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94-419: (Redirected from Azarov Government ) Azarov government may refer to a government of Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov: First Azarov government , 11 March, 2010 to 3 December, 2012 Second Azarov government , 24 December 2012 to 28 January 2014. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

188-502: A "Ministry of Science, Technologies and Innovation of Ukraine". On June 2, 2010, deputy-minister of Environmental Protection Bogdan Presner was sacked for accepting a bribe of $ 200,000 (he was sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2011 ). On June 17, 2010, Minister on Communal Living Oleksandr Popov (Party of Regions) was replaced by Yuriy Hivrich. On July 2, 2010, Minister of Environmental Protection Viktor Boyko (Bloc Lytvyn)

282-484: A Russified though multiethnic Soviet people was officially promoted, according to which the non-Russian nations were relegated to second-class status . Despite this, many Ukrainians played prominent roles in the Soviet Union, including such public figures as Semen Tymoshenko . The creation of a sovereign and independent Ukraine in 1991, however, pointed to the failure of the policy of the "merging of nations" and to

376-566: A coalition violated the Ukrainian Constitution , former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko accused Yanukovych of "trying to buy members of parliament for a new coalition" ( President Viktor Yanukovych accused Lutsenko of badly handling the affairs at the Ministry of Internal Affairs before appointing Anatolii Mohyliov to Lutsenko's old position. ) and Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc lawmaker Serhiy Mishchenko stated "that

470-521: A common culture and a sense of common identity. Most ethnic Ukrainians live in Ukraine, where they make up over three-quarters of the population. The largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine lives in Russia where about 1.9 million Russian citizens identify as Ukrainian, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia ) have some Ukrainian ancestry. The inhabitants of

564-793: A delegation from the European Parliament "If the decision of the Constitutional Court will be that the coalition was formed illegally, then I will take a decision on a snap election , I will never go down the path of breaching the constitution that is in force". The Constitutional Court reviewing the case late March 2010. On urgent matters the court rules within weeks but on matters deemed less urgent it can take months or even longer. On March 29, 2010, former premier and Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko accused "Representatives of Yanukovych" of trying to bribe and blackmail Constitutional Court judges in order to get

658-467: A distinct lack of a Ukrainian state, as its territories were on a number of occasions, annexed by its more powerful neighbours. The watershed period in the development of modern Ukrainian national consciousness was the struggle for independence during the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921. A concerted effort to reverse the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness

752-517: A further 1.9% are Protestants and 0.4% are Latin Catholics . As of 2016, 16.3% of the population does not claim a religious affiliation, and 1.7% adheres to other religions. According to the same survey, 70% of the population of Ukraine declared to be believers, but do not belong to any church. 8.8% do not identify themselves with any of the denominations, and another 5.6% identified themselves as non-believers. Ukrainian cuisine has been formed by

846-689: A minister in this Cabinet. Mykola Zlochevsky was dismissed from the post of Ecology and Natural Resources Minister and appointed as the deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council on 20 April 2012. Eduard Stavytsky was appointed the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources on April 20, 2012. Mykola Azarov introduced the new minister to the Cabinet on April 23, 2012. On 20 November 2012, Viktor Baloha resigned as Ministers of Emergencies because he preferred to take in

940-578: A new assignment for Shufrych and appointed him as the assistant to the secretary of the Council for National Security . Shufrych's duties were temporary assigned to Volodymyr Antonets till Mikhail Bolotskikh was appointed acting minister on July 23, 2010. Soon after the motion to overturn the 2004 Constitutional amendments was filed on July 14 by the representatives of the Azarov Government, Vasyl Tsushko , previously as an unaffiliated member of

1034-517: A number of princes in medieval Kiev, as well as for some of the Byzantine emperors , while others occupied key administrative positions in Kievan Rus' society, and eventually became slavicized. Besides other cultural traces, several Ukrainian names show traces of Norse origins as a result of influences from that period. Differentiation between separate East Slavic groups began to emerge in

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1128-634: A number of principalities. The quarreling between the princes left Kievan Rus' vulnerable to foreign attacks, and the invasion of the Mongols in 1236. and 1240. finally destroyed the state. Another important state in the history of the Ukrainians is the Kingdom of Ruthenia (1199–1349). The third important state for Ukrainians is the Cossack Hetmanate . The Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia since

