Facts  Population: in 2007  Location: borders the Black Sea between Poland and Russia  Major Religions: Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish  Languages: Ukrainian (official) Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian

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10-11 th Centuries Kievan Rus’, the state considered the early predecessor if modern Ukraine At the time, it is the largest and most powerful state in Europe

1667  As a result of the Treaty of Andrusovo, much of what is now the modern day Ukraine becomes part of the Russian empire  It was not until 1920 that Ukraine first found a brief independence from Soviet control

The World Wars  During the Great Wars in the early 20 th Century, more than 8 million Ukrainians die in communist backed famines  Another 2 million die at the hands of Hitler and his numerous concentration camps

The Great Famine

1991  Ukraine become and independent nation-state, separate from the Soviets and their brutal oppression for the first time in over 70 years

 The people of the Ukraine stage the Orange Revolution in support of free democratic elections  The Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution