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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

  • Received: 13.03.2026
  • Accepted: 17.03.2026
  • Published:                     

UKRAINIAN WORLD CONGRESS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTION WITH THE UKRAINIAN STATE IN 1993—1998

YATSIV Andriy

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1421-6518
  • Master of History, Deputy Director,
  • The International Institute of Education,
  • Culture and Diaspora Relations,
  • Lviv Polytechnic National University,
  • 32A, Stepana Bandery Str., 79013, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: yatsiv@gmail.com

Abstract. Тhe article examines the development of political relations between the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and the Ukrainian state authorities and their institutions during 1993—1998.

The aim of the article is to systematize and analyze the key directions and development of interaction, as well as episodes of criticism in the relations between the Ukrainian World Congress, its representatives and structural components on the one hand, and the Ukrainian state authorities and their institutions on the other during 1993—1998.

The object of the study is the Western Ukrainian diaspora and the Ukrainian World Congress. The subject of the study is the processes of political interaction and communication between the UWC and the institutions of the Ukrainian state in 1993—1998.

The methodological basis of the research relies on a comprehensive scientific approach based on the principles of objectivity and historicism, as well as descriptive, problem-chronological, system-structural and typological methods, and a cause-and-effect analysis of the presented material.

The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of applying its conclusions to expand the theoretical basis of Ukrainian diaspora studies, particularly regarding the institutional movement of the Western Ukrainian diaspora and its relations with Ukraine, as well as the Ukrainian socio-political life of the twentieth century.

Keywords: Ukrainian diaspora, Ukrainian World Congress, state independence of Ukraine, Dmytro Tsipivnyk, Vasyl Veryha, Leonid Kuchma, Hennadii Udovenko.

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