Ukraine and U Guide - Resources and Review

Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Ukraine. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
 
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Ukraine, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
 
Collection of resources relating to life in Russia and its former republics, covering the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Checnya, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Topics include the economy, human rights, education, media, politics, art, language, libraries, and geography.
 
Information on the culture, history and geneaology of the Rusyn ethnic group from the Ukraine and Carpathian mountain areas.
 
Overview and basic facts about Ukraine, including land and resources, population, culture, economy, government, history, bibliography, and a Ukraine country guide.
 
News agency providing business and political information on Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Baltic countries. The information is available in English.
 
Founded to serve the Ukrainian American community, the paper publishes news about Ukraine and Ukrainians around the world. Selected articles from the paper are available, including those from the first issue in 1933 up to 1998.
 
Alphabetical list of academic and other libraries in Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
 
Basic reference information about Ukraine, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co
ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
 
Set of over 80 maps produced by the CIA of the political and ethnic boundaries and major defence industries in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
 
Listing of political resources relevant to Ukraine, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
 
Set of documents including the laws of Ukraine (in Ukrainian), general information about the country, a Ukrainian
English transliteration table, foreign legislation, and links to Ukrainian Web servers.
 
Basic reference information about Ukraine, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
 
Details of the US Department of Energy's cooperative effort to improve safety at Soviet
designed nuclear power plants in eight partnering countries - Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovakia. Joint projects are correcting major safety deficiencies and establishing nuclear safety infrastructures.
 
Full text, in English, of the constitution of Ukraine, adopted at the fifth session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996.
 
Links to a range of information resources about Ukraine.
 
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