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Tuesday
Aug102010

UA-Reporter.com: Azarov said in Bukovina, that Transcarpathia and Crimea are not Ukraine.

Another translation, original is here. 

During celebrations dedicated to 70 years from the founding of Chernovtsy region [Bukovina], prime minister Nikolay Azarov has shown a complete lack of knowledge of Ukrainian history.

As Komersant-Ukraina reported, the celebrations were taking place in the Marble Hall of Chernovtsy National University by the name of Yuriy Fed'kovych, where the prime minister Nikolay Azarov arrived in a very good mood. "Now I will be like Brezhnev, if somebody remembers" -he said, opening the text of his gratulatory adress, in which it was said that "by the founding of the Chernovtsy region and its inclusion in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), the territorial formation of contemporary Ukraine was finalised", "and she will remain like this forever" - said Mr. Azarov.

Information of the UA-Reporter:

Chernovtsy region: Was created in Ukraine (then Ukrainian SSR) on 7 August 1940 after the USSR seized Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, which were until then Romanian, on 30 June of that year.

Transcarpathian region: (Created on 1 January 1946), became part of the Ukrainian SSR on 22 November 1945 after the Czechoslovak parliament ratified a signing of a treaty concerning the ceding these lands to USSR between Czechoslovakia and USSR on June 30 of that year. (1)

Crimea: Became part of the Ukrainian SSR by the giving over of the Crimean region by the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic in 1954. By this act the territorial image of Ukraine was finalised.  

1) In fact Transcarpathia did not become part of Ukraine but USSR in the form of Transcarpathian Ukraine for a short time, a bit later it became a part of Ukraine with its inclusion in it as Transcarpathian region. Rusyn activists argue that the treaty signed between Czechoslovakia and USSR had no Ukraine participating in it and therefore the inclusion of the region into Ukraine was illegitimate.  

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