1222-527: A prime minister for the future opposition government (so called shadow government ), while the leader of the European Party Mykola Katerynchuk suggests not to rush and consolidate all possible political forces in a single formed opposition government. On March 31, 2010, all members of this government were named. It is headed by parliamentarian Serhiy Sobolev of Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko . Its vice premier, Volodymyr Stretovych,

1316-628: A ruling that legitimates the coalition and the government. This was denied by Yanukovych's Party of Regions . On April 8, 2010, the Constitutional Court ruled that the coalition supporting the Azarov government in parliament had been formed legally. The shadow government called the Constitutional Court ruling "cynical, hypocritical, and illegal". The Azarov government stated that it will fight corruption. However several of its members are assigned to two or more government positions, and, of course, are paid for them. That fact reflects direct disregard for

1410-668: A similar percentage of Haplogroup R1a-Z280 (43%) in their population—compare Belarusians , Russians , and Lithuanians and (55%, 46%, and 42% respectively). Populations in Eastern Europe which have never been Slavic do as well. Ukrainians in Chernivtsi Oblast (near the Romanian border) have a higher percentage of I2a as opposed to R1a, which is typical of the Balkan region, but a smaller percentage than Russians of

1504-544: A single cluster positioned between the Northern on one side, and Western European populations on the other. [4] There was a significant overlap with Central European populations as well as with people from the Balkans . In addition to the close geographic distance between these populations, this may also reflect the insufficient representation of samples from the surrounding populations. The Ukrainian gene-pool includes

1598-559: A study identified more than 13 million genetic variants, representing about a quarter of the total genetic diversity discovered in Europe. Among these nearly 500,000 are previously undocumented and likely to be unique for this population. Medically relevant mutations whose prevalence in the Ukrainian genomes differed significantly compared to other European genome sequences, particularly from Western Europe and Russia. Ukrainian genomes form

1692-475: A ten-minute-long hearing of the bill which consisted of a report by the finance minister and the head of the parliament's budget committee. The Verkhovna Rada 2010 budget was not presented at a parliament meeting, but approved on May 14, 2010. According to former president Victor Yushchenko the March 9, 2010 parliamentary amendment that made it possible for individual members of a parliamentary faction to join

1786-539: A very close lexical distance between the two. Historically, state-inforced Russification saw the Ukrainian language banned as a subject from schools and as a language of instruction in the Russian Empire . The oppression continued in various ways while Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union . However, the language continued to be used throughout the country, especially in the western part . Ukraine

1880-542: Is frequently emphasized, for example, in the Ukrainian national anthem . Citizens of Ukraine are also called Ukrainians regardless of their ethnic origin, and Ukrainian nationals identify themselves as a civic nation . The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) is derived from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in the Kievan Chronicle under the year 1187. The terms Ukrainiany (first recorded in

1974-790: Is often called the " Breadbasket of Europe ", and its plentiful grain and cereal resources such as rye and wheat play an important part in its cuisine; essential in making various kinds of bread. Chernozem , the country's black-colored highly fertile soil, produces some of the world's most flavorful crops. Popular traditional dishes varenyky ( dumpling ), nalysnyky ( crêpe ), kapusnyak (cabbage soup ), nudli (dumpling stew ), borscht ( sour soup ) and holubtsi ( cabbage roll ). Among traditional baked goods are decorated korovai and paska ( easter bread ). Ukrainian specialties also include Chicken Kiev and Kyiv cake . Popular drinks include uzvar ( kompot ), ryazhanka , and horilka . Liquor (spirits) are

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2068-603: The Galician–Volhynian Chronicle under the year 1268 ), Ukrainnyky , and even narod ukrainskyi (the Ukrainian people) were used sporadically before Ukraintsi attained currency under the influence of the writings of Ukrainian activists in Russian-ruled Ukraine in the 19th century. From the 14th to the 16th centuries the western portions of the European part of what is now known as Russia, plus

2162-581: The Constitution of Ukraine . Some of the members do not even qualify to the assigned positions either as in case with Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy who was elected to the Supreme Council of Justice. Some of the members of the government received their government assignments without a basic knowledge of the state language as in case with the Minister of Internal Affairs Mohyliov. The President Yanukovych gave him two months (until August 2010) to learn

