The Ukrainian orthography is the orthography for the Ukrainian language, a system of generally accepted rules that determine the ways of transmitting speech in writing.
The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, a Slavic language, which is spoken regularly by 88% of Ukraine's population at home in their personal life, and as high as 87% at work or study. It is followed by Russian which is spoken by 34% in their personal life.
In the Ukrainian language there are three major dialectal groups according to territory: the southwestern group, the southeastern group and the northern group of dialects.
Mykola Andriyovych Horbal is a Ukrainian former Soviet dissident, human right activist, politician, and poet who was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and later a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
Language policy in Ukraine is based on its Constitution, international treaties and on domestic legislation. According to article 10 of the Constitution, Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine, and the state shall ensure the comprehensive development and functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social life throughout the entire territory of the country. Some minority languages have significantly less protection, and have restrictions on their public usage.
Iryna Dmytrivna Farion was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014 as a member of Svoboda. She was a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic's Institute of Humanitarian and Social Sciences.
The chronology of Ukrainian language suppression presents a list of administrative actions aimed at limiting the influence and importance of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine.
Altogether, 108 civilian protesters and 13 police officers were killed in Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, which was the culmination of the Euromaidan protest movement. The deaths occurred in January and February 2014; most of them on 20 February, when police snipers fired on anti-government activists in Kyiv. The slain activists are known in Ukraine as the Heavenly Hundred or Heavenly Company. By June 2016, 55 people had been charged in relation to the deaths of protesters, including 29 former members of the Berkut special police force, ten titushky or loyalists of the former government, and ten former government officials.
Reasonable Force is a Ukrainian political party, founded on 22 January 2016. It is led by Alexander Solovyov. The party consists of 26 regional and more than 600 local organizations. The members of the party are more than 20,000 citizens of Ukraine. It is represented in 16 local councils based on the results of the elections, held in December 2016 and April 2017.
Metropolitan Epiphaniusof Kyiv and All Ukraine is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
Yaryzhka or Orthography of Slobozhanshchyna is the name of the pre-revolutionary orthography used to write and print works in the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire. Yaryzhka included all the letters that were part of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet of the pre-revolutionary period: ы, ъ, and so on.
Dokiya Kuzmivna Humenna was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer, one of the most prolific authors of the literary Ukrainian diaspora.
Pavlo Andriiovych Kukhta is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.
Hrinchenkivka or hrinchevychivka was Ukrainian orthography introduced by Borys Hrinchenko’s Ukrainian-Russian dictionary in 1907.
Zhelekhivka was Ukrainian phonetic orthography in Western Ukraine from 1886 to 1922, created by Yevhen Zhelekhivskyi on the basis of the Civil Script and phonetic spelling common in the Ukrainian language at that time for his own "Little Russian-German Dictionary", which was published in full in 1886.
Alina Ivanivna Pash is a Ukrainian singer, rapper and songwriter.
Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych is a Ukrainian political advisor, former military officer, and columnist. He is also a theologian and the founder of the Apeiron School. Arestovych was a speaker for the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. He worked as a Strategic Communications Adviser for the Office of the President of Ukraine from December 2020 to January 2023.
Derussification in Ukraine is a process of removing Russian influence from the post-Soviet country of Ukraine. This derussification started after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and intensified with the demolition of monuments to Lenin during Euromaidan in 2014 and the further systemic process of decommunization in Ukraine. The Russo-Ukrainian War gave a strong impetus to the process. Along with decommunization, derussification has been described as one of the components of a larger process of decolonization in Ukraine.
Yurii Patsan is a Ukrainian artist. Knight of the "Order of Merit" of the III degree (2008), Honored Artist of Ukraine since (2014).
Anastasiia Serhiivna Blyshchyk is a Ukrainian journalist, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a lieutenant of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Member of the Women's Veterans Movement (2022).
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