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[2] Other major rivers include the Donets, the Dnestr and the Southern Bug.


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These rivers flow into the Black Sea or Sea of Azov.


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The Danube Delta forms the border with Romania.


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In the northwestern corner of the country, the Western Bug belonging to the Vistula, which descends into the Baltic Sea, flows as the border river of Poland.


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[3] [1] There are 3000 lakes, but they are small.


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The average area of the lakes is 0.67 square kilometers.


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Together with several reservoirs built specifically along the Dnieper, the country's lakes covered a total area of 11730 square kilometers in 1986.


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Near the sea are located the largest lakes of the country.


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Of them, many are shallow and their water contains salt; some of the coastal lakes are billless salt lakes.


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[4] Eastern European Grand River in the Dnieper H'erson.


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View of the southern parts of Ukraine from Yalta, on the shores of the Black Sea.


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Hoverla Mountain (2061 m), the highest point in Ukraine, is found in the southwestern part of the country, in the Eastern Carpathians.


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History Main article History of Ukraine The territory of present-day Ukraine has been inhabited alternately in antiquity by the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmaths and Goths.


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[5] The coasts of the Black Sea were part of the Greek world in antiquity, and there were Greek settlements on the northern Black Sea coast on the territory of present-day Ukraine as early as the 6th century BCE.


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After the Huns drove the Goths from Ukraine in the 3rd century, Avaars, Casars and Bolgars, but also the East Slavs settled there.


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The Grand Duchy of Kiev, founded by the East Slavs and Vikings, fought against the Turkish-related Petsenegs and Cumans who came to the region, creating a kingdom stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea, from whose heritage was Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.


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In 1222—1223, the Mongol vanguard made a war expedition north of the Sea of Azov to Crimea and southern parts of Ukraine.


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On the Kala River (Kalchek), they defeated the Kipchaks and the forces of the Kievan Rus', Chernihiv and Galitsian princes who came to their aid in spring 1223.


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However, Mongol forces returned to the east as early as the same year.


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[6] The actual Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' territory began in 1237.


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After defeating Moscow, Yaroslavl and Tver, the troops headed south.


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Between 1238 and 1240, troops lingered in the lands between Don and Donets in the eastern parts of present-day Ukraine.


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After several invasions, Chernihiv fell in the autumn of 1239.


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In December 1240, Kiev was overrun after several weeks of siege.


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The Mongol Army continued westward as two corps.


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A more southerly group headed for Halych and another to Volodimir, the western parts of Volynia.


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Both cities fell after brief sieges.


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The troops continued to move further west.


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The main force led by Batu-Khan continued from Halich across the Carpathians to Hungary.


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The more northerly Mongol force continued into Poland (e.g.


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Kraków) and toured widely in the territory of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.


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In 1242 the forces united in Hungary and the main force continued to the Danube and thence north of the Black Sea eastwards to the lower reaches of the Volga.


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The centre of a new kingdom, the Golden Orda, was founded there.


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[6] Ukraine remained predominantly in the possession of the Golden Orda, founded by the Mongols.


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Only the Principality of Galitsia-Volynia, the later Kingdom was capable of successful resistance against Tatar rule in the following years, albeit being formally subordinate to the Golden Orda.


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In the resistance, help came from cooperation with Hungary, Lithuania and Poland.


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In the 1340s, however, Galitsia drifted under Polish-Lithuanian control.


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[7] As Mongol rule receded in the 16th century, Cossack communities formed in Ukraine.


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The revolt against Poland, which began in 1648 led by Hetmani Bohdan H'melnytskyi, led to the secession of Ukraine from Polish-Lithuania and the establishment of an autonomous state known as the Cossack hetmanate.


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In 1654, the Cossacks of H'melnytskyi entered into an alliance with the Russian Tsar, recognizing this formal supremacy in order to gain a patron against the Catholic West in a situation where the Turkic and Muslim Ottoman Empire also imposed pressure from the south.


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In the Peace of Andrusovo of 1667, eastern Ukraine and Kiev were annexed by Russia, and the western part to Poland-Lithuania.


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[5] In connection with the Great Northern War, hetman Ivan Mazepa, with Swedish support, sought independence from Russia, but as a result of the Battle of Poltava, Cossack Ukraine was even more closely annexed to Russia.


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Polish influence on Ukraine gradually faded in 1772, 1793 and 1795, when the Kingdom of Poland, which formed the Polish-Lithuanian noble republic, was divided in v.


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After 1795 finally entirely between Prussia (then Germany), Austria (then Austria-Hungary) and Russia.


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The main part of western Ukraine was annexed by Russia, though Eastern Galitsia and Bukovina became part of Austria-Hungary.


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Initially empowered by Polish nobility and finally confirmed by Catherine II of Russia, it was not until 1861 that Alexander II abolished serfdom.


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The Ukrainian nationality thing began to rise beginning in the 1840s, but became subject to repression by the Russian regime beginning in the 1870s.


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In connection with the Russian March Revolution of 1917, the independence of Ukraine began.


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In western Ukraine, Ukrainians experienced a national revival along the lines of the late 19th century with the Poles, but also opposed the dominance of Polish cities in Galitsia over the Ukrainian countryside.


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At the end of World War I, during World War I, Germany, as well as Austria-Hungary, managed to conquer much of Ukraine.


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After the February Revolution, Ukrainian cultural life began to buzz and in March 1917 the Central Rada was established in Kiev, which elected historian Myh'ailo Khrushevskyi as its Speaker.


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As Rada's influence grew, Russia's interim government was forced to recognise it and granted Ukraine autonomy in July.


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[8] After the October Revolution, Rada refused to recognize Soviet power and declared the Ukrainian People's Republic established, with the intention of allying with the future democratic Russia.


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Around the same time, the first pan-Ukrainian meeting of councils declared in Kharkov a Ukrainian Soviet Republic.


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As Bolshevik forces began advancing towards Kiev, the People's Republic declared independence on 22 January 1918.


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However, after the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, the Red Army was forced to withdraw from Ukraine.


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The Rada government returned to Kiev with the support of German and Austro-Hungarian forces, but it was too leftist for the Germans and in April 1918 a German-backed coup d'état took place, declaring Ukraine a monarchy and General Pavlo Skoropadski as its hetmann.


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[8] German-backed rule lasted until the rest of the year when the German Empire surrendered at the end of World War I and its forces were forced to withdraw.


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In Kiev, the People's Republic Directorate led by Ukrainian socialists and nationalists re-emerged, where power was concentrated in his own hands by Symon Petljura.


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On 22 January 1919, the Ukrainian People's Republic declared its unification with the West Ukrainian People's Republic, but was overrun by Polish forces.


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[8] In December 1919, Petljura fled with a small number of Bolsheviks to Poland and concluded a treaty with Poland in which he ceded Galitsia to Poland in exchange for support against the Bolsheviks.


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The invasion of the Poles advanced as far as Kiev, which was recaptured in May 1920.


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In the meantime, Ukraine was in the midst of a civil war between the Whites of the South Russian army led by the Reds, Denikin and Wrangel and anarchists led by Nestor Mahno.


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In the spring, the Red Army gained control of much of Ukraine, with the exception of Polish-occupied Volynia and Western Podolia.


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The Spring 1920 Polish—Soviet-Russian War and the defeat of the Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw led to the partition of Ukraine at the Peace of Riga on 18 March 1921.


