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  Ukrainian SSR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, Russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика) was created on December 25, 1917, and was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union since the Union was formed in 1922.
After World War II, in 1945, some amendments to the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR were accepted, which allowed it to act as a separate subject of the international law in some cases and to a certain extent, remaining a part of the USSR at the same time.
The Ukrainian SSR was renamed into Ukraine on August 24, 1991, and split from the USSR the same day, becoming an independent state.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ukrainian_SSR   (330 words)

  
 Concluding Observations - CERD - Ukraine - Concluding observations adopted up to December 31, 2003
He stated that the Ukrainian SSR radio programmes were broadcast in some national languages, that books were exchanged with foreign countries and that many young representatives of the different nationalities all over the world did in fact study in the various higher establishments in the Ukraine.
The report was introduced by the representative of the Ukrainian SSR who referred to relevant parts of the report and stressed his country's strict observance of the principles of equal rights in all areas of political, economic and cultural life.
Members of the Committee noted that the report submitted by the Ukrainian SSR was fully in conformity with the guidelines established by the Committee, and was informative and entirely satisfactory from both the quantitative and qualitative standpoints.
www.bayefsky.com /html/ukraine_t4_cerd.php   (12173 words)

  
 Циркуляр ...
The Ukrainian SSR exercises supremacy on all of its territory.
The Ukrainian SSR is independent in deciding questions of science, education, and the cultural and spiritual development of the Ukrainian nation and guarantees all nationalities living on the territory of the republic the right to free national-cultural development.
The Ukrainian SSR guarantees the national-cultural rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, Its historical consciousness and traditions, national-ethnographic characteristics, and functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social activity.
www.brama.com /ua-consulate/Declaration.html   (1304 words)

  
 Ukrainian population - history of Ukraine, demographic studies of Ukraine
The roots of the Ukrainian nation are found in the Trypillian culture that evolved in the Middle Dnipro region in the third millennium B C., the heritage of the Scythian tribes, and the Chernyakhiv culture.
Its lands extended to the Gulf of Finland and the largest lakes of Karelia in the north, to the upper course of the Volga in the east, and to the Syan and Western Sub rivers in the west.
The destruction of such a large segment of the Ukrainian nation, whose biological potential was undermined for an entire century, was accompanied by a ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the physical liquidation of the Ukrainian intelligentsia.
www.gmdh.net /pop/history.htm   (1134 words)

  
 Ley de Prensa
In the Ukrainian SSR, education and upbringing in vocational schools and institutions of spe-cialized secondary and higher education shall be in Ukrainian, and in the cases provided for in Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 3 above, along with Ukrainian, in the national language of the ma-jority of population.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR
Secretary of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR
www.ijnet.org /FE_Article/MediaLaw.asp?UILang=3&CID=25314   (2880 words)

  
 Unresolved Ukrainian Question in Poland
Ukrainians deported to the territories received by Poland from Germany are the victims of the Polish state.
Thousands of the Ukrainians had been forcefully removed from their native land on the basis of the bilateral agreement between Poland and Ukrainian SSR, 9 September, 1944 and 16 August, 1945.
However, he recommended that the Ukrainians ought to resettle to the Soviet Union for the good of both, the Poles and the Ukrainians, because this way, according to him, it will be possible to eliminate the historical tendency between the two nations to square accounts.
www.lemko.org /lih/hryhor.html   (984 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for Crimean Russians in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma refused to sign the law "On the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," stating that the document contained many provisions that did not conform to the constitution and the laws of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials maintained that the newspapers had not paid their customs duties, but the newspapers claimed they were being asked to pay a surcharge for the circulation of Russian material in Ukraine, which they refused.
Ukrainian television reported on ongoing ethnic tensions in the Crimea, including a rise in arrests related to the smuggling of provocative literature, arms, and ammunition to the peninsula.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=36905   (9323 words)

  
 Information Page About Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
Ukrainian surnames transliterated from languages other than English are given in brackets after the linguistic transliteration.
Names of places outside Ukrainian ethnic territory are given in the accepted English form or are transliterated from the language of the country where they are found.
Names of places on historically Ukrainian ethnic territory are transliterated from the Ukrainian (for example, Kholm instead of the Polish Chełm).
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /help.asp   (1084 words)

  
 Ukraine-history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The western Ukrainian principality of Galicia, founded in the 12th century, suffered less from the Mongol invasion than the rest of the area, and was annexed by Poland in the 14th century.
In addition, Ukrainian peasants who fled the Polish effort to force them into servitude came to be known as Kossacks and earned a reputation for their fierce martial spirit.
Ukrainian writers and intellectuals were inspired by the nationalistic spirit stirring other European peoples existing under other imperial governments and were determined to revive Ukrainian linguistic and cultural traditions and re-establish a Ukrainian nation-state.
www.ukrainetour.com /tourinfo/Ukraine-history.htm   (964 words)

