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Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe.
Area: total: 603,700 sq km
Population: 45,994,288
Climate: temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south
Languages: Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities)
Capital: name: Kyiv (Kiev)
Independence: 24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
National holiday: Independence Day, 24 August (1991); note - 22 January 1918, the day Ukraine first declared its independence (from Soviet Russia) and the day the short-lived Western and Central Ukrainian republics united (1919), is now celebrated as Unity Day
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Russian Music
Barriel Darina Russian Christian Music
Anoiting music and language even if we don't understand the meaning, our heart is touched by love ! Music from Russia.
BARRIEL DARINA
Darina Barriel was born in Odessa on the 20th of May 1981. When she was only 10 she performed her own song at the contest «Your talents Ukraine». She was awarded with grand prix. At the age of 15 she came to God and was baptized in a baptist church "Bathany"in Odessa.
In 1997 Darina graduated from the musical school. The same year she was invited to record her songs in christian studio "PIER" in Odessa. Darina's song «Look at the cross» soon became popular among christian youth of the city and was gladly accepted at the Ukrainian christian youth festival in summer 1999 in Crimea. In 2000 studio "PIER" recorded her musical album «Meaning» with three Darina's songs.
Today she studies on the third course of the Math faculty at Odessa National University. Also she sings with the band "PIER" and records her album.
Anoiting music and language even if we don't understand the meaning, our heart is touched by love ! Music from Russia.
BARRIEL DARINA
Darina Barriel was born in Odessa on the 20th of May 1981. When she was only 10 she performed her own song at the contest «Your talents Ukraine». She was awarded with grand prix. At the age of 15 she came to God and was baptized in a baptist church "Bathany"in Odessa.
In 1997 Darina graduated from the musical school. The same year she was invited to record her songs in christian studio "PIER" in Odessa. Darina's song «Look at the cross» soon became popular among christian youth of the city and was gladly accepted at the Ukrainian christian youth festival in summer 1999 in Crimea. In 2000 studio "PIER" recorded her musical album «Meaning» with three Darina's songs.
Today she studies on the third course of the Math faculty at Odessa National University. Also she sings with the band "PIER" and records her album.
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