2. Facts  Population: 46 299 862 in 2007  Location: borders the Black Sea between Poland and Russia  Major Religions: Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish  Languages: Ukrainian (official) Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian

3. Ukrainian Flag

4. Ukraine

6. Ukrainian Alphabet

7. 10-11 th Centuries Kievan Rus’, the state considered the early predecessor if modern Ukraine At the time, it is the largest and most powerful state in Europe

8. 1667  As a result of the Treaty of Andrusovo, much of what is now the modern day Ukraine becomes part of the Russian empire  It was not until 1920 that Ukraine first found a brief independence from Soviet control

9. The World Wars  During the Great Wars in the early 20 th Century, more than 8 million Ukrainians die in communist backed famines  Another 2 million die at the hands of Hitler and his numerous concentration camps

10. The Great Famine

15. 1991  Ukraine become and independent nation-state, separate from the Soviets and their brutal oppression for the first time in over 70 years

16. 2004-2005  The people of the Ukraine stage the Orange Revolution in support of free democratic elections  The Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution