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Ukraine: from the Past to the Future.
Position, History, Culture, Industry.
Bogdan Tokovenko. January 16, 2015.
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• "By a recorded vote of 100 in favour to 11 against, with 58 abstentions, the Assembly adopted a resolution titled “Territorial integrity of Ukraine”, calling on States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any change in the status of Crimea or the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, and to refrain from actions or dealings that might be interpreted as such."
• Source: 27.03.2014 UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution 68/262 Calling upon States Not to Recognize Changes in Status of Crimea Region
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Ukraine’s location in Europe
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Ukraine is diverse and beautiful
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Ukrainian language
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Ukrainian language is euphonic.
Вороги:
die Feinde,
enemies.
Воріженьки:
“die Feindchen”,
“tiny / lilliputian / pet enemies”.
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Taras Shevchenko
• 1814 – 1861
• Major contributor to Ukrainian literature
• Poet, writer, painter, illustrator
• Folklorist and ethnographer.
Taras Shevchenko. Self-portrait.
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Andriy Shevchenko
• Ukrainian national football team
• Dynamo Kyiv
• Milan
• Chelsea
• 2004: Ballon D’or (Golden Ball)
• 2005: Golden Foot
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Carpathians: mountains and forests
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Crimea: big rocks and forests
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Dnieper river near Kaniv
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Dniester river near Khotyn fortress
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Prut river
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Natural caves
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Kyiv
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Kharkiv
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Donets’k
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Odesa
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L’viv
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Sophia Park in Uman’
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Askania-Nova steppe wildlife park
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Chufut-Kale
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Bakhchi-Saray palace/museum
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Sightseeing: Kyiv
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Sightseeing: L’viv
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Sightseeing: Odesa
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Chernivtsi University
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Kamyanets-Podilskyy fortress
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Khotyn fortress
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HISTORY OF UKRAINE.
From 5400 B.C. to nowadays
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Trypillia culture, 5400 years BC.
Discovered 1883-1887
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Vth century: Kyiv founded
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IX: Kyiv Rus’ founded
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988: baptism of Kyiv Rus’
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Coat of arms and flag
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Гривня (hryvnia), UAH, ₴
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Kyiv Rus’, IX-XIII
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Yaroslav the Wise: “Father-in-law of Europe”
• Married to the only daughter (Princess) of the king who Christianized Sweden.
• 3 daughters: queens of France (Anna), Hungary, Norway.
• Grand-daughters: Holy Roman Empress Eupraxia/Adelaida; also, possibly, one queen of Scotland.
• The list is incomplete!
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Yaroslav the Wise
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Ukrainian Cossacks, XV-XVIII
• Free warriors and mercenaries, mostly from Ruthenia, but also Poles and Tatars
• Not war alone: hunting, fishing, cattle breeding, bee keeping, salt mining and salt extraction.
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Ukrainian Cossacks, XV-XVIII
• Headquarters: Zaporiz’ka Sich (literally, a “cleared area beyond the rapids”), now the city Zaporizhya
• 1684: Vkraina o Paese de Cossachi di Zaporowa
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Ukrainian Cossacks, XV-XVIII
1710: the first Constitution.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Ivan Mazepa
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Ukrainian People’s Republic, 1917-1920
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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
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Undeclared Bol’shevik war
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Holodomor 1932-1933
• Holodomor (extermination by hunger), an artificial famine and genocide of Ukrainian people
• 2.4 - 7.5 million people died, with total demographic losses of 10 million Ukrainians
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Independence, 1991
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Budapest memorandum, 1994
• Exchange of world’s 3rd largest nuclear arsenal for guarantees of territorial integrity and political independence, signed by United States of America, United Kingdom, and Russian Federation
• The only country in the world to willingly give up nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees
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2013-14: Revolution of Dignity
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Chornobyl’ 26.04.1986
• The most disastrous nuclear event in history
• 14 000 people evacuated
• 30 kilometre Exclusion Zone
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Modern Ukraine
• Agriculture
• Sports
• Education
• Information technologies
• Industry
• Space exploration
• Science
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Agriculture
• World’s leader in sunflower oil export
• World’s top-5 in production and export of:
– Barley
– Wheat
– Maize
– Honey
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Ukrainian athletes
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Ukrainian universities
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Top earnings in IT (Elance)
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WhatsApp: Jan Koum
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PayPal: Max Levchin
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Viewdle: facial recognition
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Petcube
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HDDs made possible by: Lyubomyr Romankiv
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Ukraine’s industry: buses,
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trams,
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trains,
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airplanes, and
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rockets (Sea Launch)
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Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet
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Yuri Kondratyuk: Lunar Rendezvous
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Selman Waksman
• Coined “antibiotics”
• Developed streptomycin against tuberculosis
• Nobel Prize 1952
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Singing nation
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Carol of the Bells
• Carol of the Bells / Shchedryk (Bountiful evening) by Mykola Leontovych in 1916
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Okean Elzy
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Ruslana (Eurovision 2004)
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ONUKA (electronic music)
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Actors of Ukrainian origin
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Bogdan Tokovenko. January 16, 2015