- Currency:
- Hryvnia
(a new currency is introduced in Sept. 2. 1996, to replace the
karbovanets at a rate of 1 hryvnia = 100,000 karbovantsy. )
- Place:
-
A republic in Eastern Europe, Ukraine borders Russia
to the north and east, the Black Sea to the south, Romania and
Moldova to the southwest, and Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland to the
west.
- Area:
- 603,700 sq km (233,100 sq mil).
- Population:
- (1996 est.): 51,273,000.
- President
- in 1996-1999, re-elected in 14th
November, 1999, Leonid Kuchma
- Prime minister:
-
Valeriy Pustovoytenko.
- History:
-
In 1999 Ukraine marked its eight year of independence
as one of the most stable of the states created from the former
Soviet Union. This was a country in which the lack of civil and
ethnic strife seemed exceptionally notable against the background of
neighbouring states.
- Languages:
- Ukrainian (Slavonic) -
official; Russian, Romanian, Polish.
- Religions:
- traditionally Ukrainian Orthodox; also Ukrainian Catholic chronology.
Company Ampex, Ltd is stationed in the second largest city of
Ukraine, the city of Kharkiv , which is a large industrial,
cultural and educational centre. The city has a large number of
secondary and high educational establishments, the list of which you
can find here.
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