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Mar 8, 2022 · It was first home to the Kyivan Rus people, who were Scandinavians traders and Russia's namesake. Over time, it was absorbed by Poland and Lithuania, and then the Russian Empire and Austria...
Sep 1, 2021 · PRESIDENT BIDEN: It’s an honor and a pleasure to welcome President Zelenskyy to the White House, to the Oval Office. As we celebrate 30 years of Ukrainian independence, the partnership between...
Feb 12, 2022 · In Ukraine, January 1990 sees more than 400,000 people joining hands in a human chain stretching some 400 miles from the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk to Kyiv, the capital, in the north-central...
- Becky Sullivan
Every president of Ukraine except for Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada prior to their election. Kravchuk was the first president to resign from the office, following a power struggle with Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma .
Sep 15, 2017 · 1917 was the year when the Russian Tsar was deposed and his empire began dissolving. It was then, 100 years ago, that Ukraine saw its first life as a modern nation-state.
In 1991 Crimea was granted the status of an autonomous republic, and Crimeans supported the vote for Ukrainian independence (albeit by a small majority). But disenchantment with an independent Ukraine soon followed, and a movement for greater autonomy or even secession developed in the peninsula.
The history of Ukrainian nationality can be traced back to the kingdom of Kievan Rus' of the 9th to 12th centuries. It was the predecessor state to what would eventually become the Eastern Slavic nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
