" Dobro " is both a contraction of " Dopyera brothers " and a word meaning " goodness " in their native Slovak ( and also in Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian ).

Scholars have defined several " Clans " in Ukrainian politics grouped around businessman and politicians from particular Ukrainian mayor cities ; the " Donetsk-clan " ( Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Yanukovich and Mykola Azarov ), the " Dnipropetrovsk-clan " ( Yulia Tymoshenko, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Pinchuk, Sergey Tigipko and Pavlo Lazarenko ), the " Kiev-clan " ( Viktor Medvedchuk and the brothers Surkis ; this clan has also been linked to Zakarpattia ) and the smaller " Kharkiv-clan ".

In 1941, two brothers of Ukrainian leader Stepan Bandera were murdered while imprisoned in Auschwitz by Volksdeutsche kapos.

Such actions were condemned by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, who claimed that these acts would " destroy in the souls of our non-united Orthodox brothers the very thought of any possible reunion.

After restoration and research Ukrainian and Russian scientist claimed it is a copy, made by Giovanni di Attili, for brothers of original owner-Asdrubale or Ciriaco Mattei.

Afterwards the two brothers fly to America separately, and Belkin's attempts to intercept Danila to Chicago fail, even the Chicago-based Ukrainian mafia who Belkin alerted are not successful to catch him there.

* 2010 July – Ukrainian guitarist and composer Vitaliy Tkachuk with his quartet performed his own soundtrack for the film at a first Ukrainian silent cinema festival " Mute nights " in Odessa, the city where this movie was made.

* Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi – a former Ukrainian footballer and coach.

Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko ( Ukrainian: Віталій Романович Лисенко ).

Also, in Massa ( Italy ) on July 15, 2009, he consecrated Vitaliy Kuzhelnyi, a former priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as a bishop.

In a September 13, 2007 diplomatic cable released between prominent Ukrainian business partners Serhiy Taruta, Vitaliy Haiduk, and U. S. ambassador William Taylor, Taruta alleged that Akhmetov had in 1997 persuaded Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma to appoint Viktor Yanukovych governor of Donetsk oblast, who then in turn made Haiduk his deputy.

After Vitaliy Masol was forced to resign Fokin was appointed Head of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR ( today's equivalent of prime-minister ) on 17 October 1990.

* 1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician ( d. 1951 )

Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, named as first secretary of the Ukrainian apparatus under Brezhnev, succeeded Kirilenko in that position.

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma publicly blamed the military for the disaster and dismissed the head of the air force, Volodymyr Strelnykov.

There are also musicians in Ukraine ( Kostyantyn Chechenya, Vadym Borysenko ) and in diaspora ( Volodymyr Smishkevych, Julian Kytasty, Roman Turovsky ) who have been preserving Ukrainian music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Eras.

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

Mikhail Gorbachev brought in his ally Ivashko in to replace the long-serving Volodymyr Shcherbytsky as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR on 28 Sep 1989.

Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost ( English: restructuring and openess ) failed to reach Ukraine as early as other Soviet republics because of Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, a conservative communist appointed by Brezhnev and the First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, who resigned from his post in 1989.

Concert works have been composed for the tsymbaly by professional Ukrainian composers V. Shumeiko, Volodymyr Zubytsky, Anatoliy Haidenko, Bohdan Kotiuk, Izydor Vymer, Dezyderiy Zador, Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovych.

He is alternatively known as Volodymyr Kuts, the Ukrainian spelling, as Kuts was born in Aleksino, which is in present-day Ukraine.

Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kiev-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( Moscow Patriarchy ) as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Metropolitan Volodymyr.

* Volodymyr ( name ) for Ukrainian version of name

| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Walter Jack Palance, Vladimir Palaniuk, Володимир Паланюк ( Ukrainian ), Volodymyr Palanyuk

On June 5, 1988 as the official celebrations of the Millennium are held in Moscow, the Ukrainian Culturological Club hosts its own observances in Kyiv at the monument to St. Volodymyr the Great, the grand prince of Kyivan Rus '.

On 16 September 2010 Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn stated that the investigation into the murder of Gongadze confirmed his innocence in this crime.

* Volodymyr ( name ), a Ukrainian given name

Most memorable was the funeral of Patriarch Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchy in 1995, when riot police were forced to prevent the burial on the premises of the museum and a bloody clash took place.

" Chervona Ruta " ( Червона Рута —" Red Rue ")— a song, written by Volodymyr Ivasyuk, a popular Ukrainian poet and composer.

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn () ( born April 28, 1956 ) is a Ukrainian politician and the current Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.

In 2004, Volodymyr Tsvil, a Ukrainian businessman and former KGB officer who supposedly assisted Melnychenko in his escape and further accommodation in the West, publicly accused him of not revealing certain details of the case.

Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn, was also present at the round table.

In 2004, Volodymyr Tsvil ', a Ukrainian businessman who assisted Mel ' nychenko in his escape, publicly accused him of not revealing certain details of the case and trying to sell the audio archive to Kuchma's aides.

* Volodymyr Lytvyn, a Ukrainian politician

Andrew Wilson, a scholar specializing in Ukrainian politics, categorized Akhmetov as a former ‘ enforcer ’ and ‘ leader ’ of “ Bragin ’ s ‘ Tatar ’ clan ,” responsible for the use of “ mafia methods to push aside the ‘ red directors ’ of the Union of the Donbass ( IUD ).” By the early 1990s, Akhmetov began acquiring property in Donetsk allegedly by means of extortion with the assistance of Volodymyr Malyshev, Lieutenant-General of The Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs Department in Donetsk Oblast.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

:* Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian have the letter й.

* Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, who profess the Catholic faith, including the primacy of the Roman Pontiff, but have declared both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI excommunicated, leaving the Holy See vacant.

All flights from Ben-Gurion Airport were grounded in response ( it is later confirmed to have been accidentally shot down by a Ukrainian missile ).

* have high index of quoting in Ukrainian and foreign mass media and scientific literature.

" Ukrainian and Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys ( who may or may not have been Khazars ), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God.

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.

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, Russian, Belarusian, and Rusyn have a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Outside Ukraine, however, such nationalist-based theories that distance Ukrainian from East Slavic have found few followers among international scholars and most academics continue to place Ukrainian firmly within the East Slavic group, descended from Proto-East Slavic, with close ties to Belarusian and Russian.

Unlike Russian and most other modern Slavic languages, Ukrainian does not have final devoicing.

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.

In comparison with an urban-type settlement, Ukrainian legislation does not have a concrete definition or a criterion to differentiate such settlements from villages.

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 ).

Its location at the northern edge of the Ukrainian steppe would have allowed strategic control of the north-south trade-route.

In other countries Russian faithful usually belong to the local Orthodox congregations which either have a direct connection ( like the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, autonomous from the Moscow Patriarchate ) or historical origin ( like the Orthodox Church in America or a Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ) with the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Russian, Chechen, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, and other former Soviet organized crime groups or " Bratvas " have many members and associates affiliated with their various sorts of organized crime but a rough number has not been estimated.

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm.

In Manitoba, Ukrainian communities have played an extensive role in the development and history of the province.

: So the Ukrainian species can have two names, depending from its generic classification.

Some nationalities have produced local scenes in regions of the country where they have clustered, like Cape Verdean music in New England, Armenian music in California, and Italian and Ukrainian music in New York City.

Ukrainian exports of the T-80UD have been moderately successful.