Ukrainian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with the correct year: MH17 was Malaysia Airlines' second aircraft loss during ______, after the disappearance of Flight 370 four months prior oā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with the correct year: The Boeing 777, which entered commercial service on 7 June ______, has one of the best safety records among commercial aiā€¦
  3. Complete the sentence about Russian invasion of Ukraine with the correct year: In late ______, Ukraine launched successful counteroffensives in the south and east, liberating most of Kharkiv Oblast.
  4. Complete the sentence about Siege of Mariupol with the correct year: The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February ______, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lasted until 20 May.
  5. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Armed Forces with the correct year: When the Soviet Union collapsed in ______, the newly independent state of Ukraine inherited one of the most powerful force groā€¦
  6. Complete the sentence about Verkhovna Rada with the correct year: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets had already been renamed the Supreme Council in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Verkhovna Rada with the correct year: The first elections to the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR took place on 26 June ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Verkhovna Rada with the correct year: The first session of the parliament took place in Kyiv from 25 July to 28 July ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about President of Ukraine with the correct year: Since the office's establishment on 5 December ______, there have been six presidents of Ukraine.
  10. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Ukraine with the correct year: The highest parliamentary approval to date was received by Yulia Tymoshenko who was appointed the prime minister on Februarā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ukraine with the correct year: Since ______, the public holiday Constitution Day is celebrated on 28 June.
  12. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ukraine with the correct year: As per the prevailing ______ constitution, the Constitution could only be changed by the Verkhovna Rada with a supermajority.
  13. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Ukraine with the correct year: On 14 November ______ the Court outlawed the institution of propiska.
  14. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: But in November ______ the functions of the Court were broadened and the number of judges became 48.
  15. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: The first Supreme Court of Ukraine was established on December 15, ______ as the General Court of the Ukrainian People's Repā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: Soon after, on January 17, ______ the Communist government of Ukraine People's Secretariat declared the creation of the Peopā€¦
  17. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: The first judges to the court were elected on January 15, ______ among whom were M.
  18. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: On July 8, ______, the Hetman of Ukraine completely changed the upper echelon of judicial jurisdiction in the country.
  19. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ukraine with the correct year: The court in Soviet Ukraine was established on March 11, ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Ukraine and the European Union with the correct year: Ukraine's desire to join the European Union dates back to ______ when the government declared that integration to theā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Ukraineā€“European Union Association Agreement with the correct year: The agreement entered into force on 1 September ______; previously parts had been provisionally applied.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ukraineā€“European Union Association Agreement with the correct year: Provisions formally came into force on 1 September ______ following ratification of the Agreement by allā€¦
  23. Complete the sentence about Ukraineā€“European Union Association Agreement with the correct year: Afterwards, Western Ukraine was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then passed to the Second Polishā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about Ukraineā€“European Union Association Agreement with the correct year: The European Coal and Steel Community was constituted in ______, consisting of six Western European counā€¦
  25. Complete the sentence about Ukraine and NATO with the correct year: The NATO-Ukraine Commission was founded in ______, tasked with developing the NATO-Ukraine relationship.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian hryvnia with the correct year: On 22 December ______, the Central Rada established Ukraine's state bank.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian hryvnia with the correct year: On 5 January ______, the first official 100 karbovanets banknote was issued, signed by Mykhailo Kryvetskyi, the first director of tā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian hryvnia with the correct year: On 1 March ______, the Central Council introduced a new currency, the hryvnia, consisting of 100 shahs and equaled to 1/2 of the prā€¦
  29. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian hryvnia with the correct year: In April ______, Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky reintroduced the karbovanets as the main currency of Ukraine.
  30. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Ukraine with the correct year: The Ukrainian branch of the Soviet Gosbank took on central banking functions in Ukraine in early ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Administrative divisions of Ukraine with the correct year: On 21 March ______, the Russian Duma voted to annex Crimea as a subject into the Russian Federation.
  32. Complete the sentence about Administrative divisions of Ukraine with the correct year: In ______, when the Hetmanate controlled both the right and left banks, it included 16 such districts.
  33. Complete the sentence about Security Service of Ukraine with the correct year: On January 14, ______, the Ukrainian People's Republic founded its Security Services.
  34. Complete the sentence about Security Service of Ukraine with the correct year: In May ______ the Department of the State Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian State started to forā€¦
  35. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Navy with the correct year: In ______, the Cossack forces were able to raid and destroy Trabzon.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Navy with the correct year: In ______, the Cossacks were able to mount a raid on Istanbul itself, destroying several suburbs of the city.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Navy with the correct year: In ______, a Cossack fleet was able to reach the Bosphorus, once again raiding the surrounding countryside.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Navy with the correct year: A Turkish fleet sent to destroy the Cossack forces was defeated in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Navy with the correct year: The Cossacks once again managed to mount an attack on Istanbul in ______, forcing the Sultan to temporarily flee the capital.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Air Force with the correct year: When the Soviet Union dissolved in ______, many aircraft were left in Ukrainian territory.
