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Ukraine (i/juːˈkreɪn/; Ukrainian: Україна, tr. Ukraina [ukrɑˈjinɑ]) is a country in Eastern Europe,bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. It is currently in dispute with Russia over the Crimean peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but Ukraine and most of the international community still recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world, and a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world.
The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus' forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire, and later submerged fully into Russia. Two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20th century, once near the end of World War I and another during World War II, but both occasions would ultimately see Ukraine's territories conquered and consolidated into a Soviet republic, a situation that persisted until 1991, when Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in the aftermath of its dissolution at the end of the Cold War.
It all began with the so-called Maidan revolution, and a struggle to define Ukraine's identity. Would the country’s future lie in the West, with more integration with Europe? Or in the East, and even closer ties with Moscow? The protests eventually forced Ukraine's pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, out of power. Then a new struggle began, one that would see Ukraine's territorial integrity torn apart. Fighting broke out between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists. Later, self-declared republics were established in Donetsk and Luhansk. The conflict has killed around 9,000 people, and has forced an estimated two million from their homes. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford returned to Eastern Ukraine, to tell the stories of those left behind -- many of whom feel they've been ...
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson enters Debaltseve - the key town that's fallen to pro-Russian rebels. Inside he found elderly residents scrabbling in the snow for food left behind by retreating Ukrainian soldiers. Subscribe to Channel 4 News: http://bit.ly/1sF6pOJ Inside Ukraine: the battle for the east: http://bit.ly/1EVIAqJ Top stories: http://bit.ly/1wdbIG1
Full interview with Olesya Hursky and Rostyk Hursky, founders of the Ukrainian Canadian charity organization Stream Of Hopes - Потічок Надій, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 13 June 2016. - Nadiyka, Marta Levchenko, "Future of Ukraine - Майбутнє України", reaching out to Ukrainian diaspora for funds to pay for surgury. - 0:50 Nadiyka's medical condition: spina bifida (incomplete closing of the backbone and membranes around the spinal cord), Hydrocephalus (abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain) hernia in her spine, legs grew perpendicular to the body - 1:10 Doctors in Ukraine recommended euthanasia. Marta Levchenko intervened, collected 30,000 Euros to pay for surgeries in Italy for Nadiyka. Nadiyka recovered - 3:10 Hundreds of kilograms of supplies donated to Ol...
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk led Ukraine through turbulent times for the past two years. He survived the loss of Crimea to Russia in 2014, a deepening rift with President Petro Poroshenko, and a no-confidence vote in February. But now, Yatsenyuk is stepping down. He says he hopes his departure will help the country refocus on necessary reforms. Ukraine's internal troubles have further complicated its path towards deeper integration with the EU. But a senior EU source says the bloc would still offer Ukraine visa-free movement this month, despite a Dutch referendum against an EU-Ukraine pact. So, could a new government fix Ukraine’s problems? And how will its western backers react? Presenter: Martine Dennis Guests: Valentin Yakushik - Professor of Political Science at the Unive...
Tensions in Eastern Ukraine remain high. Almost a year after the Minsk peace deal for Eastern Ukraine was signed, progress in meeting its terms has been scant. More than 800.000 have fled the region. Those left behind feel the world has forgotten them.
The Kremlin's Wolves: Putin's motorbiking militia of Luhansk For similar stories, see: The Rise Of Neo-Nazism In Russia (2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4v31azgQM Has Russian Conservatism Created An HIV-Aids Epidemic? (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61zrWZT5Wdk Ukraine's People In Limbo As War Slips Down Global Agenda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_UZN2l3aI Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=69527 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Luhansk is the stronghold of ...
The bloody fighting in eastern Ukraine may have died down, but there is no reason to regard the conflict as over. Dnipropetrovsk is only 200km away from the war zone. The conflict has dominated people's lives here and changed their way of thinking. For more Documentaries and Reports go to http://www.dw.de/program/documentaries-and-reports/s-3610-9798
Black Tulip is a Ukrainian organisation that has been working for more than a decade to find and identify bodies of missing soldiers from the First and Second World Wars. Its work is now focused on finding the hundreds of missing Ukrainian servicemen from the current conflict in the east of Ukraine. With the consent of the authorities in rebel-held territory, the group is able to cross the frontline and travel to sites where it believes soldiers might have gone missing. So far Black Tulip has found and identified 613 bodies of dead soldiers. It says that between 300 and 1,500 are still missing. However Black Tulip says its valuable work, which helps the relatives of the fallen grieve, might have to stop because of a lack of funding. Film produced by Will Vernon and Tom Burridge and sho...
Republic Of Nowhere: Pro-Russian separatists have taken over in Donetsk leaving the Ukrainian people in a state of limbo. Ukraine's Orange Revolution As It Happened - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWx72qI8LAE Rare Access To Both Sides Of Ukraine's Front Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QqqY26hVbA The Violent Heart Of Ukraine's Revolution - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIgBwAQ631c Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://journeyman.tv/69138/short-films/republic-of-nowhere-hd.html Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://ins...
In some of China's poorest regions, millions of adults have fled their villages in search of work, leaving behind young children who must fend for themselves. WSJ's Andrew Browne reports. Photo: Gilles Sabriè Find Andrew on Google+: https://plus.google.com/111991018856523235970/about Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrownewsj Click here to subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wsjlive Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJLive Visit the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
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Donetsk located in the country of Ukraine is an Industrial city with a long history containing popular sites and monuments to explore. This travel video is part of a European travel series hosted by Davito Daveeni. The shortened video was extracted from the full version which is available at: www.The-Traveller.info Filmed before the war began with Russia. The full feature includes all of the sites and travel tips on surviving the city on a $20 /day food budget.
