Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the

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Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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, the highest representative body of the city community. The members of city council are directly elected by Kyivans and the council is chaired by the

Mayor of Kyiv The Head of Kyiv City ( uk, Київський міський голова, translit=Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv ( uk, Мер Києва, translit=Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular ...

(who is also directly elected in a separate election independent of the council election) or the City Council Secretary (elected among the council members). The deputies are elected for five-year terms.Mahera: Elections in Kyiv may be held in May-June
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(27 February 2012) The council meets in a 1950s City Council building constructed in neo-classical Stalinist architectural style on

Khreschatyk Khreshchatyk ( uk, Хрещатик, ) is the main street of Kyiv, Ukraine. The street has a length of . It stretches from the European Square (northeast) through the Maidan and to Bessarabska Square (southwest) where the Besarabsky Market is ...

, the city's main street. The most recent Kyiv local election (including Mayoral elections) took place on 25 October 2020.Klitschko has the best chance to win Kyiv mayoral elections – exit poll

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine ( uk, Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform ( uk, Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of U ...

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History

Empress of Russia Catherine the Great's municipal reform created

's city council in 1780. In its 1781 first municipal elections just under 6,000 of Kyiv's 70,500 inhabitants were qualified to vote. The first post-

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democratic elections of the Kyiv City Council took place on 4 March 1990. The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state (1992). 24 July was later marked as National Flag Day in Kyiv (only).Україна відзначає День Державного прапора ''On Tuesday, August 23, all of Ukraine celebrates National Flag Day. Measures to raise the national flag are planned throughout the country.''

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(23 August 2011) Beginning with 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag (in all Ukraine). During the

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

-protest from 1 December 2013 till 16 February 2014 Kyiv's Town Hall was occupied by protesters; this forced the City Council to meet in the

Solomianka Raion Solomianskyi District ( uk, Солом'янський район, translit. ''Solom’ians’kyi raion'', "district of Solomianka") is a district in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Located in the western part of the city, in the basin of Lybid river, ...

state administration building instead.

Composition

Parliamentary parties

The resultsResults of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council

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of the 2020 Kyiv local election: * 31

European Solidarity European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a List of political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating fr ...

* 30

Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform ( uk, Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR ( uk, УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", en, Ukrainian ...

* 14 Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko * 12 Opposition Platform — For Life * 12 Servant of the People * 12

Batkivshchyna The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Pe ...

* 9

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References

External links

Kyiv City Council (official site)

Kyiv City Administration (official site)
{{Euromaidan Government of Kyiv City councils * Khreshchatyk

History

Composition

Parliamentary parties

See also

References

External links