300th anniversary of first Ukrainian constitution written by Pylyp Orlyk being celebrated

Some nationalists are desperately trying to find something like a historical continuity in the Ukraine.

Good luck heh heh heh :D

Ukraine should use his constitution,,

it would probably forbid foreign forces playing war games on ukraine's territory, like nato

Give jobs to hollywood, they will find another ukrainian constitution on the moon, that was written by moses, before he wrote the ten commandments,,

cnn will give it credbility,,

No luck needed... historic continuity consists of resistance to Kremlin misrule (the only kind there is)

Yeah - Little-Russian patriots are posting desperate comments again - so funny and entertaining !!!!

More of those please !!!!!

its coming just be patient

they had tried to erease ukraine from the moon and mars 25 000 years ago to be exact

Russia was once a province of Kyivan Rus' and now everyone who reads history and even National Almanacs knows that. The Russian attempt to usurp Kyivan (Ukrainian) history is now a recognized fact. Now everyone laughs at the Russian attempt to adopt for itself the Christianization of Rus' in 1988; what a sick nation that has to try to steal someone elses ancient history. Poor Russians, a evil sick history of serfs dominated by foreigners and autocrats.

repeating the same fakes and trash doesn t make the Ukrainian patriots' desperate situation better - they are the losers

Haha, "ukrainian" constitution written in a Moldovan (at those times Romanian) town of Bendery. LOL!!!!!

This is too funny. Galicians, how can you not understand, that you are not representing true Ukraine that started and developed in Kiev - Kievan Rus.

Town of Bendery can hardly be considered the cradle of the Ukrainian culture, though for nationalists hillbillies, it probably is.

The first Ukrainian constitution was the Ruskaya Pravda written in Kyiv by Knyz Yaroslav Mudriy... Moscovzshchyna never had a constitution, thus the thugocracy that has prevailed there since they learned to lick the Mongols boots.

There was another Ukrainian constitution preceeded this one.

It was written 3000 years ago,,

Its in the museums in washington dc, and guerded by the history rewriting and int propaganda comission of the us state dpt.

in which language was it written ?

Russian ?

chineese

So Ukraine is actually based on Mongolian culture ?

u got it

Olha? Lviv? I dont think so, nice try ... :-)

The first Ukrainian constitution was the Ruskaya Pravda written in Kyiv by Knyz Yaroslav Mudriy... Moscovzshchyna never had a constitution, thus the thugocracy that has prevailed there since they learned to lick the Mongols boots.

Excuse me, what is a "kyiv" ?

Orlyk is one of the Ukrain's most important Muslims.

That is more important.

No so famous like Tatar Ivan Kalita or Georgian Peter the Great ... Wake up Russians you are no nation, only car is holding your culture and country. Russia is history allready, like it or not!

Russians (Mongol-finnic combination) are not slavic people and they dont know how slavic people looks ... poor thing realy.

what is a "finnic" ?

The Russians are mongrels, just like the Americans, but at least the Americans have some values and a love of freedom, the Russians only have a history of being slaves or serfs under oppresive totalitarian or foreign rulers.

no he was no muslim, he was a budst munk and a german shoe maker

From Rus` to Ukraine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ll32qkeAI&feature=PlayList&p=5933BE9206D1543C&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=29 ... great story about beautiful country called Ukraine.

If it's so beautiful, why don't you live here?

here?... where's that? moscow, or omsk?

Lviv - the best city in the best country

Give us another banderrio, forget the constitution.

who cares about that when it is never written to benefit the public but to oppress it..

Give us the lwas of moses, and let the whole world follow it..

that is the oldest constitution

not mentioning what the usa propaganda comission found on the moon when it never landed back 40 years ago

George Washington was Ukrainian from Bendery. Didn't you know!??

>> 1708 muscovy changes their name to russian empire.

>>1710 Pacta et Constitutiones Legum Libertatumque Exercitus Zaporoviensis) was a 1710 constitutional document written by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk. It established a democratic standard for the separation of powers in government between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches, well before the publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. The Constitution also limited the executive authority of the hetman, and established a democratically elected Cossack parliament called the General Council.

Pylyp Orlyk's Constitution was unique for its historic period, and was one of the first state constitutions in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk

Orlyk’s basic law never entered into force, and is, by contemporary standards, a simplistic text. Yet, in its time, this document gained recognition as a serious document, and served as a blueprint for future constitutional designs.

Articles 1-3 dealt with general Ukrainian affairs. They proclaimed the Orthodox faith to be the faith of Ukraine, and independent of the patriarch of Moscow. The articles also recognized the need for an anti-Russian alliance between Ukraine and the Crimean Khanate.

>> 1720. Peter I’s ukase banning the publication and printing of books in Ukrainian.

I thought it was the first, not one of the first.

Sounds like a pre-cancerous growth ith the colon.