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  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, Austria, Romania and the Ottoman Empire.
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.
Ukraine is a democracy under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukraine   (2967 words)

  
 Ukraine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ukraine is distinguished as one of the first nations to fight the Axis powers in (Click link for more info and facts about Carpatho-Ukraine) Carpatho-Ukraine, and one that saw some of the greatest bloodshed during the war.
Ukraine is a (A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them) democracy under a (Click link for more info and facts about semi-presidential system) semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Ukraine has a mostly (Click link for more info and facts about temperate) temperate continental (The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time) climate, though a more (Click link for more info and facts about mediterranean climate) mediterranean climate is found on the southern Crimean coast.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/uk/ukraine.htm   (3504 words)

  
 NCSJ - Ukraine page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ukraine is also tackling a growing problem of West-bound Asian and African illegal migrants, as witnessed by the establishment of a detention camp in Mukachevo, Transcarpathia, to prevent migrants from reaching the western Ukrainian border.
Ukraine is a constitutional republic with executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Ukraine continues to suffer from the harmful effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986, investing a sizable share of the national budget in medical care for Chernobyl victims and cleanup of contaminated areas.
www.ncsj.org /Ukraine.shtml   (6770 words)

  
 Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
Lviv is the charming cultural center of western Ukraine.
pages.prodigy.net /l.hodges/ukraine.htm   (3774 words)

  
 Travel and Tourism Gallery
My closest family members in Ukraine lived in Buchach: Aunt Mariyka, a fierce and not always pleasant woman who had spent eight hard years in Siberian labor camps; always industrious Cousin Bohdanna who for a number of years in the early 1990s supported her husband and two sons by running bootleg across the Polish border.
Between the 14th and 17th centuries, the town was the main bastion of defense in Podilya, a geographic region in Western Ukraine.
In 1995, the monastery was granted the status of a historical philosophical lyceum by Ukraine's education ministry.
www.artukraine.com /travel/buchach.htm   (1672 words)

  
 Naumescu, Vlad - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology - Anthropology of religion, memory studies, interactions ...
The Revival of Greek Catholics in Western Ukraine and Romania
In this context, both Romania and the new independent state of Ukraine have witnessed the revitalization of Greek Catholic communities, formerly banned churches in communist Europe.
Relationships between dominant and minority churches, state policies and Western models of civil society all influence the position of the Greek Catholics in their respective contemporary societies.
www.eth.mpg.de /people/naumescu/project.html   (468 words)

  
 Ukraine - Newsletter 14, Center for Jewish Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The expedition team to the Ukraine in August 1997 set out to further explore and document the cemeteries and synagogue architecture of the shtetls and towns in the regions of Galicia and Volyn in northwest Ukraine.
It was believed that all wooden synagogues of the Ukraine were destroyed, and so researchers were quite surprised and delighted to come upon a wooden synagogue thirty kilometers from Drogobich, Galicia, in the town of Skhodnitsa.
Having carried out seven years of surveys and expeditions to the Ukraine, researchers of the Center for Jewish Art have documented a major portion of the vast material culture of this once important Jewish center.
www.hum.huji.ac.il /cja/NL14-Ukraine.htm   (824 words)

  
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The Miocene gypsum sequence in the Western Ukraine extends throughout an area of more than 20,000 km2.
The Western Ukrainian maze caves provide the most outstanding and unambiguous evidence for the transverse artesian speleogenetic model.
The Western Ukraine contains one of the largest gypsum karst areas in the world.
www.ncl.ac.uk /roses/wukraine.html   (2598 words)

  
 Ukrainian Handicrafts and Folk Art - Taras Shevchenko Museum - the only Shevchenko Museum in the Americas
The Encyclopedia of Ukraine recognizes five regional groups: that of the Middle Dnieper Region, originating in the Hetman period; Polisia; Podilia; central Galicia and Volhynia; and the Carpathian Mountains and Subcarpathia, including Pokutia, Bukovyna, Hutsul, Boiko, and Lemko.
Wood carving was popular throughout Ukraine, but some regions were especially noted for the beauty and sophistication of their wood work.
It spread to Ukraine through Hungary and Rumania, where it is known as a cymbalom and was probably introduced into Ukraine by wandering Gypsy and Jewish musicians.
www.infoukes.com /shevchenkomuseum/folkart.htm   (1624 words)

