Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and the domestication of the horse.
Igor Rurikovich was Prince of Kiev from 912 to 945. Traditionally, he is considered to be the son of Rurik, who established himself at Novgorod and died in 879 while Igor was an infant. According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was succeeded by Oleg, who ruled as regent and was described by the chronicler as being "of his kin".
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005.
Pora!, meaning “It's time!” in both Ukrainian and Russian, is a civic youth organization and political party in Ukraine espousing nonviolent resistance and advocating increased national democracy. The group was established in 2004 to coordinate young people's opposition to the Kuchma government in opposition to what they claimed was the authoritarian governing style of Ukraine's president Leonid Kuchma. After the Orange Revolution Pora! split up in two different entities, Black Pora! and Yellow Pora!
Askold and Dir, mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle the Novgorod First Chronicle and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known purportedly Norse rulers of Kiev.
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. He aimed to orient Ukraine towards the West, towards the European Union and NATO.
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud. Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, was the focal point of the movement's campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily. Nationwide, the revolution was highlighted by a series of acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the opposition movement.
Mykhailo Yuriyovych Brodsky is a Ukrainian politician, leader of the Party of Free Democrats and businessman.
Mykola Fedorovych Grabar was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Previously a national deputy of Ukraine. Since 1998 he has been a lawyer of the Kyiv Bar. He was a member of the Kyiv City Council three times. If elected, he promised to double the income of Ukrainian citizens by 2006 and to return $20 billion that were taken out from Ukraine to the United States illegally.
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, people's Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex (1999–2001), Prime Minister of Ukraine from February to September 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010. She was the first and so far is the only woman to serve as prime minister of Ukraine. She has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Ukraine without Kuchma was a mass protest campaign that took place in Ukraine in 2000–2001, demanding the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma, and preceding the Orange Revolution. Unlike the Orange Revolution, Ukraine without Kuchma was effectively extinguished by the government enforcement units, and followed by numerous arrests of the opposition and the Ukrainian-speaking participants. Seeking the criminal responsibility for those events was renewed with the election of Viktor Yanukovych as the President of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
The colour revolutions were a series of protests that occurred in the post-Soviet states and Serbia during the early 21st century. Largely inspired by democratic sentiment, opposition to election results widely viewed as falsified, and anti-corruption, the colour revolutions were marked by the usage of the internet as a method of communication, as well as the strong role of non-governmental organizations in the protests. They have been described by political scientists Valerie Jane Bunce and Seva Gunitsky as a "wave of democracy," between the Revolutions of 1989 and the 2010–2012 Arab Spring.
Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych"Major" is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland.
Roman Petrovych Bezsmertnyi is a Ukrainian politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for four convocations (terms) from 1994 to 2007, deputy head of Ukrainian president's secretariat and former Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus. Bezsmertnyi is also a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, responsible for administrative and territorial reform.
The Battle of Kruty took place on January 29 or 30, 1918, near Kruty railway station, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nezhinsky Uyezd of Chernigov Governorate.
Yevhen Petrovych Kushnaryov was a Ukrainian politician. Kushnaryov was considered one of the chief ideologues of the Party of Regions and a key ally of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Sunday Adelaja is the founder and senior pastor of the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, an evangelical-charismatic megachurch and a Christian denomination in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Invisible Battalion is a documentary film by Ukrainian directors Alina Gorlova, Svitlana Lishchinska, and Iryna Tsilyk. The documentary is part of the Invisible Battalion social project and is about six Ukrainian women who were combatants in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The Kyiv Seven, also referred to as the Magnificent Seven, and the Kyiv Clan were two interrelated economic and political groups in Ukraine during the 1990s and early 2000s. The term "Kyiv Seven" refers to a group of Ukrainian oligarchs who wielded significant financial and political power in Ukraine during the late 1980s and 1990s. As the name suggests, it comprised seven members: Viktor Medvedchuk, Valentyn Zghursky, Hryhoriy and Ihor Surkis, Bohdan Hubskyi, Yuriy Karpenko, and Yuriy Liakh. The term "Kyiv Clan" more broadly refers to the groups which operated under the Seven's leadership. These groups were one of three large political clans in Ukraine during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma, alongside Kuchma's own Dnipropetrovsk Clan and the Donetsk Clan of Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Yanukovych, among others.
