Ukraine's Constitution on the Internet (07/28/96)

Ukraine's Constitution on the Internet

by Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj

NEW YORK - Those of us on the Internet and currently subscribed to Ukrainian and Ukrainian-related e-mail lists were privileged to be among the first to know about the ratification of the Ukrainian Constitution. [An article previously published in The Ukrainian Weekly covered the topic of e-mail lists. Information is also available at the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project (http://www.std.com/sabre/UKRAINE.htm) under the "About Ukraine" section.]

We also were able to access or receive this in an unofficial English version and the official Ukrainian one. Here's a succinct list of where you, too, can get your own complete copy.

The website of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Parliament, should be your first stop. It can be accessed via this URL: http://rada.kiev.ua/

The complete official version of the Constitution in Ukrainian is here, including the latest unofficial English translation. It is expected that an official English translation will soon be made available.

Another site worth mentioning is the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which supports electoral and other democratic activities in new democracies. The Internet address is http://ifes.rada.kiev.ua/ (also http://www.freenet.kiev.ua/IFES/ifes.htm), and of interest is material under "Project Activities." Not only is an unofficial English translation of the Ukrainian Constitution found here, but there is a complete list of the deputies in Ukraine's Parliament.

The Ukraine FAQ Plus Project (sponsored by Sabre Foundation (http://www.sabre.org/), a non-profit charitable organization active in educational support in the former Soviet Union, and TryzubSite (http://www.tryzub.com/)) also has a copy (e-mailed from the Supreme Council) in the "About Ukraine" section located at http://www.std.com/sabre/UKRAINE.html

The reason for this is that access to most of Ukraine's Internet websites is still slow and sometimes unreliable due to the mostly primitive telecommunications infrastructure, hence, our "mirror" copy.

Now that you have the Ukrainian document, how do you read it?

There are so many sources for Ukrainian fonts on Internet for the Macintosh and the Dos/Windows computers that I've decided to select some pages which cover nearly all the sources. For Macintosh users, take a look at http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/maccyrillic.html

For Dos/Windows: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/cyrillic/cyrillic.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail this writer at Bohdan@TRYZUB.com

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