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Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (, ) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the foreign relations of Ukraine. The head of the ministry is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. History Originally, the ministry was established as the General Secretariat of Nationalities as part of the General Secretariat of Ukraine and was headed by the federalist Serhiy Yefremov. Due to the Soviet intervention, the office was reformed into a ministry on December 22, 1917. About the same time, another government was formed (the Soviet) that proclaimed the Ukrainian government to be counter-revolutionary. The Ukrainian Soviet government also reorganized its office on March 1, 1918. In 1923, the office was liquidated by the government of the Soviet Union and reinstated in 1944, twenty years later. The first Soviet representatives were not of much note until the appointment of the Bulgarian native Christian Rakovsky in 1919. The office would remain in operation even after ...
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Ministry (government Department)
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона", т. XIX (1896): Мекенен — Мифу-Баня, "Министерства", с. 351—357 :s:ru:ЭСБЕ/Министерства These types of organizations are usually led by a politician who is a member of a cabinet—a body of high-ranking government officials—who may use a title such as minister, secretary, or commissioner, and are typically staffed with members of a non-political civil service, who manage its operations; they may also oversee other government agencies and organizations as part of a political portfolio. Governments may have differing numbers and types of ministries and departments. In some countries, these terms may be used with ...
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Volodymyrska Hill
Volodymyrska Hill or Saint Volodymyr Hill (, ''"Volodymyrska hirka"'') is a large park located on the steep right-bank of the Dnipro River in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Its most famous and prominent landmark is the Monument to Prince Volodymyr. The monument, with its prominent location and overlooking the scenic panorama of the left-bank of Kyiv, has since become one of the symbols of Kyiv, often depicted in paintings and photographic works of the city. The Hill provides an excellent panorama of the Dinpro River, the Left Bank, and Podil. History The first historical reference to Volodymyr Hill was in the ''Primary Chronicles'' of Kyivan Rus, where it describes Sviatopolk II of Kyiv building the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in 1108. The hill, on which the cathedral was built, was a citadel within the ancient part of Kyiv, built by and named after Iziaslav I of Kyiv. Volodymyrska Hill park was established in the mid-19th century, its name reflecting ...
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Mykola Liubynsky
Mykola Mykhailovych Liubynsky () (5 October 1891 – 8 January 1938) was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukrainian National Republic (1918) and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. Education Mykola Liubynsky graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Kyiv (1916). Professional career and experience In April 1917 - he was a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Lesser Rada. Later he headed the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. From December 1917 to February 1918 - he was a participant in the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, where he signed on behalf of the Ukrainian delegation the Appeal to Germany about the need to provide military aid to the Ukrainian National Republic. In March–April 1918 - he was a member of the Vsevolod Holubovych government. From March 3, 1918 - April 28, 1918 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine In 1920s - he lived in Kyiv ...
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Vsevolod Holubovych
Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych (; February 1885 – 16 May 1939) was the prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March 1918. Early period Holubovych was born in the village of Poltavka, Baltsky Uyezd, Podolia Governorate. Vsevolod's father was Oleksandr Holubovych (Aug. 25, 1846 - Nov. 28, 1902) and his mother Iryna Ovsiyevna Yefremovych (Apr.29, 1859 - Oct.2, 1921). Born into a priest family, Holubovych as was expected to start his education in the Podilia Spiritual Seminary of Ivan Bohoslov (Kamianets-Podilskyi). Remarkable is the fact that the same seminary was attended by another future Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Chekhivsky as a teacher. Vsevolod by the end of his studies in the seminary started to be interested in the political life in the country and in 1903 joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party. Vsevolod decided to deviate from his family occupation, enrolling in the Engineering Department of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institu ...
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Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917, and was later renamed the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party, and ultimately the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its ideology, based on Leninism, Leninist and later Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist principles, became known as Bolshevism. The origin of the RSDLP split was Lenin's support for a smaller party of professional revolutionaries, as opposed to the Menshevik desire for a broad party membership. The influence of the factions fluctuated in the years up to 1912, when the RSDLP formally split in two. The political philosophy of the Bolsheviks was based on the Leninist pr ...
