Women in Ukraine, the Glossary
Women in Ukraine have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural, and social fields, as well as in the family.[1]
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92 relations: Abortion, Andrew Wilson (historian), Andriy Shkil, Batkivshchyna, BBC News, BBC News Ukrainian, Bourgeoisie, Central Intelligence Agency, Centre for Eastern Studies, CEU Press, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Constitution of Ukraine, Culture of Ukraine, Demographics of Ukraine, Economy of Ukraine, Elections in Ukraine, Electoral district, Europe, European Solidarity, Femen, First Azarov government, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, First Yatsenyuk government, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Gender & Society, Google Books, Greek Catholic Church, Groysman Government, Hanna Hopko, History of the Soviet Union, Holos (political party), Holy See, Indiana University Press, Information Age Publishing, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Interfax-Ukraine, Interpol, Jane Louise Curry, Khashchovania, Kyiv, Kyiv Post, Legal case, Machine gun, Member state of the European Union, Milena Rudnytska, Ministry of Defence (Ukraine), Ministry of Health (Ukraine), Modern history of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, Nadiya Savchenko, ... Expand index (42 more) »
- Women's rights in Ukraine
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
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Andrew Wilson (historian)
Andrew Wilson (born 1961) is a British historian and political scientist specializing in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine.
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Andriy Shkil
Andriy Vasylovych Shkil (Андрі́й Васи́льович Шкіль; born 26 November 1963) is a Ukrainian politician.
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Batkivshchyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (translit), referred to as Batkivshchyna, is a political party in Ukraine led by People's Deputy of Ukraine, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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BBC News Ukrainian
BBC News Ukrainian (BBC News Україна) is the Ukrainian service of BBC News which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Ukraine and the world.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Centre for Eastern Studies
The Centre for Eastern Studies (Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich, OSW) is a Warsaw-based think tank that undertakes independent research on the political, economic and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia.
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CEU Press
The Central European University Press, commonly known as the CEU Press, abbreviated as CEUP, is an academic publisher with close connections to the Central European University.
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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Holova Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy) is the presiding officer of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament.
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Constitution of Ukraine
The Constitution of Ukraine (translit) is the fundamental law of Ukraine.
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Culture of Ukraine
The culture of Ukraine is composed of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people that has formed throughout the history of Ukraine.
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Demographics of Ukraine
According to the United Nations, Ukraine has a population of 36,744,636 as of 2023.
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Economy of Ukraine
The economy of Ukraine is an emerging, upper-middle income, mixed economy located in Eastern Europe.
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Elections in Ukraine
Elections in Ukraine are held to choose the president (head of state), Verkhovna Rada (legislature), and local governments.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European Solidarity
European Solidarity (Yevropeys'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine.
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Femen
Femen (stylized in all caps; Russian and Ukrainian: Фемен, Belarusian: Фэмэн) is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group whose goal is to protect women's rights. Women in Ukraine and Femen are women's rights in Ukraine.
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First Azarov government
The first Azarov government (Перший уряд Миколи Азарова, Russian: Первое правительство Николая Азарова) was Ukraine's cabinet from its appointment on March 11, 2010 until its dissolution on December 3, 2012.
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First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine.
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First Yatsenyuk government
The first government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk was created in Ukraine on 27 February 2014 in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity.
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Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia (. Collins English Dictionary Galicja,; translit,; Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Gender & Society
Gender & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of gender studies.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Greek Catholic Church
Greek Catholic Church may refer to.
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Groysman Government
The Groysman government was formed on 14 April 2016, led by Volodymyr Groysman.
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Hanna Hopko
Hanna Hopko (Ганна Миколаївна Гопко; born 4 March 1982) is a Ukrainian civil society leader and politician, a former Member of Parliament and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada.
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History of the Soviet Union
The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world.
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Holos (political party)
Holos (Голос), translated as Voice or Vote, is a liberal and pro-European political party in Ukraine, which was led by Ukrainian musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk until March 2020.
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Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Information Age Publishing
Information Age Publishing Inc. (IAP) is a publisher of academic books, primarily in the fields of education and management.
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Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; Union Interparlementaire, UIP) is an international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and cooperation among its members; other initiatives include advancing gender parity among legislatures, empowering youth participation in politics, and sustainable development.
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Interfax-Ukraine
Interfax-Ukraine (Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Ukrainian news agency.
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Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol (stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control.
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Jane Louise Curry
Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932, in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific author of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers.
