Post-Soviet transition in Ukraine

Ukraine
Україна
Ukrayina
1991–1996
Flag (1992–96):
Location of Ukraine
Capital
and largest city
Kyiv
Common languagesUkrainiana[1] · Russian[2]
Demonym(s)Ukrainian
GovernmentUnitary 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
LegislatureVerkhovna Rada[3]
History 
16 June 1990
24 August 1991
1 December 1991
10 December 1991
26 December 1991
28 June 1996
CurrencyUkrainian karbovanets
ISO 3166 codeUA
Preceded by
Succeeded by
1991:
Ukrainian SSR
Soviet Union
1992:
Ukrainian government-in-exile
Ukraine
Today part ofUkraine
Russia (disputed)

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.

  1. ^ Law of Ukraine "About languages of the Ukrainian SSR"
  2. ^ Language Policy in the Soviet Union by Lenore Grenoble, Springer Science+Business Media, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4020-1298-3.
  3. ^ History of Ukraine - The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442640855