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The Kyiv Independent was supported by an emergency grant of 200,000 Canadian dollars from the Canadian government. Ashley Mulroney, the director of the Ukrainian Development Program at the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv, expressed that the grant, distributed through the European Endowment for Democracy, was "part of broader Canadian support for free media and democratization in Ukraine."
History of Ukraine. Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and the domestication of the horse. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A part of Scythia in antiquity, Ukraine was largely settled by ...
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. Ukrainian independence led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...
From the formal establishment of the People's Movement of Ukraine on 1 July 1989 to the formalisation of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine via referendum on 1 December 1991, a non-violent protest movement worked to achieve Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. [ 1] Led by Soviet dissident Viacheslav Chornovil, the protests ...
Watch a live view of Independence Square in Kyiv on the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As the conflict enters its second year, there remains no end in sight, with a UN vote ...
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 and ...
The Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council ( Ukrainian: Четвертий Універсал Української Центральної Ради, romanized : Chetvertyi Universal Ukrainskoi Tsentralnoi Rady) is a significant state-political declaration that proclaimed the full state independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic ...
The ballot paper used in the referendum, with the text of the Declaration of Independence printed on it. No-vote in % per Ukrainian Oblast. Ukrainian media had converted en masse to the independence ideal. Polls showed 63% support for the "Yes" campaign in September 1991; that grew to 77% in the first week of October 1991 and 88% by mid ...