Ukrainian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 2014 with the correct year: On 14 June ______, the congress of her party approved the decision to nominate her as its candidate for the pre…
  2. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 1991 with the correct year: Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 1991 with the correct year: Independence was the main issue during the election, and all candidates supported Ukraine's independence from t…
  4. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian presidential election, 1991 with the correct year: Shcherbytsky retired from office in autumn ______ and was replaced by Vladimir Ivashko, who left office six mon…
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Cossack Hetmanate? The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin also talks about "Ukraine" rather than "Cossack Hetmanate" in his poem ______ describing events around t…
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Ivan Mazepa? After the Swedes were defeated at the Battle of ______ in 1709, Mazepa went into exile in Moldavia and died there later that year.
  7. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Poltava? The Battle of ______ fought on 8 July 1709, was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Leonid Kuchma? Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was born in the village of Chaikyne in rural ______ Oblast on 9 August 1938 to Danylo Prokopovych and Paraskoviia Trok…
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Russian invasion of Ukraine? In late 2022, Ukraine launched successful counteroffensives in the south and east, liberating most of ______ Oblast.
  10. Which place completes this sentence about Siege of Mariupol? The siege of ______ began on 24 February 2022, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lasted until 20 May.
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Siege of Mariupol? Based on the analysis of mass graves, Human Rights Watch estimated at least 10,284 people died in ______ from March 2022 to February 2023…
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Siege of Mariupol? In 2014 after the Revolution of Dignity, ______ was swept by pro-Russian protests against the new government.
  13. Which place completes this sentence about Lesya Ukrainka? After completing high school in ______ Gymnasium, Ukrainka's father Kosach studied mathematics at the University of Petersburg.
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Ivan Sirko? The first biography of Ivan Sirko, written by Dmytro Yavornytsky in 1890, gave Sirko's place of birth as the sloboda of Merefa near the modern-day…
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Cherkasy Oblast? According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, ethnic Ukrainians accounted for 93.1% of the population of ______ Oblast, and ethnic Russians for 5.4…
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Cherkasy Oblast? Ukrainian is the only official language on the whole territory of ______ Oblast.
  17. Which place completes the sentence? The only one with the population over 100 thousand is ______.
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Cherkasy Oblast? The industry is mainly concentrated in ______, the oblast's capital and the largest city.

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