Ukraine

__**Ukraine**__

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=== === ====**__Geography__** - Ukraine sits in the east central part of Europe,bordering the black sea in the south as well as Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west, Belarus in the north, Moldova and Romania in the south-west and Russia in the east. Ukraine is the second largest coutry in all of Europe, the geography in each region, various features ranging from highlands to lowlands. The total geographic space of Ukraine is 233,100 sq mi. Mountains are limited to the west. Other than the mountainous west, most of the country is just regular plains with an avrage height above sea being 574 feet. (2)==== ====**__Government__ -** Ukraine is a country under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. The goverment of premier consist of three of vicepremiers and many minsters responsible fot individual departments. The governement is elected by parliament and also has to be accepted by a president. The chief of cabinet is premier Mykoła Azarow.(3) ====

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Maryinsky_Palace%2C_residence_of_the_Ukrainian_President.JPG width="664" height="326" caption="Premier's House "]](3)
====**__Economy of Ukraine-__** The Econamy of Ukraine is an emerging free market, with a gross domestic product that fell sharply for the first 10 years of its independence from the Soviet Union. Untill 2000 to 2008 the economy experianced rapid growth in that time span.(4)====

**__Population since 2010__ -** 45,415,596
====__**History of Ukraine-**__Most of the territory of what is modern Ukraine was annexed by Poland and Lithuania in the 14th century, but during that time, Ukrainians began to conceive of themselves as a distinct people, a feeling that survived subsequent partitioning by greater powers over the next centuries.==== The first identifiable groups to populate what is now Ukraine were Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Goths, among other nomadic peoples who arrived throughout the first millennium B.C. These peoples were well known to colonists and traders in the ancient world, including Greeks and Romans, who established trading outposts that eventually became city-states.Durring WWII Ukraine became controled by the Soviets. Many Ukranians resisted there rule. The explosion in Chernobyl had a huge inpact on all of Europe durring the time. The smoke from the plant spread through all of Europe,the toxic smoke intoxicated forests and got into rivers and poisened them.making there fresh water undrinkable.(5) ====

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**__Religions in Ukraine__**
- Judaism(6) - Jews(6) - Catolics(6) - Orthodoxy(6) - Protestantism (6)

__Languages spoken__
Ukrainian (official)(7) Russian (7) Polish(7) others(7)

__Ethnic groups__
Ukrainians(7) Russians(7) Belarusians(7) Moldovans(7) Bulgarians(7) Hungarians(7) Romanians(7) Jews (7) Poles (7) Crimean (7) Tatars (7) and other groups(7)

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Who is the premier?
=Strojny & Kalwa=