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Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence, both on 2 December 1991. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] On the same day (2 December) it was reported during the late-evening airing of the television news program Vesti that the President of the Russian SFSR , Boris Yeltsin, had recognized Ukraine's independence.
Post-war, Soviet control was reestablished, and Crimea was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. 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]
Following the successful independence referendum, Yeltsin's only way to preserve the Soviet Union would have been to use massive force against Ukraine. However, Yeltsin chose not to and instead recognised the dissolution of the Soviet Union, [23] and joined the Belovezha Accords and the Alma-Ata Protocol. [24]
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.
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.
Ukraine: Independence restored after Soviet rule. Initial establishment in Ukraine. Not official until the formal disestablishment of the Soviet Union. August 27, 1991 Soviet Union Moldova: Independence restored after Soviet rule. Initial establishment in Moldavian DR. Not official until the formal disestablishment of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved and declared itself neutral. [10] A new constitution was adopted in 1996 as the country transitioned to a free market liberal democracy amid endemic corruption and a legacy of state control. [11] The Orange Revolution of 2004–2005 ushered electoral and constitutional reforms.
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 ...