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Khashchovania
Khashchovania (Хащова́ня, Chaszczowanie) is a village (selo) in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, of western Ukraine.
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Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
Kyiv Post
The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
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Legal case
A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process.
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Machine gun
A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.
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Member state of the European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership.
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Milena Rudnytska
Milena Ivanivna Rudnytska (Мілена Іванівна Рудницька: 15 July 1892 – 29 March 1976) was a Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer.
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Ministry of Defence (Ukraine)
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Ministerstvo oborony Ukrainy) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees national defence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Ministry of Health (Ukraine)
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine (Ministerstvo okhorony zdrovia Ukrainy, МОЗ) is the main healthcare body in the system of central government of Ukraine.
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Modern history of Ukraine
Ukraine emerged as the concept of a nation, and Ukrainians as a nationality, with the Ukrainian National Revival which began in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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Mykola Azarov
Mykola Yanovych Azarov (Микола Янович Азаров;; né Pakhlo, Cyrillic: Пахло; born 17 December 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014.
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Nadiya Savchenko
Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko (Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, former Army aviation pilot in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and former People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Oksana Potapova
Oksana Potapova (Оксана Потапова) is a Ukrainian feminist, peacebuilding researcher and activist.
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Opposition Platform — For Life
The Opposition Platform – For Life (Опозиційна платформа – За життя; Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь, OPZZh) was a pro-Russian and Eurosceptic political party in Ukraine.
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict.
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Politics of Ukraine
The politics of Ukraine take place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic and a multi-party system.
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Prime Minister of Ukraine
The Prime Minister of Ukraine (Прем'єр-міністр України, Premier-ministr Ukrainy) is the head of government of Ukraine.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.
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Raisa Bohatyriova
Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyriova (Раїса Василівна Богатирьова; Раиса Васильевна Богатырёва; born January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Health, Kyiv Post (February 14, 2012) and former Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
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Reconnaissance
In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.
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Retirement age
This article lists the statutory retirement age in different countries.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Second Azarov government
The second Azarov government (Другий уряд Миколи Азарова, Druhyi uriad Mykoly Azarova) was the government of Ukraine from 24 December 2012 to 28 January 2014.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Second Yatsenyuk Government
The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Self Reliance (political party)
The Union "Self Reliance" (Об'єднання «Самопоміч»; Ob'yednannya «Samopomich») is a liberal conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ukraine.
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Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.
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Sniper
A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic sights. Modern snipers use high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
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Ukrainian Independent Information Agency
The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News (translit) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency.
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Ukrainian Women's Union
The Ukrainian Women's Union (Союз українок) (1920–1938) was the most influential women's organization operating among Ukrainian women outside of Soviet Ukraine.
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Ukrainska Pravda
Ukrainska Pravda (lit) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum).
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Ukrinform
The National News Agency of Ukraine (Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine.
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United Nations Population Fund
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (often as Verkhovna Rada or simply Rada, VR) is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine.
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Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
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Volodymyr Lytvyn
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn (Володи́мир Миха́йлович Литви́н,; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.
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War in Donbas
The war in Donbas, or Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко,; Hrihyan (Грігян); by Askold Krushelnycky, Harvill Secker, 2006,, p. 169. born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position.
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Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001.
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1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 27 March 1994, with a second round between 2 and 10 April.
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2010 Ukrainian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010.
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2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 28 October 2012.
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2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 26 October 2014 to elect members of the Verkhovna Rada.
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2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019.
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See also
Women's rights in Ukraine
- Femen
- Feminism in Ukraine
- Invisible Battalion
- Prostitution in Ukraine
- Society of Ukrainian Women
- Ukrainian Women's Union (Kyiv)
- Violence against women in Ukraine
- Women in Ukraine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Ukraine
Also known as Feminism in Ukraine, History of feminism in Ukraine, Ukrainian woman, Ukrainian women, Women in Ukrainian politics, Women's political participation in Ukraine, Women's rights in Ukraine.
, Non-governmental organization, Oksana Potapova, Opposition Platform — For Life, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Peacebuilding, Politics of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Raisa Bohatyriova, Reconnaissance, Retirement age, Rowman & Littlefield, Russian Empire, Sage Publishing, Second Azarov government, Second Polish Republic, Second Yatsenyuk Government, Self Reliance (political party), Sexism, Sniper, Soviet Union, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Ukraine, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, Ukrainian Women's Union, Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrinform, United Nations Population Fund, United States Department of State, Verkhovna Rada, Viktor Yanukovych, Volodymyr Lytvyn, War in Donbas, Yale University Press, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.