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The western part of Ukraine fell to Poland.


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[9] When Germany and the Soviet Union in the early stages of World War II in September 1939 partitioned Poland by the Molotov—Ribbentrop Pact, these territories were annexed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.


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[5] During the Soviet period, in 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became a founding member of the Soviet Union.


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In its early years, the ruling Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was led by Russians and Jews, the proportion of Ukrainians rose to one fifth when the Borotbisty Party was annexed to it in 1920.


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With the Ukrainization of the 1920s, the number of Ukrainians increased by half by the end of the decade, causing concern in Moscow.


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[10] Ukrainians who remained under Polish and Romanian rule experienced assimilation attempts and discrimination.


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In Poland, an underground organization of Ukrainian nationalists was founded in 1929, which in the late 1930s split into a wing led by the more moderate Andri Melnyk and the radical Stepan Bandera.


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Ukrainians who remained in Czechoslovakia fared better in the multicultural and industrialised state.


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After Hitler dismembered Czechoslovakia in 1938, Ukrainians even gained autonomy in Carpatho-Ukraine prior to Hungarian occupation.


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[10] Between 1930 and 1932, Soviet-Ukrainian agriculture was collectivized under Josif Stalin's orders and large forced grain donations caused a famine known as the Holodomor, of which six to seven million are estimated to have died in Ukraine.


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[11] In World War II, Ukraine came under occupation by Nazi Germany 1941—1944.


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In Lviv the nationalists of the Bandara Movement declared an independent state on 30 June 1941, [10] but Germany was no longer ready to grant Ukraine even formal independence; instead Stepan Bandera, released initially from Polish prison by the Germans, was eventually imprisoned.


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The German occupation regime subjected Ukraine directly to German rule.


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During the Nazi occupation of World War II, an estimated 600,000 to 900,000 Ukrainian Jews were exterminated, incl.


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34,000 over two days at Babi Jar near Kiev in September 1941.


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[12] The Red Army counterattack into Ukraine began in the summer of 1943 and the Donbass capital Stalino (now.


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The liberation of Donetsk) is celebrated on 8 September 1943.


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[13] The whole liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders is commemorated on October 28 (1944).


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[14] After World War II in 1945, the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia, Carpatoruten, was annexed to Ukraine, eventually unifying all territories inhabited by Ukrainians of nationality under the same regime.


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However, the nationalists' armed activities against the Soviet Union continued even in the post-war years in western Ukraine.


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After World War II, work on rebuilding the devastated economy and the transfer of Western Ukraine to Soviet rule began.


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In 1946, the authorities dissolved the Orthodox Uniate Church, subordinate to the Catholic Church.


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The years 1946—1948 are known as Ždanovšchina, after Andrei Ždanov, when a campaign against Ukrainian nationalism was waged.


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In 1949, long-time Ukrainian party leader Nikita Khrushchev ascended to the leadership of the Soviet Union, and after him all leaders of the Soviet republic were Ukrainian by nationality.


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Petro Šelest (1963—1972) in particular was known as a driver of Ukraine's economic interests and culture until he was removed from office on charges of soft attitude towards nationalism.


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[12] His successor, Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, began with purges and Russification activities of the Nationalists and under him the KGB had the dissident movement crushed in the late 1970s.


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[12] The most serious nuclear accident in history occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in 1986.


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Thanks to Shcherbytskyi, glasnost did little to no effect in Ukraine until 1988, when mass protests were held in Lviv and Kiev.


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The following year, the Ruh Movement formed and many of the prominent party leaders lost in the elections.


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Rada's election in 1990 fractured the Communist Party's position and Ruh openly expressed his aspirations for independence.


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[12] Independent Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.


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Leonid Kravchuk was elected as the first president, in whose term, however, staggering inflation and unrest forced early elections to be held.


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Leonid Kuchma, who took over as Prime Minister in 1992, rose to become President of Ukraine in 1994.


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Kuchmank's period was full of scandals, although the economy did improve slightly during his time.


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Orange Revolution and from one political crisis to another In 2004, presidential elections were held in Ukraine in which the sitting president, Leonid Kuchma, was no longer a candidate.


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In the first round of elections held on 31 October, neither of the main candidates, neither pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko, backed by western Ukraine, nor Viktor Yanukovych, from Russian-speaking regions in the industrialised east of the country and Russian-backed Viktor Yanukovych, managed to garner more than half of the votes cast.


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The second round of elections between the two candidates with the most votes in the first round was fought on 21 November 2004.


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Due to mass protests caused by ambiguity in the arrangements of the elections, which were being taken to be called the Orange Revolution, Ukraine's Supreme Court ended up with a renewal of the second round of elections.


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The second round of the elections was renewed on 26 December 2004 and their winner became the opposition candidate Yushchenko receiving over 52% of the vote.


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Yushchenko, a prominent ally of Yushchenko, was appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine after the election.


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Since 10 January 2006, the constitution was amended even more in a parliamentary direction, with a reduction in presidential prerogatives and the addition of the Prime Minister.


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However, the Orange Powers soon drifted into mutual strife and Tymoshenko's government was dismissed in September 2005.


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Tymoshenko's short-term successor became Yuri Jehanurov, who continued as the officiating prime minister until the formation of the new government.


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In the March 2006 parliamentary election, Yanukovych led the Party of Regions to electoral victory and become the largest party.


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After the March election, months of stalemate were caught up in which a functioning government could not be formed.


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The Orange joint government between Our Ukraine, Julija Tymoshenko's faction and the Ukrainian Socialist Party dissolved in spring 2006 following the defection of the Socialists to the Party of Regions to form an “anti-crisis coalition government” and the election of his own husband Oleksandr Moroz as Speaker of the Rada.


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Yushchenko refused to appoint his running mate as prime minister until a new deadline allowing elections to be held came up.


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In this case, the Party of Regions and its allies threatened the president with impeachment.


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Yushchenko finally appointed Yanukovych as Prime Minister and form a “coalition government of national unity” with Our Ukraine on August 3, 2006.


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Parliament approved Yanukovych as prime minister by a vote of 271 to 9 as the opposition boycotted the vote.


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The three-party ruling coalition won 239 seats in the 450-member Rada.


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On 1 December 2006, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed the president-appointed Foreign Minister Borys Tarasjuk from his position.


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[15] President Yushchenko did not accept this and claimed the dismissal of the minister was the responsibility of the president.


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The district court reversed Rada's decision, but Parliament said the lower court's ruling could not alter its decisions.


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[16] The Yanukovych government gradually expanded its support base by awarding government seats to opposition backers, who thus moved behind the government.


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In particular, Yushchenko was troubled by the nomination of his former backer Anatoly Kinah as finance minister, which on 23 March 2007 prompted ten opposition MPs to defect as government backers.


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Yanukovych and Speaker Moroz promised the coalition would grow to two-thirds or 300 delegates by the summer, which would allow the repeal of presidential vetoes or amendments to the constitution.


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On 2 April, Yushchenko ordered the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada, which the government and the majority in parliament considered unconstitutional and continued to work.


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According to Yushchenko, the parliament had become illegal with the defections of delegates.


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The constitutional court investigated the case, but Yushchenko reversed his first decision and later replaced it with a new one.


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On May 24, Yushchenko fired the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, accusing him of violating the constitution.


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The president also announced that he would take control from Yanukovych, the Interior Minister Vasyl Tsuško, who supported Yanukovych, soldiers of the Berkut Corps (equivalent to Russia's OMON).