We spend a couple of days in this huge city, seeing the cathedrals, the Caves Monastery, the Motherland Statue and lots more.
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Take a tour of Kiev's St Michael Monastery in Ukraine -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats. The Saint Michael Monastery sparkles along the skyline of Kiev in Ukraine. It was nearly 300 years ago that the monastery was initially constructed. The cathedral has a variety of different chimes that ring throughout the community each day. The cathedral holds an array of striking and graceful mosaics. Although the cathedral has endured reconstructions over its lifetime, the essence of this magnanimous structure has been unchanged. The Saint Michael's Golden Domed Monastery serves as a centerpiece to the stunning city of Kiev.
И снова возник вопрос, куда пойти на выходные в Киеве? Мы свой выбор сделали в пользу Пирогово. Это музей украинской архитектуры и быта, который является одной из достопримечательностей Киева. Здесь немало туристов, хотя в целом можно сказать, что в минувшие выходные в Пирогово было очень спокойно. Прогулка удалась и очень понравилась нашим детям. This is our new Kiev travel guide. And we invite you to Pyrohiv. It is a Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine. And this is one of the sights of Kiev, which is visited by foreign tourists. ***************** Видеоблог обо всем понемногу. Семейная хроника, туристические заметки, попытки освоить какие-то кулинарные рецепты и просто интересные наблюдения. Vlog about everything. Family сhronicle, traveling notes, simple recipes and interes...
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The bacteria that the media like to refer to as 'superbugs' are already having undermining the health of millions of people around the world. The term refers to bacteria that have become resistant to almost all antibiotics currently in use. In this growing public health crisis, superbugs are already behind infections that take the lives of an estimated 700,000 people every year. And without radical new advances, that figure could rise to ten million people a year by 2050, researchers say. On this Inside Story we look at how our actions are making antibiotics less and less effective against certain kinds of bacteria. And we ask, what can be done to reverse the trend? Presenter: Jane Dutton Guests: Jim O'Neill - Chairman, Review on Anti-microbial Resistance Hugh Pennington - Emeritus...
Seventeen years ago, Hasan left his village in Macedonia fleeing with his family to Turkey. After relinquishing his Macedonian passport in exchange for Turkish citizenship, the 54-year-old never looked back. Until now. For years he lived in self-imposed exile even though his family invited him to return to his land and distant loved ones. Finally he relents and decides it is time to go back to his birthplace. He accepts his niece's invitation to return for a two week visit. We follow Hassan as he discovers long forgotten memories of a place where time has stood eerily still, and peace, once threatened, remained intact.
France is in mourning again, after another attack which caused mass casualties. A truck ploughed along the promenade in Nice, mowing down dozens of people. Witnesses said the driver "zigzagged" aross the road to kill as many as possible. He was eventually shot dead by police. Inside Story looks at whether the response from security services is adequate. And asks, what scars are left on communities under attack? Presenter: Fauziah Ibrahim Guests: Julien Theron - Political Scientist at the University of Versaille Nigel Inkster - Director on cyber security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Francois-Bernard Huyghe - Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations and Strategy - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: http...
British researchers warn about drug-resistant bacteria could kill 10 million people a year by 2050. Presenter: Hazem Sika Guests: Jim O'Neill - economist who led the Global Review on Anti-Microbial Resistance Catherine Berry - Antimicrobial resistance expert with Doctors Without Borders Adam Roberts - Senior Lecturer in the department of microbial diseases at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute - Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com
Damian Kolodiy's powerful film 'Freedom or Death' documented the violent 2014 uprising direct from the streets of Kiev; the frontlines of the revolution. Two years on, and with Ukraine still being torn apart by separatist conflict, he now is traveling back to the country to screen his work and spread the truth. Many regions in the East of the country are still largely under Russian influence, and with Russian propaganda the only source of news, the official account of the uprising, and of the ongoing conflict, is hugely distorted. "When I saw what was happening at Maidan, I wanted to go and sign up for the army and fight, I was filled with so much anger. But after some thought I decided I could be more effective in the information war... Making this film became my mission", Damian explai...
Baby, you've got me thinking
'Bout the things I left behind
A suitcase in Helsinki
Full of things I wanna set on fire
For I realize that you?ve been lying
And no matter how hard I try
I won't be able to forget this
'Coz this is very deep inside
Meaning what I left behind
What I left behind
Left behind
What I left behind
So I'ma fly back to Helsinki
And even stay there for a while
Gonna get my things back
Gonna get some fun and drink till I pass out
I'm gonna get on to the table
And dance my ass off till I die
And then I?ll hopefully forget you
And quit those nightmares I've been having
Every night, every day
It's the same so hard to explain
A million pounds won't be enough
To make me stare back at your face
That's what I left behind
Left behind
What I left behind
Left behind, yeah, yeah
Left behind
What I left behind
Left behind
Every night, every day
It's the same, so hard to explain
A million pounds won't be enough
To make me stare back at your face
Baby, you've got me thinking
Baby, you've got me thinking
Baby, you've got me thinking
About the things I left behind
A suitcase in Helsinki
Full of things I wanna set on fire
I'm gonna jump onto the table
And dance my ass off till I die
And then I?ll hopefully forget you
And quit those nightmares I've been having
Every night, every day
It's the same, so hard to explain
A million pounds won't be enough
To make me stare back at your face
Every night, every day
It's the same, so hard to explain
A million pounds won't be enough
To make me stare back at your face