  41. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Air Force with the correct year: After Ukrainian independence in ______, the air force suffered from chronic under-investment, leading to the bulk of its inventorā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about Economy of Ukraine with the correct year: On 24 August ______, Ukraine established its independence from the Soviet Union.
  43. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Ukraine with the correct year: The EU Common Strategy toward Ukraine, issued at the EU Summit in December ______ in Helsinki, recognizes Ukraine's longā€¦
  44. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Ukraine with the correct year: Plans for Ukrainian membership to NATO were shelved by Ukraine following the ______ Ukrainian presidential election in wā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Ukraine with the correct year: On 23 December ______ the Verkhovna Rada abolished, with 303 votes, Ukraine's non-aligned status.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ukraineā€“United States relations with the correct year: Bilateral relations between Ukraine and the United States have existed since January 3, ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ivan Sirko with the correct year: The first biography of Ivan Sirko, written by Dmytro Yavornytsky in ______, gave Sirko's place of birth as the sloboda of Merefa near theā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Ivan Sirko with the correct year: Mytsyik points out that a local Podilian nobleman, Wojciech Sirko, married a certain Olena Kozynska sometime in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Ivan Sirko with the correct year: In ______, Sirko held the rank of Sotnik, taking part in his first recorded campaign against the Ottomans.
  50. Complete the sentence about Ivan Sirko with the correct year: In ______, Sirko took part in a raid on Istanbul organized by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the future Ukrainian Cossack Hetman.
  51. Complete the sentence about Petro Sahaidachny with the correct year: In ______ Sahaidachny was canonized by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a Right-Believing hetman.
  52. Complete the sentence about Ostrogski family with the correct year: The family played a crucial role in preserving the Eastern Orthodoxy, particularly during the Union of Brest signing in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Ivan Franko with the correct year: For certain the Franko family was already living in Galicia when the country was incorporated into Austria in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ivan Franko with the correct year: For example, Franko's uncle Ivan Kulczycki took part in the Polish uprising of ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ivan Franko with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the Drohobych Realschule, and continued on to Lviv University, where he studied classical philosophy, Ukrainā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Ivan Franko with the correct year: Franko's own socialist writings and his association with Drahomanov led to his arrest in ______, along with Mykhailo Pavlyk and Ostap Terā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Mykola Lysenko with the correct year: In ______, Lysenko attended the Gymnasium of Kharkiv, and studied natural sciences at the city's university, and later at the Kyiv Uniā€¦
  58. Complete the sentence about Mykola Lysenko with the correct year: At the latter he continued his music studies with Dmitriyev, Wilczyk and Wolner, and graduated in ______ with a degree in the naturalā€¦
  59. Complete the sentence about Mykola Lysenko with the correct year: In ______ Lysenko returned to Kyiv, and in the words of music historian Richard Taruskin, "he returned home a committed musical nationā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Vyacheslav Chornovil with the correct year: Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil was born on 24 December ______ in the village of Yerky, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Sā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Symon Petliura with the correct year: After the ______ February Revolution overthrew the Tsarist monarchy, the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed and Petliura was eā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Symon Petliura with the correct year: In ______, Petliura was assassinated in Paris by Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard, who had lost relatives in the pogroms.
  63. Complete the sentence about Symon Petliura with the correct year: When his membership in Hromada was discovered in ______, he was expelled from the seminary.
  64. Complete the sentence about Symon Petliura with the correct year: Released on bail in March ______, he moved briefly to Kyiv and then to Lemberg.
  65. Complete the sentence about Symon Petliura with the correct year: At the end of ______, after a nationwide amnesty was declared by the authorities, Petliura returned briefly to Kyiv.
  66. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with the correct year: In ______, the church was recognized as Ukrainian through the efforts of Yosyf Slipyi.
  67. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with the correct year: The papal statistical yearbook Annuario Pontificio began referring to the church as Ukrainian from ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Trypillia culture with the correct year: The culture was first named and described in ______ by Teodor T.
  69. Complete the sentence about Trypillia culture with the correct year: In the spring of ______, Burada and other scholars from Iași, including the poet Nicolae Beldiceanu and archeologists Grigore Buturā€¦
  70. Complete the sentence about Cherkasy Oblast with the correct year: According to the ______ Ukrainian census, ethnic Ukrainians accounted for 93.1% of the population of Cherkasy Oblast, and ethnic Russā€¦
  71. Complete the sentence about Ems Ukaz with the correct year: The ______ January Uprising in Poland raised tensions around the issue of ethnic separatism in general even further.