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[17] Yushchenko's term to Yanukovych's term as the holding date for new elections was agreed on 30 September 2007.


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In the elections, Yanukovych's Party of Regions again gained the most votes and seats (175—11), although losing slightly, Tymoshenko's bloc increased its number of seats (156+27) and President Yushchenko's support party Our Ukraine continued its downhill (72—9).


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The so-called Orange parties had a narrow seat majority (228/450), which would have been enough to form a government, but some of Our Ukraine's representatives refused to sign a cooperation agreement with Tymoshenko's bloc.


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[18] [19] After a lengthy delay, Tymoshenko re-emerged as Prime Minister on 18 December 2007.


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[20] The intervals between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko deteriorated again when Tymoshenko refused to support Georgia during the August 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict.


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Presidential administration representative Andriy Kyslynskyi accused Tymoshenko of “treason and corruption.”


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President Yushchenko's support party Our Ukraine left the government on September 4, 2008, when Tymoshenko's bloc allied with the Parties of Regions and Communists to push through laws that reduced presidential powers and facilitated his dismissal.


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After the fall of the government, new elections were due to be held on 14 December, but were pushed forward because of the international economic crisis that hit Ukraine too.


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Ukraine was mired in a serious economic crisis in the autumn of 2008 in the context of the international economic crisis.


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In October 2008, 32 billion hryvnias were withdrawn from banks in a three-week period and the value of the country's currency plummeted 23 percent.


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[21] The International Monetary Fund provided US$16.5 billion in loans to the country.


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[22] The government crisis seemed to ease on 9 December 2008 when Rada elected Volodymyr Lytvyn as the new Speaker.


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[23] In the February 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych was declared the winner.


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Tymoshenko accused him of electoral fraud and resigned his prime minister seat.


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[20] In June 2010, Parliament decided to abandon the pursuit of NATO membership.


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[20] In December 2010, Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko were brought to justice on charges of misappropriating state funds.


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Abuse of power in gas deals with Russia was later added to Tymoshenko's charges.


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He was sentenced to imprisonment in October 2011.


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[20] The EU called for Tymoshenko's release [24] and considered the verdict political.


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Revolution 2014 In November 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych rejected the EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement in favour of Russia.


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The EU had not agreed to haggle over the rule of law criteria.


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At least 100,000 protesters disappointed with Yanukovych occupied the streets of Kiev.


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[24] Protests became violent in January 2014.


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In the third week of February, clashes between police and protesters flared even more serious, with two dozen people killed and hundreds injured.


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[25] Yanukovych was dismissed on 21 February.


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Some Ukrainians have been dissatisfied with Yanukovych and the current state of Ukraine.


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On the other hand, the opposition was fragmented.


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[24] Ukraine's state economy was put to the test when the government came to power reported that the Yanukovych government had plundered more than EUR 50 billion of state funds.


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[26] The United States and Europe then provided economic assistance and loans to Ukraine.


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Presidential elections were held at the end of May


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Petro Poroshenko won the election in the first round.


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He received more than half of the votes cast.


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[27] Crimea Crisis 2014 and War in Eastern Ukraine With the revolution, protests against the new government began in Crimea and in favor of strengthening the autonomy of the peninsula.


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Russia launched a maneuver on its border with Ukraine and moved troops to its base in Sevastopol.


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[28] Russia soon annexed the Crimean peninsula to itself, confirmed by the referendum, although both the referendum and the annexation were condemned as illegal by Ukraine and Western countries as well as a majority in the UN General Assembly.


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[29] [30] Between March and April, pro-Russia protesters and armed separatists overran many government buildings in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkov regions.


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This triggered a new conflict inside Ukraine.


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Ukraine accused Russia of fomenting separatism in the 2014 crisis in eastern Ukraine and supporting the “Donetsk People's Republic.”


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The Ukrainian military was very successful in the summer of 2014 in the fight against the separatists.


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Separatists left with defeat appealed to Russia for help.


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Equipment and, to varying degrees, volunteer crew assistance turned the course of the fighting into something advantageous for the separatists.


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By the beginning of 2015, thousands had died in the fighting, and hundreds of thousands went on the run from the war.


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Politics Administration Ukraine is a semi-presidential republic headed by President Petro Poroshenko elected after the revolution.


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Party Politics The party politics of Ukraine is centered around groups led by a few charismatic individuals.


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They do not have a unified ideology, or comprehensive party programs to which delegates would commit, but gather their endorsements mostly on geographical grounds.


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Among the most popular factions were the Party of Regions supporting ousted President Viktor Yanukovych in 2007 and gathering support from industrialised and Russian-speaking regions in the east of the country, the faction of Yulia Tymoshenko, which rallied around previous Prime Minister Julija Tymoshenko, and Viktor Our Ukraine (in the 2007 elections Our Ukraine — People's Self-Defense) supporting Yushchenko, whose support is concentrated in western Ukraine.


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The Communist Party of Ukraine and the Socialist Party of Ukraine are also garnering some votes.


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[31] The Communist Party was banned in 2015.


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[32] The number of registered parties — 198 copies at the beginning of 2013 — contributes to the confusion of the political field.


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[33] Ukraine seeks its place between East and West in Ukraine as a balancing act of generally Russian-speaking and heavy-industrial eastern Ukraine, the (Dnieper) “left bank” (ven.


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Levoberezhnaya), and already in the peace of Andrusov to the “West”, the “right bank” of Poland (the Dnieper) (ven.


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between Pravoberežnaya) continues.


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Economically speaking, the division of eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine is partly a north-south division, with the northern Levoberezhnaya regions advocating more national and western alignments and the more southerly pravoberežnaya regions for closer cooperation with Russia.


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Economically, eastern Ukraine depends on energy supplied by Russia because of the mining industry and steel industry, as well as the military-industrial complex inherited from the Soviet period.


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After the 2004 election victory of Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine sought to approach NATO and the European Union to achieve a more independent status over Russia.


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Pro-Western people think Ukraine, like Poland, needed to aspire to become members of the EU and NATO, while those nurturing a historic link with Russia think the most important thing economically is to be in economic cooperation with Russia.


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In June 2010, the Ukrainian parliament decided to abandon its pursuit of NATO membership.


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Poland advocates Ukraine becoming a member of the EU.


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This would be relevant not only for security policy but also for EU agricultural policy, because Ukraine is a country of black muck in the south the size of France.


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In late 2013, Ukraine failed to sign a pre-drafted trade agreement with the European Union, sparking widespread riots in the capital Kiev.


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The EU and the US are trying to strengthen the democratization of Ukraine to loosen the Ukrainian-Russian link, while Russia is trying to hold on to its historic link with Ukraine.


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On the other hand, Russia-Ukraine trade talks in December 2013 also did not go well when no agreement was reached to buy gas.


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[34] Russia has attracted Ukraine into the planned Eurasian Union, which also envisages free movement of capital and labour.


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[35] Mass media exposed to danger Means to influence social decision-making have been hard, at least under the previous President Leonid Kuchma, although no state-led consolidation such as Belarus has been carried out and government and opposition the dialogue has resumed.


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Arms shops Ukraine has a significant surplus of Soviet-era weapons and industrial capacity to manufacture them.


