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The politics of Ukraine take place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic and a multi-party system. A Cabinet of Ministers exercises executive power (jointly with the president until 1996). Legislative power is vested in Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада, lit. 'Supreme Council').
There have developed two major movements [nb 2] [nb 3] in the Ukrainian parliament since its independence: [22] [23] [24]. A pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats [25] [20] who from time to time featured individual politicians with a nationalist past (for example Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy and Levko Lukyanenko) with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ...
Ukraine is made up of 24 oblasts, as well as two cities with special status (Kyiv and Sevastopol) and one autonomous republic (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea).All of these entities have oblast Councils (or city councils in the case of Kyiv and Sevastopol), which function as regional legislatures, and are the second level of government after the Verkhovna Rada.
Kyryl Studynsky, the head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939) Borys Tarasyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000 and 2005–2007) Serhiy Tihipko, Minister of Economics (2000) Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007–2010) Anatole Vakhnianyn, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
The territory has been known by a plethora of names, it has been known historically as: Kievan Rus, Rus', the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, the Zaporozhian Host and the Hetmanate. The sovereigns of these fluctuating political entities have accordingly been described in a variety of ways: knyaz, knyahinya, korol, hetman and president.
A 2010 study by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of Ukraine found that in general, Yulia Tymoshenko supporters are more optimistic compared with Viktor Yanukovych supporters. 46 percent of the Tymoshenko's backers expect improvement in their well-being in the next year compared to 30 percent for Yanukovych.
During Ukraine's post-Soviet history, the far-right has remained on the political periphery and been largely excluded from national politics since independence in 1991. [1] [2] Unlike most Eastern European countries which saw far-right groups become permanent fixtures in their countries' politics during the decline and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the national electoral support ...
Leaders of political parties in Ukraine (9 P) Local politicians in Ukraine (3 C, 9 P) P. Candidates for President of Ukraine (9 C) S. Ukrainian sportsperson ...