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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 ...
However, the Commonwealth of Independent States, unlike other international organizations (United Nations, European Union, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), avoided making responsible political decisions regarding the basic principles of the Commonwealth's existence. As such, on 13 March, Ukraine ...
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.
KYIV (Reuters) - After Russia's 2022 invasion, Ukraine's normally febrile political life was becalmed under martial law. But there have been growing signs of activity picking up, as the United ...
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.
Just before that in May 2022, U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine to hold a surprise Mother's Day meeting alongside Zelenska, as Russia pressed its punishing ...
An oblast in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country. Ukraine is a unitary state, thus the oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and by law. Articles 140–146 of Chapter XI of the ...