homeland is actually somehow located in Western Europe.
The first humans (Bogdan Adamchuk and Bogdana Yevenko) are known to have been Ukrainians, and Ukrainians are credited with having invented the wheel, agriculture, language, and sex, among other things.
The Ukrainian people are widely acknowledged to have been the most unfortunate people in the history of the world, continually allowing themselves to be conquered by Greeks, Russians, Poles, and Mongolians.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian   (268 words)

  
 Statement by Molotov on German Attrocities in Occupied USSR, 1941
While retreating from the Ukrainian villages of Khudoyarovo, Novy Liman and various other villages of the Shevchenko District of the Kharkov Region, the Germans burned these villages to the ground and carried away the whole adult population.
The destruction of the Ukrainian, Byelorussian and other national cultures, the destruction of their national memorials, schools and literature, and the forcible Germanization of the populations irrespective of nationality follow German occupation everywhere with the same criminal regularity as do plunder, violence, arson and mass murder.
During their occupation of the town of Istra, the German troops set up an ammunition dump in the famous, ancient Russian monastery known as Novy Ierussalim, which was founded in 1654 and restored in the 18th Century by the great architects Rastrelli and Kazakov.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /documents/german_attrocities_ussr.htm   (6113 words)

  
 The Ukrainian Web Sites List
is the Ukrainian abbreviation for "The Ukrainian Youth Association", "Spilka Ukrayinskoyi Molodi" in Ukrainian.
Ukrainian Dancing, singing and musical groups are also part of CYMs activities, and annual competitions are held in the form af a concert followed by an annual summer dance.
It has a long history as a Ukrainian dance band outfit, but unlike many others also includes a repertoire of top quality covers of everything from 50s to present day stuff for those who want a bit more on the menu.
www.pasicznyk.fsnet.co.uk /The_Ukrainian_links.htm   (808 words)

  
 HOME - USA/USA ANNOUNCEMENT - FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For the Ukrainian student, linguistic intelligence is the most critical vehicle by which to demonstrate one’s other intelligences.
The child of the Ukrainian oligarch is expected to demonstrate a sense of responsibility for the society.
Students manage their own affairs to a degree that is hard to comprehend for Ukrainian students.
www.ukrainianscholarships.org /whatwe2002a.htm   (9039 words)

  
 Saints Preserve Us:  The Vatican Gives Haloes to Ukrainians
The famous Ukrainian Catholic nun, Sister Josaphata Hordashevska and the Ukrainian priest, Zigmund Gorazdowski who could both, as a result, be beatified at some future date as well.
Thirteen Ukrainian Catholic martyrs, shot by Russian Tsarist troops as they tried to defend their Church in Pidlasia, who were beatified by the Pope not too long ago, are considered saints of Poland because their area was under Polish administrative control.
The Martyrs of Pratulyn belong to the Ukrainian Catholic Church, irrespective of who controlled the land on which stood their Ukrainian Church before which they were gunned down.
www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/haloes.htm   (1191 words)

  
 Russia, Ukraine - JRL 8-31-04
Ukrainian citizens seemingly respect independence, but they also feel estranged from the Ukrainian government.
Despite the widely proclaimed economic growth, Ukrainians are primarily troubled by low wages and pensions, inflation, unemployment, high levels of corruption, and scarce medical care.
In an August 24 Wall Street Journal editorial, Yushchenko lambasted the authorities for the millions of Ukrainians who live in poverty, corruption institutions "from education to medicine to government," the persecution of independent media outlets, and the lack of protection from law enforcement or the courts.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8348-31.cfm   (925 words)

  
 Ukraine Gateway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His all-embracing humanism, deep and genuine folk character, and revolutionary ardour make him comprehensible and close to the hearts of the people of all nations.
Shevchenko lived at the time when his homeland was split in two by the Russian and Austro-Hungarian monarchies, and the mass of the Ukrainian people—the peasantry—was in serf bondage to feudal landowners.
List of the famous Ukrainians, also known in USA
www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua /gateway/gateway.nsf/webcontent/01010100   (137 words)

  
 Poland - Gurupedia
Ukrainian are used in offices in several communes across the country.
Poles resented their shrinking freedoms and several times rebelled against their oppressors (see List of Polish Uprisings).
Remains of the ancient forests survive: see list of forests in Poland.
www.gurupedia.com /p/po/poland.htm   (1573 words)

  
 Husaria - polish winged cavalry. - Military Photos
Except in a few cases, casualties suffered by hussaria were very low, and this was the best proof of their worth, as well as proof of the talent of Polish commanders of the time.
The list of major battles won by Polish and Lithuanian armies using hussaria is given in the appendix.
Here is a list of major battles won by Polish and Lithuanian forces in the 16th and 17th centuries, some won solely by cavalry.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=7779   (3554 words)

