Ukraine

• temperate continental;
• Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast;
• precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast;
• winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland;
• summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south

total:

37.53 cu km/yr (12%/35%/52%)

per capita:

807 cu m/yr (2000)

• inadequate supplies of potable water;
• air and water pollution;
• deforestation;
• radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant

at birth:

1.065 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.06 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.92 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.49 male(s)/female

total population:

0.85 male(s)/female (2010 est.)

noun:

Ukrainian(s)

adjective:

Ukrainian

conventional long form:

none

conventional short form:

Ukraine

local long form:

none

local short form:

Ukrayina

former:

Ukrainian National Republic, Ukrainian State, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

name:

Kyiv (Kiev)

note: pronounced KAY-yiv

geographic coordinates:

50 26 N, 30 31 E

time difference:

UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

daylight saving time:

+1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October

• 24 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast status**;
• Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Dnipropetrovs'k, Donets'k, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv**, Kyiv, Luhans'k, L'viv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sevastopol'**, Sumy, Ternopil', Vinnytsya, Volyn' (Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr

note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

• based on civil law system;
• judicial review of legislative acts;
• has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

• Block of Yuliya Tymoshenko-Batkivshchyna (BYuT-Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO];
• Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO];
• European Party of Ukraine [Mykola KATERYNCHUK];
• Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA];
• Front of Change [Arseniy YATSENYUK];
• Lytvyn Bloc (composed of People's Party and Labor Party of Ukraine) [Volodymyr LYTVYN];
• Our Ukraine [Viktor YUSHCHENKO];
• Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH];
• Party of Regions [Viktor YANUKOVYCH];
• Party of the Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy KARMAZIN];
• People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK];
• People's Party [Volodymyr LYTVYN];
• Peoples' Self-Defense [Yuriy LUTSENKO];
• PORA! (It's Time!) party [Vladyslav KASKIV];
• Progressive Socialist Party [Natalya VITRENKO];
• Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK];
• Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO];
• Social Democratic Party [Yevhen KORNICHUK];
• Social Democratic Party (United) or SDPU(o) [Yuriy ZAHORODNIY];
• Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ];
• Strong Ukraine [SERHIY TIHIPKO];
• Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO];
• United Center [Viktor BALOHA];
• Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA]

Australia Group, BSEC, CBSS (observer), CE, CEI, CICA (observer), CIS (participating member, has not signed the 1993 CIS charter although it participates in meetings), EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

chief of mission:

Ambassador Oleksandr MOTSYK

chancery:

3350 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007

telephone:

[1] (202) 333-0606

FAX:

[1] (202) 333-0817

consulate(s) general:

Chicago, New York, San Francisco

chief of mission:

Ambassador John F. TEFFT

embassy:

10 Yurii Kotsiubynsky Street, 01901 Kyiv

mailing address:

5850 Kyiv Place, Washington, DC 20521-5850

telephone:

[380] (44) 490-4000

FAX:

[380] (44) 490-4085

name:

"Sche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished)

lyrics/music:

Paul CHUBYNSKYI/Mikhail VERBYTSKYI

note: music adopted 1991, lyrics adopted 2003; the song was first performed in 1864 at the Ukraine Theatre in Lviv; the lyrics, originally written in 1862, were revised in 2003

agriculture:

15.8%

industry:

18.5%

services:

65.7% (2008)

lowest 10%:

3.4%

highest 10%:

25.7% (2006)

general assessment:

Ukraine's telecommunication development plan emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile-cellular system

domestic:

• at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair;
• more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied;
• telephone density is rising and the domestic trunk system is being improved;
• about one-third of Ukraine's networks are digital and a majority of regional centers now have digital switching stations;
• improvements in local networks and local exchanges continue to lag;
• the mobile-cellular telephone system's expansion has slowed, largely due to saturation of the market which has reached 120 mobile phones per 100 people

international:

• country code - 380;
• 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries;
• additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by an unknown number of earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems

• TV coverage is provided by Ukraine's state-controlled nationwide broadcast channel (UT1) and a number of privately-owned television broadcast networks;
• Russian television broadcasts have a small audience nationwide, but larger audiences in the eastern and southern regions;
• multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available;
• Ukraine's radio broadcast market, a mix of independent and state-owned networks, is comprised of some 300 stations (2007)

total:

21,658 km

country comparison to the world: 13

broad gauge:

21,658 km 1.524-m gauge (9,729 km electrified) (2009)

total:

169,495 km

country comparison to the world: 30

paved:

165,820 km (includes 15 km of expressways)

unpaved:

3,675 km (2009)

males age 16-49:

11,149,646

females age 16-49:

11,437,891 (2010 est.)

males age 16-49:

6,970,035

females age 16-49:

9,015,224 (2010 est.)

male:

256,196

female:

244,473 (2010 est.)

• 1997 boundary delimitation treaty with Belarus remains un-ratified due to unresolved financial claims, stalling demarcation and reducing border security;
• delimitation of land boundary with Russia is complete with preparations for demarcation underway;
• the dispute over the boundary between Russia and Ukraine through the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov remains unresolved despite a December 2003 framework agreement and ongoing expert-level discussions;
• Moldova and Ukraine operate joint customs posts to monitor transit of people and commodities through Moldova's break-away Transnistria Region, which remains under OSCE supervision;
• the ICJ gave Ukraine until December 2006 to reply, and Romania until June 2007 to rejoin, in their dispute submitted in 2004 over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy/Serpilor (Snake) Island and Black Sea maritime boundary;
• Romania opposes Ukraine's reopening of a navigation canal from the Danube border through Ukraine to the Black Sea

• limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption;
• some synthetic drug production for export to the West;
• limited government eradication program;
• used as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia;
• Ukraine has improved anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in February 2004;
• Ukraine's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF