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December 8 – In the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine sign an agreement officially ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place. [4] [5] December 12 – Ukraine becomes the first post-Soviet republic to decriminalize homosexuality. [6]
"Law of Ukraine N 1660-XII on organization of referendum" (in Ukrainian). 11 October 1991. "Law of Ukraine N 1661-XII on text for referendum" (in Ukrainian). 11 October 1991. "The funeral of the empire", Leonid Kravchuk, Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), 23 August – 1 September 2001. Available online in Russian [permanent dead link ] and in ...
The resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on adopting the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, 1991. 1991 brought further victories for Rukh and the protest movement. On 17 March 1991 Ukraine's declaration of state sovereignty was confirmed in a referendum, with 81.69% voting in favour. [25]
A sovereignty referendum was held in the Ukrainian SSR on 17 March 1991 as part of a USSR-wide referendum.Voters were asked two questions on reforming the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states.
Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence, both on 2 December 1991. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] On the same day (2 December) it was reported during the late-evening airing of the television news program Vesti that the President of the Russian SFSR , Boris Yeltsin, had recognized Ukraine's independence.
In Ukraine, the events are called "Volhynia tragedy". [230] [4] Coverage in textbooks may be brief and/or euphemistic. [231] Some Ukrainian historians accept the genocide classification, but argue that it was a "bilateral genocide" and that the Home Army was responsible for crimes against Ukrainian civilians that were equivalent in nature. [229]
The ballot used in the referendum. The Crimean ASSR was originally created in 1921, as part of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union. [5] Crimea was invaded by Nazi Germany during World War II, and when the region was reclaimed by the USSR in 1944, the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups were deported to Central Asia, [6] [7] and the ASSR was dissolved in 1945 with Crimea becoming an oblast ...
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991, [1] the first direct presidential elections in the country's history. Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and de facto acting president, ran as an independent candidate and was elected for a five-year term with 62% of the vote.