Ukrainian Politics Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1994

Leonid Kuchma was born in 1938 in the Chernihiv region of Northern Ukraine.
Between 1960 and 1982 he worked as a technical designer at the "Pivdenne" Design Bureau, the world's largest space industry complex, which produced many of the USSR's best missiles.

His political career began in 1990, when he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for his first four-year term as a deputy.
Rumours claim he voted against the Ukrainian Independence.
He then served as Ukrainian prime minister between October 1992 and September 1993.
He was reelected in 1999.
Kuchma involves accusations that he was complicit in the September 2000 murder of Georgiy Gongadze, an opposition journalist for "Ukrainian truth" online - newspaper.

Audio recordings, secretly made by the president's own guard, suggest that Leonid Kuchma asked his security services to rid him of an awkward and outspoken opponent.
Most Western countries have drastically downgraded contacts with Kuchma.

Answer: Orange

This was the colour of Viktor Yushchenko supporters.
Orange - has taken Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities by storm during the "Orange revolution" period. It was seen almost everywhere - on people's clothes, inside the capital's boutiques and even on cosmetics products.

Answer: Verkhovna Rada

The parliament meets in a neo-classical building on Kyiv's Hrushevskoho st., adjoining the rastrelliesque Mariyinsky Palace.The parliament determines the principles of domestic and foreign policy with 450 deputies elected on the basis of equal and direct universal suffrage.

Answer: 1996

Deputies stayed in Rada for the whole night to debate it in 1996. Wide range of disputes went over even about the appearance of Ukrainian national flag.

Answer: Yaroslava Stecko

She was a founder and chairman of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN), the political party that was established in Ukraine on the basis of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which she also led for the last decade. In addition, she was a former leader of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) during the Cold War.

Mrs. Stetsko, whom friends and close associates referred to as Slava, was the oldest member of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, which twice gave her the honor of leading newly seated lawmakers in taking the oath of office, in 1998 and 1992. She was first elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in 1994, three years after returning to Ukraine after spending 40 years in both forced and self-imposed exile.
She died in Munich, Germany in 2003.

Answer: 5-7

The famine was Stalin's idea and was directed particularly at the Ukrainian nation.

Answer: Autonomy

In the Soviet era, Crimea was governed as a part of the Russian SFSR until, in 1954, it was returned by Khrushchev to Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Crimea became part of the newly independent Ukraine, a situation resented by a part of its mainly Russian population and a cause of tensions between Russia and Ukraine. With the Black Sea Fleet based on the peninsula, there were worries of armed conflict

Answer: Kyiv

It used to be a centre of Kyivan Rus since 9th century.

Answer: blue-yellow

Two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow represent grainfields under a blue sky.

Answer: 5 -TV

The station is owned by Petro Poroshenko, an Our Ukraine deputy in parliament. Poroshenko is a multimillionaire businessman and one of the opposition's biggest financial backers.