2256-470: The Donetsk Oblast . The Cabinet was (also at the time of its installation) Europe's only government that has no female members in its composition till Raisa Bohatyryova was appointed Minister of Healthcare and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on 14 February 2012. It was the first Ukrainian government without a female minister. As of May 21, 2010, the Cabinet stated it was planning to create

2350-788: The Holodomor . The Soviet regime remained silent about the Holodomor and provided no aid to the victims or the survivors. But news and information about what was going on reached the West and evoked public responses in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora . Since the 1990s the independent Ukrainian state, particularly under President Viktor Yushchenko , the Ukrainian mass media and academic institutions, many foreign governments, most Ukrainian scholars, and many foreign scholars have viewed and written about

2444-846: The Kuban , for example, have vacillated among three identities: Ukrainian, Russian (an identity supported by the Soviet regime ), and " Cossack ". Approximately 800,000 people of Ukrainian ancestry live in the Russian Far East in an area known historically as " Green Ukraine ". In a 2011 national poll of Ukraine, 49% of Ukrainians said they had relatives living in Russia. According to some previous assumptions, an estimated number of almost 2.4 million people of Ukrainian origin live in North America (1,359,655 in Canada and 1,028,492 in

2538-408: The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in her place while Oleksandr Anischenko lost his job as health minister. On 22 February 2012, Khoroshkovsky was reshuffled to First Vice Prime Minister-Minister and dismissed as finance minister Yuriy Kolobov was appointed finance minister on 28 February 2012. On 9 March 2012 President Yanukovych stated he wanted Petro Poroshenko to work in

2632-785: The Russian Empire . The newly established Ukrainian government, the Central Rada , headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky , issued four universals, the Fourth of which, dated 22 January 1918, declared the independence and sovereignty of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) on 25 January 1918. The session of the Central Rada on 29 April 1918 ratified the Constitution of the UNR and elected Hrushevsky president. During

2726-685: The Seventh-day Adventist Church , Jehovah's Witnesses . A 2020 survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre found that majority of Ukrainian populations was adhering to Christianity (81.9%). Of these Christians, 75.4% are Eastern Orthodox (34% of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and 13.8% of the Moscow Patriarchate, and 27.6% are simply Orthodox), 8.2% are Greek Catholics, 7.1% are simply Christians,

2820-605: The Slavic migrations of the 6th and 7th centuries CE. The state of Kievan Rus united the East Slavs during the 9th to 13th centuries. East Slavic tribes cited as "proto-Ukrainian" include the Volhynians , Derevlianians , Polianians , and Siverianians and the less significant Ulychians , Tivertsians , and White Croats . The Gothic historian Jordanes and 6th-century Byzantine authors named two groups that lived in

2914-669: The Soviet era (1917–1991), official historiography emphasized "the cultural unity of 'proto-Ukrainians' and 'proto-Russians' in the fifth and sixth centuries". A poll conducted in April 2022 by " Rating " found that the vast majority (91%) of Ukrainians (excluding the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine ) do not support the thesis that "Russians and Ukrainians are one people ". Ukrainians, like most Europeans, largely descend from three distinct lineages: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers , descended from populations associated with

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3008-483: The United States , Brazil , Kazakhstan , Italy and Argentina . According to some sources, around 20 million people outside Ukraine identify as having Ukrainian ethnicity, however the official data of the respective countries calculated together does not show more than 10 million. Ukrainians have one of the largest diasporas in the world. The East Slavs emerged from the undifferentiated early Slavs in

3102-564: The second largest ethno-linguistic group among Eastern Orthodox in the world. Ukrainians have their own autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine headed by Metropolitan Epiphanius , where it is the most common church and in the small areas of Ukraine the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who were under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate is the smaller common. The Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted

3196-591: The 1920s, under the Ukrainisation policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk , Soviet leadership encouraged a national renaissance in the Ukrainian culture and language. Ukrainisation was part of the Soviet-wide policy of Korenisation (literally indigenisation). During 1932–1933, millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet regime which led to a famine , known as

3290-571: The Azarov Government while 45 percent stated they did not. Its composition was reshuffled by Yanukovych early in 2012. On December 3, 2012, the government became a caretaker government after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich accepted the resignation of prime minister Mykola Azarov and his government following the 28 October 2012 parliamentary election . A number of government members, including Prime Minister Azarov, were elected to parliament in that election. In order to get these parliamentary mandates they were obliged to submit documents on

