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What is considered eastern Ukraine?
Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (Ukrainian: Східна Україна, romanized: Skhidna Ukrayina; Russian: Восточная Украина, romanized: Vostochnaya Ukraina), generally refers to territories of Ukraine east of the Dnipro river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
How many provinces are in Ukraine?
Oblasts of Ukraine | |
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Number | 24 (as of 1991) |
Populations | 904,374 (Chernivtsi) – 4,165,901 (Donetsk) |
Areas | 8,100 km2 (3,126 sq mi) (Chernivtsi) – 33,300 km2 (12,860 sq mi) (Odessa) |
Government | Oblast State Administration, Oblast Council |
Which continent is Ukraine belong to?
Europe
Ukraine/Continent
Why is there a cultural divide in Ukraine?
The divisions within Ukraine go back much further than recent events. The country has been torn between east and west since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and this is reflected in a cultural and linguistic divide. Russian is widely spoken in parts of the east and south.
Is Ukraine divided between Ukrainian and Russian?
Al-Jazeera shows a map of Ukraine divided between a largely Ukrainian-speaking west and a predominantly Russian-speaking east. The eastern part of the country, stretching from Kharkiv Oblast, to the border regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and to the Crimean Peninsula, is seen as predominantly Russian.
What happened to the east-west divide in Ukraine?
Ten years later, Yanukovych, elected in 2010 after disappointment in the Orange Revolution, has been ousted, and the east-west divide has again come to the fore. Iterations of maps like this one, shown on Al-Jazeera on the day Yanukovych fled Kyiv, have told the story thusly.
Do Ukrainians still speak Ukrainian in the east?
“There are significant numbers of ethnic Ukrainians who continue to speak Ukrainian in the east and in the south,” says Ukraine scholar Alexander Motyl in a recent interview with RFE/RL.