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International attention was received by the U.S. State Department's accusation in 2002 that Ukraine had sold Kolchuga range-surveillance radar systems manufactured by Donetsk based Topaz to Iraq, which was under UN embargo due to the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War.


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[36] The charges were based on recordings made by President Leonid Kuchma's bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko.


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The United States, which enforced no-fly zones with Britain and at the same time prepared for the war in Iraq, reacted strongly to what happened.


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However, no investigation was found in Iraq and the United States acknowledged the allegations as false.


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In September 2006, Jane's reported that Ukraine would have sold the radars to Iran, which the Ukrainian government has denied.


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[37] [38] After the August 2008 South Ossetia War, Russia accused Ukraine of arming Georgia.


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[39] In addition, weapons have been sold e.g.


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Arms sales to African countries where publicity gained publicity after the MV Faina ship carrying 33 T-72 tanks to Kenya (allegedly South Sudan) was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.


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In Ukraine, this caused a political scandal, as the Ukrainian security services were suspected of selling weapons under the protection of President Yushchenko.


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[40] Controversy caused by the Soviet Black Sea Fleet over the allocation, location and financing of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet has chafed Russian-Ukrainian intervals, as has the status of the Sevastopol naval base as a base of the Russian Navy in once again an independent Ukraine.


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As a result of the years-long dispute, the Soviet ships were divided between the Russian and Ukrainian navies.


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In 1997, the Russian Navy was granted the right to use the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea on a fixed term until 2017.


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In 2010, the lease agreement with Russia was extended for 25 years until 2042, to which the parties can agree five-year extension periods.


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[41] In the Ukrainian administrative system, Sevastopol Urban District is an urban district in special status, like the capital Kiev, a territorial administrative unit comparable to oblastein (oblastein).


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[42] The solutions have been aimed at guaranteeing the autonomy of the Russian-speaking population of Sevastopol and, at the same time, the partial naval base operating there from the Ukrainian central government.


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Ukraine's natural gas issue Ukraine, as a net importer of energy, depends on natural gas supplied mainly from Turkmenistan by Russia's Gazprom.


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It receives a discount on the price of gas from Russia, but price negotiations have led to disputes several times.


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Western Europe is watching the disputes closely, as much of the gas coming west from Russia passes through Ukraine.


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In particular, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia depend on the route through Ukraine.


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[43] Gazprom cut off natural gas supplies from Ukraine on January 1, 2006.


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Shortly after this, a Russian journalist accused Ukrainians of stealing gas going to Central Europe.


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[44] The world price of natural gas sold to Europe is believed to be around $360/thousand natural gas cubes at the end of 2008.


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Since January 2007, Ukraine purchased gas from Central Asia, mainly Turkmenistan at a price of 130$/1000 m³.


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After Turkmenistan raised prices, Russia and Ukraine agreed on a gas price increase since January 1, 2008, when the gas price became 179.5$/1000 m³.


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[45] [46] Natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan to Eastern Europe are handled by RosUkrEnergo, registered in Switzerland, half of which is owned by Gazprom and half by a group of Ukrainian businessmen.


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Criminal connections have also been suspected. [47].


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Another natural gas dispute arose in October 2007 when Gazprom again threatened to cut off supplies to Ukraine due to US$1.3 billion in unpaid debts.


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In January 2008, Gazprom issued a new warning, with debts soaring to 1.5 billion.


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Ukraine paid off its 2007 debt, but in March 2008 it had another 600 million payments to Russia due to supply difficulties in Central Asia.


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In 2014, during the Ukraine crisis, Russia cut off gas supplies again.


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According to its debt of $5.3 billion, Ukraine allocates debts of $3.1 billion.


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The EU tabled a conciliation motion.


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[48] Regions and major cities, different parts of Ukraine broadly Ukraine can be viewed, for example, as ten more or less culturally consistent regions.


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However, the breakdown varies from one review to another cosolt.


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For example, when dealing with natural geography, history, politics, or economics, the meaning and territorial boundaries of designations vary from source to source.


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The cultural life review often describes the capital Kiev and its surroundings, Ukrainian Polesia in the north in the vicinity of Belarus, Podolia on the border with Moldova, Galitsia and Volynia of northwestern Ukraine, the mountainous Carpathian region inhabited by many nationalities, the maritime Black Sea coast in the south, where there is the autonomous Crimean peninsula, famous for its Cossack tradition and heavily industrial in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River, Sloboda in the northeast on the border with Russia, and the heavily industrialised, linguistically Russian-majority Donets basin (Donbass) in the easternmost corner of the country.


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From the point of view of urbanization, there are clear differences between the major regions.


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For example, 86.7% of the population in the three regions of eastern Ukraine (Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkov regions) were urban dwellers, compared to only 49.6% of the population in Ukraine's westernmost eight regions (2013 population estimate).


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[42] Administrative division of Ukraine Ukraine is divided into 24 regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and two cities (): Sevastopol and Kiev.


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Kiev* (Кив; Kyjiv) Sevastopol* (Севастополь) Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Автономна Республіка Крим; Krym) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Дніпропетровська обласка обласаска обласаска обласаска обласаска обласаска Donetsk Oblast (Донецька область) Kharkov Oblast (Харківська область) Herson Oblast (Херсонська область) Hmelnytskyi Region (Хмельницька область) Kiev Oblast (Кивська область) Kirovohrad Oblast (Кіровоградська область) Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Івано-франківська Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область) Lviv Oblast (Львівська область) Mykolajiv Oblast (Миколар вська область) Odessa Oblast (Одеська Poltava Region (Полтавська область) Rivne Region (Рівненська область) Sumy Region (Сумська область) Rear Carpathy Region (Закарпатська область Ternopil Oblast (Тернопільська область) Cherkasy Oblast (Черкаська область) Chernihiv Oblast (Чернігівська область) Chernivtsin Region (Чернівецька область) Vinnytsja Region (Вінницька область) Volynia Region (Волинська область) Zaporižja Oblast (Запорізька область) Žyyū The largest cities of Ukraine, according to the 2001 census of Ukraine, had 454 cities in Ukraine.


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67.2% of the population (or 32.574 million) were urban dwellers at the time and 32.8% (15.883 million) were rural dwellers.


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Five of the cities were home to more than a million people.


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There were a total of 37 cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.


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[49] [50] The table below shows cities with more than 300,000 inhabitants according to the 2001 census.


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The location of these, as well as the location of regional centres smaller than this in terms of population, is shown in the accompanying map.


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The 2013 population estimates of cities by the Statistical Agency of Ukraine have been used in the selection of symbols for the map.


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[42] Name of Ukrainian name, CyrillicRegionSuperior 2001Kievкивkiov2,611,327KharkovaхарківKharkov Oblast1,470,902dniproдніпропетровськdnipropetrovsk Krai1,065,008Odessaодесаodessa Oblast 1,029,049,EtskдонецькDonetsk Region1,016,194ZaporizhjaзапоріжяZaporizžyA815,256Lvivльвівlviv Region732,818Kryvyi Rihкривий Рігdnipropetrovsk Krai 668,980Mykolajivмиколавmykolajiv Region514,136MariupolмаріупольDonetsk Region492,176LuhanskлуганСьКLuhansk Region463,09MA7MA6309MA6MA7MA6309MA6MA6MA7MB KijivkaмаківкаDonetsk Krai 389,589Vinnytsjaвінницяvinnytsja Region356,665SimferopolсімферопольCrimean Autonomous Republic343,644SevastopolсевастопольSevastopol342,451H'ersonхерсонherson region328,360pultavaполтаваPoltava Region317,998ChernihivчернігівChernihiv Region304,994 Cities of Ukraine with more than 50,000 inhabitants are listed in the article List of cities in Ukraine.


