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  Regions of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukraine is currently subdivided into twenty-four oblasts (oblasti, provinces), one autonomous republic (avtonomna respublika), and two cities (mista, singular misto) with special legal status.
The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.
Left-bank Ukraine (Livoberezhna Ukrayina or Livoberezhzhia), east of the Dnieper.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regions_of_Ukraine   (246 words)

  
 Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The territory of present-day Ukraine was a key centre of East Slavic culture in the Middle Ages, before being divided between a variety of powers, notably Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Austrian Empire, Romania and the Ottoman Empire.
In the 7th century Ukraine was the core of the state of the Bulgars (often referred to as Great Bulgaria) who had their capital in the city of Phanagoria.
Ukraine is distinguished as one of the first nations to fight the Axis powers in Carpatho-Ukraine, and one that saw some of the greatest bloodshed during the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukraine   (2967 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Ukraine
Ukraine -- not "the" Ukraine -- is a country in eastern Europe which borders the Black Sea to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north and Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the west.
Ukraine was the centre of the first Slavic state, Kievan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe and laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries.
Ukraine is a parliamentary democracy with separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ukraine   (1012 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Regions of Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The territory of present-day Ukraine was a key centre of East Slavic culture in the Middle Ages before being divided between a variety of powers, notably Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Romania and the Ottoman Empire.
In central Ukraine, Russian is usually the main language of cities (including Kiev), while Surzhyk (a certain kind of dialect or mixed language with mainly Russian vocabulary and Ukrainian grammar and phonetics) is widespread in the rural areas (15% to 20%, according to some surveys).
Ukraine is subdivided into twenty-four oblasts (oblasti, provinces), one autonomous republic (avtonomna respublika), and two cities (mista, singular misto) with special legal status.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Regions-of-Ukraine   (249 words)

  
 Ukraine Political Parties
Regions of Ukraine is the parliamentary wing of the Party of Regions of Ukraine.
The appearance of the party’s faction Regions of Ukraine in the Rada upset Oleksandr Volkov, who had to change the name of his own Regional Revival faction to Democratic Union, in line with the name of his party.
Prior to being appointed to that post, Udovenko was Ukraine's Ambassador to Poland, from 1992 to 1994.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/ukraine/parties.htm   (3259 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ukraine was the center of the first Slavic state, Kievan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe.
Although final independence for Ukraine was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.
Ukraine's dependence on Russia for energy supplies and the lack of significant structural reform have made the Ukrainian economy vulnerable to external shocks.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/up.html   (1645 words)

  
 Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Soviet industrialization of Ukraine, especially in the Donetsk basin, has left a legacy of air pollution, and industrial runoff into the Dnieper River has contributed to the pollution and decay of the Black Sea.
Ukraine's heavy dependence on coal accounts for the fact that this fuel makes up nearly half (46.8%) of the country's carbon emissions, with the remainder coming from natural gas (39.4%) and oil (13.9%).
Ukraine's energy intensity in 1999 at 101.3 thousand Btu/$1990 was more than 8 times that of the United States (12.6 thousand Btu/$1990) and more than 15 times that of Japan (6.5 thousand Btu/$1990).
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/ukrenv.html   (1994 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ukraine is one of the largest countries in the South-Eastern Europe.
The climate of Ukraine is of moderate continental type with certain peculiarities in the Crimean mountains and the Carpathians, as well as in the southern coastline of Crimea, where it has features of subtropical one.
The meetings of the Secretary-General of the WTO with the President of Ukraine, Prime-Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Mayor of Kyiv City was held during this visit.
www.ukraineinfo.us /travel/travel.html   (1021 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.
The region of Chelm was transferred from Poland to Ukraine.
This territory became the regions of Drogobych, L'vov, Rovno, Stanislav, Ternopol', Transcarpathia, and Volyn.
www.statoids.com /uua.html   (1216 words)

  
 Internews.org                Regions         (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although most individuals and businesses operating in Ukraine are in fact guilty of some irregularities (due to the onerous nature of business legislation), implementation of laws and inspections are arbitrary, and are often used to influence or coerce vocal critics, including journalists.
Ukraine’s per capita media advertising expenditures are a small fraction of what they are in Russia and are dwarfed by Central and Eastern Europe’s advertising sales.
Internews Ukraine is monitoring the demonstrations and activities protesting alleged election violations in the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine.
www.internews.org /regions/ukraine.htm   (2392 words)

