List of events
2012 in Ukraine
Events
March 30 - Ukraine and the European Union initial an association agreement providing for the creation of a free trade zone and visa facilitation;[ 1]
April 2 - The first flight on the route Kharkiv-Kyiv with a high-speed train, designed to move at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour, produced by the Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works ;[ 2]
April 5 - Georgy Filipchuk, former Minister of Environmental Protection in the Second Tymoshenko government , is sentenced to three years in prison by the Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv;
April 12 - Kyiv's Pechersk District Court sentences former Defence Minister Valery Ivashchenko to five years in prison;[ 3]
April 27 - Dnipropetrovsk explosions
May 14 - Viktor Yanukovych signed the new Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine;
May 18 - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation liquidated the Union of Ukrainians of Russia ;
June 8 - July 1 - Poland and Ukraine host the 2012 European Football Championship . In the final in Kyiv, Spain defeated Italy with a record score of 4: 0;
July 31 - The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratifies the agreement on a free trade zone with the Commonwealth of Independent States countries;[ 4]
August 17 - Former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko sentenced to 2 years in prison;[ 5]
August 29 - September 9 - Paralympic Games in London, where Ukraine won fourth place;
According to the State Statistics Service , in September, for the first time in 19 years, the population of Ukraine increased;
September 26 - Karavan shooting ;
October 19 - Russian opposition leader Leonid Razvozzhayev is abducted and taken to Moscow near the UN Office for Refugees by Russian special services in Kyiv;[ 6]
October 28 - Ukraine holds parliamentary elections ;
November 7 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov transfers a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV confiscated from the Minister of Justice to the Ministry of Justice and orders the Ministry of Internal Affairs to register the vehicle;[ 7]
December 1 - Ukrainian Anna Ushenina became world champion in women's chess;
December 3 - Mykola Azarov's government is dismissed;[ 8]
December 5 - Against the background of mass cancellation of flights, the largest air carrier in Ukraine "AeroSvit " filed for bankruptcy in the Commercial Court of Kyiv region;[ 9]
December 5 - In the annual Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by the international non-governmental organization Transparency International , Ukraine ranks 144th and is named the most corrupt country in Europe ;[ 10] [ 11]
December 15 - Trofimov Beheadings
December 24 - Oleksandr Yaroslavsky under pressure from the city authorities sold the football club "Metalist" for $ 300 million;[ 12]
December 26 - Mykhailo Fomenko is approved as the head coach of the Ukraine national football team .
Died
February 1 - Stepan Sapelyak, Ukrainian poet, novelist, publicist, literary critic, human rights activist, public figure;
February 3 - Vyacheslav Boykov, Ukrainian musician, pianist, teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine;
February 24 - Andriy Benckendorf, Ukrainian and Russian film director;
March 8 - Oksana Makar
March 17 - John Demjanjuk , a Ukrainian Red Army soldier, acquitted in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court of war crimes charges during World War II ;
March 20 - Atena Pashko , chemical engineer, poet and social activist
May 23 - Borys Voznytsky, Ukrainian art critic , director of the Lviv Art Gallery , Hero of Ukraine (2005), winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1990);
July 31 - Iryna Kalynets , Ukrainian poet;
November 27 - Ivan Bilyk, Ukrainian writer and translator, winner of the Shevchenko Prize;
December 18 - Anatoliy Zayayev , Honored Coach of Ukraine in football.
Shevchenko National Prize 2012
This year the winners of the award were:
art critic Tetyana Kara-Vasylieva - for the book "History of Ukrainian embroidery ";
artist Anatoliy Kryvolap - for a series of paintings "Ukrainian motif";
poet Petro Midianka - for the book of poems "Luitra in the sky";
writer Volodymyr Rutkivsky - for the historical trilogy for children "Jury";
composer Victor Stepurko - for the musical work "Monologues of the Centuries".
Incumbents
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