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Kherson Oblast Council
The Kherson Oblast Council () is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kherson Oblast (province) located in Southern Ukraine. Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote. During the Russian takeover and occupation of the oblast, the activities of the Council were temporarily suspended. A collaborationist entity called Salvation Committee for Peace and Order began to operate in its place. Activities of the Council resumed in November 2022. The building was partially destroyed by a Russian airstrike on 5 June 2025. Recent elections 2020 Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections Election date was 25 October 2020 Note: On 20 March 2022 the faction of the Volodymyr Saldo Bloc ceased to exist. Its deputies joined the newly formed faction "Support to the programs of the President of Ukraine". 2015 Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker (politics)
The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England. Usage The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerford in the Parliament of England.Lee Vol 28, pp. 257,258. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the chamber or house. The speaker often also represents the body in person, as the voice of the body in ceremonial and some other situations. A speaker usually presides the lower house. Different styles are employed to refer to those who preside upper houses or Senates. By convention, speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as "Mister Speaker" if a man, or "Madam Speaker" if a woman. In other cultures, other styles are used, mainly being equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Kherson
The battle of Kherson took place on 1 March 2022 on the southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou .... Russian forces captured the city on 1 March 2022 after brief combat with local territorial defense fighters, and then began a Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, military occupation of the city. The fall of Kherson was a major defeat for Ukraine; Kherson was the only Administrative divisions of Ukraine#List, regional capital to be captured by Russian forces during the invasion. Background Russian invasion In the early hours of 24 February, a large Russian force, estimated by Ukrainian military expert Serhii Hrabskyi to be 35,000 men strong, invaded Kherson Oblast from Crimea. Fighting was soon reported in Chonhar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Protsenko
Dina Iosypivna Protsenko (; 21 January 1926, Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ... — 30 July 2006, Kherson) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician. She was appointed Chairperson of the State-Committee of the Protection of Nature in 1975. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Protsenko, Dina 1926 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian women politicians Politicians from Kherson Communist Party of Ukraine politicians Women government ministers of Ukraine Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Tenth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Eleventh convocation members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self Reliance (political Party)
The Association "Self Reliance" () is a Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative and Christian democracy, Christian democratic political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. It was founded on 29 December 2012, and identifies with the ideology of "Christian morality and common sense." The name of the party is similar to the name of the Non-governmental organization, NGO, founded by former leader, Andriy Sadovyi in 2004. The party won 33 seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Ukrinform (8 November 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UKROP
UKROP ( in Russian), short for the Ukrainian Association of Patriots (), was a political party in Ukraine.Ukrop political party launched by oligarch Kolomoisky obtains registration (18 June 2015) UKROP was established months after the Euromaidan Revolution of February 2014. The core of the party comprised civil society activists, participants of Euromaidan, volunteers and members of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Party Of Oleh Lyashko
The Radical Party of Oleh Liashko (; RPL), formerly known as the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party (), is a political party in Ukraine. It was registered in September 2010. It was primarily known for its radical populism, especially in 2014, when it had its largest amount of support. At the 2012 parliamentary election, the party had won 1 seat. The party won 22 seats at the 2014 parliamentary election. At the 2019 parliamentary election it lost all of its seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections (26 July 2019) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition Bloc
The Opposition Bloc (, ) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine that was founded in 2014 by the merger of six parties that did not endorse Euromaidan. Legally, the party was created by renaming the lesser-known party "Leading Force"."OPPOSITION BLOCK" Civil movement "Chesno" (2018) The party was perceived as the successor of the disbanded . In the 2014 election, the party won 29 seats predominantly in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"
European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its then name Petro Poroshenko Bloc won 132 of the 423 contested seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, more than any other party. In August 2015, the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) merged into the party. In May 2019, the UDAR undid this merge. In October 2017, the party had about 30,000 members; former members of Party of Regions are denied membership. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 23 seats on the nationwide party list and 2 constituency seats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Ukrainian Local Elections
On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine. The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of mayors in cities with more than 90,000 residents where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes were held on 15 November 2015. Because of the ongoing conflict in East Ukraine and the February 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, local elections were not conducted throughout all of the administrative subdivisions of Ukraine. The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties, followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south. The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast). In the west, Svoboda improved its pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War with Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Russia's annexation of Crimea and War in Donbas, invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian language in Ukraine, Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, but never practised law and pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. He co-created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series ''Servant of the People (2015 TV series), Servant of the People'', in which Zelens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Election Commission Of Ukraine
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (, commonly abbreviated as , ); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine) is a permanent and independent collegiate body of the Ukrainian state that acts on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine and is responsible for organizing the arrangements and the conduct of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine as well as the local elections at all levels, managing the all-Ukrainian and local referendums according to the procedure and within the legal framework defined by the laws of Ukraine. Legislative status The Commission manages the system of election commissions and referendum commissions established to arrange and conduct the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine as well as the all-Ukrainian referendums. The Commission supervises activities and provides the advisory and methodological support to the commissions established to arrange and conduct the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberation Of Kherson
On 11 November 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated and recaptured the city of Kherson and other areas of the Kherson Oblast and parts of the Mykolaiv Oblast on the Right-bank Ukraine, right bank of the Dnieper, Dnipro River from Russia, Russian control. The Russian Armed Forces, which had occupied the city since 2 March 2022, withdrew and retreated to the left bank of the Kherson Oblast over the course of 9–11 November 2022. The Ukrainian soldiers were greeted with cheers and large celebrations in the city square. The events were the culmination of the 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, and were seen as a large blow to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who had declared Kherson to be "part of Russia forever". Background After the 24 February 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces surrounded the city of Kherson in late February, and Battle of Kherson, occupied it on 2 March 2022, after heavy fighting the previous week. In September 2022, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
