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Ukraine Government 1996
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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Administrative divisions:
24 oblasti (singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtomnaya
respublika), and 2 municipalites (mista, singular - misto) with oblast
status**; Cherkas'ka (Cherkasy), Chernihivs'ka (Chernihiv), Chernivets'ka
(Chernivtsi), Dnipropetrovs'ka (Dnipropetrovs'k), Donets'ka (Donets'k),
Ivano-Frankivs'ka (Ivano-Frankivs'k), Kharkivs'ka (Kharkiv), Khersons'ka
(Kherson), Khmel'nyts'ka (Khmel'nyts'kyy), Kirovohrads'ka (Kirovohrad),
Kyyiv**, Kyyivs'ka (Kiev), Luhans'ka (Luhans'k), L'vivs'ka (L'viv),
Mykolayivs'ka (Mykolayiv), Odes'ka (Odesa), Poltavs'ka (Poltava), Respublika
Krym* (Simferopol'), Rivnens'ka (Rivne), Sevastopol'**, Sums'ka
(Sevastopol'), Ternopil's'ka (Ternopil'), Vinnyts'ka (Vinnytsya), Volyns'ka
(Luts'k), Zakarpats'ka (Uzhhorod), Zaporiz'ka (Zaporizhzhya), Zhytomyrs'ka
(Zhytomyr)
names in parentheses are administrative centers when name differs from
oblast' name
1 December 1991 (from Soviet Union)
Independence Day, 24 August (1991)
using 1978 pre-independence constitution; new constitution currently being
drafted
based on civil law system; no judicial review of legislative acts
18 years of age; universal
President Leonid D. KUCHMA (since 19 July 1994); election last held 26 June
and 10 July 1994 (next to be held NA 1999); results - Leonid KUCHMA 52.15%,
Leonid KRAVCHUK 45.06%
Acting Prime Minister Yeuben MARCHUK (since 3 March 1995); First Deputy
Prime Ministers Yevhen MARCHUK and Viktor PYNZENYK (since 31 October 1994)
and six deputy prime ministers
Council of Ministers; appointed by the president and approved by the Supreme
Council
National Security Council:
originally created in 1992, but signficantly revamped and strengthened under
President KUCHMA; members include the president, prime minister, Ministers
of Finance, Environment, Justice, Internal Affairs, Foreign Economic
Relations, Economic and Foreign Affairs; the NSC staff is tasked with
developing national security policy on domestic and international matters
and advising the president
Presidential Administration:
helps draft presidential edicts and provides policy support to the president
advisory body created by President KUCHMA in September 1994; includes the
Chairmen of Oblast and Kiev and Sevastopol City Supreme Councils
elections last held 27 March 1994 with repeat elections continuing through
December 1998 to fill empty seats (next to be held NA); results - percent of
vote by party NA; seats - (450 total) Communists 91, Rukh 22, Agrarians 18,
Socialists 15, Republicans 11, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists 5, Labor
5, Party of Democratic Revival 4, Democrats 2, Social Democrats 2, Civil
Congress 2, Conservative Republicans 1, Party of Economic Revival of Crimea
1, Christian Democrats 1, independents 225; note - 405 deputies have been
elected; run-off elections for the remaining 45 seats to be held by December
1998
joint commission formed in April 1995 to define a program of judicial reform
by year-end
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Political parties and leaders:
Green Party of Ukraine, Vitaliy KONONOV, leader; Liberal Party of Ukraine;
Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine, Volodymyr KLYMCHUK, chairman;
Democratic Party of Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych YAVORIVSKIY, chairman;
People's Party of Ukraine, Leopol'd TABURYANSKYY, chairman; Peasants' Party
of Ukraine, Serhiy DOVHRAN', chairman; Party of Democratic Rebirth (Revival)
of Ukraine, Volodymyr FILENKO, chairman; Social Democratic Party of Ukraine,
Yuriy VUZDUHAN, chairman; Socialist Party of Ukraine, Oleksandr MOROZ,
chairman; Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party, Vitaliy ZHURAVSKYY,
chairman; Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party, Stepan KHMARA, chairman;
Ukrainian Labor Party, Valentyn LANDYK, chairman; Ukrainian Party of
Justice, Mykhaylo HRECHKO, chairman; Ukrainian Peasants' Democratic Party,
Serhiy PLACHINDA, chairman; Ukrainian Republican Party, Mykhaylo HORYN',
chairman; Ukrainian National Conservative Party, Viktor RADIONOV, chairman;
Ukrainian People's Movement for Restructuring (Rukh), Vyacheslav CHORNOVIL,
chairman; Ukrainian Communist Party, Petr SYMONENKO; Agrarian Party;
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, S. STESTKO; Civil Congress, O. BAZYLUK;
Party of Economic Revival of Crimea; Democratic Party Of Ukraine, Serhiy
DOVMAN', chairman
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Other political or pressure groups:
New Ukraine (Nova Ukrayina); Congress of National Democratic Forces
BSEC, CCC, CE (guest), CEI (associate members), CIS, EBRD, ECE, IAEA, IBRD,
ICAO, ICRM, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT (nonsignatory user),
INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, NACC, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNIDO, UNPROFOR, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO
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Diplomatic representation in US:
Ambassador Yuriy SHCHERBAK
3350 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
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US diplomatic representation:
Ambassador William Green MILLER
10 Yuria Kotsyubinskovo, 252053 Kiev 53
use embassy street address
[7] (044) 244-73-49, 244-37-45
two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow represent
grainfields under a blue sky
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