3384-444: The Constitutional Court rules the amendments unconstitutional the format of the Ukrainian parliamentary coalition will remain unchanged because "the Constitutional Court's ruling becomes valid on the day of its announcement, not yesterday or the day before yesterday" and the Constitutional Court's ruling will apply only to measures intended to establish a new coalition in Ukraine in the future. On March 26, 2010, President Yanukovych told

3478-437: The Holodomor as genocide and issued official declarations and publications to that effect. Modern scholarly estimates of the direct loss of human life due to the famine range between 2.6 million (3–3.5 million) and 12 million although much higher numbers are usually published in the media and cited in political debates. As of March 2008, the parliament of Ukraine and the governments of several countries, including

3572-749: The Kievan Rus', became influenced by the Byzantine Empire ; the first known conversion was by the Princess Saint Olga who came to Constantinople in 945 or 957. Several years later, her grandson, Prince Vladimir baptised his people in the Dnieper River . This began a long history of the dominance of the Eastern Orthodoxy in Ruthenia (Ukraine). Ukrainians are majority Eastern Orthodox Christians, and they form

3666-611: The N1c1 lineage found among Finno-Ugric, Baltic, and Siberian populations, and also less R1b than West Slavs . In terms of haplogroup distribution, the genetic pattern of Ukrainians most closely resembles that of Belarusians. The presence of the N1c lineage is explained by a contribution of the assimilated Finno-Ugric tribes. Within Ukraine and adjacent areas, there are several other distinct ethnic sub-groups, especially in western Ukraine: places like Zakarpattia and Halychyna . Among them

3760-664: The Paleolithic Epigravettian culture; Neolithic Early European Farmers who migrated from Anatolia during the Neolithic Revolution 9,000 years ago; and Yamnaya Steppe pastoralists who expanded into Europe from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia in the context of Indo-European migrations 5,000 years ago. In a survey of 97 genomes for diversity in full genome sequences among self-identified Ukrainians from Ukraine,

3854-544: The Party of Regions faction in March 2010 a draft law on the judiciary and a new criminal procedural code was shelved and the introduction of anti-corruption legislation was pushed back from April 2010 to January 2011 by the Verkhovna Rada. On November 30, 2010, Yanukovych vetoed a new tax code made by the Azarov Government and earlier approved by the Verkhovna Rada but protested against in rallies across Ukraine (one of

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3948-766: The Protection of the Population from the Chernobyl disaster . According to Baloha this did not mean his party would join the coalition. Early 2010 United Centre had rejected any possibility of joining a parliamentary coalition with the Communist Party of Ukraine . Another mayor reshuffle took place in December 2010, which reduced the number of ministers This was part of an administrative reform set in motion by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych with

4042-695: The Russian language (as Ukrainian was outlawed in almost all contexts). This exonym (regarded now as a humiliating imperialist imposition) did not spread widely among the peasantry which constituted the majority of the population. Ukrainian peasants still referred to their country as "Ukraine" (a name associated with the Zaporozhian Sich, with the Hetmanate and with their struggle against Poles, Russians, Turks and Crimean Tatars) and to themselves and their language as Ruthenians / Ruthenian . With

4136-574: The UK, Israel, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Austria, Uruguay and the former Yugoslavia . Generally, the Ukrainian diaspora is present in more than one hundred and twenty countries of the world. The number of Ukrainians in Poland amounted to some 51,000 people in 2011 (according to the Polish Census ). Since 2014, the country has experienced a large increase in immigration from Ukraine. More recent data put

4230-448: The Ukrainian diaspora and Ukrainian academics of "ignoring, glossing over, or outright denying" his role in this and other war crimes. The Ukrainian state has occupied a number of territories since its initial foundation. Most of these territories have been located within Eastern Europe, however, as depicted in the maps in the gallery below, has also at times extended well into Eurasia and South-Eastern Europe. At times there has also been

4324-665: The Ukrainians form the second-largest Slavic ethnic group after the Russians . Historically, under rule from various realms, the Ukrainians have been given various names by their rulers. Some of the states that have governed over the Ukrainian people include the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , the Habsburg monarchy , the Austrian Empire , and then Austria-Hungary . The East Slavic population inhabiting

