List of political scandals in Ukraine
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Political scandals in Ukraine are as common as anywhere in the world, while the country's top legislation body became notorious around the world for its brawls resolving any session hall stalemate with a power of fist. Probably one of the most notorious became the fight that occurred on April 27, 2010 which involved egg missiles and smoke bombs.
Several major stand off has developed out of the
Yuri Luzhkov
) continues to release statements in 2008 questioning the status of Sevastopol long after the signing of treaty on peace and friendship in 1997.
The article provides a list of major political scandals, collection and sequence of which helps to depict a political stance of the country.
Year by year
1992 - 1993
- Status of Sevastopol, official Russian claims and response of the President of Ukraine
- Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
- Incident with the "Afghan Home" in War of Transnistria
- Participation of UNSO in the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict
- Outlawing of UNSO
1995
- Revival of UNA-UNSOand involvement in the Chechen conflict
- Black Tuesday, clash between government forces and UNSO in connection with the burial of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate
- Outlawing UNA-UNSO once again
- President of Crimea post
- Involvement of UNSO members in protests against the Union State and prosecution of UNSO in Belarus
1997 - 1999
- Tax Code protests, reinstatement of UNA-UNSO
- Vyacheslav Chornovilcontroversy
2000 - 2003
- Ukraine without Kuchma (UbK)
- Cassette scandal and Georgiy Gongadzedisappearance
- March 2001 UbK Unrest (Ukraine)
- Establishment of UNSO)
- Arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko in connection with United Energy Systems of Ukraine (Criminal charges against Tymoshenko proved to be groundless in 2004)
- Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 accident
- Anti-Ukrainian sentiment incident (Bilozir Affair)
- Russian Federation)
- Statement by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine office, and particularly Svyatoslav Piskun, about involvement of former Hromada members (Pavlo Lazarenko, Yulia Tymoshenko) in the assassination of Ukrainian businessman Yevhen Shcherban in 1996 and the former chairman of National Bank of Ukraine Vadym Hetman in 1998.
- Border conflict at Tuzla Island
2004 - 2005
- Orange Revolution in Ukraine
- 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
- Detection and introduction of the carousel voting concept
- Poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko controversy
- 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
- Snake Island
- Declaration on establishing of the Southeastern Autonomous Republic and Novorossiysk Krai
2005 - 2007
- Declaration on National Unity
- The Intensified dialogue between NATO and Government of Ukraine
- 2006 anti-NATO protests in Feodosiya, Nataliya Vitrenko
- Announcement of several Russian high-ranking officials persona non grata (Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Konstantin Zatulin) - deterioration of Russia–Ukraine relations
- Formation of parliamentary majority (2006 political crisis)
- 2007 political crisis, 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- Dismissal of judges of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine
- Dismissal of judges of the
- A hunting accident involving Yevhen Kushnaryov
2008 - 2010
- 2008 South Ossetia war, pro-Georgian sentiments, and crash of Yushchenko
- Party switching in Ukraine, Reversal of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine
- Kharkiv Accords
- 2010 Ukrainian presidential election
- Anti-Tabachnyk campaign and student human chains against the Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk
- Anti-Ukrainian sentiments set out in Odesa by members of pro-Russian party and local Antifa
- Status of national awards questioned (Hero of Ukraine, Shevchenko National Prize)
Recent
- Yuri Lutsenkoand others
- Legislation on languages in Ukraine
- 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, mass protesting clashes