Ancient Sumy Land

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Authors: Lobko N. V. PhD (History), Assosiate Professor (Ukraine), Sumy State University. ORCID ID: 0000- 0002-3401-7295.

The article describes the history of emergence of «klirovye vedomosti» churches on the territory of Ukraine, finds out explores their information potential and peculiarities of using them in genealogical researches. «Klirovye vedomosti» are one the most important documentation types of parish record-keeping. Analyzing the archives materials and the published researches on the issue, the author investigates the process of formation and functioning of the clergy record-keeping. Along with legislative base of the emergence of «klirovye vedomosti», the special features of the realization of the law in daily life as well as the change of the form of the source since the XVIII century to the XIX century are retraced. «Klirovye vedomosti» were made up once a year in duplicate a church copy and a consistory one. Due to its systematic, regular keeping, mass character of coverage of the society they are an important source for reconstruction of pedigrees of the clergy. With their help it is possible to know out a family composition, the name, patronymic and surname (if it was designated), age of each member and relations inside the family. The lack of a large time gap allows with their help to determine the time of the marriage, the time of the death and also the quantity of born and deceased children during the period under study. The author considers that «klirovye vedomosti» must be applied first of all when there is not enough initial data to begin a genealogical research, that is exact dates of birth and names of the subject of the search are not know. This document is convenient to use in the case when the bloodline counts considerable number of representatives and has got numerous branching. The information potential of «klirovye vedomosti» gives an opportunity to research study pedigrees of representatives of the clergy.

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Authors: Semashko N. V. postgraduate, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). ORCID ID: 0000- 0002-0239-3691.

The journalistic works written by Simon Petliura during the period of his political views’ formation (1902-1917) are analyzed in the article. The issues concerning the development of the Ukrainian people’s language, education, science, culture, spirituality were covered on the pages of those publications. The article considers the way S. Petliura’s socialist ideology influenced the methods of solving the national question suggested by him. S. Petliura emphasized the importance of the Ukrainian school, theater, scientific institutions for the further development of the Ukrainian nation. It has been found out that the national component was important for S. Petliura’s worldview paradigm. However, it correlated with the social-democratic views. The article states the fact that during the mentioned stage of his socio-political activities S. Petliura considered the Ukrainian people’s further national development through the prism of social-democratic postulates. The article notes that S.Petliura’s outlook of that period had a religious component which was not typical for the early twentieth century Ukrainian socialists. At the same time S. Petliura set socially determined tasks for the Ukrainian science, art and book publishing. Thus, national issues dominated S. Petliura’s early publications. According to the author, the Ukrainian school, science, literature, theater and journalism should promote the Ukrainians’ national self-consciousness development, awareness of the need to achieve Ukraine’s autonomy within the broader Ukrainian community. The same applied to the workers’ and peasants’ class struggle. In accordance with S. Petliura’s views, the humanitarian component of the social process had to be socially determined to meet the needs of the Ukrainian people’s national revival and the establishment of socialist ideals.

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Authors: Denysenko V. I. PhD (in Philological), PhD student, Zaporizhia National University (Ukraine). ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4317-2884

The research focuses on the relationship between Ukraine and European Union during the first year of Victor Yanukovych presidency. It highlights the attempts of the new Ukrainian government to establish the dialogue with the leaders of EU, including Josй Manuel, President of the European Commission Barroso, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, and Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, First Vice President of the European Commission. This was the motive put behind the first international visit of Victor Yanukovych to Brussels, March 1st, 2010. The author proves the idea of keen interest of Ukrainian top authorities to aspire visa-free travel regime with EU, that was supposed to later score more electoral points during the upcoming elections. Still, the terms of Ukraine-EU Association Agreement seemed for the representatives of the Party of Regions too difficult to implement, and, therefore, in their opinion, had limited perspectives. However, in public domain, both President Victor Yanukovych and his political teammates kept consistently demonstrating their commitment to European integration ideas. The Cabinet of Mykola Azarov, basing on the list of eighteen EU reforms, devised their own plan of integration into European legal, economic and information framework. According to this plan, from October 15th, 2010 the administration was to complete the provisions for signing association and the visa liberalization agreements. Ukraine was represented in EU by experienced diplomat Kostiantyn Ieliseyev. The research points out the existing controversies between Ukrainian and European parties in the question of establishing an extensive and far-reaching free trade area. It draws special attention to the progress made in the area of Ukraine-Europe cooperation in the sphere of power industry, endorsement of the law “Fundamentals for Natural Gas Market Development” and Ukraine becoming a member of Energy Community.