  
 BBC Radio 2 - Eurovision Song Contest Feature
Famous for his pieces depicting Marilyn Monroe, Chairman Mao, Elvis Presley and Campbell's Soup cans, Warhol's work has been re-printed on canvassses, T-shirts and postcards around the globe.
Famous for many novels, it is perhaps his powerful portrayal of the evils of imperialism in Heart of Darkness that Conrad is best known.
The beautiful Ruslana is the reason that The Eurovision Song Contest heads to the Ukraine this year, after she won in Istanbul with a stomping performance of her 'Wild Dance' (she broke the stage during rehearsal).
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/eurovision/2005/famous_ukrainians.shtml   (391 words)

  
 Famous male soccer players: List of famous tall women - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yahoo! answers - who's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Famous male soccer players of famous Football players is a collection of biographies, famous soccer quotes The Football Players is a selection of male and female Football sporting stars.
Famous male soccer players note that Barney had sent to parents and players earlier in the year.
Famous male soccer players have teamed up with the world famous Bobby Charlton Soccer Schools to offer a wonderful soccer opportunity to all male and female soccer players aged between 9 and 16.
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 Famous Ukrainians: List 2
The problem is that the Famous Ukrainians list was getting too large.
Dr. Hornikiewicz is a member of the Ukrainian Medical Association of Austria.
Perhaps most famous for his claim that he saw the original papers on relativity which are credited to Albert Einstein, also signed by his wife Maleva Maric as a co-author.
www2.uwindsor.ca /~hlynka/list2.html   (611 words)

  
 Ukraine Marriage Agency, Russian and Ukrainian Women. Apartment Service. Dnepropetrovsk
In the works of Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet (1814-1861), the language was consolidated as one that had all means for servicing the most important sphere of social and cultural life and unlimited means for further enrichment and stylistic versatile improvement.
The basis of the contemporary Ukrainian language is formed by the Middle Dnieper variety of the Southeast dialect - the most unified and the first among others with respect to the number of native speakers.
This document legally assigned the official status to the Ukrainian language, ensured the equality of the languages of all nations inhabiting the territory of Ukraine, created the conditions for broadening the sphere of functioning of the Ukrainian language as the language of the native people.
www.majesticladies.com /index.asp?views=ukraine_language   (384 words)

  
 Ukrainians are holding out for reunification with Russia - Military Photos
More than half of Ukrainians are holding out for reunification with Russia.
I was in Kiev this past august, and people made it a point to speak ukrainian to me, not russian.
Theres a lot of anti-russian resentement in ukraine, but historically the 2 nations are Slavic cousins, so its not hate, but just yearning to break out from underneath moscow's shadow.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=100418   (774 words)

  
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A major milestone in the evolution of Ukrainian medical terminology is the newest publication of an original Ukrainian translation and adaptation of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 29th Edition.
This version with its English entry words with Ukrainian equivalents and definitions is an invaluable medical reference tool for North American, European and other physicians outside of Ukraine who can benefit in its use for treating Ukrainian patients and in facilitating discourse with the medical community in Ukraine.
Ukrainian varenyky are boiled and resemble to various degrees Polish pierogi, Russian pilmeni, Italian ravioli,Jewish kreplach, or Chinese wonton.
www.stanford.edu /group/ukrainians/events/events.txt   (6889 words)

  
 Famous Ukrainians
Below are listed famous people that are Ukrainian or of Ukrainian extraction.
They are all people who have made noteworthy contributions in their respective fields.
Detailed biographies are currently being prepared and the list will eventually be expanded to include many more.
www.russiannewsnetwork.com /famukra.html   (127 words)

  
 Ukrainians Pioneers of Flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the middle of a square, just in front of the main office block of the state-owned Kyiv Aviation Plant "Avi-Ant", integrated with Antonov's Aircraft Design Office, the famous Ukrainian aircraft construction company is where the monument is located.
High over him, as if tracing a trail of the famous in the world "Nesterov's Loop" (even today the most stunning aerobatics figure), is raising skywards frozen up in stainless steel, the figure-of-loop track, as if it was sky-written by a little fragile French "Neuport" airplane.
On August 26, 1914, the famous, audacious ace for the last time took off against the enemy in his Marrant aircraft.
www.ukraine-observer.com /articles/216/795   (1452 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR : Transcript of Press Briefing, 20 Nov. 1997
Buha, not only as the representative of your party, but also as the first candidate on the SDS's list, let me remind you that you signed a statement of intent with the OSCE pledging to abide by the Provisional Election Commission Rules and Regulations.
In spite of this pledge, posters with the image of this person flanked with images of SDS leaders are currently displayed on public buildings in the northwestern part of the Republika Srpska.
His name was mentioned in the CAFAO report…the famous CAFAO report…as a person who is supposed to be responsible for some misuse of public funds in a special institution which was led by him.
www.nato.int /sfor/trans/1997/t971120a.htm   (2494 words)

  
 LearnPysanky.com - Extras and Fun Stuff
Here is what some Ukrainian peasants used to make their dyes from.
   One of the predominant occupations of Ukrainians was that of farmer.
     "Before a Ukrainian woman could make pysanky, she was supposed to be in a perfect spiritual state of mind.
www.learnpysanky.com /extras.html   (869 words)

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