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Canada was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine’s independence. In 1994, Ukraine surrendered its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for a guarantee that its border would always be respected. By the end of the century, economic hardships had led to 23,000 people leaving Ukraine for Canada. After 2001, roughly 2,500 immigrated per ...
Topographic map of Ukraine, with borders, cities and towns. Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia, and the largest country entirely in Europe. Lying between latitudes 44° and 53° N, and longitudes 22° and 41° E ., it is mostly in the East European Plain.
The Turkic peoples of Central Asia were not organized in nation-states during most of the 20th century, after the collapse of the Russian Empire living either in the Soviet Union or (after a short-lived First East Turkestan Republic) in the Chinese Republic. For much of the 20th century, Turkey was the only independent Turkic country.
Mar 15, 2022 · The Crimea is an important part of the story too, and its history forms a part of the history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. 24th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital city, Kyiv, and how today it has become central to this ...
Mar 10, 2022 · There is a unit in Ukraine called the Georgia National Legion, and this unit has been recruiting people for the war in Ukraine since 2014. They have a special affinity, it seems, for U.S. recruits.
Apr 26, 2019 · Leonid Toptunov. Senior Reactor Control Engineer, Fifth Shift, Reactor No. 4. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo. Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control ...
Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect. Stanisław Lem, Polish science-fiction writer born in the present-day territory of Ukraine. Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist. Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist. Valerian Polishchuk, poet. Vasily Grossman Ukrainian-Jewish, born in Berdichev in 1905.
