New English terminology in Ukraine

The following is a list of major terminological conventions as found in the official English translation of Ukraine's new Constitution adopted on June 28 (words shown in bold are given as they appear in the official translation):

PARLIAMENT:

• Ukraine's Parliament is to be known as the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; it is headed by a Chairman, with a First Deputy Chairman and a Deputy Chairman.
  
  
• Members of Parliament are called National Deputies.
  
  
• Certain decisions in the Parliament must be adopted by two-thirds of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada.
  
  
• A new parliamentary position has been created: the Authorized Human Rights Representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
  
  
• Parliamentary committees are headed by Chairmen.
  
  
• The Parliament's chief administrator will be known as the Head of Staff of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
  
  
• Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
  
  
• The Parliament's Chamber of Accounting is headed by a chairman and consists of members.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH:

• President of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine, First Vice Prime Minister, Vice Prime Ministers.
  
  
• State Budget of Ukraine.
  
  
• Program of Activity of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
  
  
• The President of Ukraine is the Chairman of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine.
  
  
• Ministerial and other government positions explicitly referred to in the text include the Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Defense and the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.

TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT:

• Ukraine consists of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblasts, districts, cities, city districts, settlements and villages.
  
  
• Ukraine is composed of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Vinnytsia Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Kirovohrad Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast, and the Cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol.
  
  
• Bodies of state power and local self-government.
  
  
• Heads of local state administrations.
  
  
• Oblasts remain oblasts; raions are now districts.
  
  
• Oblast and district councils.
  
  
• Village, settlement and city councils are composed of deputies.
  
  
• Oblast and district councils are headed by chairmen who lead the executive staff of their respective council.

JUDICIARY:

• The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is composed of 18 judges and is headed by a Chairman.
  
  
• High Court of Arbitration of Ukraine.
  
  
• The Supreme Court of Ukraine is headed by a Chairman.
  
  
• Plenary Assembly of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
  
  
• High Council of Justice.
  
  
• Congress of Judges of Ukraine, Congress of Advocates of Ukraine.
  
  
• Congress of Representatives of Higher Legal Educational Establish-ments and Scientific Institutions.

CRIMEA:

• Verkhovna Rada of the Auto-nomous Republic of Crimea.
  
  
• Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
  
  
• Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
  
  
• In Crimea there is a Representative Office of the President of Ukraine.

STATE SYMBOLS:

• State Flag of Ukraine, the State Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the State Anthem of Ukraine.
  
  
• Great State Coat of Arms of Ukraine, Small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine.
  
  
• Coat of Arms of the Zaporozhian Host.
  
  
• The trident is referred to as the Emblem of the Royal State of Volodymyr the Great (the Small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine).

PROCURACY:

• Procurator General of Ukraine.
  
  
• Procuracy of Ukraine.
  
  
• All-Ukrainian Conference of Employees of the Procuracy.

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.
  
  
• Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine.
  
  
• Chairman of the State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.
  
  
• Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
  
  
• Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.
  
  
• National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting.
  
  
• Central Electoral Commission.
  
  
• The day of adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine is a national holiday - the Day of the Constitution of Ukraine.
  
  
• Ukraine is a Motherland.
  
  
• Act of Declaration of the Inde-pendence of Ukraine of August 24, 1991.
  
  
• Ukraine's monetary unit is the hryvnia.

- Prepared by Petro Matiaszek, executive director of the Council of Advisors to the Verkhovna Rada.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 6, 1996, No. 40, Vol. LXIV

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