  
 McNair Paper 42 - Chapter 4
Centrifugal forces are present in several regions of Ukraine, although the situation in Crimea is by far the most dramatic and has attracted the most attention in the West.
Ukraine's central authorities were also slow to devise other means of influencing the situation in Crimea, to include ensuring that Crimea's population had access to various points of view concerning current and future developments in the peninsula and Ukraine as a whole.
Ukraine's weaknesses have also affected its ability to respond to challenges in other restive regions of the country, giving rise to concerns that centrifugal trends could eventually result in domestic conflict, foreign intervention, and ultimately Ukraine's disintegration.
www.ndu.edu /inss/McNair/mcnair42/m042ch04.html   (2598 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
As the political crisis in Ukraine continues to unfold, the focus is shifting to the traditional divide -- economic, linguistic, and cultural -- that exists between the country's largely Russian-speaking eastern regions and the rest of the country.
One of Ukraine's main industrial centers, Donetsk is the home region of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the candidate declared the winner of the 21 November presidential poll by the Central Election Commission.
Because the heads of these regions are part of the [presidential] chain of command and are directly subordinated to the president," Tishchenko said.
globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/ukraine/ukraine-041202-rferl03.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Profile of Ukraine
In Crimea and some parts of eastern Ukraine areas with substantial ethnic Russian minorities, Russian as a language is permitted by local and regional governments for local official correspondence.
There is no licensing requirement to practice in Ukraine except when the transaction is conducted with the real estate of the state enterprises, in which case the license is provided by the Fund of the State Property of Ukraine.
The main objective of the Ukraine Realtors® Association is to unite real estate specialists with common problems and interests, defending their rights and lobbying their interests in the supreme state power bodies, and extending their possibilities in entrepreneurial, methodical and technical development.
www.realtor.org /intlprof.nsf/All/Ukraine?OpenDocument   (1167 words)

  
 Ukrainian Media Landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the Ukraine 831 TV and radio companies are licensed to broadcast: 513 private and 28 state ones, 144 (15%) of them do not work at all, 378 (60%) of others are barely surviving.
The main difference is that this agency has branches in every region of the Ukraine, 26 in total, that only serve their region.
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine is the main professional organisation in the Ukraine (NSJU).
www.ejc.nl /jr/emland/ukraine.html   (4100 words)

  
 Ukrainian Famine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the rssult of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization.
This meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the peasants, since Soviet law required that no grain from a collective farm could be given to the members of the farm until the government's quota was met.
According to a Soviet author, "Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings." Yet one of Stalin's lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success.
www.ibiblio.org /pjones/russian/Ukranian_Famine.html   (347 words)

  
 Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel Page
NEW An exhibition of folk icons of Ukraine from the 18th and 19th centuries is touring the U.S. and Canada.
Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, was introduced on September 2, 1996, replacing the temporary currency, karbovanets, at the rate of 100,000 karbovanets = 1 hryvnia.
Kyiv (formerly Kiev), Ukraine's capital city, is known as the Golden Domed City because of its beautiful churches.
pages.prodigy.net /l.hodges/ukraine.htm   (3776 words)

  
 Orange Ukraine - Journal of Ukrainian Current Events
So Tymoshenko and her party, with assistance from Yanukovych and the Regions of Ukraine crew, pushed through a measure calling for the Cabinet to be sacked, austensibly due to a failure to protect national interests in the gas deal.
The article is a commentary on Ukraine's recent decision not to invite the CIS observation mission to observe the March election.
As it did the last time Ukraine had a major political event (during and before the Orange Revolution) Russia has renewed threats to increase the price it charges Ukraine for natural gas to $160/1,000 cu m, which is close to world levels, just as the Ukrainian parliamentary election campaign gets underway.
orangeukraine.squarespace.com   (12496 words)

  
 Build Ukraine
Ukraine's major businessmen were able to influence the adoption of budget and taxation laws, as well as special laws on individual sectors of the economy, according to a newspaper report.
In Ukraine "corridor" activities (the English word "lobby" originally meant "corridor") to push the necessary decisions through the organs of power have always been a thankless, if highly profitable, undertaking.
Passing a necessary amendment is generally the result of complicated agreements between factions and, in exchange for votes in support of a law, the MPs' group may receive a necessary post in the regional organs of power or support when tackling political issues.
www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/lobbying.htm   (1054 words)

