2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

is a list of the main events that took place in 2012 in Ukraine. There is also a list of notable people who died in 2012. In addition, a list of memorable dates and anniversaries of 2012 has been compiled. Over time, famous Ukrainians born in 2012 will be added. * Left the London Olympics with 20 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, and 10 bronze).

Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics Ukraine competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. This was the nation's fifth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine sent a total of 2 ...

Events

* March 30 - Ukraine and the

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initial an association agreement providing for the creation of a

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and visa facilitation; * April 2 - in Ukraine, the first flight on the route Kharkiv-Kiev went a high-speed train, designed to move at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour, produced by the

Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works Kriukiv Railway Car Manufacturing Plant ( uk, Крюківський вагонобудівний завод, КВБЗ; KVBZ) is a large industrial company in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives and multiple unit trains. History Th ...

; * April 5 - Georgy Filipchuk, former Minister of Environmental Protection in the Second Tymoshenko government, is sentenced to three years in prison by the Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv; * April 12 - Kyiv's Pechersk District Court sentences former Defence Minister Valery Ivashchenko to five years in prison; * April 27 - Dnipropetrovsk explosions * May 14 - Viktor Yanukovych signed the new Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine; * May 18 - The

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liquidated the Union of Ukrainians of Russia; * June 8 - July 1 - Poland and Ukraine host the

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. In the final in Kyiv,

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defeated

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with a record score of 4: 0; * July 31 - The

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of Ukraine ratifies the agreement on a free trade zone with the

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countries; * August 17 - Former Interior Minister

Yuriy Lutsenko Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko ( uk, Юрій Віталійович Луценко; born 14 December 1964) is a Ukrainian politician whose most recent post was Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 12 May 2016Paralympic Games in London, where

won fourth place; * According to the State Statistics Service, in September, for the first time in 19 years, the population of Ukraine increased; * September 26 - Karavan shooting; * October 19 - Russian opposition leader Leonid Razvozzhayev is abducted and taken to

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near the UN Office for Refugees by Russian special services in Kyiv; * October 28 - Ukraine holds parliamentary elections; * November 7 -

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Mykola Azarov Mykola Yanovych Azarov ( uk, Мико́ла Я́нович Аза́ров, ; né Pakhlo; Cyrillic: Пахло; born 17 December 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014. He was t ...

transfers a stolen

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SUV confiscated from the Minister of Justice to the

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and orders the

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to register the vehicle; * December 1 - Ukrainian

Anna Ushenina Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina (; born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013. Personal life Ushenina lives in Kharkiv, where she was born. She is of Jewish ethnici ...

became world champion in women's chess; * December 3 - Mykola Azarov's government is dismissed; * December 5 - Against the background of mass cancellation of flights, the largest air carrier in Ukraine "

AeroSvit AeroSvit Airlines private stock company ( uk, italic=yes, Приватне акціонерне товариство «Авіакомпанія АероСвіт»), operating as AeroSvit — Ukrainian Airlines / АероСвіт, was a Uk ...

" filed for bankruptcy in the Commercial Court of Kyiv region; * December 5 - In the annual Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by the international non-governmental organization

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, Ukraine ranks 144th and is named the most corrupt country in

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; * December 15 - Trofimov Beheadings * December 24 -

Oleksandr Yaroslavsky Oleksandr Vladylenovych Yaroslavskyi ( uk, Олександр Владиленович Ярославський; born 5 December 1959, Zhdanov) is a Ukrainian businessman. He was formerly co-owner of UkrSibbank and president of FC Metalist Kha ...

under pressure from the city authorities sold the football club "Metalist" for $ 300 million; * December 26 -

Mykhailo Fomenko Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko ( uk, Михайло Іванович Фоменко; born 19 September 1948) is a Ukrainian former association footballer and former head coach of the Ukraine national team.Ukraine national football team The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Uk ...

Died

* February 1 - Stepan Sapelyak, Ukrainian poet, novelist, publicist, literary critic, human rights activist, public figure; * February 3 - Vyacheslav Boykov, Ukrainian musician, pianist, teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine; * February 24 - Andriy Benckendorf, Ukrainian and Russian film director; * March 8 - Oksana Makar * March 17 -

John Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; uk, Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, ...

, a Ukrainian

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soldier, acquitted in 1993 by the

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of war crimes charges during

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; * March 20 -

Atena Pashko Atena-Sviatomira Vasylivna Pashko (; October 10, 1931 - March 20, 2012) was a Ukrainian chemical engineer, poet, and social activist in the Ukrainian rights movement. Her published poetry collections include, ''On the crossroads'' (''На пер� ...

, chemical engineer, poet and social activist * May 23 - Borys Voznytsky, Ukrainian art critic, director of the Lviv Art Gallery,

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(2005), winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1990); * July 31 -

Iryna Kalynets Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets ( uk, Іри́на Ону́фріївна Калине́ць, 6 December 1940, Lviv – 31 July 2012, Lviv) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife o ...

, Ukrainian poet; * November 27 - Ivan Bilyk, Ukrainian writer and translator, winner of the Shevchenko Prize; * December 18 - Anatoliy Zayayev, Honored Coach of Ukraine in football.

Shevchenko National Prize 2012

This year the winners of the award were: * art critic Tetyana Kara-Vasylieva - for the book "History of

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"; * artist Anatoliy Kryvolap - for a series of paintings "Ukrainian motif"; * poet Petro Midianka - for the book of poems "Luitra in the sky"; * writer Volodymyr Rutkivsky - for the historical trilogy for children "Jury"; * composer Victor Stepurko - for the musical work "Monologues of the Centuries".

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

References

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