  72. Complete the sentence about Valuev Circular with the correct year: Further restrictions were placed on Ukrainian by the Ems Ukaz in ______, which completely prohibited the usage of the language in opeā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Chyhyryn with the correct year: After a forced relocation of the Ruthenian Orthodox metropolitan see from Kyiv in ______, it became a full-fledged capital of the Cossack Heā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Chyhyryn with the correct year: In ______, a subsequent royal privilege granted the town Magdeburg rights as well as a coat of arms featuring three arrows.
  75. Complete the sentence about Baturyn with the correct year: With royal permission, the town and fortress of Baturyn were founded by Matwiej Stachurski in ______, who was in Piaseczyński's service.
  76. Complete the sentence about Baturyn with the correct year: The fortress was captured and burned by Russian troops during the Smolensk War in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Cuman people with the correct year: After the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' in ______, many Cumans sought asylum in the Kingdom of Hungary, as many of them had already setā€¦
  78. Complete the sentence about Cuman people with the correct year: Mahmud al-Kashgari, writing in ______, says that in the east Cuman territory bordered a town near Talas.
  79. Complete the sentence about Galiciaā€“Volhynia Wars with the correct year: After Yuri II Boleslav was poisoned by local Ruthenian nobles in ______, both the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Pā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Galiciaā€“Volhynia Wars with the correct year: In June ______, Casimir returned with a larger army, conquered Lviv and burned down the Lviv High Castle.
  81. Complete the sentence about Galiciaā€“Volhynia Wars with the correct year: Eufemija, Yuri Boleslav's widow, was drowned in the Vistula in winter ______ to keep her out of the succession disputes.
  82. Complete the sentence about Galiciaā€“Volhynia Wars with the correct year: Detko, who managed to play Poles, Lithuanians, and Mongols against each other, disappeared from written sources in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Galiciaā€“Volhynia Wars with the correct year: In spring ______, Lubartas was taken prisoner by Louis, but was released in summer after a truce was agreed upon with Kęstutis.
  84. Complete the sentence about Battle of Berestechko with the correct year: Listed below is the manpower of each regiment according to the ______ Treaty of Zboriv.
  85. Complete the sentence about Battle of Konotop with the correct year: During his reign, Bohdan Khmelnytsky managed to wrestle Ukraine out of Polish domination, but was later forced to enter into a newā€¦
  86. Complete the sentence about Battle of Konotop with the correct year: As a result, Vyhovsky entered into negotiations with the Poles, and concluded the Treaty of Hadiach on 16 September ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Battle of Konotop with the correct year: According to a historian Markevych, on 21 April ______, after a morning prayer, Trubetskoy ordered an all-out assault on the fortreā€¦
  88. Complete the sentence about Orange Revolution with the correct year: Yushchenko was declared the official winner, and with his inauguration on 23 January ______ in Kyiv, the Orange Revolution ended.
  89. Complete the sentence about Orange Revolution with the correct year: The state of Ukraine during the ______ presidential election was considered to be in "ideal condition" for an outburst from the pubā€¦
  90. Complete the sentence about Ukraine without Kuchma with the correct year: Yushchenko's campaign in the ______ presidential election was significantly influenced by the slogans, tactics and general spiā€¦
  91. Complete the sentence about Cassette Scandal with the correct year: The Cassette Scandal led to the dissolution of the post-______ governing coalition between the oligarchs and national democrats.
  92. Complete the sentence about Cassette Scandal with the correct year: Leonid Kuchma was re-elected as president of Ukraine in the ______ presidential election.
  93. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Helsinki Group with the correct year: In ______, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group's foreign affiliate began operating with the participation of Petro Hryhorenko, Nadiā€¦
  94. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Helsinki Group with the correct year: At the end of ______, six members of the group were forced to emigrate, while other Ukrainian dissidents were not allowed toā€¦
  95. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Helsinki Group with the correct year: Hanna Mykhailenko, who was a sympathizer of the Group, was detained in a psychiatric hospital in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Helsinki Group with the correct year: In ______, the 'Initiative Group for the Defense of Believers and the Church' was established, which considered itself a parā€¦
  97. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2019 with the correct year: On 21 November ______, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Fatherland and the Radical Paā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Zelenskyy was sworn in as the sixth President of Ukraine in May ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 2014 with the correct year: Snap presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 25 May ______ and resulted in Petro Poroshenko being electeā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 2014 with the correct year: On 7 December ______ Batkivshchyna nominated Yulia Tymoshenko as its presidential candidate.

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