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[42] Economy The economic development lines of the Soviet republics, including the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, were more dependent on each other and on Russia because of the centralist economy than the countries of Western Europe among themselves.


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Ukraine was part of the Soviet grain fence, producing raw materials and electricity as well as aircraft and missiles.


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Consumables and oil were imported from Russia and other Soviet republics.


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Although Ukraine was very damaged by the German occupation of World War II, shortly after the war the country was rebuilt on its pre-war resources.


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Grain, electrical energy and heavy metal industries were the basis of Ukraine's economy until the early 1990s.


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After the independence of the Republic of Ukraine, the transition to a market economy was difficult.


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There were almost no competitive export products and trade with the Russian Federation brought political couplings.


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The transition period lasted until the early 1990s.


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Structural reforms left halfway at the time led to widespread unemployment.


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Payroll payments could be interrupted for months.


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The state let more money into the market, contributing to peak inflation.


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As in Russia, privatization of state enterprises meant the enrichment of a small minority and an explosion in income inequality.


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The dissolution of the Soviet Union caused the fact that the land of black muck Ukrainian agricultural production did not go to Russia without commercial competition.


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With the collapse of Russia's engineering and defence equipment industries, Ukraine has had to seek new markets for steel produced in eastern Ukraine in countries such as Asia.


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The country remains a major manufacturer of locomotives, railway equipment and aircraft.


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The Antonov aircraft plant operates in Ukraine.


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In space technology, the country is involved in making Zenit launchers, for example, together with Russia.


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Corruption has been a major problem.


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In the 2015 country comparison by Transparency International published in early 2016, Ukraine ranked lowest in Europe as assessed by the CPI Index of Perceived Corruption, remaining in a shared 130th place out of 168 countries compared.


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[51] From time to time, some foreign investors have ceased their business in Ukraine due to bureaucracy, corruption or other criminal activities.


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Since then, emphasis has been placed on eradicating corruption, at least in public speeches.


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Ukraine received market economy status from the European Union and the United States 2005—06.


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The decisions opened new markets for Ukrainian products in the EU and the US.


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Ukraine was admitted to the World Trade Organisation WTO in 2008.


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[52] Natural resources Economically important resources include: iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber and arable land.


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[53] Exports and imports External trade was strongly in deficit in 2012 in terms of goods exports.


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At the time, the size of exports of Ukrainian goods was 68.8 billion and imports were 84.6 billion US dollars.


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In dollar terms, the most significant partner for trade in goods was Russia, which accounted for 25.6% of exports (USD 17.6 billion) and 32.4% of imports (USD 27.4 billion).


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Other important export countries in 2012 were Turkey with 5.4%, Egypt with 4.2%, Poland with 3.7%, Italy, 3.6%, Kazakhstan with 3.6%, India with 3.3% and Belarus with 3.3% shares of Ukrainian exports.


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Among the imported countries after Russia, China with 9.3%, Germany 8.0% Belarus with 6.0%, Poland with 4.2% and the United States with 3.4% shares.


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[54] In 2012, exports to Finland were only 0.1% (48.2 million. USD) of the total value of Ukrainian exports.


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From Finland Ukraine imported a 0.6 per cent stake (485.2 million. USD) on its foreign trade imports.


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[54] Important export product groups include base metals and their processed products (27.5% of exports, especially iron and steel), crop products (13,4%, mainly flakes 10,2% and oilseed and fruit 2,5%), mineral products (11,1%, incl. mineral oils, fuels and oil refining products 5,3%; ores etc.


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4.8%), machinery and equipment (10.2%), means of transport (8.7%, mainly railway fleet 6,0% and aircraft 1,3%), chemical industry (7.4%) and animal and vegetable fats (6,1%).


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For imports, the largest product categories were mineral products (32.5%, notably natural gas 16.6% of total imports), machinery and equipment (15.5%), chemical industry products (10.1%, e.g. pharmaceuticals and pharmaceuticals 3.9%), means of transport (9.5% in particular vehicles) and base metals and their processed products (6,2%).


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[55] In contrast, exports of services far exceeded the number of services acquired by Ukraine abroad.


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Services were exported for 13.5 billion and imported for US$6.7 billion.


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Transport accounted for 63.0% of service exports, but only 25.0% of service imports.


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In transport, the largest single export subdivision was pipeline transport through Ukraine (USD 3.2 billion).


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Rail (USD 1.6 billion), air (USD 1.5 billion, incl. overflight charges) and maritime transport (USD 1.2 billion) also played a major role in the formation of a positive service balance.


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[56] Currency, GDP and average wage The new currency unit Ukrainian hryvnia (abbreviation: UAH) was introduced in September 1996, since which time it has been able to be maintained relatively stable.


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An important reform has been to simplify and clarify the tax code for private companies.


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New businesses have sprung up like mushrooms in the rain because private entrepreneurs no longer have to suffer incidental and arbitrary taxes.


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One hryvnia (pronounced hryvnia) was worth around €0.09 at the end of 2013.


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[57] In 2011, Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) was 1302 billion hryvnia (UAH), i.e. at exchange rates at the end of 2011, approximately EUR 126.4 billion.


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For every Ukranian, this averaged 28488 hryvna, or 2766 euros in that year.


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The highest regional GDP share, about €7742 per year per capita, was made in Kiev.


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Kiev accounted for 17.2% of the total country's GDP accumulation.


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The regions of Donetsk (12.4%), Dnipropetrovsk region et (10.8%) and Kharkov (5.9% share of the country's GDP accumulation) were also important.


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The lowest accumulation of regional gross domestic product (about 1285 euros per capita in 2011) was in the Chernivtsi region.


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[58] [59] According to statistics and forecasts of the United Nations Special Organization IMF, Ukraine's gross domestic product was estimated in 2012-13 to have reached the pre-recession level of 2009.


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In the IMF statistics, GDP per capita was 28555 hryvna (i.e. close to the nationally reported value), or USD 3584, and the purchasing power adjusted GDP value was approximately double that of US$7210.


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The average GDP per capita share in Ukraine is among the lowest in geographical Europe, although at least in neighbouring Moldova (3382 USD/ person) the GDP level per capita adjusted for purchasing power was less than half of Ukraine's value.


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Purchasing power adjusted gross domestic product per capita was markedly higher in countries such as Belarus (USD15056 per person) and Russia (16768 USD/person).


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[60] The average monthly salary in Ukraine was approximately 2766 hryvnias in 2013, i.e. EUR 296 at exchange rates at the end of 2013.


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The average monthly salary varied at regional level between 214 in Ternopil Region and €453 in Kiev.


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[61] [57] Due to the low standard of living and a number of weaker economic development than its neighbours, Ukraine has moved millions of previous residents out of Ukraine since the early 1990s.


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The poor economic situation of the population is not properly understood in the Western world, in the opinion of scientists.


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[62] Energy Ukraine's electricity generation in 2010 was mainly based on fossil fuels (64.1%), nuclear power (25.2%) and hydroelectric power plants (9.9%).


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[53] The share of nuclear power in electricity generation is among the highest in the world; the country ranks third in the world in relative comparison, after France and Belgium.


