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| Country name |
conventional long form: none conventional short form: ukraine local long form: none former: ukrainian national republic, ukrainian state, ukrainian soviet socialist republic local short form: ukrayina |
| Government type | republic |
| Capital | Kiev (Kyyiv) |
| Administrative divisions | 24 oblasti (singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtomnaya respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast status**; Cherkas'ka (Cherkasy), Chernihivs'ka (Chernihiv), Chernivets'ka (Chernivtsi), Dnipropetrovs'ka (Dnipropetrovs'k), Donets'ka (Donets'k), Ivano-Frankivs'ka (Ivano-Frankivs'k), Kharkivs'ka (Kharkiv), Khersons'ka (Kherson), Khmel'nyts'ka (Khmel'nyts'kyy), Kirovohrads'ka (Kirovohrad), Kyyiv**, Kyyivs'ka (Kiev), Luhans'ka (Luhans'k), L'vivs'ka (L'viv), Mykolayivs'ka (Mykolayiv), Odes'ka (Odesa), Poltavs'ka (Poltava), Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Rivnens'ka (Rivne), Sevastopol'**, Sums'ka (Sumy), Ternopil's'ka (Ternopil'), Vinnyts'ka (Vinnytsya), Volyns'ka (Luts'k), Zakarpats'ka (Uzhhorod), Zaporiz'ka (Zaporizhzhya), Zhytomyrs'ka (Zhytomyr); note - when using a place name with an adjectival ending "s'ka" or "z'ka," the word Oblast' should be added to the place name note: oblasts have the administrative center name following in parentheses |
| Independence | 24 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union) |
| National holiday | Independence Day, 24 August (1991); the date of 22 January (1918), the day Ukraine first declared its independence (from Soviet Russia), is now celebrated as Unity Day |
| Constitution | adopted 28 June 1996 |
| Legal system | based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts |
| Suffrage | 18 years of age; universal |
| Executive branch |
chief of state: president leonid d. kuchma (since 19 july 1994) head of government: prime minister viktor yanukovych (since 21 november 2002); first deputy prime minister mykola azarov (since 26 november 2002) cabinet: cabinet of ministers appointed by the president and approved by the supreme council elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 31 october and 14 november 1999 (next to be held 31 october 2004); prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president and approved by the supreme council election results: leonid d. kuchma elected president; percent of vote - leonid kuchma 57.7%, petro symonenko 38.8% note: there is also a National Security and Defense Council or NSDC originally created in 1992 as the National Security Council, but significantly revamped and strengthened under President KUCHMA; the NSDC staff is tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters and advising the president; a Presidential Administration that helps draft presidential edicts and provides policy support to the president; and a Council of Regions that serves as an advisory body created by President KUCHMA in September 1994 that includes chairmen of the Kiev (Kyyiv) and Sevastopol' municipalities and chairmen of the oblasti |
| Legislative branch | unicameral Supreme Council or Verkhovna Rada (450 seats; under Ukraine's election law, 225 of the Supreme Council's seats are allocated on a proportional basis to those parties that gain 4% or more of the national electoral vote; the other 225 members are elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies; all serve four-year terms)
election results: percent of vote by party - Our Ukraine 24%, CPU 20%, United Ukraine 12%, SPU 7%, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 7%, United Social Democratic Party 6%, other 24%; seats by party - Our Ukraine 102, Regions of Ukraine 67, CPU 59, Working Ukraine-Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 42, United Social Democratic Party 36, People's Power 22, SPU 20, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 19, Democratic Initiatives 18, Agrarian Party 16, People's Democratic Party 14, People's Choice 14, others 21 (January 2004)
note: following the election, united ukraine splintered into the agrarian party, european choice, people's choice, people's democratic party, regions of ukraine, and working ukraine-industrialists and entrepreneurs; european choice joined regions of ukraine in the fall of 2003 elections: last held 31 march 2002 (next to be held na 2006) |
| Judicial branch | Supreme Court; Constitutional Court |
| Political parties and leaders | Agrarian Party [Kateryna VASHCHUK]; Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; Democratic Initiatives [Stepan HAVRYSH]; Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH]; Our Ukraine bloc (comprised of several parties the most prominent of which are Rukh, the Ukrainian People's Party, Reforms and Order, and Solidarity) [Viktor YUSHCHENKO]; People's Choice [Mykola HAPOCHKA]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Valeriy PUSTOVOYTENKO]; People's Power [Bohdan HUBSKYY]; Regions of Ukraine [Viktor YANUKOVYCH]; Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman]; United Social Democratic Party [Viktor MEDVEDCHUK]; Working Ukraine [Serhiy TYHYPKO]; Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO] note: and numerous smaller parties; democratic initiatives, people's choice, and people's power are not actual political parties, but rather deputy groups (factions not based on a party) |
| Political pressure groups and leaders | NA |
| International organization participation | BSEC, CE, CEI, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, GUUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICFTU, ICRM, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MONUC, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMEE, UNMIK, UNMOVIC, UNOMIG, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO (observer), ZC |
| Diplomatic representation in the US |
chief of mission: ambassador mykhailo b. reznik FAX: [1] (202) 333-0817 consulate(s) general: chicago and new york telephone: [1] (202) 349-2920 chancery: 3350 m street nw, washington, dc 20007 |
| Diplomatic representation from the US |
chief of mission: ambassador john e. herbst embassy: 10 yuriia kotsiubynskoho street, 04053 kiev mailing address: 5850 kiev place, washington, dc 20521-5850 telephone: [380] (44) 490-4000 FAX: [380] (44) 490-4085 |
| Flag description | two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow represent grainfields under a blue sky |
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