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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]
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]
The protesters wanted to prevent the signing of the New Union Treaty, a new multi-party parliamentary election held before or in the spring of 1991, military service for Ukrainian (in the Soviet Armed Forces) to be fulfilled only in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the property of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Komsomol nationalised ...
Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is sharing heartbreaking photos of the war’s youngest victims. First lady of Ukraine shares heartbreaking photos of children ...
"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 ...
Malaya was born in the village of Nova Blahovishchenka in Hornostaivka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of the Ukrainian SSR.According to doctors and medical records, she was a normal child at birth, [3] but was later neglected by her alcoholic father at age three, and she lived surrounded by dogs.
The Russian soldier taunted her: Your friend, he sneered, is lying on the floor, raped and naked and dead. S., a Ukrainian writer and government worker in her early 60s, froze at his words.
More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia began its invasion, according to the United Nations. And for many refugees, that has meant leaving family members behind.