A Tale Of Two Future Europes: Coming Of Age In The Twenty-First Century Future European Union

Summer graduation exercise at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, Future European Union; and summer recess interrupted by Russian Federation terror tactics [claimed by Russian Federation, Future European Union, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to be equivalent to the terror tactics effected by NATO bombing of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, Future European Union, in the 1990s] in Gori, Republic of Georgia, Future European Union.

European University Association, representing universities in the 46 nations of the Future European Union.

International Council of Museums

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Ukraine is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces), one autonomous republic (Crimea), and two cities with special status: Kyiv, its capital, and Sevastopol, which houses the Russian Federation Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement. Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

The country is home to 46.4 million people, 77.8 percent of whom are ethnic Ukrainians, with sizable minorities of Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Crimean Tatars, Hungarians, and Romanians. The dominant religion in the country in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which has heavily influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature, and music. Before the Second World War, Ukraine had a sizable Jewish minority. Since 1991, Ukraine has attracted an increasingly significant number of new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Asia and Africa.

-- adapted from Wikipedia

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Photo credits: (c) Yulia M. in Kyiv, Ukraine; and Joao Silva and New York Times. Copyright controlled. With thanks.