Державний лад України (Ukrainian) Derzhavnyy lad Ukrayiny (Romanization)
Coat of arms of Ukraine
Polity type
Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
Constitution
Constitution of Ukraine
Formation
24 August 1991 (independence)28 June 1996 (constitution in force)
Legislative branch
Name
Verkhovna Rada
Type
Unicameral
Meeting place
Verkhovna Rada Building, Kyiv
Executive branch
Head of State
Title
President
Currently
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Appointer
Direct popular vote
Head of Government
Title
Prime Minister
Currently
Denys Shmyhal
Appointer
Verkhovna Rada
Cabinet
Name
Government of Ukraine
Leader
Prime Minister
Appointer
Verkhovna Rada
Headquarters
Cabinet of Ministries
Ministries
19
Judicial branch
Name
Judiciary of Ukraine
Constitutional Court
Chief judge
Nataliya Shaptala
Seat
14 Zhylianska St., Kyiv
Supreme Court
Chief judge
Yaroslav Romanyuk
Politics of Ukraine
Constitution
Human rights
Presidency
President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Office of the President
National Security and Defence Council
Presidential representatives
Presidential symbols
Executive
Prime Minister
Denys Shmyhal
Cabinet
Shmyhal Government
Legislature
Verkhovna Rada(parliament)
Chairman: Ruslan Stefanchuk
Committees
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Imperative mandate
Judiciary
Constitutional Court
Supreme Court
Prosecutor General
Local government
Local state administration (chief)
Local legislature
Administrative divisions
Autonomous republics
Oblasts
Raions
Cities (with special status)
Elections
Central Election Commission
Political parties
Recent elections
Presidential
2014
2019
2024
Parliamentary
2014
2019
next
Local
2014 (Kyiv)
2015
2020
Referendums
1991 (March)
1991 (Dec)
2000
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Dmytro Kuleba
Diplomatic missions of / in Ukraine
Nationality law
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
International membership
CIS
GUAM
Ukraine–European Union relations
Ukraine–NATO relations
Countries
Austria
Belarus
Canada
China
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Iceland
India
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden
Transnistria
United Kingdom
United States
International organizations
CIS
European Union
GUAM
NATO
Diplomatic missions of Ukraine
in Ukraine
See also
Ukrainian nationalism
Declaration of Independence
Proclamation of Independence
Cassette Scandal
Ukraine without Kuchma
Orange Revolution
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
Universal of National Unity
Political crises of 2006
2007
2008
Kharkiv Pact
Annexation of Crimea by Russia
2022 Russian invasion
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The politics of Ukraine take place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic and a multi-party system. A Cabinet of Ministers exercises executive power (jointly with the president until 1996). Legislative power is vested in Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада, lit. 'Supreme Council').
As part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic until 1991, the political system featured a single-party socialist-republic framework characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), the sole-governing party then permitted by the Ukrainian SSR's constitution. In 1996, the current constitution replaced the previous constitution that was introduced in 1978.
The widely condemned Russian annexations of Crimea in 2014, and of Donetsk and Luhansk in 2022 have complicated the de facto political situation associated with those areas.
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