Historical and legal problems of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence (10.12.2023)

Date
10 December 2023
Duration
49:48
Platform
YouTube

A conversation between the channel’s author and the lawyer Yevhen Ponomariov (Kharkiv region) on the historical and legal problems of the 1991 proclamation of independence. The lawyer emphasizes questions of succession and continuity: Ukraine is the successor of the Ukrainian SSR; the UNR in exile legally ceased to exist, and in 1992 Plaviuk handed the regalia to Kravchuk (a spiritual, not legal succession); the authorities in 1991 formally did not change, and the institutions of the Ukrainian SSR operated until the 1996 Constitution.

Key moments

  1. 03:42 The 1991 Act of Independence: a restoration or a new state?
  2. 07:19 The UNR regalia: Mykola Plaviuk handed them to Kravchuk (1992)
  3. 08:38 Power did not change: the same Verkhovna Rada, the institutions of the Ukrainian SSR until 1996
  4. 12:45 Berchenko (2020): the Act and the Declaration in the doctrine of the constitutional bloc
  5. 14:23 Continuity in international law: the uninterrupted existence of the state
  6. 15:46 The law on succession of 12 September 1991 — what it is really about
  7. 18:36 The UN: an "asterisk" next to Ukraine — only a change of name from the Ukrainian SSR
  8. 19:58 The example of Lithuania: a restoration of independence, the 1938 Constitution
  9. 24:40 The night before the vote: Lukianenko writes the Act; "restoration" → "proclamation"
  10. 28:05 The 2019 draft law on succession from the UNR and why it was rejected
  11. 35:53 Serhii Plokhy, "The Last Empire": Yeltsin and the preservation of the USSR

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