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Ukraine Україна Ukrayina | |||||||||||||
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| 1991–1996 | |||||||||||||
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| Capital and largest city | Kyiv | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Ukrainiana[1] · Russian[2] | ||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential Transitional government | ||||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||||
• 1991–1994 (first) | Leonid Kravchuk | ||||||||||||
• 1994–1996 (last) | Leonid Kuchma | ||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||||
• 1991–1992 (first) | Vitold Fokin | ||||||||||||
• 1996 (last) | Pavlo Lazarenko | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Verkhovna Rada[3] | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 16 June 1990 | |||||||||||||
| 24 August 1991 | |||||||||||||
| 1 December 1991 | |||||||||||||
| 10 December 1991 | |||||||||||||
| 26 December 1991 | |||||||||||||
| 28 June 1996 | |||||||||||||
| Currency | Ukrainian karbovanets | ||||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | UA | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine Russia (disputed) | ||||||||||||
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| History of Ukraine |
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The post-Soviet transition in Ukraine was the period following the country's independence in 1991 up until the adoption of its constitution in 1996.
- ^ Law of Ukraine "About languages of the Ukrainian SSR"
- ^ Language Policy in the Soviet Union by Lenore Grenoble, Springer Science+Business Media, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4020-1298-3.
- ^ History of Ukraine - The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442640855