  
 Regions of Ukraine - Union for promotion of green tourism development in Ukraine
Regions of Ukraine - Union for promotion of green tourism development in Ukraine
I am sure that rural green tourism has a great future and is a needed business facilitating the renaissance of Ukrainian villages as well as preservation of multi-sided traditions and culture of our people.
First, this is an adjustment of a dialogue between Ukrainian regions and cultivation of respect to their local cultures.
www.greentour.com.ua /en/regions/&r=1&o=2   (212 words)

  
 Organisations: Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ukraine is a participant of World Congress of the Ethnic Religions (WCER), whose slogan is "Unity in Diversity".
That is why we demand that the Government of Ukraine, as part of the official reabilitation of the Native Faith (Ukrainian Animism) remove the information blockade and uphold the Law of Freedom of conscience and international agreements on rights of a person and organizations, which were signed and ratified by Ukraine.
Since there is still prejudice to our confession in some regions of Ukraine, we address our State Committee of Religions and Cults and insist on the free registration of our religious communities in all regions of Ukraine.
www.wcer.org /members/europe/Ukraine/ukdec.htm   (713 words)

  
 Kiev Ukraine News Blog
The usual suspects were responsible for the obstruction: members of the Communist and Socialist party factions, and of the bitterly oppositionist Regions of Ukraine and Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) parties.
We use the word “obstruction” because that’s all this really is. WTO membership would be a massive triumph for President Viktor Yushchenko and forward-looking elements in Ukraine – and so the likes of the Regions of Ukraine party, and the rest of them, are obliged to stop it at all costs.
Kiev, the capital of Ukraine is one of the most beautiful and charming cities in Europe.
blog.kievukraine.info /2005/07/wto-obstructionists.html   (605 words)

  
 Ukraine Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Yanukovitch, the Candidate, advocates expansion of economical autonomy of regions of Ukraine.
As he said, Ukraine is to remain a unitary state to go out from crisis, but regions of Ukraine shall get maximum wide economic autonomy.
As Yanukovitch said, the reason for today’s crisis is state structure of Ukraine, which does not reflect a complicated geopolitical landscape in Ukraine.
www.ukrnow.com /content/view/2416/2   (333 words)

  
 Internews.org                Regions         (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The journalist states that the next major step for the opposition to take is 1) decrease the government’s and Viktor Yanukovich’s intrusion into the “third” round of voting as much as possible, 2) disable usage of state funds, and 3) dismiss the separatist governors.
The Internet Association of Ukraine (ІnАU) was been created in November 2000 for the purpose of consolidating efforts of all interested parties for development of the Internet in Ukraine
On December 1 the largest business associations in Ukraine distributed an application for support of the creation of a government of national trust.
www.internews.org /regions/Ukraine/elections_2004-12-06.htm   (658 words)

  
 REENIC: Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Internews Ukraine (a Ukrainian chapter of the international non-profit organization; its goal is creating the conditions for the existence of a free, independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine; the site features news and information; in Ukrainian, English and Russian)
Education for Democracy in Ukraine (the project aimes at promoting the democratic political culture in secondary schools in Ukraine; in English or Ukrainian)
Ukraine and Ukrainian Education and Research: Scholarships (a idrectory of scholarships for Ukrainians)
menic.utexas.edu /reenic/countries/ukraine.html   (1997 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com Bird flu spread to more of Ukraine's regions
Ukraine will not be flmailed by Russia, Ukraine's foreign minister vowed Thursday, as the two countries continued their verbal clashes in an escalating dispute over natural gas supplies More details...
Turkey is Israel's closest ally in the region and the two countries have close trade and military ties More details...
More regions in Ukraine's south could be affected with bird flu, the Emergency Situations Minister said Thursday.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/22/70319.html   (2335 words)

  
 Regions of Ukraine Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LocalFineArt.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Regions Of Ukraine - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe: The Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions, Vol.
II: Case Studies from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine
Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861 (Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /regions_of_ukraine.htm   (94 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | Embassy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On January 23d speaking on national television Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk strongly condemned the anti-Semitic actions of MAUP University in Ukraine.
He confirmed that "having exhausted all efforts to convince MAUP leaders to drop their unlawful and wrongful actions"...
On January 24, 2006 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States of America Dr. Oleh Shamshur presented to the Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice his letter of credence and a letter of recall of his predecessor...
www.ukraineinfo.us /embassy/embassy.html   (161 words)

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