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The Act reestablished Ukraine's state independence from the Soviet Union. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The declaration was affirmed by a majority of Ukrainians in all regions of Ukraine by an independence referendum on 1 December, followed by international recognition starting on the following day.
Ukraine became independent when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. This started a period of transition to a market economy , in which Ukraine suffered an eight-year recession . [ 16 ] Subsequently however, the economy experienced a high increase in GDP growth until it plunged during the Great Recession . [ 17 ]
In 1945, Ukraine was made one of the founding members of the United Nations even though it was part of the Soviet Union. In 1954 the Crimean Oblast was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state, formalized with a referendum.
During the only referendum in the history of the USSR (All-Union Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR), which took place on March 17, 1991, with the assistance of the Government of the Ukrainian SSR, a republican consultative poll was held in Ukraine at the insistence of the People's Movement for Perestroika as part of the Union of ...
Ukraine became independent from Russia as the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917. Divided in 1921 between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union, [2] the remaining western portion of Ukraine was further annexed by the Soviet Union as part of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [3] and formalised by the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
Most voters supported the proposal, although in the pro-independence oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil, voters opted for independence as part of an additional question. The referendum followed the Declaration of State Sovereignty by the republic's parliament on 16 July 1990 as sovereign republic within the Soviet Union in line with ...
Instead of saving the Soviet regime, the reforms triggered a number of popular upheavals in Europe, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Between 1990 and 1991, several republics of the Soviet Union proclaimed their state sovereignty and then announced their independence. On July 16, 1990, the Ukrainian SSR's parliament issued its 12th ...
On 24 August 1991, Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union. In response, Boris Yeltsin threatened Ukraine with Russian claims on parts of their territory and a revision of their mutual borders if they insisted on independence. Furthermore, a high-profile delegation was dispatched to address the leaders of the now independent ...