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  Travel to Ukraine - The Official Travel Website and Guide of Ukraine - History of Ukraine
Ukraine and Bielorussia, the union of republics of the USSR which had made a recognizable contribution to the defeat of nazism, were among the founding nations of the UN organization.
The strengthening of Ukraine as a sovereign state is complicated by the difficulties of the transition period, which are especially felt in the sphere of the economy.
Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004-2005 was a series of protests and political events that took place throughout the country in response to allegations of massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.
www.traveltoukraine.org /history.htm   (16459 words)

  
  Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Province is a name for a secondary level of government in most countries.
In many federations (particularly those that are in fact confederations), the province or state is not clearly subordinate to the national or "central" government.
Provinces are a tertiary unit of government in Peru, as the country is divided into twenty-five regions, which are then subdivided into 194 provinces.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province   (1035 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Ukraine Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ukraine, republic in eastern Europe, bordered on the north by Belarus and Russia; on the east by Russia; on the south by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; on the south-west by Romania and Moldova; and on the west by Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.
In the forest zone, beech trees are widespread in the west; linden, oak, and pine are found in the swamps and meadows in the north and northwest; and spruce is prevalent in the northeast.
Ukraine was the last of the former Soviet republics to adopt a new constitution.
atlas.mapzones.com /ukraine/ukraine.php   (2165 words)

  
 Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Granted that Ukraine lacked the large Terrestrial holdings of France, or the mature extraterrestrial holdings of France, Britain, and Bavaria, it was still a considerable European nation, the sixth-largest in the European Community by population and one of the leading global economies.
Ukraine’s military commitment to the Central Asian War was initially half-hearted, as few Ukrainians felt sympathy for either the Russian-supremacist regime of the Central Asian Republic or for French and Russian neo-imperialistic moves.
Ukraine is distinct in Europe–though not entirely different from western North America and Argentina–in having a dispersed pattern of rural settlement, with a high density of hydrogen road networks connecting dispersed nucleated and strip villages with each other and with major Ukrainian cities.
users2.ev1.net /~redroach/ad2300/ukraine.htm   (11301 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | About Ukraine | History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The introduction of NEP in Ukraine was halted by famine.
Ukraine and Bielorussia, the union of republics of the USSR which had made a recognizable contribution to the defeat of nazism, were among the founding nations of the UN organization.
The strengthening of Ukraine as a sovereign state is complicated by the difficulties of the transition period, which are especially felt in the sphere of the economy.
www.ukremb.com /about/history3.html   (4457 words)

  
 The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : The battle for Ukraine
"Ukraine is a crucial test of the changing geopolitics in Eurasia," Ariel Cohen of the U.S. Heritage Foundation, a think-tank of neo-Conservatives in the Republican Administration in Washington, wrote last week.
By winning over Ukraine the West hopes to redraw the political map of the former Soviet Union, provoke a domino effect of regime change in other ex-Soviet states and wrest neighbouring Moldova and Belarus, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia from the Russian orbit.
While the southeastern provinces of Ukraine have been part of Russia and later the Soviet Union for 350 years, western Ukrainians were under Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule for long stretches of history.
www.hinduonnet.com /2004/11/30/stories/2004113002050800.htm   (1385 words)

  
 The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
This is in stark contrast to the largely ignored famine of 1921-1923 -the first of three famines that Ukraine's population has suffered under the Soviet Communist regime, and a famine that, contrary to popular belief, was not caused by drought and crop failures, but by the policies of the Soviet state.
The famine was concentrated in the rich grain-growing provinces of southern Ukraine, an area inhabited by about a third of the republic's 26 million citizens.
Ukraine was also obliged to send additional "voluntary" famine relief to the Volga, and to feed some 2 million people who came from Russia as refugees, soldiers and administrators.
www.artukraine.com /famineart/serbyn2.htm   (913 words)

  
 Ukraine (03/07)
Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, was introduced in September 1996 and has remained stable despite a small nominal appreciation in April 2005.
Ukraine maintains peaceful and constructive relations with all its neighbors, though there are some unresolved maritime issues along the Danube and in the Black Sea with Romania; it has especially close ties with Poland and Russia.
Ukraine was a founding member of GUAM (Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova) and has taken the lead with Georgia to promote cooperation among emerging democracies in the Community for Democratic Choice, which held its first summit meeting December 1-2, 2005 in Kyiv.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm   (5229 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Prime Minister Yanukovych is fired by Ukraine's parliament
Ukraine's Supreme Court is considering whether the Nov. 21 presidential runoff election was rigged to ensure Yanukovych's victory.
Yushchenko won the first round of voting on Oct. 31 by a tiny margin among a field of 24 candidates, and he claims to be the legitimate winner of the runoff.
Ukraine's Central Election Commission had declared Yanukovych the winner by a margin of 871,402 votes, but the court barred the inauguration from taking place until it ruled on Yushchenko's appeal.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002106834_ukraine02.html   (739 words)

