Constitution Day ( uk, День Конституції) is a

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public holiday celebrated on 28 June since 1996.1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The Ukrainian Weekly (29 December 1996) It commemorates the anniversary of the approval by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) of the Constitution of Ukraine on 28 June 1996.

History

Immediately after taking office as President of Ukraine, after winning the

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, Leonid Kuchma created the Constitutional Commission, which led to the adoption of a constitution of Ukraine in 1996. (At the time the 1978

Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union, had four successive constitutions during its existence. The first (1919) was in Russian and the final three were in Ukrainian. The final constitution remained effective until the ...

was in force in Ukraine.Ukraine celebrates Constitution Day today

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(28 June 2021)) The Constitution was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at 9:20 am on 28 June 1996 after deputies had worked all day and all night on the project, remaining in the session hall without breaks.The Constitution of Ukraine is 25 years old! Unusual facts about the main document that few people know

(27 June 2021) 315 people's deputies, out of a needed 300, voted for the adoption of the Basic Law. Constitution Day did become a public holiday in Ukraine because its foundation was enshrined in the constitution itself (it is the only public holiday that is mentioned in the constitution).See how the Constitution of Ukraine was adopted 25 years ago: historical photos

(28 June 2021)

Soviet Constitution day The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

(7 October) was never observed in the Ukrainian SSR (the predecessor of modern Ukraine).The Ukrainian Resurgence
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, University of Toronto Press, 1999, (page 402)

References

External links

Ukraine celebrates national holiday – the Constitution Day
small explanation of the day and the Constitution of Ukraine by the

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство закордонних справ України) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the foreign relations of Ukraine. The head of the ministry is the ...

(28 June 2014)
Birth of the Ukrainian State and Constitution
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