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2018 In Ukraine
Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine. Incumbents *President: Petro Poroshenko *Prime Minister: Volodymyr Groysman Events June C14 (Ukrainian group) gained international notoriety after reports it was being involved in violent attacks on Romany camps.Ukrainian Militia Behind Brutal Romany Attacks Getting State Funds , (June 14, 2018)Ukraine Roma camp attack leaves one dead , |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society () is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication that was founded in 1873. Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society is a public organization. It was reestablished in Ukraine in 1989 during fall of the Soviet Union, after being exiled from Ukraine since 1940. The society now has branches in several countries around the globe, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France. The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko. History It was founded in 1873 in Lemberg (today Lviv), at that time the capital of the Austrian crown land of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, as a literary society devoted to the promotion of Ukrainian language literature initially under the name Shevchenko Society. It was established soon after another cultural society better known as Prosvita (Enl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Shachko
Oksana Shachko ( uk, Оксана Шачко; 31 January 1987 – 23 July 2018) was a Ukrainian artist and activist. Along with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, she was one of the founders of the radical feminist activist group Femen, which publicly demonstrates in various countries against sexual exploitation, income inequality, and policies of the Roman Catholic Church, among other causes. Biography Oksana Chatchko was born in Khmelnytsky, a typical Soviet town in the western part of Ukraine, in an Orthodox Christian family. Her parents both worked in a factory and when the Soviet Union collapsed the factories closed and they both lost their jobs, in the context of a political and economic crisis. In 1995, at the age of 8, Chatchko joined the Nikosh school, normally intended for adults and renowned for its teaching of Orthodox iconography. She graduated from this school and her early artwork was exhibited in several collective exhibitions in Ukraine and in the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levko Lukyanenko
Levko Hryhorovych Lukianenko ( uk, Левко́ Григо́рович Лук'я́ненко; 24 August 1928 – 7 July 2018) was a Ukrainian politician, Soviet dissident, and Hero of Ukraine. He was one of the founders of Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976 and was elected a leader of the revived Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the Ukrainian Helsinki Association, in 1988. Lukianenko is the author of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. Early life and career Lukianenko was born on 24 August 1928 in the Khrypivka village of Horodnia Raion, Soviet Union. During World War II in 1944, he was recruited in the Soviet Army at age of 15, as he could prove that he was underage (to get drafted he lied that he had been born in 1927) and served in Austria and then in Caucasus region (cities Ordzhonikidze and Nakhichevan). In Austria, he observed the arrival of Ukrainian wheat in Baden bei Wien, which reminded him of the removal of grain from Ukraine when he almost starved in the 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada is composed of 450 deputies, who are presided over by a chairman (speaker). The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The deputies elected in the 21 July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election were inaugurated on 29 August 2019. The Verkhovna Rada developed out of the systems of the republican representative body known in the Soviet Union as Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) that was first established 26 June 1938 as a type of legislature of the Ukrainian SSR after the dissolution of the Congress of Soviets of the Ukrainian SSR. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Drach
Ivan Fedorovych Drach ( uk, Іва́н Фе́дорович Драч; 17 October 1936 – 19 June 2018) was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist. Drach played an important role in the founding of Rukh – the People's Movement of Ukraine – and led the organisation from 1989 to 1992. Biography Ivan Drach was born 17 October 1936, in Telizhyntsi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. After finishing high school, Ivan Drach complied with military service, after which he studied in the Faculty of Language and Literature of Kyiv University from 1959-1963. At this time Drach visited the popular "Klub tvorchoyi molodi" Club for Creative Young People" (CCY)and took part in literary evenings with reading of innovative poems. This creative way started in the period of Khrushchev thaw. Drach made his debut in 1961 with the publication of his poem-tragedy ''Knife in the Sun'' in the Kyiv literary newspaper. He worked in the newspapers "Literary Ukrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Muratova
