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<div style="background-color:yellow;">'''MOD''': As of February 2022, there is a great deal of uncertainty as to the status of Ukraine. Please note that this site is All The Tropes, not All The Politics, and keep the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]] in mind while editing this page. Propaganda slanted in either direction will be deleted without warning.</div>
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[[File:UP-map.jpg|frame|Ukraine, according to United Nations General Assembly resolution 68/262]]
''Ukrayina'', known in English as Ukraine or the Ukraine (the former is becoming increasingly common) is a former Soviet state, declaring independence in 1991. Before that, it was under Russian and, even earlier, Polish rule, and most famous for its hard-to-pronounce Cossack Host, the Zaporozhians.▼
▲''Ukrayina'', known in English as '''Ukraine''' or "the Ukraine" (the former is becoming increasingly common) is a former Soviet state, declaring independence in 1991. Before that, it was under Russian and, even earlier, Polish rule, and most famous for its hard-to-pronounce Cossack Host, the Zaporozhians.
Many Ukrainians will object if you call them Russians- the Russians were responsible for millions of deaths in the Ukrainian SSR, including a possible genocide in the Holodomor("death by hunger"), the 1932-33 famine in the country, caused by Soviet crop seizures. Similar seizures took place in Belarus and on the Volga, but consider the fact Ukraine was a heavily agrarian country back then.▼
▲Many Ukrainians will object if you call them Russians
This was a major factor in the Western Ukrainian population initially welcoming the Nazis, before realising that they weren't really distinguishing between Slavic groups. They then fought against them, with a quarter of Soviet deaths in the [[Great Patriotic War]] being Ukrainian.
The most notable
Ukraine is also known as the location of the 1986 [[Chernobyl
During Soviet times, Soviet planners wanted to prevent ''any'' one region from establishing totally independent arms production, and a lot of defence and aerospace plants (such as Antonov and Yangel) ended up in the Ukraine. When the USSR collapsed, the Russian Federation found itself in the unenviable position of having the vendors of many of its equipment and weapons systems in a foreign country and often they weren't very cooperative. Ukraine is sitting on top of a lot of old Soviet industrial bases, needless to say. Also for a while they inherited all the nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles the Soviets had stationed in the Ukraine, but they decided to give them up, as did Belarus and [[Kazakhstan]], which had found themselves in similar positions.
We mentioned earlier that most Ukrainians object to being called Russians. While only Russian nationalists and ignorant people try
Ukraine has a law that prohibits its own citizens being extradited from the country to elsewhere
In 2005, Ukraine loosened its border controls so that tourists from the [[European Union]] and [[Switzerland]] could visit the country without a visa. This was partly to make life easier for foreigners visiting Kiev (or Kyiv, as the locals spell it) for the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] that year, but is part of a general trend towards closer relations with the west.
And despite what anyone might tell you, the best vodka does not come from Russia. It comes from Ukraine. But Ukrainian vodka is properly called ''horilka'', not ''vodka''. There's also the Polish wódka, which is pronounced ''vootka''. It's like "whisky" (Scotch and Canadian) vs "whiskey" (Irish and American).
The area of Ukraine south of Lviv (part of Ukrainian Galicia) was transferred from [[Austria]] to Russia in the late 19th century, which prompted the emigration of well over 80% of the rural population of the area to North America. Most emigrants settled in Western [[Canada]] and eastern [[Pennsylvania]]. To this day anything vaguely Central or Eastern European will be assumed in Canada to be Ukrainian.
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People tend to get the flag upside-down.▼
▲People tend to get the flag upside-down.
▲[[File:125px-Flag_of_Ukraine_svg.png|frame|Golden wheat under a blue sky in the breadbasket of Eastern Europe.]]
* Viktor Yushchenko, the country's former President until his epic defeat in the 2010 election. Him of the pockmarked face, which was the result of attempted poisoning.
* Yulia Tymoshenko, the country's former PM. Considered one of the sexiest female politicians in the world, a fact she uses, she once posed in designer dresses for the local version of ''[[Elle]]'' magazine (during her first premiership) and commented that she'd like to pose for ''[[Playboy]]''. You may know her best from her role as [[Token Evil Teammate]] in [[The Legend of Koizumi]].
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* Olga Kurylenko. Actress from films like ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.
* [[Milla Jovovich]]. ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' and ''[[The Fifth Element]]''. ''Her''. Born in the country (to a Russian mother and Montenegrin father), but moved to the US.
* [[Mila Kunis]]. ''[[That '70s Show]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]''. Born there, moved to the US.
* Speaking of Soviet leaders, one shouldn't forget Leonid Brezhnev, architect of ''zastoi'', peaceful co-existence and resource economics, came from Dnepropetrovsk. He was also totally bros with Nixon.
* A small-time politician who worked under Lenin during [[Red October]], [[Leon Trotsky|Lev Davidovich Bronstein]].
* Vadim Pruzhanov, keyboard player for the power metal band [[Dragon Force (video game)]].
* Andriy Schevchenko, soccer striker.
* Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, heavyweight boxers and very well known ones in that sport- Vitali currently holds the WBC belt, Wladmir the IBF, WBO, IBO and Ring Magazine ones.
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