His Servant of the People party went on to win early parliamentary elections in July, giving President Zelensky control of both the executive and the legislature. Read full profile. National media have adopted a united patriotic agenda following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the armed conflict in the east.
Ukraine has banned relays of leading Russian TVs; in turn, areas under Russian or separatist control have seen pro-Kyiv outlets silenced. The authorities also block access to some popular Russian websites and social networks. TV dominates the media landscape, and major commercial networks are the leading outlets. Many newspapers publish Ukrainian and Russian-language editions. Some key dates in Ukraine's history:.
Russia subsequently seizes Crimean peninsula and launches insurgency to occupy parts of eastern Ukraine. BBC Languages - Ukraine. When the Russian Empire collapsed in the aftermath of the revolutions of , the Ukrainians declared a state of their own. After several years of warfare and quasi-independence, however, Ukraine was once again partitioned between the nascent Soviet Union and newly independent Poland. Armed revolts against Soviet rule were staged during and after World War II and were centred on the western regions of Ukraine that had been annexed from Poland in It was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union in that Ukraine gained lasting independent statehood of its own — but Ukrainian de facto political entities struggling for their autonomy or independence had existed long before that.
The message conveyed by using this term is that these territories are not historically connected to the remainder of Ukraine. The precise south-eastern borders of historical Ukraine are indeed difficult to establish. By the s, the Zaporizhian Cossacks were able to establish a modicum of control over these territories, and they also settled in some regions that extend far into present-day Russia. Substantial settlement of these vast territories did not begin until the early 19 th century, and their ethnic make-up remained very diverse — as reflected by the fact that it was neither Ukrainians nor Russians, but British industrialists , who founded Luhansk and Donetsk , the two cities at the centre of the current separatist conflict.
This was done with no consideration for the ethnic make-up of the population, and today these areas form the southeast of Ukraine. The first Soviet census in , a few years after the eastern borders of the UkrSSR had been finalised, showed that in all territories of eastern Ukraine, including those that are now contested, ethnic Ukrainians still far outnumbered ethnic Russians.
But as much as these assumptions may resonate with ordinary Russians, as well as some foreign leaders, a glance into Ukrainian history reveals that they are based on a dangerously distorted reading of the past. Ultimately, by redrawing borders and rewriting history the Kremlin is unlikely to have done itself a favour. Through its intervention in Ukraine it has galvanised most Ukrainians in their aversion to Russia and has thereby done a great deal to demarcate the perceived differences between Ukrainians and Russians more clearly than ever before.
The Yorck Procject Wikimedia Commons. Thank you so much for writing this article. Thank you for researching so well. Duben gets many points right, but his springboard is unfortunately the repetition of late 18 and 19th century Russian rewriting of history in the search for an extended pedigree.
Indeed, the name, Romania, and also a Latin language, makes the parallel even more complete. You get the point. Other observations are that the forced starvation of was not the result of agricultural policies, concluded in early , but the blockading of the country and removal of all edibles in order to break the back of the Ukrainian ethos, originating and secured by the village.
It seems to me that Puti n is seeing all this backwards or upsidedown. As the Kievan Rus existed first, and unsatisfied peoples began moving north in search of a better? Kiev would indeed be the Mother of Slavic cities. Indeed, a nice overview of the Ukrainian history, with few omissions.
First, until the 11th century schism in Christianity into Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Kyivan Rus had common faith with Rome, and dynastic marriages linked Kyiv with faraway Paris. Second, the Ukrainian nation existed for centuries in the minds and hearts of its people without a state. A nation-state concept does not apply. Deposits of nickel, chrome, titanium, complex and mercury ores the second largest deposit in the world are estimated as sufficient for commercial exploitation.
Ukraine is a European and world leader by number of mineral rock deposits. Deposits of ozokerites and brimstones are the largest in the world.
Its deposits of graphite are the most important in Europe. The extraction of rock and potassium salt has been conducted in Ukraine for a long time. There are open deposits of precious and semiprecious stones on the territory of the state as well beryl, amethyst, amber, jasper, rock crystal, etc. More than 15 deposits of gold have been discovered over the last several years.
Mineral and raw stock in Ukraine has a significant economic potential that is necessary for securing further national economic development, in particular, in metallurgy, chemical industry, as well as the production of ceramic articles and construction materials. Approximately 30, species of plants grow in Ukraine. More than of them are included in the Red Data Book. More than half of the total timber reserve in Ukraine is in conifers: pine tree, fir, and silver fir.
Forests in Ukraine are rich in berries, mushrooms, fruits of wild-growing plants, as well as herbs about species of herbs are recognized by official medicine. Fauna in Ukraine is diverse and numbers almost 45, species. The rarest surviving animals are found in numerous conservation areas.
There are a lot of fish species in the Black and Azov seas, as well as in rivers and lakes. Eleven natural national parks, four biosphere conservation areas, sixteen wilderness areas, and a lot of dendroparks have been created in Ukraine. Hunting for elk, deer, wild boar, hare, fox, wild goose, etc. Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. Search Search. Administrative division. National symbols. Phone codes. Macroeconomic indicators.
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