Ukrainian protesters have been seeking constitutional reforms that would weaken the president's powers in response to President Viktor Yanukovych's rejection of a trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. The protests in Kiev have led to clashes with police, resulting in at least six deaths and over 1,000 injuries. The political opposition is led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and is calling for constitutional changes to establish a parliamentary system and reduce the president's control over the government. The European Union is considering economic measures to support Ukraine's economy but wants the crisis to be resolved before providing assistance.

1. Ukraine’s political crisis and
opposition
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2. Why chose this issue?
Fertile= үржил шимтэй
Grain= амуу тариа
THE BREAD BASKET OF EUROPE

3. UKRAINE
• was become independent 1991
• is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces),
one autonomous republic (Crimea), and two cities with special
status: Kiev, its capital and largest city, and Sevastopol, which
houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement.
• is a republic under a semi-presidential system with
separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
• is home to 46 million people.
• Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine.
• Russian is also widely spoken.
Widely=өргөнөөр

4. WHY HAVE THEY BEEN PROTESTING THEIR GOVERNMENT?

5. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT
• Viktor Yanukovych “Віктор Янукович”
• born 9 July 1950
• has been President of Ukraine since February 2010
• completed tertiary studies in mechanical engineering
as a correspondence student at the Donetsk
Politechnical Institute
• In 2001, at the age of 51, he received his Masters
in International Law from the Ukrainian Academy of
Foreign Trade.
• is also a "professor" of the International Academy of
Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts, registered to a
P.O. Box in Mountain View, California
• Between May 1999 and May 2001 he was also the
Head of Donetsk Oblast Council.
correspondence=харилцан холбоо
Tertiary= гуравдагч

6. BECAUSE ……
Ukrainian president
is Viktor Yanukovych
Trigger= эхлэлийг тавих, Uprising = бослого гарах, package=боодол, илгээмж
эдийн засаг, provoke= өдөөх, outrage= хүчирхийлэл

7. WHO IS THE LEADER OF OPPOSITION?
• Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk Арсеній Петрович
Яценюк
• born May 22, 1974 in a family of professors of
the Chernivtsi University
• is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer.
• served in the government of Ukraine as Minister
of Economy from 2005 to 2006
• is one of the leaders of Ukraine's second biggest
party. All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland” is led
by Yulia Tymoshenko.
• From December 1992 to September 1997 he was
the president of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based
in Chernivtsi.
• From January 1998 until September 2001,
Yatsenyuk worked in the Aval bank, based in Kiev.
Lead= Удирдах
Base= Байгуулагдах, суурь тавих

8. WHAT DID PROTESTERS SEEK FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT?
CONSTITUTIONAL
CHANGE THAT WILL
WEAKEN THE
PRESIDENT’S POWERS.

9. WHY DID THEY SEEK CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE THAT RELEVANT
PRESIDENT’S POWER?
Constitution of Ukraine
Chapter V: President of Ukraine
Article 106
The President of Ukraine: This article are defined 31 rights that is enjoyed by
the president of Ukraine. Such as:
• appoints and dismisses heads of diplomatic missions of Ukraine to other
states and to international organizations;
• appoints the Prime Minister of Ukraine with the consent of the Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine;
• terminates the authority of the Prime Minister of Ukraine and adopts a
decision on his or her resignation;
• appoints, on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, members of
the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, chief officers of other central bodies of
executive power, and also the heads of local state administrations, and
terminates their authority in these positions;
Dismiss= огцруулах, consent= тохиролцох

10. WHY DID THEY SEEK CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE THAT RELEVANT
PRESIDENT’S POWER?
• appoints the Procurator General of Ukraine to office with the consent of
the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and dismisses him or her from office;
• appoints one-half of the composition of the Council of the National Bank of
Ukraine;
• appoints one-half of the composition of the National Council of Ukraine on
Television and Radio Broadcasting;
• appoints to office and dismisses from office, with the consent of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee
of Ukraine, the Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine and the
Chairman of the State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting of
Ukraine;
• establishes, reorganizes and liquidates, on the submission of the Prime
Minister of Ukraine, ministries and other central bodies of executive power,
acting within the limits of funding envisaged for the maintenance of bodies
of executive power;
Envisage= урьдчилан тооцоолох

11. Officials were preparing
measures for
constitutional change.
Justice Minister Olena Lukash

12. MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN THE PROTEST.

13. six people dead and more than 1,000 injured.

14. EU spokeswoman,
Maja Kocijancic
EU is considering new financial
measures to support Ukraine’s
troubled economy, but that the
country’s political crisis must be
resolved before any assistance can be
granted.
EU is looking for additional ways to
support Ukraine’s economy but that
the 28 nation bloc won’t be drawn
European Commission into competition with Russia.
President, Jose
Manuel Barroso

15. Protest in Ukraine not against Russia, but
against post-Soviet future.

16. INFORMATION SOURCE
•http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine#Chapter
_III:_Elections.
• http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0204/502072-ukraine-protests/
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraineopposition-wants-constitutional-change/2014/02/03/3d14584a8ccc-11e3-9ed8-259977a48789_story.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6YnR9UbezA
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25957251
• http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21595512government-resigns-opposition-protesters-remain-defiantlystreets-praying
• http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/28/world/europe/ukraineprotests/