SCIENTIFIC YEARBOOK Issue Twelve Compilers Leonid Guberskiy, Pavlo Kryvonos, Borys Gumenyuk, Anatoliy Denysenko, Vasyl Turkevych Kyiv • 2011 ББК 66.49(4УКР)я5+63.3(4УКР)Оя5 UKRAYINA DYPLOMATYCHNA (Diplomatic Ukraine) SCIENTIFIC AN NUALLY Issued since November 2000 THE TWELFTH ISSUE Founders: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine General Directorate for Servicing Foreign Representations Historical Club Planeta The issue is recommended for publishing by the Scientific Council of the Diplomatic Academyat the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Protocol No of September 28, 2011 р. Publisher: General Directorate for Servicing Foreign Representations Chief Editor Anatoliy Denysenko, PhD (history) Deputy chief editors: Borys Humenyuk, Doctor of History, Vasyl Turkevych, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine Leonid Schlyar, Doctor of Political Sciences Executive editor: Volodymyr Denysenko, Doctor of History ISBN 966-7522-07-5 EDITORIAL BOARD Kostyantyn Gryschenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Guberskiy, Rector of the T.G. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophy Borys Humenyuk, Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the MFA of Ukraine, Deputy Chief Editor Volodymyr Khandogiy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Volodymyr Yalovyi, Deputy Head of the VR Staff of Ukraine Oleh Bilorus, Head of the VR Committee of Ukraine for Foreign Affairs, Member of the NAS of Ukraine Pavlo Kryvonos, Director General of the General Directorate for Servicing Foreign Representations, Publisher Yuri Kostenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the People’s Republic of China Yuri Rylach, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, Chairman of the Union of Diplomats of Ukraine Anatoliy Denysenko, Chairman of the Historical Club Planeta, PhD (History), hon- ored journalist of Ukraine, Chief Editor Oleksandr Shulga, Head of the State Archives Departments of the MFA of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk, Minister of Education. Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine, Doctor of History, professor Myroslav Romanyuk, Director of the V.Stefanyk National Library of Lviv, correspond- ing member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History Mykola Zhelezniak, Director of the Institute of Encyclopedic Research of the NAS of Ukraine, PhD (philosophy) Vasyl Kremen, President of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophy Oleksiy Onyschenko, Doctor of Philosophy Sergiy Pyrozhkov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Moldova, Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Economy Viktor Andruschenko, Rector of the M. Dragomanova National Pedagogical University, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophy Petro Talanchuk, President of the Open International University of Human Development Ukraina, Member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Golovchenko, Head of the Chair at the Institute of International Relations of the T.G. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of History Mykola Kulinich, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan, PhD (history) Petro Kononenko, Director of the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine, member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Oleksandr Savenko, Director General of the Kyiv State TV and Radio Company, hon- ored journalist of Ukraine Iryna Voitsehivska, Professor of the T.G. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of History Stepan Vidnyansky, Head of the Department of the Institute of History of the MAD of Ukraine, Doctor of History Volodymyr Bekh, the First Deputy Rector of the M. Dragomanova National Pedagogical University, Doctor of Philosophy Sergiy Braga, Chief Editor of the Uryadovyi Kurier Paper, honored journalist of Ukraine Volodymyr Sergiychuk, professor of the T.G. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of History Valeriy Soldatenko, Head of the Institute of the National Memory, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History Leonid Schklyar, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Deputy Chief Editor Ihor Alekseenko, Director General of the Publisher’s Naukova Dumka of the NAS of Ukraine, PhD (biology), honoured worker of art of Ukraine Iryna Matyash, assistant of the Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Doctor of History Vasyl’ Kyrylych, Consul-Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Austria, PhD (Political Studies) Andriy Kudryachenko, Director of the Institute of European Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History Rostislav Sossa, Director of the State Scientific-Production Enterprise Kartografiya, Doctor of Geography Volodymyr Borysenko, Head of the Chair of History of the M. Dragomanova National Pedagogical University, Doctor of History Grygoryi Perepelytsya, Director of the Foreign Policy Institute of the Diplomatic Academy at the MFA of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences Volodymyr Lozytskyi, Director of the Central State Archive of the Public Associations of Ukraine,, PhD (history) Vasyl Turkevych, honored worker of art of Ukraine, Deputy Chief Editor Oleksandr Detsyk, Director General of Ukrinform Petro Chupryna, Director General of the National Opera of Ukraine, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine Mykhailo Soroka, Head of the Kyiv Organization of the National Union of the Journalists of Ukraine, Deputy Director General of the Ukrinform Yaroslav Yatskiv, Director of the Main Astronomic Observatory of Ukraine, Member of the NAS of Ukraine Volodymyr Lavrynenko, Deputy Rector of the M. Dragomanova National Pedagogical University, professor Viktor Danylenko, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History, Head of the Department at the Institute of History of the NAS of Ukraine Volodymyr Yatsenkisky, Head of the Department for Communications with Foreign Ukrainians and for Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation, acting deputy head of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO 4 Roksolana Ivanchenko, Head of the Department of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO Oleh Voloshyn, Director of the Department of the Information Policy of the MFA of Ukraine Olga Taukach, Chief Editor of the Zovnishni Spravy Journal Oleksandr Dobrzhansky, Dean of the faculty for history, political studies and inter- national relations of the Yu. Fedkovych National University in Chernovtsy, Doctor of History Andriy Kravets, Head of the State Clerical Department of the President of Ukraine German Makarenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine, honoured worker of art of Ukraine, Ambassador of Ukrainian Culture Valerii Kopiika, Director of the Institute of International Relations of the T.G. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Political Science, Professor Mykola Prodanchuk, Director of the L.I. Medved Institute of Ecohygiene and Toxicology, Doctor of Medicine, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences Kostyantyn Balabanov, Rector of the Mariupol State University, Honored Consul of the Republic of Cyprus in Mariupol, Doctor of Political Sciences, corresponding mem- ber of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Viktor Pasak, Deputy Director of the State Enterprise National Paper-Journal Publishers Kultura , honored journalist of Ukraine, President of the Association of Friendship ‘Ukraine-Cuba’ Viktor Chamara, First secretary of the National Union of journalists of Ukraine, Honored Journalist of Ukraine Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk, Senior research worker of the Institute of the Institute of political and ethnic-national affairs named after I.F Kuras, doctor of History Vasyl Yurychko, President of the International service "Ukrainian television and broadcasting", Candidate of History, Honored Journalist of Ukraine 5 Address of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to Ukrainian Citizens on Occasion of 20-Year Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine DEAR COMPATRIOTS, DEAR CITIZENS OF UKRAINE, I am honored to congratulate you with 20-years anniversary of Independence! Today we are celebrating the jubilee of our statehood. We have behind us twenty years of the contemporary history that changed our lives. Prior to that there were hundreds of years of struggle waged by our previous generations for independence. Centuries-long experience of the Kiev Rus is the actual founda- tion of our independence. In those glorious times our land was one of the cradles of the Christian civilization and now Ukraine proudly 6 continues this mission. Our history is inseparably connected with the history of modern Europe. For centuries the best daughters and sons of Ukraine were striv- ing for its independence based on freedom, humanism and democracy. We gained independence and witnessed the great event – appearance of the state of Ukraine in the world map. Twenty years of independence were no at all easy time for Ukraine. We experienced the years of romantic elation, crises and populism. However, despite of the events in the country people worked, raised children and hoped for decent life, strong and fair power. Now all braches of power are united for the common goal, which is renovation of the state and building of successful Ukraine. All de- pends on every one of us. Twenty years is a wonderful age for new initiatives and decisive