* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

The term " balabaika " was widely used in Ukrainian language documents from 1717 to 1732.

In the 19th Century, the Tsarist Government of Russia claimed that Ukrainian was merely a dialect of Russian and not a language in its own right.

Rusyn is considered to be either a separate language or a dialect of Ukrainian.

The Ruthenian language, corresponding to today's Belarusian and Ukrainian, was then called Russian, and was used as one of the chancellery languages by Lithuanian monarchs.

The language spoken at home was a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian.

Although Trotsky stated in his autobiography My Life that he was never perfectly fluent in any language but Russian and Ukrainian, Raymond Molinier wrote that Trotsky spoke fluent French.

It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and ahead of Ukrainian.

The language of the coextensive East Slavic people, the Lemkos, which demonstrates significant lexical and grammatical commonality with the Góralski dialect and Ukrainian, bears no significant Vlach or other Romanian influences.

According to the Ukrainian constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language.

* Ukrainian language language, identified in List of ISO 639-1 codes as " uk "

His father, a descendent of Ukrainian Cossacks, had been a professor of political economy in Kiev before moving to Saint Petersburg, and his mother was a noblewoman of Russian ethnicity ( Vernadsky considered himself both Russian and Ukrainian, and had some knowledge of the Ukrainian language.

Anton Gretzky has been described as having " been born in Russia with Ukrainian forebears ", while " the only Slavic language spoken in the Gretzky family Ukrainian ".

It is considered to be the first literary work written in a language close to modern Ukrainian.

This period of political breakdown and reorganization also saw the rise of written local vernaculars in place of the literary and liturgical Church Slavonic language, a further stage in the evolving differentiation between the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.

Despite the legal usage of the Old Ruthenian language ( the predecessor of both modern Belarusian and Ukrainian languages ) which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the literature was mostly non-existent, outside of several chronicles.

Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and Esperanto.

Ukrainian is a lineal descendant of the colloquial language used in Kievan Rus ' ( 10th – 13th century ).

Ukrainian traces its roots through the mid-14th century Ruthenian language, a chancellery language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, back to the early written evidences of 10th century Rus '.

It is accepted that before the 18th century the precursor to the modern literary Ukrainian language was a vernacular language used mostly by peasants and petits bourgeois as no traces of earlier literary works could be found.

* Liudmyla Blonska, a Ukrainian heptathlete, tested positive for traces of stanozolol shortly after finishing thirteenth at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and in June 2003 was handed a two year ban, whereafter she returned to the sport.

While the ULC is a relatively new denomination, it traces its roots to early Lutheranism in the 16th century, and more recently, to the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession which was persecuted and eventually destroyed by the Soviet government and KGB in 1939.

The party traces its history back to 1994 when the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Vasyl Onopenko created his party, Party of Human Rights, which in January of 1995 has united with the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Party of Justice, later named as the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine ( united ).

Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa / Oleksiy deriving from this form.

In March 1939, Ribbentrop assigned the largely ethnic Ukrainian Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia region of Czecho-Slovakia, which had just proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine, to Hungary, which then proceeded to annex it after a short war.

The establishment of an autonomous Ukrainian region in Czecho-Slovakia in October 1938 had promoted a major Soviet media campaign against its existence on the grounds that this was part of a Western plot to support separatism in the Soviet Ukraine.

Russia lost its Ukrainian, Polish, Baltic, and Finnish territories by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that concluded hostilities with the Central Powers in World War I.

The Black Army, which counted numerous Jews and Ukrainian peasants in its ranks, played a key part in halting General Denikin's White Army offensive towards Moscow during 1919, later ejecting Cossack forces from the Crimea.

The German Empire created several short-lived satellite buffer states within its sphere of influence after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: the ' United Baltic Duchy ', ' Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ', ' Kingdom of Lithuania ', ' Kingdom of Poland ', the ' Belarusian People ’ s Republic ', and the ' Ukrainian State '.

From the 13th to 15th century, Baltic and Ukrainian lands were consolidated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with its initial capital unknown, but which presumably could have been either Navahrudak, Voruta, Trakai, Kernavė or Vilnius.