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[63] Ukraine's electricity generation in 2012 was estimated at 198.1 TWh.


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[53] In the same year, Finland's electricity production was 67.7 TWh, which corresponds to about one third of the total electricity generation in Ukraine.


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[64] According to the International Nuclear Energy Agency IAEA, Ukraine's four nuclear power plants produced about 78 TWh of electricity in 2013, accounting for about 43.6% of Ukraine's net electricity generation that year.


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[65] In thermal energy production, natural gas was the dominant fuel in 2011 with a production share of 83.9%.


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12.7 were produced with coal or peat, 1.5 by biofuels, 1.1 by nuclear power and 0.9 per cent of Ukraine's heating energy.


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[66] Ukraine is heavily dependent on energy imports from Russia, although it has sought to increase its own natural gas and oil production and oil refining in the 21st century.


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In 2012, the country's own production was estimated to cover a generous third of the oil and natural gas used by Ukraine.


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[53] At the time, the country was the world's 10th largest importer of natural gas after the United States, Japan, several EU countries, South Korea and Turkey.


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[67] There has also been significant discovery of petroleum and gas in the area of the Crimean peninsula and nearby marine areas.


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The first discoveries of Crimean hydrocarbon resources were made as early as 1886.


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Since then the focus has shifted to the westernmost part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and to the southwestern maritime area of the peninsula, [68] although natural gas is drilled for example north of the Kerch Peninsula, near Shcholkine.


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Although extensive geological mapping was already undertaken in the area during the Soviet years, [68] in the 2010s Ukraine has agreed with major Western oil and gas drilling companies to cooperate in the exploration and exploitation of subsea deposits on the southwestern side of the Crimean peninsula.


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With this, Ukraine has aimed at reducing its dependence on Russia for its fuel supply.


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[69] [70] [71] Efforts were made to increase annual natural gas production by just under 10% in 2014.


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[72] New cooperation agreements, for example, for the Skifska gas deposit in the northern parts of the Black Sea have also been concluded.


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The deposit is estimated to be capable of exploiting 200—250 million cubes of natural gas at an annual production of approximately 5 million cubes in due course.


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In addition, another gas field is still unexploited in the neighbouring waters of Crimea in Ukraine, with similar estimates of annual production.


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[73] [74] Ukraine's raw material resources and keeping the country dependent on Russian energy imports is one of the economic interests of Russia and the major companies it controls such as Gazprom during the 2014 Crimean crisis.


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[75] The largest untapped natural gas resources in Ukraine are related to shale gas, [76] [77] which would have been intended to be released from the soil by fracking, i.e. by breaking the porous underground rock ring by means of pressurized water and chemicals.


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According to the most optimistic estimates, by the 2020s Ukraine could be liberated by these shale gas deposits for several decades completely from its natural gas import needs.


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In January 2013, the President of Ukraine signed a US$10 billion long-term production cooperative agreement with the Shell company for the exploitation of the Yuzovska shale gas deposit in the Dneprin-Donetsk basin of northeastern Ukraine.


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The core areas of the Yuzovska deposit are located on the basis of pre-study in the Slovyansk region of the Donetsk region and the Izjum region of the Kharkov region.


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[78] [79] A similar agreement was concluded in late 2013 with the US company Chevron to exploit the Oleska shale gas deposit in western Ukraine, despite opposition from hundreds of concerned people.


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[80] [81] Russia also expressed concern about the impact of shale gas extraction in eastern Ukraine on water resources in its neighbouring regions.


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[82] Due to great opposition, Ukraine's Minister of Environment promised in January 2014 that drilling measures, at least in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of the western part of the country, would not begin at least until the summer of the same year.


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[83] Population at the independence of Ukraine in 1992, the country's population was over 52 million.


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In 2010, it had shrunk to 45 million and, according to UN projections, in 2030 Ukraine will have 39 million inhabitants.


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[84] [85] Ethnic distribution In 2001, the largest nationalities or ethnic groups in Ukraine were: Ukrainians (77.8%), Russians (17.3%), Belarusians (0.6%), Moldovans (0.5%), Crimean Tatars (0.5%), Bulgarians (0.4%), Hungarians (0.3%), Romanians (0.3%), Poles (0.3%), Jews (0.2%) and others (1.8%).


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The Autonomous Republic of Crimea in particular is ethnically diverse.


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[86] Mother tongue In 2001 census, according to the Ukrainian population, 67.5% spoke Ukrainian as their native language and 29.6% spoke Russian.


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Russian's status as the mother tongue of the population had decreased by 3.2% between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.


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Several minority languages are also spoken in Ukraine.


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In the 2001 census, someone else's language was told as their mother tongue by 2.9 percent of respondents.


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[87] The number of people speaking a minority language had risen by 0.4% between 1989 and 2001.


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[87] This is explained, for example, by the return migration of Crimean Tatars.


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[88] Minority languages have the highest number of speakers in Ruthenians (560,000, data from 2000), Romanian (319,000), Belarusian (276,000), Crimintarian (260,000, 2006 data) Bulgarian (234,000), Turkish (200,000) and Hungarian (157,000) and Polish (144,000).


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[89] In late February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament decided to withdraw the language law enacted in 2012.


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In Russian media in particular, this was seen as a major concern and a reason for the dissatisfaction of the Russian-speaking segment of the population, as a previous law had allowed more official languages to be used in areas where more than 10% of the population spoke a non-official language of the country Ukrainian.


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Under the law, thirteen of the country's 27 regions had had time to adopt the use of Russian as the second official language in their territory.


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In the west of the country, two regions had in turn adopted Romanian and Hungarian as the official language in their territory.


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[90] [91] Acting President Turchinov of Ukraine vetoed the move, however, and rebuffed the law change.


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[92] [93] Employment and UN Millennium Development Goals In 2012, the official unemployment rate in Ukraine was 2%, but much of the unemployment is thought to be hidden unemployment.


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[94] As defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the actual unemployment rate was 7.5% in 2012.


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Unemployment was lowest in Kiev (5.5%), the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Odessa Oblast (5.8%), and Sevastopol (5.7%).


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Unemployment peaked in the Rivne, Ternopil and Chernihiv regions (9.8%) and Žytomyr region (9.7%).


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[95] According to World Bank statistics, 2.9% of the population lived below the nationally defined poverty line in 2008.


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[96] The labour organisation ILO stated in its 2013 summary that 3.4% of Ukraine's working-age population, or about 1.2 million Ukrainians, had emigrated from their country after work.


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Between January 2010 and June 2012, these Ukrainians aged 15—70 lived outside their homeland for work.


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Two-thirds of those who moved for work were men and a third were women.


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The most popular working countries were Russia (43.2%), Poland (14.3%), Italy (13.2%) and the Czech Republic (12.9%).


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[97] In 2007, it was estimated that Ukraine has achieved three of the UN Millennium Development Goals: poverty, education and equality.


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It was considered likely that it would also meet targets related to infant mortality and the health of expectant mothers, with the possibility of achieving two other targets as well.


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[98] Religion In a 2006 poll, 62.5% of Ukrainians were non-denominational groups.


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Orthodox constituted 26.8 per cent, Catholics 5.9 per cent, Protestants 0.9 per cent and other faiths made up 1.0 per cent of the population.


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2.6 percent did not know their convictions and 0.3 percent did not respond to the survey.