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Sergei Bakinsky
Sergei Segeyevich Bakinsky () was a Bolshevik politician, revolutionary, the first People's Commissar of Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets on nationalities. Biography Bakinsky was born in Riga, Russian Empire in a family of middle class merchant as Ludwig Markovich Bernheim. In 1904 he graduated from the 3rd Kazan Gymnasium and enrolled into Kazan University. In 1907 due to a student protest, Bakinsky was excluded from the university by the Ministry of Interior. In July 1907 he was convicted for two years with a right to emigrate. Outside of Russia Bakinsky worked as an editor for newspaper "Proletariat" and in 1908 he illegally returned to Russia. Since 1904 Bakinsky is a member of the RSDLP(b) and in 1907 a secretary of the Government of Kazan party committee. In 1910 he finally received permission to live in Kazan, but due to persecution from authorities Bakinsky was forced to emigrate once again. In 1912–14 Bakinsky studied at the Saint Petersburg State University, ...
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Oleksandr Shulhin
Oleksander Yakovych Shulhyn ( – 4 March 1960) was a Ukrainian politician, academic, and diplomat who played a key role in establishing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and a representative of Ukrainians in International Refugee Organization after World War II. During World War II (1939–40 and 1945–46) Shulhyn acted as head of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. Biography Shulhyn was born in the village of Sofyne (Katsapshchyna), Khorol county in Poltava Governorate (today Andriivka rural hromada in Lubny Raion) in the family of a historian and pedagogue Yakiv Shulhyn whose heritage is traced to the Cossack officers (starshina). He is related to Vasily Shulgin. Oleksander's brother, Volodymyr perished at the Battle of Kruty. Shulhyn initially enrolled at ...
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and International security, security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It has 194 Member states of UNESCO, member states and 12 associate members, as well as partners in the Non-governmental organization, non-governmental, Intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental and private sector. Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO has 53 regional field offices and 199 National Commissions for UNESCO, national commissions. UNESCO was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.English summary). UNESCO's founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating collaboratio ...
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Kostiantyn Tymoshenko
Kostyantyn or Kostiantyn is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Kostyantyn Balabanov (born 1982), Ukrainian football player * Kostyantyn Bocharov (born 1997), Ukrainian singer and songwriter * Kostyantyn Dankevych (1905–1984), Ukrainian composer and musical teacher * Kostyantyn Doroshenko (born 1972), Ukraine Art critic, contemporary art curator, media manager, radio host of talk radio station Radio Vesti (Ukraine) * Kostyantyn Dudchenko (born 1986), Ukrainian professional football player * Kostyantyn Dymarchuk (born 1977), former Ukrainian football player * Kostyantyn Gryshchenko (born 1953), Ukrainian diplomat and politician * Kostyantyn Kravchenko (born 1986), Ukrainian footballer * Kostyantyn Makhnovskyi (born 1989), Ukrainian professional football goalkeeper *Kostyantyn Milyayev (born 1987), Ukrainian platform diver * Kostyantyn Morozov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine (2005) * Kostyantyn Odolskyi (born ...
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Sergiy Kyslytsya
Sergiy Olehovych Kyslytsya (; born 15 August 1969) is a Ukrainian career diplomat, who serves as Ambassador Extraordinary. He had previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014–2019), Plenipotentiary of Ukraine and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations (2019–2024). Early life and education Born in Kyiv, Ukraine on 15 August 1969. Kyslytsya graduated cum laude from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Master of Arts degree in International Law. He is fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, Spanish and French. Career Kyslytsya started his career in international diplomacy as an intern to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. Over the next eight years Kyslytsya held a number of diplomacy roles, including: Special Assistant to the Deputy, First Deputy, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Head, a.i., of the Council of Europe Section, MFA, Ukraine; Second, First Secretary (political), Special Assistant to the Ambassador, Em ...
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Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is Ukraine’s first and most prominent English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1995 in Kyiv by American businessman Jed Sunden. In 2018, the publication was acquired by prominent Ukrainian businessman Adnan Kivan, founder of KADORR Group. On November 11, 2021, Luc Chénier returned to ''Kyiv Post'' as its CEO to rebuild, with his first hire being Bohdan Nahaylo as its Chief Editor. Within two months, ''Kyiv Post'' had doubled its readership, with a clear emphasis on being Ukraine's global voice and by focusing on the USA, Canadian, UK, and European Union markets. By year 3, Kyiv Post had 97% of its readership outside Ukraine, with an combined websites and social media viewership of more than 6 million viewers per month. In October 2023, Kyiv Post was the first news organisations in Ukraine to be given a 100% content transparency and accuracy rating for journalism standards according to global rating platform News Guard (others with a perfect 10 ...
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Ukrainian Parliament
The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The Verkhovna Rada developed out of the systems of the republican representative body known in the Soviet Union as the Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) that was first established on 26 June 1938 as a type of legislature of the Ukrainian SSR after the dissolution of the Congress of Soviets of the Ukrainian SSR.Verkhovna Rada
in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine
The 12th convocation of the
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