LUHANSK

loohänskˈ, Rus. Lugansk, city (1989 pop. 497,000), capital of Luhansk region, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the Luhan and Vilkhivka rivers, in the Donets Basin. Its products include locomotives, processed coal, chemicals, steel pipes, mining equipment, machine tools, textiles, and foodstuffs. It was founded in 1796 around a cannon foundry, and is the oldest center of the Donets Basin. Named Luhansk in 1889, it was called Voroshilovgrad from 1935 to 1958 and Luhansk from 1959 to 1969. Renamed Voroshilovgrad in 1970, it was once again renamed Luhansk in 1990.

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books on: Luhansk  - 31 results

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Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia
Book by Vladimir Tismaneanu; M. E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Civil Society--Former Soviet Republics--Congresses, Former Soviet Republics--Politics And Government--Congresses, Political Culture--Former Soviet Republics--Congresses
...east, which includes Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts...and especially the miners of Donetsk and Luhansk, were treated as a privileged group...Consequently, the miners of Donetsk and Luhansk have emerged, alongside the Galicians...
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Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity
Book by Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Ronald Grigor Suny; Cornell University Press, 1994
Subjects: Soviet Union--Social Conditions--Congresses, Working Class--Soviet Union--Congresses
...in the August elections to the Lugansk Luhansk City Duma, the Bolsheviks turned out...pp. 792-93. 60 Donetskii proletarii Luhansk , 9 22 August 1917. Lugansk was a traditional...61 N. Goncharenko, Oktiabrv Donbasse Luhansk, 1961 , pp. 165-66. The majority...
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The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia
Book by Michael Bourdeaux; M. E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Former Soviet Republics--Religion--20th Century, Religion And State--Former Soviet Republics, Religion And State--Russia (Federation), Russia (Federation)--Religion--20th Century
...247,500 6,600 Krym Crimea 254 2,596,000 10,223 Luhansk 187 2,877,400 15,387 Lviv 2,281 2,771,300 1,215...Ukrainian oblasts Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev, Luhansk, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Cherkasy...
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The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation
Book by Kataryna Wolczuk; Central European University Press, 2001
Subjects: Constitutional History--Ukraine, Constitutional Law--Ukraine, Ukraine--Politics And Government--1991-
...region of Ukraine, which consists of two oblasts, Donetsk and Luhansk, in the Donbas basin, 15 percent of which is within the Russian...proportion of ethnic Russians (apart from Crimea): 45 percent in Luhansk and 44 percent in Donetsk. Moreover, the majority of ethnic...
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Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States
Book by Jeff Chinn, Robert Kaiser; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Former Soviet Republics--Ethnic Relations, Nationalism--Former Soviet Republics, Russians--Former Soviet Republics
...overwhelmingly in the industrialized east, with over 80 percent in Luhansk and Crimea. 101 In the runoff, Kuchma won with 53 percent...east and south, Kuchma recorded victory with 88 percent in Luhansk, 79 percent in Donetsk, 71 percent in Kharkiv, 67 percent...
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Why Donbass Votes for Yanukovych: Confronting the Ukrainian Orange Revolution
Journal article by Ararat L. Osipian, Alexandr L. Osipian; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 14, 2006
Subjects: District attorneys, Environmental conditions, Ideology, Leadership, Mines, Presidential elections, Rural areas, Society
...Donetsk oblast, southern parts of the Luhansk oblast, and western parts of the Rostovskaya...and plants stretches from Donetsk to Luhansk, creating the appearance of a whole region. On the other hand, the Luhansk oblast mostly consists of rural areas...
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Extreme Rhetoric in the 2004 Presidential Campaign: Images of Geopolitical and Regional Division
Journal article by Lyudmyla Pavlyuk; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Democracy, Linguistics, Political advertising, Political campaigns, Politics, Presidential elections, Rhetoric, Society, Ukraine
...on all 24 cable television channels in Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine showed documentary...high as 91 per cent. In neighbouring Luhansk region that together with Donetsk oblast...colleagues intended to fence in the Donetsk-Luhansk region with barbed wire. Ironically...
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Elections in Post-communist Ukraine, 1994-2004: an Overview1
Journal article by Bohdan Harasymiw; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Accountability, Parliaments, Political campaigns, Political parties, Political science, Politics, Presidential elections, Public opinion surveys, Ukraine, Voter behavior, Voters
...residents of Eastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv provinces), and those...Residents in Eastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv provinces) were disproportionately...differences between Lviv and Donetsk (or Luhansk) provinces as the extreme manifestations...
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Political Graft and Education Corruption in Ukraine: Compliance, Collusion, and Control
Journal article by Ararat L. Osipian; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 16, 2008
Subjects: Academic degrees, College admissions, Colleges & universities, Community colleges, Corruption, Educational services, Fraud, Higher education, Law enforcement, Legislation, Loans, Organized crime, Public officials, Society, Transition economies, Ukraine, Vocational schools
...which were in Kyiv.9 He mentioned a departmental chair in Luhansk who accepted cash and demanded that students pay his bills...investigative report revealed that the former president of the Luhansk branch of the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management...
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The Comparative Failure of Machine Politics, Administrative Resources and Fraud
Journal article by Kerstin Zimmer; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Candidates, Effectiveness, Political campaigns, Political parties, Political power, Politics, Presidential elections, Ukraine, Yanukovich, Viktor, Yushchenko, Viktor A
...casting ballots through "mobile ballot boxes," in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, it amounted to 8 per cent.82 Home voting was...second round, some eastern regions, especially Donetsk and Luhansk, registered fantastic voter turnouts. According to official...
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Different Country, Different People
Magazine article by Iain Elliot; The World Today, Vol. 61, January 2005
Subjects: Constitutional amendments, Electoral reform, Freedom of the press, Kuchma, Leonid, Political systems, Presidential elections, Putin, Vladimir, Russia, Ukraine, Yushchenko, Viktor A
...cafes and central European architecture, appeals more than Luhansk or Stakhanov, for instance, where I had the opportunity to...no hope of balanced election coverage from newspapers of the Luhansk region. MONITORING MISSIONS In the first round the Stakhanov...
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On Independence Square
Magazine article by Adrian Karatnycky; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Spring 2005
Subjects: Political corruption--Demonstrations and protests, Political protest--Personal narratives, Political protest--Social aspects, Yushchenko, Viktor--Political activity
...early morning hours showed a last-minute surge of voter turnout in Ukraines pro-government eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where "adjustments" pushed participation into the range of 90 to 100 percent. Early returns had suggested a turnout in...


