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| | Ukraine - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukraina /ukraˈjina/) 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 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 and the Ottoman Empire. |
 | | To satisfy the state's need for increased food supplies, the Soviet industrialization program called for the collectization of agriculture, which had a profound effect on Ukraine, the nation's breadbasket (see Collectivization in the USSR). |
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