4418-784: The United States have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide . Following the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland. Thus, Eastern Galicia and Volhynia with their Ukrainian population became part of Soviet Ukraine. When the German armies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, those regions temporarily became part of the Nazi-controlled Reichskommissariat Ukraine . In total,

4512-409: The United States). Large numbers of Ukrainians live in Brazil (600,000), Kazakhstan (338,022), Moldova (325,235), Argentina (305,000), (Germany) (272,000), Italy (234,354), Belarus (225,734), Uzbekistan (124,602), the Czech Republic (110,245), Spain (90,530–100,000) and Romania (51,703–200,000). There are also large Ukrainian communities in such countries as Latvia, Portugal, France, Australia, Paraguay,

4606-474: The Verkhovna Rada had shown to the average citizen a bad example of how to violate the country's laws and Constitution". Yushchenko did send a letter to Yanukovych with a request to veto the law on March 10. Yanukovych signed the law nevertheless. 56 lawmakers filed a challenge to the law who made these amendments possible on March 11, 2010, at the Constitutional Court of Ukraine . On March 16, 2010, Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych stated that even if

4700-539: The Western European model (presented by political philosopher Vyacheslav Lypynsky ) were unsuccessful until the 1990s. Territorial loyalty has also been manifested by the historical national minorities living in Ukraine. The official declaration of Ukrainian sovereignty of 16 July 1990 stated that "citizens of the Republic of all nationalities constitute the people of Ukraine." Due to Ukraine's geographical location, its culture primarily exhibits Eastern European influence as well as Central European to an extent (primarily in

4794-565: The aim to reduce the number of civil servants in Ukraine. (see below Yanukovych Administration Reform) A number of deputy ministers were dismissed early April 2011. Minister of Health Zynoviy Mytnyk was dismissed on May 17, 2011, because he had "failed to properly organize the work of the ministry"; Oleksandr Anishchenko was appointed for the post on May 24, 2010. Anatolii Mohyliov was replaced as Minister of Internal Affairs by Vitaliy Zakharchenko in November 2011. Minister of Finance Fedir Yaroshenko resigned on 18 January 2012, and

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4888-426: The closure of strategic state programs, pressure on small and middle business and a return to stagnation and the absence of any reforms". According to a February 2010 poll by the Kyiv Gorshenin Institute of Management Issues most Ukrainians wanted not a politician for prime minister but "a professional premier, who will implement unpopular reforms". Ukraine's state budget for 2010 was adopted by parliament after

4982-425: The command of Roman Shukhevych, UPA began the ethnic cleansing. Shukhevych was one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of tens of thousands of Polish civilians. It is unclear to what extent Shuchevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, but he certainly condoned them after some time, and also directed the massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia. Historian Per Anders Rudling has accused

5076-406: The control of the Russian/Soviet state until the mid-20th century ( Western Ukraine ), Ukrainians were known by their pre-existing names for much longer. The appellation Ukrainians initially came into common usage in Central Ukraine and did not take hold in Galicia and Bukovina until the latter part of the 19th century, in Transcarpathia until the 1930s, and in the Prešov Region until

5170-415: The dismissal from their previous job to the Central Election Commission within 20 days after the election (by December 3). On 9 December 2012, Yanukovych nominated Azarov for a new term as prime minister. This nomination was approved by parliament on 13 December 2012. On 24 December 2012, the second Azarov government was appointed by President Yanukovych. In January 2013, President Yanukovych stated

5264-422: The enduring strength of the Ukrainian national consciousness. Today, one of the consequences of these acts is Ukrainophobia . Biculturalism is especially present in southeastern Ukraine where there is a significant Russian minority. Historical colonization of Ukraine is one reason that creates confusion about national identity to this day. Many citizens of Ukraine have adopted the Ukrainian national identity in

5358-450: The exonym "Ruthenian". In the 16th and 17th centuries, with the establishment of the Zaporozhian Sich , names of Ukraine and Ukrainian began to be used in Sloboda Ukraine. After the decline of the Zaporozhian Sich and the establishment of Imperial Russian hegemony in Left Bank Ukraine, Ukrainians became more widely known by Russians as " Little Russians ", with the majority of Ukrainian élites espousing Little Russian identity and adopting