  
 Spoken language in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Though official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, more than 60% of its population speak Russian, because of long lasted and close bonds between Russian and Ukrainian people.
Ukraine is a "young country", which is trying to reestablish its ancient historical roots.
Different provinces of Ukraine have their own traditionally formed ethnic compositions and corresponding preferences, and it reflects in prevalent speaking language.
www.foreigndocuments.com /a5.html   (253 words)

  
 Ukraine's Difficult Road to Independence
Without Ukraine, the borders of the Soviet Union and Russia would be pushed back, weakening their ability, if they should remain communist or authoritarian, to project their power and influence into Europe.
Ukraine could be helped by ex perts from such private groups as the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Bozeman, Montana-based Foundation for Re search on Economics and Environment and Political Economy Research Cen ter.
Ukraine is creating its own laws and is beginning to conduct its own foreign affairs, thereby creating a new legal basis for relations with foreign states.
www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg835.cfm   (4569 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ukraine's east backs autonomy referendum
Donetsk and other heavily industrialized provinces in Ukraine's east have been the main power base for native son Yanukovych, and the opposition push for annulling the vote on fraud charges has deepened old divisions that now threaten to break up the nation of 48 million.
Despite the much-trumpeted end of the Cold War, Ukraine's 21st century election has turned into a battleground between the United States and other Western nations, which have refused to accept the official vote results, and Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin staunchly backed Yanukovych and congratulated him on his victory.
Eastern Ukraine is more heavily populated than the west, and many of its citizens -- coal miners and factory workers -- see themselves as holding the country together economically.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/11/29/ukraines_east_backs_autonomy_referendum   (792 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Ukraine
The Ukraine is a republic in Eastern Europe, which borders the Black Sea to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland and Slovakia to the West, Hungary to the south and Romania and Moldova to the west and south.
Anti-Semitism worsened after the Ukraine was annexed by Russia in 1653, as the Nationalist and Socialist Party of the Ukraine took control over the region.
After the pogroms of the 1880s, the Ukraine became the birthplace of the Hibbat Zion, the Bilu and the Am Olam movements as well as the “Spiritual Biblical Brotherhood,” which sought to “bring back” the Jews to the religious purity of the Bible and draw them closer to Christianity.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/ukraine.html   (2642 words)

  
 The first man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine 1921-1923 (11/06/88)
In fact, Ukraine was bound to Moscow by the centralized Russian Communist Party, of which the Communist Party of Ukraine (overwhelmingly non-Ukrainian in leadership and composition) was but a branch.
Russian control of Ukraine was further assured by the Red Army and the infamous Cheka, the forerunner of the NKVD and KGB.
Since starvation in Ukraine was the result of a policy of plunder by Lenin's government, the responsibility lies with the Soviet state.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1988/458814.shtml   (5109 words)

  
 Ukraine - Publications
The head of UTR called for the Ukrainians to not embrace the lands with the overwhelming Ukrainian population.
In January 1919, the government of Soviet Ukraine refused the denomination introduced by the Tsentralna Rada (UPR) and established another one, the Ukrainian Socialist People’s Republic (Ukrainian SSR).
The detachments of Nestor Makhno (who was named a “father”, or bat’ko, by elected village atamans) operated in the Katerynoslav province, in the region of Huliaipole.
ukraineinfo.org /main/en/publication/content/362.htm   (2914 words)

  
 Ukraine - Country Information
Ukraine 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.
A nation of mostly steppes first inhabited by a succession of local tribes, Ukraine was consolidated by invaders from Scandinavia who founded the state of Kievan Rus in the 10th century.
Eastern part of central Ukraine effectively merged with Russia in 1654, beginning three centuries of domination by Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union.At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Ukraine suffered greatly during the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, forced starvation under Stalin, and World Wars I and II.
www.go4travel.com /Country/Ukraine.htm   (242 words)

  
 Azov Upland --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ukrainian Pryazovska Vysochyna hilly region, Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk oblasti (provinces), southeastern Ukraine.
Part of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield, the Azov Upland is an area of denuded mountains, extending from the Dnieper River for 100 miles (160 km) to the Donets Ridge and sloping gently down southeastward to the Sea of Azov.
Formed in 1938 as Stalino oblast, it stretches from the Donets Hills in the north, across the low, gently rolling Azov Upland and the level coastal plain, to the Sea of Azov.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9011556   (848 words)