Kira Georgievna Muratova (russian: Кира Георгиевна Муратова; ro, Kira Gueórguievna Muratova; uk, Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a Ukraine, UkrainianKira Muratova: The Zoological Imperium // award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style. Muratova's films underwent a great deal of Film censorship, censorship in the Soviet Union, yet still Muratova managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in contemporary Cinema of Ukraine and Russian cinema and was able to build a very successful film career from 1960s onwards. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Mulerman
Vadim Iosifovich Mulerman (russian: Вади́м Ио́сифович Мулерма́н; 18 August 1938 – 2 May 2018) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and American singer ( baritone). He was awarded the titles of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978) and Merited Artist of Ukraine. In 1971, at the whim of Sergey Lapin, the then Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Mulerman, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television. Since 1989, Mulerman lived in the United States, where, in Florida, founded and managed a children's musical theater. As of 2008, he lived in Kharkiv and worked in a youth musical theater. Mulerman died on 2 May 2018 in New York City at the age of 79. Selected songs * "King the Winner" (russian: Король-победитель, 1968, based on the poem "Le retour du roi" by Maurice Carême) * "Lada" (russian: Лада, 1968) *: �"Lada" (live on Russian television in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Gamarnik
Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (russian: Григорий Александрович Гамарник; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first Greco-Roman wrestling world champion from Ukraine. Biography Gamarnik was Jewish, and was born in Zinovievsk (today's Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. He was trained by USSR wrestling trainers German Sandler and Armenak Yaltyryan. Wrestling career In 1948, he won second place in light middleweight class wrestling, at the All-Union Youth Contests in the USSR. Gamarnik was world lightweight (67 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling champion at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, Germany, beating out silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen of Finland and bronze medalist Gustav Freij of Sweden. He came in second in the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in welterweight (73 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling, behind gold medalist Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey and ahead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Boloshkevich
Kateryna Ivanivna Boloshkevich ( uk, Катерина Іванівна Болошкевич; 19 May 1939 – 28 March 2018) was a Ukrainian weaver and statesperson who was a weaver at the of the Ministry of Light Industry of the Ukrainian SSR and an elected deputy of the ninth convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Previously, she worked at the after she graduated from high school. Boloshkevich was a delegate to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the and was on the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine. She was a two-time recipient of the Order of Lenin and got the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Hero of Socialist Labour and the . Biography On 19 May 1939, Boloshkevich was born into a family of a collective farmer in the village of , Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Following her graduation from high school, she worked at the . From 1961, Boloshkevich worked at the building of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhaylo Chemberzhi
Mykhaylo Ivanovych Chemberzhi (15 July 1944 – 5 March 2018) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian composer,Smindak, Helen.DATELINE NEW YORK: Facets of Ukrainian culture, The Ukrainian Weekly, May 19, 1996, No. 20, Vol. LXIV. teacher, scientist and politician. Director of Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts. Scientific publication Author of about 60 scientific publications. Composer of works in a variety of genres, including orchestral works, opera and ballet. References External links Біографія на сайті Національної спілки композиторів України* [http://naps.gov.ua/ua/press/releases/1354/ Відійшов у вічність /Сайт Національної академії педагогчних наук, 5.3.2018/] Раптово помер Михайло Чембержі /День, 5.3.2018/Чембержі М.І. /Сайт "Відкрита Україна"/ 1944 births 2018 deaths Ukrainian classical composers People from Iz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Bochek
Pyotr Semyonovich Bochek, ( uk, Петро Семенович Бочек; 3 March 1925 – 9 February 2018) was a junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in the Obrazhiivka village, Ukrainian SSR. He was drafted in November 1943 and commenced active war duty in January 1944. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ( Gold Star Medal No. 5867) on March 24, 1945 for heroism during the crossing of the Vistula River. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin (comes with the Hero title), Order of the Great Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisan ..., Order of Glory, and several medals. References 1925 births 2018 deaths Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