Many attribute its popularity to Elizabeth ’ s relationship with Alexei Razumovsky, a Ukrainian Cossack and the supposed husband of the Empress, who reportedly relished music.

The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( NANU ), particularly by its Institute for the Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian language-informatical fund, and Potebnya Institute of Language Studies.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Moscow refused to recognise Ukrainian sovereignty over Sevastopol as well as over the surrounding Crimean oblast, using the argument that the city was never practically integrated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic because of its military status.

The ex-Soviet Black Sea Fleet and its facilities were divided between Russia's Black Sea Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople was vigorous in its missionary outreach under the Roman Empire and continuing Byzantine Empire, and its missionary outreach had lasting effect, either founding, influencing or establishing formal relations with some 16 Orthodox national churches including the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( both said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Andrew ), the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Paul ).

Most of Bessarabia became the Moldavian SSR with Chișinău as its capital ; smaller parts of Bessarabia became parts of the Ukrainian SSR.

In early 1918, a conservative German-supported coup overthrew the radical socialist Ukrainian Central Rada and its Ukrainian People's Republic, establishing a " Hetmanate " or monarchy headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky who claimed the title " Hetman of Ukraine ".

The Ukrainian state has occupied a number of territories since its initial foundation.

At times there has also been a distinct lack of a Ukrainian state, as its territories were on a number of occasions, annexed by its more powerful neighbours.

In the West foreign diplomats, taking notice of the palace gossip about her, called her " Russelazie " or " Roxelana ", referring to her Ruthenian ( Ukrainian ) origins.

Some, like Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, also known as " Voline " were intellectuals who served on the Cultural-Educational Commission, wrote his manifestos, and edited his journals, but the great majority fought in the ranks of the Anarchist Black Army, either in special detachments of Jewish artillery and infantry, or else within the regular anarchist army brigades alongside peasants and workers of Ukrainian, Russian, and other ethnic origins.

Edward Dmytryk ( September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999 ) was an American film director of Ukrainian origins who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era ' red scare '.

Other sources suggest ethnic Ukrainian origins, while according to Felix Chuev, Vyacheslav Molotov maintained that Krestinsky's family had converted from Judaism to Eastern Orthodoxy.

Much of the Itapúa region was colonized by immigrants from different origins, among them are the Italian, German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Japanese, Polish, and recent time there were also immigrants from Syria and Lebanon.

The provinces with the largest Ukrainian populations ( single and multiple origins, 2006 ) are: Ontario, 336, 355 ; Alberta, 332, 180 ; British Columbia 197, 265 ; Manitoba, 167, 175 ; Saskatchewan 129, 265 ; and Quebec, 31, 955.

The metropolitan regions with the largest Ukrainian populations ( single and multiple origins, 2006 ) are: Edmonton 144, 620 ; Toronto, 122, 510 ; Winnipeg, 110, 335 ; Vancouver, 81, 725 ; Calgary, 76, 240 ; Saskatoon, 38, 825 ; Hamilton 27, 080 ; Montreal, 26, 150 ; Regina, 25, 725 ; Ottawa-Gatineau, 21, 520 ; St. Catharines-Niagara, 20, 990 ; Thunder Bay, 17, 620 ; Victoria, 15, 020 ; Kelowna, 13, 425 ; Oshawa, 12, 555 ; London, 10, 765 ; and Kitchener 10, 425.

The census showed that Stoney Creek was 92. 72 % white ( European ), ( of which 55 % had British or Irish origins, 16 % Italian, 21 % Serbian, Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian etc.

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout () ( born 13 January 1967, near Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union ) is a convicted Russian arms smuggler of Ukrainian origins.

Scarf was born on July 25, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents of Ukrainian Jewish origins.

Thus he was an anti-Normanist who stressed the Slavic origins of Rus ', put the emphasis upon internal discord as the primary reason for the fall of Kievan Rus ', and emphasized the native Ukrainian ethnic makeup and origins of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

He also produced several smaller Ukrainian language books on the origins of various Ukrainian placenames including " Galicia ", " Volhynia ", and, in most detail, " Ukraine ".