* Ukraine has officially recognised 9 May since 1946 and considers it a non-working day even if it falls on a weekend ( in which case any following Monday will be non-working );

Tymoshenko considers separatist attitudes in Ukraine unacceptable ; " Love one another, from Donetsk, Crimea, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev and all the other corners of our native land ".

On November 18, 2010 The Venice Commission published its report titled " The opinion of the Constitutional situation in Ukraine ", in review of the judgement of Ukraine's Constitutional Court, in which it highlighted " It ( The Venice Commission ) also considers highly unusual that far-reaching constitutional amendments, including the change of the political system of the country-from a parliamentary system to a parliamentary presidential one-are declared unconstitutional by a decision of the Constitutional Court after a period of 6 years.

Stryi considers to be the first city in Ukraine to bear the blue over yellow Ukrainian National Flag when it was hoisted on the flagpole of the Town Hall on March 14, 1990 before the fall of the Soviet regime.

Borys Tarasyuk is the founder of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation ( IEAC ), a political action committee established to campaign for NATO-and European Union memberships in Ukraine.

The Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation has influenced Ukraine state policy in the past.

In the 1990s he formulated the strategic case for buttressing the independent statehood of Ukraine, partially as a means to ending a resurgence of the Russian Empire, and to drive Russia toward integration with the West, promoting instead " geopolitical pluralism " in the space of the former Soviet Union.

** Common Economic Space or Single Economic Space, a project of economical integration of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine

* Single Economic Space or Common Economic Space, a project of economical integration of four post-Soviet states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine

After the verdict in the 2009 natural gas deal European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton stated the verdict showed justice in Ukraine was being applied selectively in politically motivated prosecutions and that the Ukrainian Government handling of the case risked deep implications for its hopes of EU integration.

Most recently, Mr. Jackson ’ s work has focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey into the European Union and NATO and on building closer relationship between European institutions and the democracies within the European Union ’ s Eastern Partnership, particularly Ukraine.

The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine is a left-wing party that supports integration with Russia and Belarus as an alternative to the EU.

* 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

Indeed, the map of Barsaive and its neighboring regions established that most of the game takes place where the Ukraine and adjacent Russia are in our world.

Hungary also has improved its often frosty neighborly relations by signing basic treaties with Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

Beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

The IAEA itself says that, beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

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.

Through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Latvia maintains embassies in Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan.

* Luxembourg is represented in Ukraine through its embassy in Prague ( Czech Republic ) and through an honorary consulate in Kiev.

* Ukraine is represented in Luxembourg through its embassy in Brussels ( Belgium ) and through an honorary consulate in Luxembourg City.

* 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Bukovina and Bessarabia, former Romanian provinces where significant percentages of the population are Romanian-speaking, were part of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to its dissolution, and subsequently part of the ( formerly Soviet ) states of Ukraine and Moldova.

After that time, the birth rate plunged through the 1980s and Spain's population became stalled, its demographics showing one of the lowest sub replacement fertility rates in the world, only second to Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Ukraine, and Japan.

In the late 1990s the government renegotiated its export and price arrangements with Gazprom and renewed deliveries to Georgia, Ukraine, and some other countries.

Turkmenistan is rich in natural gas, and currently sells most of its gas to Russia and Ukraine.

The advantageous geographical position of Ukraine allows for the location of a number of International Transport Corridors on its territory, in particular:

Ukraine maintains peaceful and constructive relations with all its neighbors ; it has especially close ties with Russia and Poland.

Historically, Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics.

It had learned from the Iranian experiences with having a single supplier for its military and has diversified its arms purchases, purchasing weaponry mainly from Russia, the United States, the UK, Ukraine, France and Germany.

At its height it covered the territory of modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Transnistria, and portions of modern-day Poland and Russia.

The Metro in Kyiv ( Kiev ) Ukraine also featured an advertisement about 2008 for Life mobile telephone carrier in one of its subway tunnels that featured the zoetrope effect.

After the city was annexed to Soviet Ukraine, the Ukrainan form of its name, Lviv, was adopted.

It has always maintained a sufficient base in Western Ukraine where the language was never banned in its folklore songs, itinerant musicians, and prominent authors.

* Ukraine ( 8 years, starting after 4 years of primary school ).