  
 Access International Domains
The division of Ukrainian territory by Russia, Poland, and Lithuania began in the 14th century: Poland seized Galacia; Lithuania conquered Volhynia; and the Ukrainian cossacks allied with the Russians.
Ukrainians form the majority of the population (77.8 percent), followed by Russians (17.3 percent), and others (4.9 percent).
The majority of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians, split, since 1996, into three factions: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which recognizes the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate in Russia; the Autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church; and the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
webdb.iu.edu /internationalprograms/scripts/accesscoverpage.cfm?country=ukraine   (1750 words)

  
 UN Chronicle: Human Rights Committee considers country reports on Afghanistan, Ukrainian SSR
Reports on the human rights situations in Afghanistan and the Ukrainian SSR were examined by the Human Rights Committee during a three-week session at Geneva (8-26 July).
The Ukrainian SSR was questioned on emigration, one expert referring to reports that some Ukrainian citizens had been refused permission to emigrate.
The Ukrainian SSR replied that there had been an increasing wave of emigration by Jews, culminating in 1979 when more than 22,000 persons had applied to emigrate.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_v22/ai_3838353   (1385 words)

  
 INFCIRC/383 - Information on Economic and Social Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The provinces subjected to radioactive contamination in the Russian Federation were Bryansk, Kaluga, Tula, Orel and to a lesser extent Kursk, Smolensk and Lipetsk; in the Ukrainian SSR - Zhitomir, Kiev, Rovno, Chernigov, Cherkassy and Vinnitsa; and in the Byelorussian SSR - Gomel, Mogilev, Brest, Minsk and Grodno.
An increase in the number of children with hyperplasia of the thyroid gland has been observed in clinical testing of people living in the forest-belt areas of the Byelorussian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the RSFSR, where levels of trace elements in the environment are low (and where goitre cases are endemic).
In 1990-1991, because of the radiation factor, and also because of social considerations, it is planned to evacuate a total of 395 settlements (73,000 inhabitants), including 306 in the Byelorussian SSR (38,600 inhabitants), 22 in the Ukrainian SSR (19,200 inhabitants) and 67 in Bryansk province in the RSFSR (15,200 inhabitants).
www.iaea.org /search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf383.shtml&QueryZip=chernobyl&&viewTemplate=Iaea/iaeacvw_smpl.hts&collection=IaeaSite   (5451 words)

  
 INFCIRC/383 - Information on Economic and Social Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident
In terms of its scale and the damage caused, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 was one of the most serious accidents to have occurred in the entire history of the utilization of atomic energy.
On 26 October 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR approved a State programme for dealing with the after-effects in the Byelorussian SSR of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the years 1990-1995.
The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR has appealed to Governments and public bodies in foreign countries and to international organizations for large-scale international co-operation in dealing with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
www.iaea.org /Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf383.shtml   (5451 words)

  
 LITOPYS UPA - Series 1 Volume 18 Summaries
This article comments on the founding conference of the United Nations Organization, which opened on April 25, 1945, in San Francisco Among the founding members of the UN was the Ukrainian SSR; its delegation arrived at the conference on May 6.
The author examines Ukrainians' feelings of national unity and states that their sense of regional differences is too strong.
What angers the Soviets is the fact that the UCC propagates the dissolution of the USSR and that the Ukrainian MP Hlynka stated in the Canadian parliament that the UCC should be granted a place at international forums in order to defend the rights of the Ukrainian people.
www.infoukes.com /upa/series01/sum18.html   (2896 words)

  
 Shcherbytsky crony retired from post in Ukrainian SSR (12/25/88)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
EDMONTON - The second secretary of the Ukrainian SSR, one of First Secretary Volodymyr Shcherbytsky's oldest cronies, was removed from his position at the December 12 plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
In 1986 he was elected a secretary of the Central Committee of the CPU and became a candidate member of the Ukrainian Politburo.
He became first secretary in the Dnipropetrovske Oblast in April 1987 and in January of this year was elected a member of the Ukrainian SSR Politburo.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1988/528802.shtml   (280 words)

  
 Byelorussian SSR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R. in 1922, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.
The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1 1919.
After the Second World War Byelorussian SSR was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the U.S.S.R. and Ukrainian SSR, so it became one of the founding members of the UN.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Belarusian_SSR   (218 words)

  
 Government portal :: Governments of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The range of the Ukrainian Premier was limited by the problems of the national economy, since the soviet «lofty policy» was made in Moscow, CP(B)U being its obedient executor, while CPC of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic worked under surveillance of the political authorities of the republic.
It is evident that P. Lyubchenko had no idea that the association «Ukrainian SSR as the best pearl in the USSR» offered obvious comparison with the British view of India as the pearl in the crown of British empire a comparison of the colonial statuses  that was not to the credit of the Soviet propaganda.
Lyubchenko was elected a member of Presidium of the All-Ukrainian CEC and member of CEC of the USSR.
www.kmu.gov.ua /control/en/publish/printable_article?art_id=1333770   (773 words)

