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Central Ukraine(Ukrainian:Центральна Україна,romanized:Tsentralna Ukraina) consists of historical regions ofleft-bank Ukraineandright-bank Ukrainethat reference to theDnieper River.It is situated away from the Black Sea Littoral North and a midstream of the Dnieper River and its basin.
The cities of Central Ukraine are among the oldest in Ukraine. Also in contrast to the southeastern portion of the country, the region is more agricultural with extensive grain and sunflower fields in the heart of Ukraine. Some of the largest cities in Central Ukraine includeKryvyi Rih,Cherkasy,Kropyvnytskyi,PoltavaandKremenchuk.
Politics
editElectionsin the Central Ukrainianoblasts(provinces) have historically been competitive between pro-Russian and pro-Western candidates. However, since the 2004Orange Revolution,Central Ukrainian voters have started to lean toward more pro-Western parties (Our Ukraine,Batkivshchyna)[1]and presidential candidates (Viktor YushchenkoandYulia Tymoshenko).[2][3][4]
In a poll conducted byKyiv International Institute of Sociologyin the first half of February 2014, only 5.4% of polled in Central Ukraine believed "Ukraine andRussiamust unite into a single state ", whereas nationwide this percentage was 12.5.[5]
Demographics
editReligion
editReligion in central Ukraine (2016)[6]
According to a 2016 survey ofreligion in Ukraineheld by theRazumkov Center,approximately 73.5% of the population of central Ukraine declared to be believers, while 4.8% declared to be non-believers, and 2.6% declared to beatheists.[6]Of the total population, 86.5% wereChristians(76.7%Eastern Orthodox,6.5% simply Christians, 1.9%Latin Rite Catholics,1.0% members of variousProtestantchurches, and 0.4% members of theUkrainian Greek Catholic Church), 0.3% wereJewish,and 0.1% wereMuslims.Not religious and other believers not identifying with any of the listed major religious institutions constituted about 12.8% of the population.[6]
Language
editSurzhyk,a term for mixed Russian-Ukrainian dialects, is commonly spoken throughout Central Ukraine, though, according to sociological pols, most people self-identify as Ukrainian speakers.[7][8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2012"Archived2012-10-16 at theWayback Machine
CEC substitues Tymoshenko, Lutsenko in voting papersArchived2014-08-13 at theWayback Machine - ^Communist and Post-Communist Parties in EuropebyUwe BackesandPatrick Moreau,Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,2008,ISBN978-3-525-36912-8(page 396)
- ^Ukraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?,openDemocracy.net(January 3, 2011)
- ^Eight Reasons Why Ukraine’s Party of Regions Will Win the 2012 ElectionsbyTaras Kuzio,The Jamestown Foundation(17 October 2012)
UKRAINE: Yushchenko needs Tymoshenko as ally againArchived2013-05-15 at theWayback MachinebyTaras Kuzio,Oxford Analytica(5 October 2007) - ^How relations between Ukraine and Russia should look like? Public opinion polls’ results,Kyiv International Institute of Sociology(4 March 2014)
- ^abcРЕЛІГІЯ, ЦЕРКВА, СУСПІЛЬСТВО І ДЕРЖАВА: ДВА РОКИ ПІСЛЯ МАЙДАНУ (Religion, Church, Society and State: Two Years after Maidan),2016 report byRazumkov Centerin collaboration with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches. pp. 27-29.
- ^The language question, the results of recent research in 2012,RATING(25 May 2012)
- ^Poll: Ukrainian language prevails at homeArchived2013-07-28 at theWayback Machine,Ukrinform(7 September 2011)
External links
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Central Ukrainetravel guide from Wikivoyage
