There is a large national community of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. The Ukrainian national minority in the Czech Republic together with the citizens of Ukraine make up the largest membership base with more than 203,198 members.
Labour migration from
Ukraine
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or southeast
Slovakia
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to what is now the
Czech Republic
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began to grow to a large scale in the early 1990s. In 1991, there were just 8,500
Ukrainian citizens on Czech territory. However, , figures of the
Czech Statistical Office
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showed that number had grown to 132,481, making Ukrainians the largest group of foreigners in the Czech Republic, with a 30% share of the foreign population.
Czech registered public organizations with the status of a legal entity
* International association "Ukrainian Freedom", president: Bohdan Kostiv
Official pages* International non-governmental organization "Coordination Resource Center", General director: Olexandr Petrenko
Official pages* Rodyna, z.s., leader: Yosyp Klymkovych
Official pages* Společnost Ivana Kondura, leaders: Jiří Klán, Petr Novák, Lenka Kondurová
* Ukrainian Business Club in Czech Republic z.s., chairman: Taras Yakubovskyi
* Ukrajinská iniciativa v České republice, z.s., leaders: Viktor Rajčinec
Official pages* Ukrajinská iniciativa jižní Moravy z.s., leaders: Marija Wazi-Nobilisová
Official pages*Ukrajinská tradice v České republice, z.s., leader: Bohdan Rajčinec. Mirror of ''Ukrajinská iniciativa v České republice''; same location, same statutes etc.
* Misie Ukrajinské Pravoslavné Církve v České republice, z.s., leaders: Oleksandr Schramko
* Ukrajinské kulturní a informační centrum, start 9 March 1996.
The main activities of international organizations, in particular, the "International non-governmental organization “Coordination Resource Center”" also include issues of the electoral process in Ukraine and monitoring it.
Ukrainian mass media in the Czech Republic
CRCMedia— European Diaspora News
Ukrainian newspapers in the Czech Republic— Ukrainian news in the Czechia
JARMART - cultural and historical newsletter— Ukrainian portal, news, video, internet
Periodicals in Ukrainian
Porohy— political and cultural magazine in Ukrainian, sometimes in Czech
— journal in Czech or Ukrainian
Mandrivnyk - Czech and Ukrainian literary magazine- magazine in Ukrainian
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Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)
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Ukrainians in Slovakia
The Ukrainians in Slovakia form a small minority in the country. Ukraine and Slovakia share a border, and eastern Slovakia has traditionally had several Ukrainian villages in the Carpathians (many of which are still there). The town of Svidník ...
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Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
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Ethnic groups in the Czech Republic
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Ukrainian diaspora in Europe