Due to its success in its primary markets, Maxim has expanded into many other countries, including Argentina, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, Belgium, Romania, the Czech Republic, France ( marketed under " Maximal "), Germany, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia ( where it stands now as the most popular men's magazine ), Serbia, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine and Portugal.

Church Slavonic is the primary liturgical language of the Orthodox Church in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

He expanded the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the primary educational institution of Ukraine at the time, to accommodate 2, 000 students, founded schools and printing houses.

In 2007, the Kyiv Post, the primary English language daily newspaper in Ukraine, published an article relating to Mr. Akhmetov ’ s business transactions relating to the Dniproenergo thermoelectric generator and the Kryvorizhstal steel mill.

Most of foreign tourists were from: Romania ( 14, 8 %), Russia ( 13, 0 %), Ukraine ( 11, 0 %), Germany ( 9, 3 %), USA ( 5, 2 %), Turkey ( 4, 4 %),

In July 2009, the chairman of the Sevastopol city council, Valeriy Saratov ( Party of Regions ) stated that Ukraine should increase the amount of compensation it is paying to the city of Sevastopol for hosting the foreign Russian Black Sea Fleet, instead of requesting such obligations from the Russian government and the Russian Ministry of Defense in particular.

* making secret agreements with Germany and Japan, promising to surrender Belarus, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Russian Far East to foreign powers

On 1981, the campus officially establishes the foreign exchange student program with Japan, China, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

The oblast's main foreign exports are raw timber ( 1, 172, 900 cubic meters going to China, North Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine ), metal goods ( 68, 300 tons to China and Kazakhstan ), and machinery, equipment and transport ( 12, 300 tons to China, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

) Main foreign imports are food and beverages from China, Kazakshtan, Uzbekistan and Philippines ; textiles and footwear from China ; and machinery and equipment from Ukraine and Japan.

The militant leader told the hostages that the attackers ( who identified themselves as a suicide squad from " the 29th Division ") had no grudge against foreign nationals ( about 75 in number from 14 countries, including Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States ) and promised to release anyone who showed a foreign passport.

Of the foreign nationals, three were from Ukraine, one was American, and the others were citizens of Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands.

As German workers were increasingly conscripted, foreign workers, first " guest workers " from France and later slave labourers from Poland, Ukraine and other eastern countries, were brought in to replace them.

Ukraine attracts more than 20 million foreign citizens every year ( 23. 1 million in 2007 ).

The Petra Clinic, as it was known locally, imported women from Ukraine and Russia for egg harvesting and sold the genetic material to foreign fertility tourists.

Unlike Russia, Ukraine has had much better success selling T-80s and T-84s to foreign customers.

Ukraine had its best opportunity to win recognition and support from foreign powers at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

The Poles claimed a successful defense of their state, while the Soviets claimed a repulse of the Polish eastward invasion of Ukraine and Belarus, which they viewed as a part of the foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Financing of election campaigns by foreign citizens is illegal in Ukraine.

The government of Ukraine appealed to foreign capitalists, finding the support in the face of the Central Powers as the others refused to recognise it.

After Kuchma's popularity at home and abroad sank as he became mired in corruption scandals, he turned to Russia as his new ally, saying Ukraine needed a " multivector " foreign policy that balanced eastern and western interests.

LCC is involved with foreign mission efforts in the following countries: Nicaragua, where work begun in 1997 resulted in the founding of the " Iglesia Luterana Sinodo de Nicaragua " ( ILSN ) in 2008 ; southeast Asia, where it assists in providing theological education for future pastors in Thailand and Cambodia ; and Ukraine, where it partners with the " Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Ukraine " ( SELCU ) in the training of future pastors at Concordia Seminary in Usatovo ( near Odessa ) in the southern part of the country.

He continued his foreign reporting after joining The Mail on Sunday, for which he has written several foreign reports from all over the globe, including Russia, Ukraine, ( described by Edward Lucas as a " dismaying lapse ") Gaza, a visit to Iraq in the wake of the 2003 invasion, an undercover report from Iran, ( described by Iain Dale as " quite brilliant ") China, and

During World War II, Caldwell obtained papers from the USSR that allowed him to travel to Ukraine and work as a foreign correspondent documenting the war effort there.