Category: Ukraine

With a total area of 603,700 km², Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe after Russia. Its territory includes the Crimean peninsula, which in 1991 went from being an oblast (an administrative division similar to the province) to being a constituent republic. Kiev is the capital and the main city. Most of the surface of Ukraine is a…

Economy The base of the economy of Ukraine is in the industry, a sector that contributes 34.6% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and encompasses more than a quarter of the workforce. The vast mineral resources of the republic are the foundation of the industry. Ukraine is the world’s fourth largest steel producer and has a broad…

With the collapse of the Tsarist regime and the chaos of the Russian Revolution in 1917, it allowed Ukraine to assert its independence. In April of 1917, the National Assembly meets in Kiev Ukraine and November proclaimed the creation of the People ‘s Republic of Ukraine. When the Bolsheviks formed a rival, the communist government of Ukraine and the National Assembly proclaimed the independence…

Origins The first settlers of Ukraine were the Scythians, who settled on the north coast of the Black Sea around the 7th century BC until they were exterminated by the Sarmatians in the 4th century BC. During part of the Middle Ages, the Ukrainian territory was populated by Slavic tribes, of Indo-European origin. Later it was taken by the Vikings from Sweden, who would found…

Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe. It 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 and the Sea of ​​Azov to the south. The capital is the city of Kiev (Kyiv), the largest in the country. The name of the country comes from the term krajina, which in Slavic can have two meanings: “border…

In the Middle Ages, Russia was evangelized from Kiev. The St. Sophia Cathedral was built in the middle of the 11th century and was one of the largest buildings in Europe at the time. The monastery has been a museum complex since 1926, which consists of several churches, monasteries and monks’ caves. St. Sophia Cathedral…

Ukrainian mass media has undergone fundamental changes since the country became independent in 1991. The most important changes have been the transition from censorship to full freedom of expression, the development of market economy and the opening of privately owned media, and the development of Ukrainian media in competition with Russian. The development has led…

Literature Since Christianity 988 was introduced in the prince state of Kievrus, cultural relations increased especially with the Byzantine Empire. Sermons, saints’ legends and historical works were translated into Kyrkoslavian, a book language understood by the various tribes of Kiev. No marked division into dialects had yet begun. Therefore, the oldest Ukrainian literature coincided with…

In October 1992 L. Kuchma became Prime Minister, one of the “new men” and President of the Republic was Kravciuk. According to Abbreviationfinder, an acronym site which also features history of Ukraine, the reform program, however, encountered many obstacles also due to the controversies that arose with the government of the former Soviet Union over…