From the formal establishment of the People's Movement of Ukraine on 1 July 1989 to the formalisation of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine via referendum on 1 December 1991, a non-violent pro
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, 1991
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Participants in celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Zaporozhian Sich
Leonid Kravchuk
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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first president of Ukraine from 5 December 1991 to 19 July 1994. Kravchuk's presidency was marked by Ukraine achieving independe
1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution
…of Ukraine for Perestroika, founded days before Shcherbytsky's ouster by dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil, was approved on the initiative of Leonid Kravchuk (at the time the only member of the Central Committee of the KPU who could speak Ukrainian). The People's Movement, or Rukh (lit. 'the movement'), was…
Kravchuk in 1991
Kravchuk on a visit to Kharkiv during his electoral campaign in 1990
1991 Soviet stamp commemorating the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
General Valentin Varennikov, leader of the State Committee on the State of Emergency in Kyiv