1991 in Ukraine

none 1991 Events in the year 1991 in Ukraine. Incumbents President: Leonid Kravchuk Prime Minister: Vitold Fokin Events August 24 – The country declares its independence from the Soviet Union.Paul G. Lewis https://books.google.com/books?id=sKYMwihCa8QC&pg=PA141 Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-Communist Europe: The First Decade Professor Paul Lewis Psychology Press 2001 978-0-7146-5155-2 141 October 6 – Soviet President Gorbachev condemns antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in the country during WWII.Clines Francis X. 1991-10-07 Gorbachev Condemns Anti-Semitism, Past and Present en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/07/world/gorbachev-condemns-anti-semitism-past-and-present.html 2021-06-12 0362-4331Vincent J. Schodolski GORBACHEV RUES JEWISH EXODUS en-US Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-07-9103310768-story.html 2021-06-12 December 1 – The 1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum is held. The vast majority of those who participated in the referendums voted for the "Independence of Ukraine" (90.13%) and the accession of Transcarpathia to Ukraine with the status of a "Special self-governing territory" (78%). December 8 – In the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine sign an agreement officially ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place.The Belavezha Accords signed https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619792 2021-06-12 Presidential Library enBelovezha Accords and Beyond: Delineating the Russian State. National Technical Reports Library - NTIS https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/PB2003101228.xhtml 2021-06-12 ntrl.ntis.gov December 12 – Ukraine becomes the first post-Soviet republic to decriminalize homosexuality.Ottosson Daniel May 2008 State-sponsored Homophobia: A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20090306021141/http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf 2009-03-06 5 May 2009 International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) 45 Births 29 June – Anton Kukhta, Ukrainian footballer 31 December – Oleksandr Piskunov, Ukrainian actor References 1991 Ukraine Ukraine Category:1990s in Ukraine Category:Years of the 20th century in Ukraine