  
 Kiev Ukraine News Blog
Ukraine built the 667-kilometer (413-mile) pipeline in 2001 but it has remained largely idle because of bickering about whether to accept oil from Russia or to pump oil from Caspian Sea countries northward to Poland and on to the rest of Europe.
Ukraine and Poland are currently in negotiations about the use of the Odessa-Brody pipeline to bring the Caspian Sea oil through Ukraine to Poland and the rest of Europe.
Ukraine's joint bid with Poland was a surprise inclusion on the shortlist of candidates to hold the 2012 tournament along with Italy and a joint entry by Hungary and Croatia.
blog.kievukraine.info /2006_02_01_kievukrainenewsblog_archive.html   (13503 words)

  
 The Hindu : International : Court steps into Ukraine crisis
Ukraine's apex court met on Monday to review allegations of fraud in the disputed presidential poll as the Opposition pitched its battle to reclaim the lost election.
On Sunday, 17 pro-Russian provinces in Ukraine's south-east adopted a resolution threatening to split away if the Opposition contender is proclaimed President.
The regional legislature in Donetsk, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse in the east, voted 164-1 on Monday to hold a referendum on December 5 on autonomy for the province.
www.hinduonnet.com /2004/11/30/stories/2004113003651100.htm   (305 words)

  
 Ukraine - Country Profile - Ukrayina - Ukraina
Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe, and the second largest country in Europe after Russia.
Richly endowed in natural resources, Ukraine has been fought over and subjugated for centuries; its 20th-century struggle for liberty is not yet complete.
Ukraine's leading international airline operates direct flights to most major cities in Europe.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/ukraine.htm   (538 words)

  
 Ukraine Regions
At the beginning of the 20th century, the bulk of modern Ukraine was in the Russian Empire; the rest was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Ukraine used to use six-digit postal codes under the Soviet system, all of which fell in the range 24xxxx-34xxxx.
The western parts of Ukraine were in the Austrian provinces of Galicia and Bukovina, and the Hungarian counties of Bereg, Máramaros, Ugocsa, and Ung (see Hungary for more details).
www.statoids.com /uua.html   (1216 words)

  
 POLITICS: Serbs Lend a Hand in Ukraine Protests
This was not hard in Ukraine, she said, because of the many "common grievances" shared with Serbs.
In Ukraine that must mean at least a million people on the streets, Otpor activists say.
Ukraine has a population of 48 million, compared to eight million in Serbia.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26422   (890 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
Third, to quote Ira Straus, an expert on Russia, the developments in Ukraine firmly signal that geography is indeed part of the destiny of the transition countries of the former Soviet Union.
Ukraine at least might have looked both ways - East and West - for a brief while, but Central Asians have known deep down all along that there are serious limits to cynically balancing their relations between the East and West, or playing off Moscow against Washington.
Arguably, the color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan were urgently necessitated by the challenge posed by such softening of the pendulum swings.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/GJ05Ag01.html   (1983 words)

  
 PINR - Ukraine: Delicate Elections Will Have Deep International Significance
Ukraine occupies a key place in the European geography for supplies of fossil fuels because much of the natural gas that countries like Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Romania receive from the Russian Federation are convoyed via Ukrainian gas pipelines.
Ukraine is also the historic core of Russia, and its eastern regions are Russian-speaking.
Whereas the liberal bloc that represents mainly Kiev and the western provinces of Ukraine has fragmented, the pro-Russian opposition has quickly recovered from its serious defeat and is galvanized by Moscow's firm backing of Lukashenko in Belarus.
www.pinr.com /report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=463&language_id=1   (1375 words)

  
 Donets Basin --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The coalfield lies in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasti (provinces), southeastern Ukraine, and in the adjoining Rostov oblast of southwestern Russia.
The population density of Ukraine is especially high in the industrialized Donets River...
Much of Ukraine's industry is concentrated in the Donets Basin (also called the Donbas), where rich deposits of coal and iron ore exist.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9030915   (850 words)

  
 Go4yp - Online Yellow Pages
Ukraine 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.
A nation of mostly steppes first inhabited by a succession of local tribes, Ukraine was consolidated by invaders from Scandinavia who founded the state of Kievan Rus in the 10th century.
Eastern part of central Ukraine effectively merged with Russia in 1654, beginning three centuries of domination by Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union.At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Ukraine suffered greatly during the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, forced starvation under Stalin, and World Wars I and II.
www.go4yp.com /Country/Ukraine.shtml   (159 words)

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