Constitution Day (Ukraine)

Constitution Day (Ukrainian: День Конституції) is a Ukrainian public holiday celebrated on 28 June since 1996.[3][4] It commemorates the anniversary of the approval by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) of the Constitution of Ukraine on 28 June 1996.[4][5]

Constitution Day
День Конституції
Stamp of Ukraine commemorating the holiday
Observed byUkraine
TypeNational
SignificanceThe anniversary of the signing of the Ukrainian constitution of 1996
CelebrationsSpeeches by politicians[1][2]
Date28 June
Next time28 June 2020 (2020-06-28)
Frequencyannual

In the 2000s most Ukrainians did not see it as a holiday, but as an ordinary day off; about 10% believed it should be a working day (12% in 2008; this number had shrunk from 14% in 2003).[6] Only in Western Ukraine was the holiday among the list of most respected holidays in Ukraine.[7]

Soviet Constitution day (7 October) was never observed in the Ukrainian SSR (the predecessor of modern Ukraine).[8]

References
  1. Ukraine marks Constitution Day on June 28, UNIAN (28 June 2018)
  2. Ukraine's leaders congratulate Ukrainians on Constitution Day, Interfax-Ukraine (28 June 2018)
  3. Ukraine celebrating 20th anniversary of Constitution, UNIAN (28 June 2016)
    Yulia Tymoshenko Goes On Trial A Day Before Constitution Day, Eurasia Daily Monitor (30 July 2011)
  4. 1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW, The Ukrainian Weekly (29 December 1996)
  5. Ukraine marks Constitution Day Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (28 June 2014)
  6. (in Ukrainian) Як Ви ставитеся до Дня Конституції України? (динаміка, 2003-2008) How do you feel about the Constitution Day of Ukraine? (Recurrent, 2003-2008) Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Razumkov Centre (27 June 2008)
    Більше половини українців не вважають День Конституції святом More than half do not consider Ukrainian Constitution Day holiday Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Razumkov Centre (27 June 2008)
  7. (in Ukrainian) Травневі свята найменше люблять на Заході України - опитування May holidays like least in Western Ukraine - poll, Gazeta.ua (30 April 2010)
  8. The Ukrainian Resurgence by Bohdan Nahaylo, University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 0802079776 (page 402)
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