  
 Stella Hryniuk, Center for Austrian Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There were responses to appeals from priests and their supporters in West Ukraine for liturgical items and chalices for hundreds of churches that were emerging from the underground; religious literature could now also be sent and news items began to appear of churches being returned to Ukrainian Catholics.
The greater assertiveness of Ukrainian Catholics in Ukraine in 1989, their public religious celebrations and their reclaiming of property which had belonged to their Church prior to 1945, was a matter of pride for Ukrainian Catholics in North America.
The acute crisis in theological education in Ukraine is perhaps at last being partially overcome, with the expansion of seminary training and the establishment of a theological academy.
www.cas.umn.edu /wp955.htm   (12730 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Western Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Western Ukraine (Західно-українська Народна Республіка, West-Ukrainian People's Republic) was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia and included the cities of L'viv, Kolomyja, and Stanislav.
The republic was proclaimed on 1 November 1918 and merged with the Ukrainian National Republic on 22 January 1919.
Of the other, some are quite rare, with prices ranging up to $5,000.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Western-Ukraine   (452 words)

  
 Orange Ukraine - Journal of Ukrainian Current Events
Ukraine certainly has enough excitement in its executive and legislative branches for one nation.
Putin: I would say worrying that Ukraine might become a banana republic is itself an overdramatization of the situation, except I'm not sure you are using the term correctly.
Last month I criticized western media for reporting on Ukraine as if political events were the script for a soap opera.
www.orangeukraine.squarespace.com   (12003 words)

  
 Ukranian Rite
Born in 1584 in Vladimir (today in Ukraine, then in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth), St Josaphat came from a family of honourable Christians of the Byzantine Slavonic rite in use among the Ruthenians [the people of modern Ukraine and Belarus].
It is an historical fact that the Greek Catholics of Western Ukraine have borrowed numerous Latin, specifically Catholic elements into their devotional life.
The modern hierarchy is hell-bent on destroying all vestiges of the traditional rite practised in Western Ukraine in order to further their false ecumenism.
papastronsay.com /Ukraine.htm   (2244 words)

  
 With unemployment running 70% in western Ukraine, many men have to travel to where the work is. Some photos of Ivan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With unemployment running 70% in western Ukraine, many men have to travel to where the work is. Some photos of Ivan Pavliy's construction crew at work in Moscow in the summer of 1998
Work is in short supply in Western Ukraine with the unemployment rate at 70%.
To take care of their families many of the men have to travel to where the work is. Some have been able to work in Germany, while others in the Czech Republic or Slovakia.
www.lifenets.org /ukraine/moscow/moscow.htm   (185 words)

  
 Lviv - the city in the Western Ukraine
Homepage of Caritas Ukraine - Caritas is a humanitarian aid - developmental N.G.O agency of the Catholic Church.
Lviv.PDF Ukraine, Poland (and to limited extent Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania) Description Objectives: To review the economic and social effects of EU enlargement on the Lviv region of Ukraine and to assess the broader impact upon Ukraine as a whole.
Lviv is the preeminent city of Western Ukraine - the cultural, political and economic center of the West.
www.bizukraine.com /lviv.htm   (5378 words)

  
 Shostak: Networks and Narratives
I was born in the village of Hurtkiv in the Sokal District.
In her fifties, she holds the respected position of superintendent at a prestigious university, is a proud mother of two, loving wife to her husband, and caring daughter to her ill mother, who lives in the countryside.
Throughout Western Ukraine, men formed construction brigades and traveled to Russia to do construction work, as in the case of Anna’s husband.
www.univie.ac.at /spacesofidentity/_Vol_4_3/_HTML/Shostak.html   (5225 words)

  
 AAUS Members Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Public opinion surveys in Ukraine (gauging Ukrainians' outlook on the economy and welfare; their confidence in institutions and leadership; views of other countries; job approval of leadership; general optimism/pessimism; opinions about current events; Ukraine's place in the world and foreign policy).
Ph.D. dissertation on the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.
Impacts of the Chernobyl catastrophe on the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
www.ukrainianstudies.org /database.htm   (2033 words)

  
 CIUS Press: Ukraine during World War II: History and its Aftermath by Yury Boshyk ed.
The events in Eastern Europe and Ukraine during World War II are generally little known and often misunderstood, even though it was here that the war lasted the longest and caused devastation on an unprecedented scale.
This book will interest those concerned with the history of Ukraine during World War II, as well as the controversy over the presence of alleged war criminals in Canada and the United States.
Ukraine during World War II is a comprehensive guide to one of the most complex aspects of modern East European history.
www.utoronto.ca /cius/publications/books/ukraineduringwwii.htm   (434 words)

  
 Leopolis
However, the results of such actions are evident both in Kyrgyzstan, whose new leaders are on the verge of a crisis, and in Ukraine, where the power split has already taken place.
In August, his newly-minted Eurasian Youth Union rallied in Moscow, demanding that president Yushchenko resign from his post and Ukraine enter the United States as the 52 [sic] state.
In Ukraine, Viktor (orange) and Viktor (blue) signed a pact that ushered in the approval of Yekhanurov and called for fair elections without administrative resources.
leopolis.blogspot.com   (3206 words)

