III. Translate the sentences into Russian/Ukrainian.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 388.

1. Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

2. Kuchma was, however, criticized by opponents for corruption, electoral fraud, discouraging free speech and concentrating too much of power in his office.

3. However, the country experienced deeper economic slowdown than some of the other former Soviet Republics.

4. At the meeting in Brest, Belarus on December 8, followed by Alma Ata meeting on December 21, the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, formally dissolved the Soviet Union and formed the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

5. Estimates of deaths from the 1932-33 famine alone range from 3 million to 7 million.

6. The Soviet Government's initial efforts to conceal the extent of the catastrophe at the Chornobyl from its own people exposed the severe problems of the Soviet system.

7. Kievan Rus Prince Vladimir converted the Kievan nobility and most of the population to Christianity in 988.

8. Since the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine continues to maintain the second largest military in Europe.

9. A new Constitution of Ukraine was adopted in 1996 and turned Ukraine into a semi-presidential republic.

10. Yanukovych returned to a position of power in 2006, when he became Prime Minister in the Alliance of National Unity, until snap elections in September 2007 made Tymoshenko Prime Minister again.