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[99] Orthodoxy is currently divided into three competing churches.


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The division is driven by Ukrainian nationalism and a desire to also ecclesiastically detach itself from Russian influence.


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According to an opinion poll, the largest religious community in Ukraine is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — the Kiev Patriarchate.


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It is a denomination founded in 1992, led by Patriarch Filaret.


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Filaret was until 1991 the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev under the Moscow Patriarchate and the entire Ukrainian Metropolitan, but lost priestly consecration and was excluded from communion in 1997 for “schismatic activities”.


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Other Orthodox churches have not recognized the Kiev Patriarchate led by Filaret.


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Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate is subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church, or Moscow Patriarchate, a church that operates autonomously since 1990.


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The Third Orthodox Church is the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which emerged in the 1920s during the brief independence of Ukraine and survived during the Soviet period in the diaspora abroad.


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Since Ukraine gained independence, it has resumed operations on Ukrainian territory.


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[99] Debate on the unification of the Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was revived in spring 2015.


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[100] Western Ukraine also has a significant number of uniates belonging to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, who adhere to the Orthodox tradition of worship but recognise the status of the Pope and are thus part of the Catholic Church.


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Among the Protestant faith directions, the largest are the Baptists and the Pentecostal movement, both of which have hundreds of thousands of members in different congregational unions.


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Protestantism is concentrated in the western part of the country, from which extensive missionary work has also been carried out across the Soviet Union.


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The share of the Catholic Church is similarly the largest in the western part of the country, which before World War II belonged to Poland, especially in the Lviv (Lvov) region.


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There are also Jewish and Muslim minorities in the country, a significant part of the latter formed by Crimean Tatars.


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Culture Food Food is a major part of Ukrainian culture and a lot of regional specialties can be found in different corners of the country with predominantly nutrient soil.


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The most famous Ukrainian dishes are borscht (soup made from beets), varenyky (a dish similar to ravioli), golubtsi (stuffed cabbage rolls) and deruny (pancakes made from grated potatoes).


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The celebration of Christmas and Easter involves many dishes that are not prepared at any other time.


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Ukrainian dark rye bread is also well-known.


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[101] Music Many Ukrainians are nationalistic, and especially in the peripheral regions old traditions and folk music are gaining strength.


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Among the composers of art music, Dmitry Bortnyanski and Sergei Prokofiev are Ukrainian-born, though lived and composed mainly in Russia.


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Among its Ukrainian art music performers, the most famous are violinists David and Igor Oistrah and pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter.


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[102] In the Eurovision Song Contest Ukraine has done quite well.


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Ruslana Lyzhychko won the Eurovision in 2004 in Istanbul, Turkey with her song Wild Dances.


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So Ukraine organised the 2005 Eurovision.


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At the 2007 Eurovisa, Vjerka Serdjutška finished second with the song Dancing Lasha Tumbai.


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In 2008, Ani Lorak also came second with the song Shady Lady.


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[103] At the 2016 Eurovisas held in Stockholm, Ukraine won with a 1944 song performed by Jamala.


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[104] Literature The most famous Ukrainian writers are the poet Taras Shevchenko, who lived in the 19th century, and Ivan Franko, a novelist who died in 1916.


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Ivan Franko was a prominent writer and politician who founded the Ukrainian Socialist Movement.


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In addition to his own literary production, he translated works by Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare and Goethe into the Ukrainian language, among others.


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Taras Shevchenko is considered the father of modern Ukrainian literature.


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He also wrote in Russian and, in addition to literary production, was also an accomplished painter.


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He was sentenced to deportation in 1847 due to his satirical poems describing the repression of Russians against Ukrainians.


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[105] Sports Although the necessary sports infrastructure is not at the level of many European countries, Ukraine has performed well in top international sports, especially athletics, gymnastics, sailing, boxing, wrestling, swimming, judo and chess.


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Among the country's most famous athletes are boxers Vitali and Volodymyr Klychko, Vasyl Lomachenko, as well as pole jumper Serhi Bubka.


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The most successful athlete at the Olympics is four gold medals achieved by swimmer Jana Klochkova.


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Since 1994, Ukraine has had a team at both the Summer and Winter Olympics, with the country winning a total of 29 gold medals.


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[106] The most popular sport in Ukraine is football, where the sports clubs Kiev Dynamo, Donetsk Shah'tar and Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro have achieved international success.


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The country's football team survived a difficult qualifying block (e.g.


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Turkey, Greece and Denmark) as number one to continue on to the 2006 World Cup competitions, where ranked in the top eight.


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In the FIFA Rankig it was ranked 49th in April 2012.


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[107] Kiev Sokol is the most famous ice hockey team in the country.


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The Ukrainian ice hockey national team has played in the A series of the World Ice Hockey Championships in the 2000s.


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The International Ice Hockey Federation calculates there are 4400 registered players in the country.


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The men's national team is ranked 20th in the IIHF rankings in 2013.


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[108] Holidays Date [109] Finnish nameLocal nameNotes1.


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JanuaryNew yearНовий рік7.


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JanuaryChristmasріздвоThe date of Christmas is due to the Julian calendar of the Orthodox8.


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MarchInternational Women's DayМіжнародний день жінки1.


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May The Victory Daythe Capitulation of National Socialist Germany 1945 to the Soviet28.


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JuneConstitution Day24.


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AugustIndependence Dayдень незалежності УкраниThe independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union 1991 From the Christian holidays, the date of Orthodox Christmas is fixed, but the date of Easter varies.


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Question: When did Ronnie O'Sullivan start his professional career?

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Ronald Antonio “Ronnie” O'Sullivan, OBE, nicknamed “The Rocket”, (born 5 December 1975 in Wordsley, England, United Kingdom) is an English professional snooker.


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O'Sullivan has won the world title five times, in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2013.


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More championships have only Stephen Hendry (7) and Steve Davis (6).


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He has won over 30 ranking tournaments and is considered the most talented player in the world [1].


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Known for his fast style of play, O'Sullivan, together with Stephen Hendry, has set the vast majority of sport records and they are also the two players who have clearly scored the highest number of strokes above 100 points at the professional tournament level [2] [3].


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O'Sullivan has scored fifteen maximum breaks of 147 points in his career to date. [4].


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O'Sullivan is right-handed but is also capable of playing with his left hand and often does so in situations where a rest would otherwise be required.


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He also performs the starting strokes of batches with his left hand.


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He has also recounted sometimes succeeding in training to do maximum breik hitting with his left hand alone.


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Career 1990s: youngest ever tournament winner and player to complete 147, O'Sullivan began his pro career at the age of 16, in 1992.


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The following year he broke the record when he won the truly prestigious UK Championship tournament at the early age of 17, thus the youngest ever winner of a ranking competition.


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In the 1997 world championship tournament, O'Sullivan scored his first maximum break in a match against Mick Price in a staggering time of 5 minutes and 20 seconds, the fastest such series of strokes so far.


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Despite dominating the legendary Stephen Hendry in the 1990s, O'Sullivan won as many as four tournaments in his first four professional seasons: the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship in 1993, the British Open 1994, the Asian Classic and the German Open in 1996.


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In addition to this, he won several professional invitational tournaments, including the most prestigious Benson & Hedges Masters.


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The real streak of tournament wins for O'Sullivan began shortly before the start of the 2000s.


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For the 1994—95 season, The Rocket rose from position 57 straight into the elite top 10 to rank 9 in the ranking list.


