* 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

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

Putin's international prestige suffered a major blow in the West during the disputed 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.

In the West, the reaction to Russia's handling of, or perhaps interference in, the Ukrainian election evoked echoes of the Cold War, but relations with the U. S. have remained stable.

On January 21, 1990, over 300, 000 Ukrainians organised a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kiev and Lviv, in memory of the 1919 unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

The first nation to recognize Ukraine's independence was Canada, which has the largest ethnic Ukrainian minority in the West.

In the early part of the 20th century, many Ukrainian people settled in West Islip seeking refuge from political repression and economic hardships.

St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church was constructed in 1913 and St. Brigid's Church, also Roman Catholic, was built on the north side of West Genesee Street at 806 Willis Avenue in 1926.

Also, as of 2011, Russian and Ukrainian immigrants are increasing in Springfield, West Springfield, Westfield, and other communities.

St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church, formerly home to Temple Shaarey Tefila, 180 West 82d Street

With the collapse of Austria-Hungary following World War I in November 1918, western Podolia was included in the West Ukrainian People's Republic, but came under Polish control in 1919 which was confirmed in the Poland – Ukrainian People's Republic agreement in April 1920.

Poland, its territory a major frontline of the First World War, was unstable politically ; it had just won the difficult conflict with the West Ukrainian National Republic and was already engaged in new conflicts with Germany ( the Silesian Uprisings ) and with Czechoslovakia.

Before the Polish – Soviet war, Jan Kowalewski, a polyglot and amateur cryptologist, managed to break the codes and ciphers of the army of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and General Anton Denikin's White Russian forces during his service in the Polish – Ukrainian War.

For Petlura, this was the final chance to preserve the statehood and, at least, the theoretical independence of the Ukrainian heartlands, even while accepting the loss of West Ukrainian lands to Poland.

This and a wider area adjoining it ( up to the Ukrainian border ) make up the UNESCO-designated West Polesie Biosphere Reserve, which borders a similar reserve ( the Shatskiy Biosphere Reserve ) on the Ukrainian side.

The Czechoslovak request was rejected by Poland and Czechoslovakia attacked the Polish part of the region on 23 January 1919 and forced Poland, which was at that time in war also with the West Ukrainian National Republic, to withdraw from the bigger part of the area.

For example, the Rashtriya Janata Dal ( translated as National People's Party ) has a vote bank among the Yadav and Muslim population of Bihar and the All India Trinamool Congress does not have any significant support outside West Bengal.

As sensitive ethnic, national security and economic issues cooled relations with Russia in the 1990s, Nazarbayev cultivated relations with the People's Republic of China, the other Central Asian nations, and the West.

The foreign relations of Laos, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic aligning itself with the Soviet bloc, maintaining close ties with the Soviet Union and depending heavily on the Soviets for most of its foreign assistance.

The logo of the Judean People's Front, designed by Terry Gilliam, was a Star of David with a small line added to each point so it resembled a swastika, most familiar in the West as the symbol of the anti-Semitic Nazi movement.

Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Württemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital and became part of Baden-Württemberg after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949.

RPGs were used extensively during the Vietnam War ( by the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong ), Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by the Mujahideen and against South Africans in Angola and Namibia ( formerly South West Africa ) by SWAPO guerillas during what the South Africans called the South African Border War.

Ryszard Kukliński believed that he would be able to prevent the war in Europe between the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries by handing in 40, 265 pages of secret military documents of East Germany and People's Republic of Poland to CIA in West Germany

Yahya became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, on December 20, 1971 he handed over power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, age 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party.

There was a protracted struggle between South Africa and forces fighting for independence, particularly after the formation of the South West Africa People's Organisation ( SWAPO ) in 1960.

* South West African People's Organization ( SWAPO )

West of the pagoda towards the former Hluttaw ( Parliament ) complex is the 130-acre ( 53-ha ) People ’ s Square and People's Park, ( the former parading ground on important national days when Yangon was the capital.

(, known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the southwest of the country.

A great many number are themselves refugees and dissidents which fled mainland China, either directly or through Hong Kong or Taiwan, during the founding of the People's Republic of China and the subsequent periods of destructive policies such as the Land Reform, the Anti-Rightist Movement, Great Leap Forward, or the Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong anti-Communist immigrants who fled Hong Kong in light of the Handover to the PRC in 1997, or Mainlanders living in Taiwan who moved to the West in response to the Taiwanization movement.

: Australia, Botswana, British West Indies, Brunei, Canada ( English-speaking ), Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea ( both North and South ), Lebanon, Luxembourg ( uses both marks officially ), Macau ( in Chinese and English text ), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland ( when the amount is in Swiss francs ), Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States ( including insular areas ), Zimbabwe.

The People's Republic of China decided to accelerate the modernization process by stepping up the volume of foreign trade by opening up its markets, especially the purchase of machinery from Japan and the West.

Before the end of January 1950, the GWU and the People's Committee were holding joint public meetings and discussing issues such as devaluation, labour legislation, the proposed West Indies Federation, and constitutional reform.

A People's Party grew out of agrarian unrest in response to low agricultural prices in the South and the trans-Mississippi West.

After the Separation of East and West Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, Bangladesh became the " People's Republic of Bangladesh.

The UPCI's Atlanta West Pentecostal Church won awards for the Best Large Choir, Regional Winner, V-CAST People's Choice Awards, and the Over-all champion.

Theocratic Islamists, as well as leftist political groups and figures like leftist People's Mujahedin of Iran, supported the taking of American hostages as an attack on " American imperialism " and its alleged Iranian " tools of the West ".

* In retaliation for a bomb attack on a bank in South-West Africa, South African Air Force Mirage aircraft attack the headquarters of the South West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ).

After World War I many Prussian agriculturists gathered in the national conservative German National People's Party ( DNVP ), the term was also applied to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, lord at Neudeck in West Prussia, and to the " camarilla " around him urging the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor, personified by men like Hindenburg's son Oskar and his West Prussian " neighbour " Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, who played a vital role in the Eastern Aid ( Osthilfe ) scandal of 1932 / 33.

Indonesia, in the early days of the Republic, leaned toward the West.

* Conch Republic Independence Celebration ( Key West, Florida ) – April 23

* Independence Day ( Conch Republic, Key West, Florida )

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

Czech (; čeština ) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers ; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide.

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana ) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola.

The Dominican Republic is a country with many mountains, and the highest peaks of the West Indies are found here.

On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies ( meaning the Caribbean ) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

After World War I, most of West Prussia became part of the Second Polish Republic.

They recruited Albanian refugees and émigrés from Egypt, Italy and Greece, trained them in Cyprus, Malta and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ), and infiltrated them into Albania.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

* The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic ( West and East Germany ) were both recognised on January 7, 1972 by Finland.

In years before 1990, the figures of the West Germany | FRG and the German Democratic Republic | GDR are combined

The German government has had issues with upkeep of the roads in the country, having had to revamp the eastern portions transport system since the unification of Germany between the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ).

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

The first Bundestag elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany (" West Germany ") on 14 August 1949.

Lowland gorillas live in dense forests and lowland swamps and marshes as low as sea level, with western lowland gorillas living in Central West African countries and eastern lowland gorillas living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near its border with Rwanda.