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Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. [1] Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Ukrainian government approved laws that banned communist symbols, as well as symbols of Nazism as both ideologies deemed to be totalitarian. [2] [3]
Change in a graffiti in Kyiv from Russian to Ukrainian spelling of a pun. The process began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but since the issue of decommunization was a much bigger problem, derussification received relatively little attention, after 2014, the two processes were closely intertwined and initially they took place mostly in a spontaneous and unsystematic way.
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').
Satellite images capture aftermath of the siege of Mairupol. A public pool in Mariupol also fell foul to a vicious Russian stike, blowing a gaping hole in its roof, as shown on Google Maps.
The 25-year-old has no military experience and just became eligible to be conscripted after Ukraine lowered the age men can be drafted from 27 to 25 last month. “I love my country,” he said in ...
Videos showing Ukrainian prisoners of war being forced to sing pro-Russian songs or carrying bruises have attracted concerns about their treatment. [8] Dmytro Lubinets [], head of the Ukrainian parliament's human rights committee, claimed that Russians forcibly shaved heads of female Ukrainian prisoners.
Pushilin announced a day of mourning on Monday in the Donetsk People's Republic, the name given to the part of the region Russia says it has annexed. In his nightly video address, Ukrainian ...
Ukraine, where total fertility (1.1 in 2001), was one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine underwent immense political and economic transformations from 1991 to 2004, it maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing.