Please, note that territory of the modern Ukraine at the times listed above varied greatly.

The Soviet reforms affected greatly the life of the Doukhobors both in their old villages in Georgia and in the new settlement areas in the Russian South and Ukraine.

After the 2007 parliamentary election the parties associated with the Our Ukraine Bloc ( named Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense Bloc in 2007 ) lost popular support greatly while Front of Changes ( the party of former Our Ukraine politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk ) and Strong Ukraine achieved good results in polls for the next Ukrainian parliamentary election and in the 2010 local elections ; so did All-Ukrainian Union " Svoboda ", a party who can not be placed in the above mentioned two major movements.

Since Poland recruited most of its infantry power from Ukraine, and once Ukraine became free from Polish rule, the army of the Commonwealth suffered greatly.

It was also greatly damaged in the 16th century, when Poland and Ukraine were trying to unite catholic and orthodox churches.

Such disposition greatly contributed to the numerous conflicts and uprisings in Ukraine at that time.

Averchenko struggled greatly in attempting to return to his own Sevastopol ; in particular, he had to travel through the Ukraine, which was being occupied by Germans.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

* National Day or Den ' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.

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

There are also immigrants from other countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco, many of whom are under illegal alien status and therefore are not accounted for in official population figures.

In December 2005 Belarus bought 10 L-39 jet trainer aircraft from Ukraine, and plans were announced to buy 18 used Su-30K fighters.

An immigrant from Ukraine, Marie Selig attended college, a rare accomplishment for a woman in the early 20th century, and became a school teacher.

During the 1930s, multiple acts of cannibalism were reported from Ukraine and Russia's Volga, South Siberian and Kuban regions during the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

Works by Inna Forostyuk, the folk master from the Luhansk region ( Ukraine )

armed with weapons from Ukraine.

The arrival of Germanic-speaking invaders along the coast of the Black Sea is generally explained as a gradual migration of the Goths from what is now Poland to Ukraine, reflecting the tradition of Jordanes and old songs.

By the 19th century, there existed similar games of håndbold from Denmark, házená in the Czech Republic, hádzaná in Slovakia, gandbol in Ukraine, and torball in Germany.

Translated from the 1985 Russian-language edition ( Kharkov, Ukraine ).

Grave of Elimelech of Lizhensk, whose influence in Poland was compared to the Baal Shem Tov's in Ukraine, due to many Hasidic dynasty | dynasties from his disciples.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe ( especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland ).

Users in Russia and Ukraine received a message from UIN 1:

As of January 2012, the largest borrowers from the fund in order are Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Romania and Ukraine.

* 1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

* 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis.

Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.

Some scholars go to the extreme of arguing that, in the unlikely scenario Arabs had occupied what is now Ukraine and Russia, the Rus might never have been able to push south and east from the Baltic to establish Russia.

Thirty-three vehicles ordered from Ukraine were hijacked by Somali pirates.

His family moved often and he spent most of his childhood in the villages of Ukraine amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture.

This area included most of modern Belarus and Ukraine ( the Dnieper River basin ) and created a massive Lithuanian state that in the 15th century stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

In Russia, Ukraine and some other countries of the former Soviet Union, electrical multiple unit passenger suburban trains called Elektrichka are widespread.

* 1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Nationalist feeling also took hold in other Soviet republics such as Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Female Soviet partisans operating under Sydir Kovpak in Ukraine in World War II | German-occupied Ukraine

It was developed in the Soviet Union and manufactured in Russia and Ukraine.

* Mace, James E. " The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine ", Famine in Ukraine 1932 – 1933: A Memorial Exhibition, edited by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko.

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.

From 1929 to 1934, during the period when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was trying to collectivize agriculture, Kazakhstan endured repeated famines, similar to the Holodomor in Ukraine, for which it may have provided a model, because peasants had slaughtered their livestock in protest against Soviet agricultural policy.

A week after the election, Nazarbayev became the president of an independent state when the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed documents dissolving the Soviet Union.

Nazarbayev quickly convened a meeting of the leaders of the five Central Asian states, thus effectively raising the specter of a " Turkic " confederation of former republics as a counterweight to the " Slavic " states ( Russia, Ukraine and Belarus ) in whatever federation might succeed the Soviet Union.

Two towns were also named after him: Voroshilovgrad in Ukraine ( now changed back to the historical Luhansk ) and Voroshilov in the Soviet Far East ( now renamed Ussuriysk after the Ussuri river ), as well as the General Staff Academy in Moscow.

Kutia was also part of a common Eastern Orthodox tradition in the Russian Empire, which had waned in popularity as a result of the official atheism of the former Soviet Union, but has had a subsequent resurgence in Ukraine, Belarus and other former Soviet Republics.