  
 Virtual Tour of Berezhany (Brzezany), small Galician/Ukrainian town (my hometown) in Ternopil region in Western Ukraine
Berezhany (former Polish Brzezany) is a small town in Western Ukraine which was part of the USSR in 1939-1991.
Lviv/Lwow/Lemberg in Western part of Ukraine, in the valley of Zolota Lypa (Golden Lime tree) river.
Berezhany is administrative center of Berezhany district with about 19.000 inhabitants, mostly Galician Ukrainains (10.000 in 1939, among them there were 400 Galician Ukrainians/Ruthenians, 6.600 Poles and 3.000 Jews, most of whom were shot by Germans at the Holocaust time and are burried in mass grave at the large Jewish cemetery of Berezhany).
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/photos-berezhany.htm   (320 words)

  
 Flood in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Severe floods killed nine people during March and affected one in four residents in the Trans-Carpathian area of western Ukraine, reports Andrei Chuprikov, director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Ukraine.
In addition, ADRA workers transported a group of homeless children to Hungary, where they will be fed and cared for until their families have safe homes again.
The flood waters covered 255 towns and villages in Ukraine, damaging 33,774 houses and many roads and bridges.
www.tagnet.org /esd/news/ukraineflood.html   (298 words)

  
 Maidan - News - Scheme to Disrupt Elections in Central and Western Ukraine
Taking into account the permission of migration for members of electoral commissions as granted by the new law, it is clear that territorial and divisional electoral commission members will be represented in western Ukraine in a proportion equal to their quota, i.e.
In the second phase, on the day of re-run voting, the relations between election commission members will get very tense over different quotas, and there will again be cases of threats, intimidation, and various obstacles that will be established by observers and later filed in court.
The members of our divisional and territorial commissions will turn around and return home, refusing to take part either in the work of commissions during the voting, or during vote count and transfer of electoral documents.
eng.maidanua.org /static/enews/1103843972.html   (714 words)

  
 Flooding in Western Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In January 1999, 24 of us are going to this part of Ukraine on a medical mission.
Downstream in Chop, where we cross into Ukraine from Hungary, the water was more than 40 feet above flood stage.
Add to this the economic problems in Russia which have spilled over into Ukraine and you have a crisis.
www.lifenets.org /ukraine99/flood98.htm   (479 words)

  
 Copyright
Since the Polish armed forces had been stationed on the western front by mid-September, the Soviet invasion took them completely by surprise.
In the epilogue ("The Spoiler State"), Gross attempts to highlight his findings regarding the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia by "putting it in the context of the Nazi occupation of Poland." Which regime--Soviet or Nazi--inflicted more suffering on the populations?
This book, in short, makes an important contribution to a growing body of archive-based literature about Soviet interventions, occupations of countries once in the Warsaw Pact, and the ignorance of the populations in these countries of their countries' Nazi pasts.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsw163.htm   (2227 words)

  
 In Ukraine, Western Media Mirrored Kremlin
The Western media were on the right side on Ukraine, while Russia was on the wrong side.
While Viktor Yushchenko was campaigning against Yanukovych, the Western media were campaigning against the Kremlin.
You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/02/01/006.html   (247 words)

  
 Canada - Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KYIV- Canada's Ambassador to Ukraine, Andrew Robinson, today announced a three-year, CAD $3.8 million, regional network project to support small business growth and economic development in five additional communities of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Western Ukraine.
The announcement was made during a two-day visit to Ivano-Frankivsk where the Ambassador met with local government officials and with Canadian partners working in the region.
Their use of information technology to reach the more remote areas of the country will provide greater access to business development programs, computer and foreign language training".
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /canadaeuropa/ukraine/press24042002-en.asp   (262 words)

  
 CELCEE - Meat from the Western Ukraine Arrived to Kyiv
This article describes a successful entrepreneurial venture that was started in the Western Ukraine in 1998 through venture funding from the Western NIS Enterprise Fund.
This is a meat processing factory that combines Western manufacturing technologies with Ukrainian quality ingredients.
The author explores the reasons for the company's success and analyzes the penetration strategy that the firm is going to use in the country.
www.celcee.edu /abstracts/c20001017.html   (91 words)

  
 BISNIS - Western NIS - Ukraine
Ukraine Competing in the Global Economy: Strategies for Success, 01/05 - in PDF format (3/05)
Ukraine Trade & Export Finance Forum June 6, 2005 - in PDF format (4/05)
Euroventures Ukraine Fund II holds first close at US$ 35 million, August 2005 (9/05)
bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/country/ukraine.cfm   (510 words)

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