branch:
unicameral Supreme Council
Judicial branch:
being organized
Leaders:
Chief of State:
President Leonid Makarovych KRAVCHUK (since 5 December 1991)
Head of Government:
Prime Minister Leonid Danilovych KUCHMA (since 13 October 1992); Acting
First Deputy Prime Minister Yukhym Leonidovych ZVYAHIL'SKYY (since 11 June
1993) and five deputy prime ministers
Member of:
BSEC, CBSS (observer), CIS, CSCE, EBRD, ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ILO, IMF, INMARSAT,
IOC, ITU, NACC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNPROFOR, UPU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO
Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Oleh Hryhorovych BILORUS
chancery:
3350 M Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20007
telephone:
(202) 333-0606
FAX:
(202) 333-0817
US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Roman POPADIUK
embassy:
10 Vul. Yuria Kotsyubinskovo, 252053 Kiev 53
mailing address:
APO AE 09862
telephone:
[7] (044) 244-7349
FAX:
[7] (044) 244-7350
Flag:
two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow represent
grainfields under a blue sky

*Ukraine, Economy

Overview:
After Russia, the Ukrainian republic was far and away the most important
economic component of the former Soviet Union producing more than three
times the output of the next-ranking republic. Its fertile black soil
generated more than one fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms
provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain and vegetables to other
republics. Likewise, its well-developed and diversified heavy industry
supplied equipment and raw materials to industrial and mining sites in other
regions of the former USSR. In 1992 the Ukrainian government liberalized
most prices and erected a legal framework for privatizing state enterprises
while retaining many central economic controls and continuing subsidies to
state production enterprises. In November 1992 the new Prime Minister KUCHMA
launched a new economic reform program promising more freedom to the
agricultural sector, faster privatization of small and medium enterprises,
and stricter control over state subsidies. Even so, the magnitude of the
problems and the slow pace in building new market-oriented institutions
preclude a near-term recovery of output to the 1990 level.
National product:
GDP $NA
National product real growth rate:
-13% (1992 est.)
National product per capita:
$NA
Infla