5452-404: The following Y- haplogroups , in order from the most prevalent: Roughly all R1a Ukrainians carry R1a -Z282; R1a-Z282 has been found significantly only in Eastern Europe. Chernivtsi Oblast is the only region in Ukraine where Haplogroup I2a occurs more frequently than R1a, much less frequent even in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast . In comparison to their northern and eastern neighbors, Ukrainians have

5546-425: The government "has not completely fulfilled the assigned tasks on ensuring the introduction of reform and economic growth. This led to the fact that the results in 2012 were much worse than expected". Azarov's immediate predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko stated on the day the cabinet was elected "this government is completely made up of Ukrainian oligarchs"; she predicted the cabinet actions would lead to "megacorruption,

5640-401: The government on the post of economic development and trade minister. Poroshenko was appointed economic development and trade minister of Ukraine by Yanukovych on 23 March 2012. Vice Prime Minister ( Minister of Social Policy ) Serhii Tihipko became a member of Party of Regions when that party merged with his former party Strong Ukraine on 17 March 2012; Strong Ukraine thus had no longer

5734-562: The government, was elected the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (extra parliamentarian party, non-coalition) on July 24, 2010. On October 13, 2010, President Yanukovych sacked two deputy prime ministers (Viktor Slauta and Volodymyr Sivkovich). The sackings were the first case when Yanukovych used the powers granted to him by this month's constitutional court ruling when 2004 constitutional amendments were overturned. On November 12, 2010, President Yanukovych appointed Viktor Baloha ( United Centre ) Minister of Emergencies and Minister of

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5828-481: The language. On March 16, eight parliamentarian parties signed an application for the establishment of an association of opposing political forces to the ruling Azarov government. Among the eight opposition parties are All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" , Rukh , European Party of Ukraine , People's Self-Defense , Reforms and Order Party , Motherland Defenders Party , Christian-Democratic Union , and Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party . Tymoshenko immediately nominated

5922-407: The largest protests since the 2004 Orange Revolution ). Yanukovych signed a new Tax Code on December 3, 2010. in an (Ukraine's) economy analysis of March 2014 The Economist claims that poor economic policies by the Azarov Government had weakened the state's finances. On December 9, 2010, the President of Ukraine reloaded a new government. According to the decree, the number of ministries

6016-412: The late 15th century controlled the lower bends of the river Dnieper, between Russia, Poland and the Tatars of Crimea , with the fortified capital, Zaporozhian Sich . Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky is one of the most celebrated and at the same time most controversial political figures in Ukraine's early-modern history. A brilliant military leader, his greatest achievement in the process of national revolution

6110-429: The late 1940s. The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) derives from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in 1187. Several scientific theories attempt to explain the etymology of the term. According to the traditional theory, it derives from the Proto-Slavic root *kraj-, which has two meanings, one meaning the homeland as in " nash rodnoi kraj " (our homeland), and the other "edge, border", and originally had

6204-417: The later medieval period, and an East Slavic dialect continuum developed within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , with the Ruthenian language emerging as a written standard. The active development of a concept of a Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian language began with the Ukrainian National Revival in the early 19th century in times when Ruthenians (Русини) changed their name due to the region name. In

6298-420: The medieval state of Kievan Rus' , which first split into Ruthenian and Russian . The Ruthenian languages then evolved into modern-day Ukrainian, Belarusian and Rusyn . In modern-day Ukraine, most of its population are also fluent in Russian and many use it as their native tongue. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian. Yet, there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian, and

6392-413: The most known are Hutsuls , Volhynians , Boykos and Lemkos (otherwise known as Carpatho-Rusyns – a derivative of Carpathian Ruthenians ), each with particular areas of settlement, dialect, dress, and folk traditions. Ukraine has had a very turbulent history, a fact explained by its geographical position. In the 9th century the Varangians from Scandinavia conquered the proto-Slavic tribes on

6486-515: The nation's tumultuous history, geography, culture and social customs. Chicken is the most consumed type of protein , accounting for about half of the meat intake. It is followed by pork and beef . Vegetables such as potatoes , cabbages , mushrooms and beetroots are widely consumed. Pickled vegetables are considered a delicacy. Salo , which is cured pork fat, is considered the national delicacy. Widely used herbs include dill , parsley , basil , coriander and chives . Ukraine