  
 Protected Areas Programme -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Specific provisions on the protection of flora, fauna and their habitats were made in the Ukrainian Law on the Protection and use of Wildlife of 1981 and the Ukrainian Forest Code of 1979 (Anon., 1986a).
The former Ukrainian SSR was actively involved in developing a network of biosphere reserves under the Unesco MAB programme, two sites having been established in 1984 and 1985, respectively.
In 1986 a state committee of the Ukrainian SSR on nature protection was formed in the Republic to manage environmental policy and to coordinate activities of other bodies, inter alia, for the protection of flora, fauna and their habitats (Anon., 1986).
www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/ukr.html   (1217 words)

  
 Build Ukraine
"Later, however, Lukyanenko and members of his group came to the conclusion that is was not the independence of the Ukrainian SSR that was essential for the improvement of the life of the people, but the liquidation of bureaucratism.
"Lukyanenko later wrote to D. Korotchenko, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, refuting all the KGB charges, and stating that all of his activities were clearly within the framework of Soviet law.
"The Defense of the Sovereignty of the Ukrainian SSR
www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/levko.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Stalin and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33: New Findings
In discussing the constellation of power bases in the Soviet state, the speaker suggested that the tensions between the Ukrainian SSR and Moscow are too simplistic an explanation for the state of affairs.
Instead, he proposed that it would be more appropriate to view the situation as a struggle between the Ukrainian SSR and the Russian SFSR for the attentions and support of the central apparat in Moscow.
As a result of pressure from Soviet Ukrainian leaders, in 1926 the Ukrainian language was granted official status in those areas of the Russian Federation with predominantly Ukrainian settlement.
www.faminegenocide.com /commemoration/newfindings.html   (882 words)

  
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LAW OF UKRAINIAN SSR ON ENTERPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY 07.02.91 This Law defines the general legal, economic and social principles for conducting emterpreneurial activity by citizens and legal persons on the ter- rytory of the Ukrainian SSR, and sets guarantees for tree enterprise and government support.
Losses of an enterpreneur resulting from performance of the instructions of state, or other authorities or their employees, and whoch vioate the rights of the enterpreneur, also a result of improper fulfillment of duties, shall be compensated by such authorites.
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR L. Kravchuk Kiev, 7 February, 1991 
www.brama.com /law/business1/405.txt   (1417 words)

  
 Resources - The Year 1933 in Soviet Ukraine
These figures proved, statistically, that the yield was sufficient to feed the Ukrainian population for 2 years and 4 months.
Here were more scraps of bread, made of Ukrainian wheat, on the dumps; here one could also buy a little food on the fl market.
If the statement seems far-fetched, the reader need only look into "The Small Soviet Encyclopedia" of 1940 and under the heading Ukrainian SSR note this fact: in the 1927 census Ukraine had a population of 32 million; in 1939 (12 years later), only 28 million.
faminegenocide.com /resources/year1933.html   (1453 words)

  
 LLRX -- Research Guide to Ukrainian Law
In 1996, the newly adopted Ukrainian Constitution declared that “Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, law-based state”.
The Ukrainian legislative system is based on the systematically organized and concerted legal rules (norms) which are combined to constitute different legal fields.
LOCMAN is a fee-based database of Ukrainian legislation beginning from 1922, which is produced and supported by the InfoResource center.
www.llrx.com /features/ukraine.htm   (4583 words)

  
 UBC - Biographies of Bandurists and Kobzars
He toured Galicia and Bukovyna with concerts of Ukrainian folk songs accompanied by the bandura and in 1910 founded the Hutsul Theater in Krasnoyilya, Kosiv county.
Eventually, he again suffered political persecution for his views on Ukrainian culture; his last novel, 'Dovbush', was not published during his lifetime, and his ultimate acheivement, a tetralogy about the life of T. Shevchenko, which he began in 1928, was confiscated and until recently lost in the vaults of the KGB.
He was a member of the State Bandurist Kapelle of the Ukrainian SSR from its inception in 1935, serving as concertmaster and assistant director (from 1937).
www.bandura.org /bandura_biographies.htm   (2689 words)

  
 Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Ukrainians in the Context of the Soviet Multinational Empire."
Yuri Shevchuk, Lecturer, Korolenko Institute, Rivne; member of the Rivne City Council; and Head of the Regional Committee for the Implementation of the Law on Ukrainian as the State Language.
Introduction by Andrij Fialko, attache, Permanent Mission of the Ukrainian SSR to the United Nations.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~huri/lib/archives/sum.1986-1990.html   (620 words)

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