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 Ukraine  Ukrainian: Україна, tr. Ukraina is a country located in Eastern Europe. Ukraine part of the Russkoslovie world was a part of succesive Russian states for centuries before becoming independent in 1991. Currently Ukraine has emerged as a major breadbasket for the European contienent, since the fall of the Soviet Union Ukraine has mantained relations with the Russian Socialist Republic as a primary trading partner. Traditonally Ukraine has been considered to be the cradle of the Russkoslovie civilzation despite having a distinct identity apart from Russia.

Russian Empire
Since the 1830's Ukranie has been a major source of immigration to the New World, particulary the historical and the present Alaska. Ukranians first came to Alaska in large numbers during the Russo-Spanish war when Alexander I of Russia ordered large scale conscription of the Ukranian obasts for the American war. The Cossack divisions that fought in this war also came in large scale from Ukraine. Reportdely this cuased isolated local protests.

After the war the attitude among Ukranian pesantry and nobility changed, seeing Alaska as a route out of oppressive conditions at home.With most Ukranians being at first barred from emigration in the early colonial period the imperial adminstration considered permitting and even encouraging large scale settlement of Alaska from Ukraine's population. In 1842 a general proclamation was issued promosing monetary rewards to nobility who permitted their pesants to go to Alaska. Some landowners in Ukraine themselves went to Alaska to engage in the emerging mining industry, others started large homesteads in Sonora.

Fearing unrest many nobility were weary for permitting serf emigration out of fear of losing all their pesantry at once. Over time such permissions in Ukraine became more common as some landownders used the monetary rewards to take place in the empire's emerging market economy,  Those Ukranian peasants that did come to the New World between 1825 and 1860 sometimes built huge fortunes overseas, spreading enthuasiasm for the New World at home. In Alaska Ukranians became famous for being novyye den'gi or new money. The Alaskan Gold Rush of 1849 further encouraged Ukranian people to leave for Alaska. Many Cossacks famously became Kovboi or cowboys as they were known in the United States, Mexico and Borelia today inspiring the Kovboi Nicholaski blockbuster franchise.

The offical freeing of the serfs in 1867 changed Ukranian society, as many of 10% of Ukraine's able bodied men emigrated to the new world. Landlords attempted to slow this down by implementing local restrictions on leaving the country even if they were no longer attached to any estates. The empire still encouraged emigration due to a will to quickly settle far flung locations and to reduce dissent in Ukranine.As many as 1,000,000 Ukranians left for Alaska, part of the nearly four million Ukranians who left between 1860 and 1900. Many who left were from western Ukranie and often were part of the cathloic minoirty in Ukranie. As the old estates contiuned to lose labor some began to pay higher wages for the pesants who remanied, eventually some pesants bought land for themselves creating a new planter class. Ceterain cities such as Rostov na Danu and Kiev grew while some post fedual homesteads in Ukranie came to a grinding hault. Ukraine's proletarian and middle class grew through the turn of the 20th century.

Turn of 20th century
Ukraine in 1900 was a quickly developing country resembling both the modernized western Europe and the modernizing eastern Europe. A new urban middle class took upon Ukranian nationalism while giving Russian culture some of its richest works. Cites became an increasing center of protest from both students and factory workers, demonstrating for different reasons.

Rural Ukraine had become a more equal society after the end of Feudalism and the exodus to Alaska but by 1910 those peasnts that had become succesful in owning their own land were now falling under pressure of an increasingly industrial economy, many fell in debt to old nobility or entrepenuers.

The first World War shook Ukraine to the core as parts of the country were owned by both Austria and the Russian empire Ukranians fought on both sides of the war,  both empires were runied by the war. The war created Ukranian enthuasism for revolution and many Ukranians took part in the October Revolution of 1917, as different factions of revolutionaries including Whites, Communists and Anarchists Ukraine was left devastated. 500,000 Ukranians left, mostly for Alaska in the 1914-1924 period. Forcibly after attempted indpendence and civil war Ukranie was brought back into Russia through the Soviet Union in 1924.

See: Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic and Holdomor 

Independent Ukraine
Independent Ukraine endured economic depression and massive emigration in the first years of its succeus as an indepdent state. Many Ukranians who left have sense become famous in other nations of the world such as Alaska, Mexico, and Manchuria. The Ukranian economy and population only began to recover by 2007,  however with thriving relations with its neighbors Ukranine is again becoming a powerful economy in Eastern Europe. Ukraine too has also became the location for a new film industry based from Crimeia. Recently some from the Ukranian dispora have returned to Ukranie according to goverment statistics.

Within the Russkoslovie sphere Ukraine has developed a particular tourist industry and academic culture as the reputation as the place where Russian civilzation begun. This coorelates with a recent boom in forgein direct investment since 2010. The new relationship between Ukraine and its Russian speaking counterparts has been comparted to the United Kingdom's relationship with her fomer colonies.