Easter in Ukraine. Easter (in Ukrainian: ‘Velykden’ or ‘Pasha’) is the most important holiday of the year in Ukraine. It’s celebrated on each first week after vernal equinox and full moon. Preparation for Easter starts seven weeks ahead of time with the advent of Lent. Believers don’t eat meat and any animal products. Palm Sunday‚ the week before Easter‚ is known in Ukraine as Willow Sunday. People bring home willow branches which have been blessed in church and beat this willow of children
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Growth supported by domestic demand The peak of the global economic crisis and also Ukrainian financial crisis in 2009 saw growth rates slow dramatically in Ukraine. In 2010 and 2011‚ sales gradually recovered. Consumer confidence strengthened as the economy performed well‚ with GDP rising by 5% in 2010 and 2011. Ukraine’s total retail turnover grew by 15‚9% y-o-y in real terms in 2012‚ reflecting buoyant domestic demand and rising wages. Moreover‚ organized retail trade represented by hypermarkets
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state of affairs at odds with its central position on the geopolitical map of Europe and the world. The events of the Orange Revolution in December 2004 opened up new opportunities not only for Ukraine but for neighboring states as well. The Ukrainian people captured the world’s imagination with their struggle to find a decent place for their country in the ‘international community of
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registered as a genocide and the events killed more people than Jewish people killed during the Holocaust‚ it was a barely noticed tragedy. The two parties involved in the Holodomor are the Soviets and the Ukrainians. The Soviets were the government and the army that starved the citizens while the Ukrainians were the citizens that fought to survive the terrible famine. The Soviets clearly had the upper hand in the situation due to the large military influence and government control because of Stalin. There
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be. Benjamin Franklin‚ one of the Founding Fathers of the United States‚ states‚ "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have‚ nor do they deserve‚ either one." Basically‚ Franklin is saying that in any circumstances mankind should not forget about the most important thing in the world - freedom. Freedom is when people have the opportunity
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible‚ make violent revolution inevitable” – John F. Kennedy From the 23rd February to 26th October two revolutions collectively called the Russian Revolution completely changed the fabric of Russia. First‚ the February Revolution toppled the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. Then in October‚ a second Revolution on orders from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin resulted in the Bolsheviks being the new leaders of Russia. Among all this confusion
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List of cultural icons of Russia This is a list of cultural icons of Russia. It contains the most important symbols of Russia‚ including its national symbols and symbols associated with various aspects of the Russian culture. 1 Animals 2 Art‚ architecture 3 Buildings and structures 4 Dress 5 Emblems‚ Symbols and Allegories 6 Food and drink 7 Government and politics 8 Holidays 9 Language 10 Literature 11 Music 12 Myths‚ legends‚ and folklore
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forced collectivisation of agriculture is widely accepted to have led to the death of millions in the Soviet Union‚ mainly Ukrainian peasant farmers. The famine was largely man-made‚ although the episode remains controversial. In 2006 (under the West-leaning Viktor Yushchenko) the government of Ukraine passed a law recognizing the disaster as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Crimea was formally absorbed into the Russian empire by Catherine the Great in the 18th century ‚ that’s when Russia’s
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........................................................................................18 6. Appendix Introduction The aim of the present course paper is to research ways of translating genuine internationalisms into the English and Ukrainian language. The research materials are the internationalisms in the languages. The odjectives of our course work are: 1) to contrast internationalisms; 2) to consider their structure and meaning. The methods of research are: the overall selection
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became an overnight success in Ukraine. Within three years of launch‚ Ukrainian consumers accounted for 28% of Deutsche’s sales. Furthermore‚ most of the unit growth in sales during that time period was also contributed by Ukraine. In an attempt to market the beer even more aggressively‚ Lukas hired Oleg Pinchuk‚ a marketing guy who understood the Ukrainian markets and had previous experience of marketing beer for a major Ukrainian beer producer. In Germany‚ Deutsche Brauerei operated through a network
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