6580-432: The number of Ukrainian migrant workers at 1.2 – 1.3 million in 2016. In the last decades of the 19th century, many Ukrainians were forced by the Tsarist autocracy to move to the Asian regions of Russia, while many of their counterpart Slavs under Austro-Hungarian rule emigrated to the New World seeking work and better economic opportunities. Today, large ethnic Ukrainian minorities reside in Russia , Canada ,

6674-412: The number of ethnic Ukrainians who fought in the ranks of the Soviet Army is estimated from 4.5 million to 7 million. The pro-Soviet partisan guerrilla resistance in Ukraine is estimated to number at 47,800 from the start of occupation to 500,000 at its peak in 1944, with about 50% being ethnic Ukrainians. Of the estimated 8.6 million Soviet troop losses, 1.4 million were ethnic Ukrainians. In 1943, under

6768-415: The past 20 years. According to the concept of nationality dominant in Eastern Europe the Ukrainians are people whose native language is Ukrainian (an objective criterion) whether or not they are nationally conscious, and all those who identify themselves as Ukrainian (a subjective criterion) whether or not they speak Ukrainian. Attempts to introduce a territorial-political concept of Ukrainian nationality on

6862-467: The period are considered to have been largely opportunists and men of little vision who could not muster broad popular support for their policies. There were roughly 4 million Ukrainians at the end of the 17th century. At the final stages of the First World War, a powerful struggle for an independent Ukrainian state developed in the central Ukrainian territories, which, until 1917, were part of

6956-403: The publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky 's Eneyida (Aeneid) in 1798, which established the modern Ukrainian language , and with the subsequent Romantic revival of national traditions and culture, the ethnonym Ukrainians and the notion of a Ukrainian language came into more prominence at the beginning of the 19th century and gradually replaced the words "Rusyns" and "Ruthenian(s)". In areas outside

7050-731: The religious identity of some Ukrainians. In the Western region known as Halychyna , the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , one of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches has a strong membership. Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has been a growth of Protestant churches ( Baptists , Evangelism , Pentecostalism ) There are also ethnic minorities that practice other religions, i.e. Crimean Tatars ( Islam ), and Jews and Karaim ( Judaism ). Also, some Ukrainians are members of

7144-517: The seat in the Ukrainian Parliament he had won in the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election . The aims of the cabinet are: Other priorities of the government are the preparations for expected flooding, preparations for spring agricultural work and the improvement of medical services . In order to increase state revenues with at least Hryvnya 10 billion the government is planning to step up privatization in 2010. Led by

7238-463: The sense of "periphery", "borderland" or "frontier region". According to another theory, the term ukraina should be distinguished from the term okraina : whereas the latter term means "borderland", the former one has the meaning of "cut-off piece of land", thus acquiring the connotation of "our land", "land allotted to us". In the last three centuries the population of Ukraine experienced periods of Polonization and Russification , but preserved

7332-576: The south-east of Europe: Sclavins (western Slavs) and Antes . Polianians are identified as the founders of the city of Kiev and as playing the key role in the formation of the Kievan Rus' state. At the beginning of the 9th century, Varangians used the waterways of Eastern Europe for military raids and trade, particularly the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks . Until the 11th century these Varangians also served as key mercenary troops for

7426-648: The structure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine . Note, Tihipko even though is a leader of the Strong Ukraine party, he was elected to Cabinet as unaffiliated. Strong Ukraine in Verkhovna Rada is not an independent party. The same goes with Vasyl Tsushko who was a former member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine at the time of his appointment (he became the leader of that party in July 2010 ); Tsushko

7520-455: The territories of modern-day Ukraine were known as Ruthenians , referring to the territory of Ruthenia ; the Ukrainians living under the Russian Empire were known as Little Russians, named after the territory of Little Russia . The ethnonym Ukrainian (a term associated with the Cossack Hetmanate ) was adopted following the Ukrainian national revival . Their affinity with the Cossacks

7614-460: The territories of northern Ukraine and Belarus ( Ruthenia ) were largely known as Rus , continuing the tradition of Kievan Rus' . People of these territories were usually called Rus or Rusyns (known as Ruthenians in Western and Central Europe). The Ukrainian language is, like modern Russian and Belarusian, a descendent of Old East Slavic. In Western and Central Europe it was known by

7708-514: The territory of today's Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia and laid the groundwork for the Kievan Rus' state. The ancestors of the Ukrainian nation such as Polianians had an important role in the development and culturalization of Kievan Rus' state. The internecine wars between Rus' princes, which began after the death of Yaroslav the Wise , led to the political fragmentation of the state into

