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Capital: kiev (kyyiv)
Country name
: conventional long form: none conventional short form: ukraine local long form: none local short form: ukrayina former: ukrainian national republic. ukrainian state. ukrainian soviet socialist republic
National holiday: independence day. 24 august (1991); the date of 22 january (1918). the day ukraine first declared its independence (from soviet russia). is now celebrated as unity day
Government type
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republic
Administrative divisions: 24 provinces (oblasti. singular - oblast'). 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika). and 2 municipalities (mista. singular - misto) with oblast status**; cherkasy. chernihiv. chernivtsi. crimea or avtonomna respublika krym* (simferopol'). dnipropetrovs'k. donets'k. ivano-frankivs'k. kharkiv. kherson. khmel'nyts'kyy. kirovohrad. kiev (kyyiv)**. kyyiv. luhans'k. l'viv. mykolayiv. odesa. poltava. rivne. sevastopol'**. sumy. ternopil'. vinnytsya. volyn' (luts'k). zakarpattya (uzhhorod). zaporizhzhya. zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses) |
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Independence:
24 august 1991 (from the soviet union)
Political parties and leaders: communist party of ukraine or cpu [petro symonenko]; lytyvn people's bloc group [ihor sharov]; party of industrialists and entrepreneurs [anatoliy kinakh]; people's movement of ukraine [borys tarasyuk]; people's party [volodymyr lytvyn]; people's trust group [anton kisse]; people's union our ukraine [viktor yushchenko]; reforms and order party [viktor pynzenyk]; regions of ukraine [viktor yanukovych]; republican party [yuriy boyko]; socialist party of ukraine or spu [oleksandr moroz. chairman]; ukrainian people's party [yuriy kostenko]; united social democratic party [viktor medvedchuk]; united ukraine [bohdan hubskyy]; yuliya tymoshenko bloc [yuliya tymoshenko]
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
pora (it's time!) youth movement [vladyslav kaskiv]; committee of voters of ukraine [ihor popov]
International organization participation
: australia group. bsec. cbss (observer). ce. cei. cis. eapc. ebrd. fao. guam. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icct (signatory). icftu. icrm. ida. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom. iso. itu. miga. monuc. nam (observer). nsg. oas (observer). opcw. osce. pca. pfp. un. unamsil. unctad. unesco. unido. unifil. unmee. unmil. unmovic. unomig. upu. wcl. wco. wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto (observer). zc
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