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'Bluebirds Directors Wanted Me to Go Quietly but That Was Never My Style. They Would Have to Sack Me!'
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), July 29, 2005
...like my father. I was particularly incensed about Cardiffs formal twinning with Voroshilovgrad, as the Ukrainian city of Luhansk was then known. Some Labour councillors argued that by continuing with the link, pressure could be put on the regime to improve...
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Ukraine's Fourth Estate under Siege
Newspaper article by Natalia A. Feduschak; The Washington Times, October 7, 2001
Subjects: Kuchma, Leonid, Ukraine
...read opposition in those papers," said Yuriy Yurov, editor of 21st Century, a newspaper in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk. He admitted that he doesnt give government officials a voice in his publication, saying that they already have sufficient...
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Freedoms Being Suppressed, Journalists Complain
Newspaper article by Natalia A. Feduschak; The Washington Times, November 14, 1999
Subjects: Kuchma, Leonid
...presidential elections on Oct. 31. According to CPJ, local printing houses in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kryviy Rih and Luhansk refused to print four newspapers that had endorsed Mr. Kuchmas political rivals. "We are troubled by the Kuchma regimes...


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encyclopedia articles on: Luhansk  - 5 results

 
 
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Luhansk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUHANSK loohansk , Rus. Lugansk, city (1989 pop. 497,000), capital of Luhansk region, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the...the oldest center of the Donets Basin. Named Luhansk in 1889, it was called Voroshilovgrad from 1935...
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Lugansk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUGANSK Ukraine: see Luhansk . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Donets Basin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...E Ukraine and SW European Russia, N of the Sea of Azov and W of the Donets River. It is located mainly in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and extends E into Rostov region. The Donets Basin forms one of the densest industrial concentrations in...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bauxite. Ukraines main industrial centers are Kharkiv , Dnipropetrovsk , Donetsk , Zaporizhzhya , Makiyivka , Mariupol , and Luhansk . Odessa is the principal Ukrainian port on the Black Sea. Although mainly agricultural, W Ukraine has significant petroleum...
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Voroshilovgrad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VOROSHILOVGRAD see Luhansk , Ukraine. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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