7802-478: The title Azarov government . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azarov_government&oldid=1094302256 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description matches Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages First Azarov government The cabinet

7896-478: The western region). Over the years it has been influenced by movements such as those brought about during the Byzantine Empire and the Renaissance. Today, the country is somewhat culturally divided with the western regions bearing a stronger Central European influence and the eastern regions showing a significant Russian influence. A strong Christian culture was predominant for many centuries, although Ukraine

7990-612: Was also the center of conflict between the Catholic, Orthodox and Islamic spheres of influence. Ukrainian ( украї́нська мо́ва , ukraі́nska móva ) is the sole official language in Ukraine. It belongs to the East Slavic branch of the Slavic languages . Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet , one of many based on the Cyrillic alphabet . The language is a lineal descendant of the colloquial Old East Slavic language of

8084-470: Was appointed on quote of the Communist Party . The Cabinet originally consisted of 29 ministers, four more than the previous government , but has since been trimmed down. At the time of installation the Cabinet contained the highest number of ministers in Europe, and ranked second in Europe in terms of the number of its vice premiers. 8 out of the original 29 Cabinet members were born in Donetsk and

8178-402: Was begun by the regime of Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s, and continued with minor interruptions until the most recent times. The man-made Famine of 1932–33 , the deportations of the so-called kulaks , the physical annihilation of the nationally conscious intelligentsia, and terror in general were used to destroy and subdue the Ukrainian nation. Even after Joseph Stalin's death the concept of

8272-616: Was dismissed on 7 February 2011, because "he had finally taken the side of the government". Arseniy Yatsenyuk formed another oppositional government in March 2010. On 8 August 2011 All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" , Rukh , European Party of Ukraine , People's Self-Defense , Reforms and Order Party , Motherland Defenders Party , Civil Position and Front for Change formed the Dictatorship Resistance Committee "to better coordinate our efforts". On March 11, 2010, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved

8366-651: Was formed as part of the "Stability and Reform" coalition between the Party of Regions , Lytvyn Bloc and the Communist Party of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada , Ukraine 's parliament. The government was led by prime minister Mykola Azarov , who succeeded the ousted second Tymoshenko government led by ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . The Azarov government worked in cooperation with President Yanukovych. A November 2010 Razumkov Centre nationwide survey showed that only 13.2 percent of respondents fully supported

8460-417: Was inhabited by pagan tribes until Byzantine rite Christianity was introduced by the turn of the first millennium. It was imagined by later writers who sought to put Kievan Rus' Christianity on the same level of primacy as Byzantine Christianity that Apostle Andrew himself had visited the site where the city of Kiev would be later built. However, it was only by the 10th century that the emerging state,

8554-515: Was reduced from 20 to 16 and the number of cabinet employees (1,174 people at the time) is to be more than halved. Ukrainians Ukrainians ( Ukrainian : українці , romanized :  ukraintsi , pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinʲts⁽ʲ⁾i] ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine . Their native tongue is Ukrainian , and the majority adhere to the Eastern Orthodox Church . By total population,

8648-484: Was replaced by Valeriy Khoroshkovsky the same day. Minister of Defence Mykhailo Yezhel was sacked by President Yanukovich on 8 February 2012, and replaced by Dmytro Salamatin the same day Raisa Bohatyryova was appointed Minister of Healthcare and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on 14 February 2012; she partly changed places with former First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Klyuyev who became Secretary of

8742-465: Was replaced by Mykola Zlochevskiy and Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Seminozhenko was fired by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) the same day. A draft resolution proposing the dismissal of Semynozhenko was submitted by lawmaker Olha Bodnar of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko . On July 10, 2010, Minister of Extraordinary Situations Nestor Shufrych was dismissed by Verkhovna Rada . For his dismissal voted 256 deputies. However Viktor Yanukovych found

8836-741: Was the formation of the Cossack Hetmanate state of the Zaporozhian Host (1648–1782). The period of the Ruin in the late 17th century in the history of Ukraine is characterized by the disintegration of Ukrainian statehood and general decline. During the Ruin Ukraine became divided along the Dnieper River into Left-Bank Ukraine and Right-Bank Ukraine , and the two-halves became hostile to each other. Ukrainian leaders during

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