Leonid Kuchma Essays

  • The Euromaidan Orange Revolution

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    achieve their goals such as actions in the internet , hacktivism, civil disobedience, occupation of administrative buildings, civil resistance. Very often Euromaidan is called new euro revolution, some people even compare it to Orange revolution. Obviously, these events have much in common, because it happened in one country with one nation, but still there are huge doubts can we define demonstrations and uprisings in 2013 a revolution, and what results we must expect. The following question arises:

  • Native American Astronomy

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    records were found on rock and cave drawings, stick notching, beadwork, pictures on animal skins and story telling. One of the few dateable events among the various records of Native Americans was the 1833 appearance of the Leonid meteor shower. The most obvious accounts of the Leonid storm appear among the various bands of the Sioux of the North American plains. The Sioux kept records called “winter counts,” which were a chronological pictographic account of each year painted on animal skin. In 1984

  • Stagnation Essay

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    and political development was not going any further. The period started in 1964 during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and ended with Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika policies, which led to the Revolution of 1989 and finally to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The time period can be described as wastfulness. The term “Era of Stagnation” itself was born when Mikhail Gorbachev blamed Leonid Brezhnev for the economic issues that appeared in 1964. The main reasons of stagnation were increased

  • The Ukrainian Shatter Belt: A New Cold War

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    The Ukrainian Shatter belt: A new Cold War. The pro-Russian Yanukovich government was powerless against the popular movement of the Ukrainian people who demanded European Integration after the government’s decision to halt talks of the association agreement with the European Union and instead focus on the accession of Ukraine to The peaceful demonstrations that started in November 2013 lasted for months and turned violent in 2014. The Pro-European opposition clashed with the pro-Russian government

  • Martians Go Home!

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    Education Minister, ex-IRA) Other countries Vladimir Putin (Russian Prime Minister) Gerhard Schroder (German Prime Minister) The Pope John Paul II Yukio Hatoyama (head of Japan's Democratic Party) Hugo Chavez (the President of Venezuela) Leonid Kuchma (the President of Ukraine) Martians in Hollywood (Who said Martians don't combine with entertainment ?) Mel Gibson Tom Hanks Meg Ryan Antonio Banderas Jean Claude Van Damme Ed Harris Michael Keaton Bill Paxton Gary Sinise Brendan Fraser

  • History Of Ukraine

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    Ukraine is the largest nation to come from the former Soviet satellite states and like the rest of the former communist nations, has a large ethnic division between its citizens. To know why Ukraine is so divided and so passionate in regards to its political views we must look back to the basis of ethnic diversity throughout Ukraine’s history. We start our look back at Ukrainian history with a look at Pre-Russian dominant times in the 1600’s. Ukraine at the time was under the control of the Polish