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Subsequently, O'Sullivan has always been in the top 10 right up until the 2010—11 season, at the end of which he dropped to position 11.


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In the latter half of the 1990s Ronnie O'Sullivan won tournaments at Liverpool Victoria UK Championship 1997, Scottish Open 1998 as well as China Open 1999.


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1997 also saw The Rocket win a Premier League invitational tournament for the first time, which is not part of the main tour tournaments however.


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WBPSA Player of the Year 1994 [5] 2000s: Multiple World Champion and Record Breaker In the 1999—2000 season, O'Sullivan achieved three final berths and two tournament wins in (all) tournaments he played.


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In the semifinals, O'Sullivan performed as many as three times in addition to this.


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At the Grand Prix tournament, O'Sullivan already scored the third of his career, and at the Regal Scottish Open the fourth, maximum breik.


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The World Cup ended in the semifinals for O'Sullivan, which Stephen Hendry defeated erin 17—14.


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In the 2000—01 season, O'Sullivan achieved a total of seven final places in professional tournaments.


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Of these, he won six, and the most important of these was the 2001 World Championship.


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In addition to the seven finals, The Rocket performed in one semi-final.


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In the final, O'Sullivan played against John Higgins, who was already familiar from his junior years, who started out as a professional at the same time, and nowadays three-time world champion John Higgins, and the match ended with a reading of 18—14.


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WBPSA Player of the Year 2001 In the 2001—02 season, his best achievements included three finals places, two tournament wins, as well as three semifinal places.


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His biggest tournament win came in the UK Championship, which he won for the third time in his career, being also one of the few players to have won both the world title and this second most prestigious ranking tournament in the same year.


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In the final, Ronnie knocked down Irishman Ken Doherty with a smash reading 10—1.


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Earlier this season O'Sullivan had already made the fifth maximum break of his career in the LG Cup (Grand Prix).


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At the conclusion of the season, O'Sullivan became the number one player in the world for the first time on the official ranking list.


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The World Cup ended in the semifinals for O'Sullivan, where for the second time Stephen Hendry had better erin 17—13.


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In the 2002—03 season, O'Sullivan again reached three finals places where he did not experience a single defeat.


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In addition to this, he made one appearance in the semifinals.


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Although the season went well, O'Sullivan dropped to third in the ranking list, losing his number one player status.


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In the world championship tournament, O'Sullivan already made a maximum breik for a repeat, despite losing his first-round match to Hong Kong-based Marco Fu, who has on many occasions proved a tough match for O'Sullivan.


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In the 2003—04 season, his best achievements were one semi-final place and four finals places, and of the finals O'Sullivan won three.


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O'Sullivan won the world title for the second time this season, and re-emerged as the world's number one player on the ranking list.


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Of the other tournament wins, the second came for the first time at the Welsh Open, the final of which fell to legend Steve Davis narrowly erin 9—8.


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He remained the number one player for the next two seasons.


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During the season, O'Sullivan partnered with his mentor, and six-time world champion, Ray Reardon.


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WBPSA Player of the Year 2004 In the 2004—05 season, O'Sullivan achieved five finals places and one semifinal spot, not losing in a single final match.


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Victories came in the Rileys Club Masters, Irish Masters, two times Premier League as well as Grand Prix tournaments.


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O'Sullivan missed the China Open tournament, citing health reasons.


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WBPSA Player of the Year 2005 In 2004, O'Sullivan announced his intention to have a gap year [6].


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However, in September 2005, he announced that he would play only part of the competitions of the 2005—06 season, and would play for the United States on the 8-ball International Pool Tour [7] [8].


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The achievements of the 2005—06 season included yet another semi-final place and three finals places, but only one win, which came for the third consecutive time in a Premier League tournament not part of the main tour tournaments.


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In the 2006—07 season, O'Sullivan made one more appearance in the semi-final and four times in the final, of which he won two.


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No ranking tournament wins were achieved by O'Sullivan, but a fourth consecutive Premier League win and the prestigious Saga Insurance Masters win nonetheless brought fame and glory.


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In the final of the 2007 Masters tournament, Ronnie really convincingly toppled the Erin of Chinese youngster Ding Junhui, who had appeared earlier in the tournament, 10—3.


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Earlier this season, Ding had beaten O'Sullivan in the final of the Northern Ireland Trophy tournament.


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At the world championship tournament, O'Sullivan advanced to the quarterfinals, defeating first again Ding and then young Australian Neil Robertson, who had won two ranking tournaments this season.


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In the quarterfinal match, however, John Higgins dropped O'Sullivan from the follow-up Erin 13—9.


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Old racing partner Higgins continued all the way to the final and the second world title of his career, thus reaching the same time with O'Sullivan, who started as a professional in the same year, and Mark Williams, a Welshman.


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In the 2007—08 season, O'Sullivan played really convincingly.


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In the six ranking tournaments of the season, he was four times in the finals and won the two most important of them.


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In the final of the Royal London Grand Prix tournament he lost to Marco Fu erin 9—6, in the final of the UK Championship he defeated Scottish Stephen Maguire convincingly erin 10—2 and in the final of the Welsh Open a young, hard-climbing, Mark Selby narrowly beat erin 9—8, although O'Sullivan led final match erin 8—5.


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In addition, in the Northern Ireland Trophy tournament Ronnie reached the semi-finals and during the autumn he also won the invitational Premier League again, where he defeated John Higgins Erin 7—4.


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At the end of the season, O'Sullivan lifted snooker's most coveted prize, the world championship trophy, for the third time in his career, having beaten compatriot Ali Carter in the final with a clearest reading of 18—8.


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Both players had previously completed the maximum breik in the tournament and, for the first time in the sport's history, the additional prize was shared between two players.


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The final was the first of Carter's career.


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For his best game, O'Sullivan played in the semi-final against Stephen Hendry, in which, in Hendry's words, he played completely flawless snooker [9].


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O'Sullivan made three maximum breaks during this season, the last of which was the ninth and record-breaking of Ronnie's career.


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For the 2008—09 season, he captured the number one player spot in the world for the third time in his career with a difference of over 5000 points over second-ranked Stephen Maguire, who also played a wonderful season [10].


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In the post-final interview, O'Sullivan hoped to reach the world title several more times [11].


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The 2008—09 season O'Sullivan started convincingly, winning the starting tournament Northern Ireland Trophy.


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In the final fell to old conkari Dave Harold, who had been in the final of a ranking tournament last time in 1994, Erin 9—3.


Question: When did Ronnie O'Sullivan start his professional career?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

The win was the 21st and second in a row of O'Sullivan's career, and in his interview he stated after the game his goal of 30 wins and overtaking champion Steve Davis (28) [12].


Question: When did Ronnie O'Sullivan start his professional career?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

At the London Royal Watches Grand Prix tournament played in Glasgow, O'Sullivan did not advance quite as far as the final, as he was dropped by young Judd Trump in a tight quarter-final match by erin 4—5, advancing to the semi-finals in a professional tournament for the first time.


Question: When did Ronnie O'Sullivan start his professional career?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

The defence of their Maplin UK Championship win ended as early as the second round, where Joe Perry emerged the winner from a 3—5 losing position to a 9—5 win.


Question: When did Ronnie O'Sullivan start his professional career?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

2009's The Rocket started off spectacularly by winning the Saga Insurance Masters tournament for the fourth time.