SLIDE 1 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”.
SLIDE 7 Taras Shevchenko
- 1814 – 1861
- Major contributor to
Ukrainian literature
illustrator
ethnographer.
Taras Shevchenko. Self-portrait.
SLIDE 8 Andriy Shevchenko
football team
- Dynamo Kyiv
- Milan
- Chelsea
- 2004: Ballon D’or
(Golden Ball)
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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
SLIDE 30 HISTORY OF UKRAINE.
From 5400 B.C. to nowadays
SLIDE 31 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
SLIDE 38 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
SLIDE 40 Ukrainian Cossacks, XV-XVIII
mercenaries, mostly from Ruthenia, but also Poles and Tatars
hunting, fishing, cattle breeding, bee keeping, salt mining and salt extraction.
SLIDE 41 Ukrainian Cossacks, XV-XVIII
Zaporiz’ka Sich (literally, a “cleared area beyond the rapids”), now the city Zaporizhya
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
SLIDE 46 Holodomor 1932-1933
(extermination by hunger), an artificial famine and genocide
- f Ukrainian people
- 2.4 - 7.5 million people
died, with total demographic losses of 10 million Ukrainians
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Independence, 1991
SLIDE 48 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
SLIDE 50 Chornobyl’ 26.04.1986
disastrous nuclear event in history
evacuated
Exclusion Zone
SLIDE 51 Modern Ukraine
- Agriculture
- Sports
- Education
- Information technologies
- Industry
- Space exploration
- Science
SLIDE 52 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
SLIDE 68 Selman Waksman
- Coined “antibiotics”
- Developed
streptomycin against tuberculosis
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Singing nation
SLIDE 70 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
SLIDE 75 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Bogdan Tokovenko. January 16, 2015