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The elections were conducted by the Electoral Bureau of the General Secretary of Internal Affairs directed by Mykhailo Kovenko. The Universal proclaimed that the Constituent Assembly's 301 deputies were to be elected by a direct universal, equal and secret vote on the basis of proportional representation of 1 deputy per 100,000 constituents.
The Ukrainian War of Independence, also referred to as the Ukrainian–Soviet War in Ukraine, lasted from March 1917 to November 1921 and was part of the wider Russian Civil War. It saw the establishment and development of an independent Ukrainian republic , most of which was absorbed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 ...
Elections to the All-Ukrainian Constituent Assembly were scheduled for December, before the election of which all power belonged to the Central Rada and the General Secretariat. However, Ukraine still did not claim absolute sovereignty, as it was assumed that the October events in Petrograd were a conspiracy that would soon be eliminated.
Sarah Rainsford wrote in BBC News that Putin's speech was "rewriting Ukraine's history", and that his focus on the country was "obsessive". [21] Vitaly Chervonenko from the BBC noted how carefully Putin kept silent about the independent Ukrainian state formations of 1917–1920 and Kyiv's war with Lenin's Bolshevik government , whose purpose ...
On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation, sending the last of the 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling. [38] Ukraine had committed to this by signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in January 1994. [39] The country adopted its constitution on June 28, 1996 ...
The Kiev Bolshevik Uprising (November 8–13, 1917) was a military struggle for power in Kiev after the fall of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution. It ended in victory for the Kievan Committee of the Bolshevik Party and the Central Rada .
Elections to the All-Ukrainian Constituent Assembly were scheduled for 9 January [O.S. 27 December], which was scheduled to be convened on 22 January [O.S. 9 January] in 1918. After the text was announced, after a short break, at the suggestion of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Faction , Universal III was put to a roll-call vote in the ...
There were 307,920 eligible voters, out of whom 178,704 (58%) cast their votes. [10] There were 3,170 invalid votes. [10] Below are two accounts of the election result; an article in the Russian conservative nationalist newspaper Kievlyanin, published 9 August [O.S. 27 July] 1917, and the work 1917 god na Kiyevshchine: khronika sobytiy ('1917 in the Kiev region: a chronicle of events ...