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{{Short description|Public holiday in Ukraine commemorating the adoption of the Constitution (28 June 1996)}}{{Infobox holiday |
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| holiday_name = {{black|Constitution Day}}<br>{{black|День Конституції}} |
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| significance=The anniversary of the signing of the Ukrainian constitution of 1996 |
| significance = The anniversary of the signing of the Ukrainian constitution of 1996 |
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| observedby=[[Ukraine]] |
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| scheduling=same day each year |
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| date=28 June |
| date = 28 June |
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| frequency=annual |
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| duration=1 day |
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| celebrations=Speeches by politicians<ref>[https://www.unian.info/m/society/10168736-ukraine-marks-constitution-day-on-june-28.html Ukraine marks Constitution Day on June 28], [[UNIAN]] (28 June 2018)</ref><ref>[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/514896.html Ukraine's leaders congratulate Ukrainians on Constitution Day], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (28 June 2018)</ref> |
| celebrations = Speeches by politicians<ref>[https://www.unian.info/m/society/10168736-ukraine-marks-constitution-day-on-june-28.html Ukraine marks Constitution Day on June 28], [[UNIAN]] (28 June 2018)</ref><ref>[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/514896.html Ukraine's leaders congratulate Ukrainians on Constitution Day], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (28 June 2018)</ref> |
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'''Constitution Day''' ({{lang-uk|День Конституції}}) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[public holiday]] celebrated on 28 June since 1996.<ref>[http://www.unian.info/society/1389415-ukraine-celebrating-20th-anniversary-of-constitution.html Ukraine celebrating 20th anniversary of Constitution], [[UNIAN]] (28 June 2016)<br>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38117 Yulia Tymoshenko Goes On Trial A Day Before Constitution Day], [[Eurasia Daily Monitor]] (30 July 2011)</ref><ref name=UW29121996>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/529606.shtml 1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW], [[The Ukrainian Weekly]] (29 December 1996)</ref> It commemorates the anniversary of the approval by the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (Ukraine's parliament) of the [[Constitution of Ukraine]] on 28 June 1996.<ref name=UW29121996/><ref>[http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/ukraine_marks_constitution_day_323187 Ukraine marks Constitution Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729181808/http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/ukraine_marks_constitution_day_323187 |date=2014-07-29 }}, [[Ukrinform]] (28 June 2014)</ref> |
'''Constitution Day''' ({{lang-uk|День Конституції}}) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[public holiday]] celebrated on 28 June since 1996.<ref>[http://www.unian.info/society/1389415-ukraine-celebrating-20th-anniversary-of-constitution.html Ukraine celebrating 20th anniversary of Constitution], [[UNIAN]] (28 June 2016)<br>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38117 Yulia Tymoshenko Goes On Trial A Day Before Constitution Day], [[Eurasia Daily Monitor]] (30 July 2011)</ref><ref name=UW29121996>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/529606.shtml 1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019080647/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/529606.shtml |date=2017-10-19 }}, [[The Ukrainian Weekly]] (29 December 1996)</ref>It[[memorialization|commemorates]] the anniversary of the approval by the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (Ukraine's parliament) of the [[Constitution of Ukraine]] on 28 June 1996.<ref name=UW29121996/><ref>[http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/ukraine_marks_constitution_day_323187 Ukraine marks Constitution Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729181808/http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/ukraine_marks_constitution_day_323187 |date=2014-07-29 }}, [[Ukrinform]] (28 June 2014)</ref> |
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==History== |
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51 hours after taking office as [[President of Ukraine]], after winning the [[1994 Ukrainian presidential election]], [[Leonid Kuchma]] created the Constitutional Commission, which led to the adoption of a [[constitution of Ukraine]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite book|last=Warshaw|first=Shirley Anne|title=The Clinton Years|date=2009|publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]]}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=kDPB1E07cnoC&dq=Constitution+of+Ukraine+%2B+1996+%2B+Kuchma&pg=PA191 page 191])</ref> (At the |
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time the 1978 [[Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] was in force in Ukraine.<ref name="CDU1624861158">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/ukraina-segodnya-otmechaet-den-konstitutsii-1624861158.html Ukraine celebrates Constitution Day today], [[RBC Ukraine]] (28 June 2021)</ref>) The Constitution was adopted by the [[Verkhovna Rada]] at 9:20 am on 28 June 1996 after deputies had worked all day and all night on the project, remaining in the session hall without breaks.<ref name="1624801938CDU">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/styler/konstitutsii-ukrainy-25-let-neobychnye-fakty-1624801938.html The Constitution of Ukraine is 25 years old! Unusual facts about the main document that few people know], [[RBC Ukraine]] (27 June 2021)</ref> 315 people's deputies, out of a needed 300, voted for the adoption of the Basic Law.<ref name="1624801938CDU"/> Constitution Day did become a [[public holiday]] in Ukraine because its foundation was enshrined in the constitution itself (it is the only [[Public holidays in Ukraine|public holiday]] that is mentioned in the constitution).<ref name="CDU1624866748">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/styler/smotrite-prinimali-konstitutsiyu-ukrainy-1624866748.html See how the Constitution of Ukraine was adopted 25 years ago: historical photos], [[RBC Ukraine]] (28 June 2021)</ref> [[Soviet Constitution day]] (7 October) was never observed in the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]] (the predecessor of modern Ukraine).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iPCPxwubpYUC&dq=Constitution+Day+Ukraine&pg=PA402 The Ukrainian Resurgence] by [[Bohdan Nahaylo]], [[University of Toronto Press]], 1999, {{ISBN|0802079776}} (page 402)</ref> |
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In the [[2000s (decade)|2000s]] most Ukrainians did not see Constitution Day 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).<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.razumkov.org.ua/ukr/article.php/poll.php?poll_id=150 Як Ви ставитеся до Дня Конституції України? (динаміка, 2003-2008) ''How do you feel about the Constitution Day of Ukraine? (Recurrent, 2003-2008)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214301/http://www.razumkov.org.ua/ukr/article.php/poll.php?poll_id=150 |date=2013-10-04 }}, [[Razumkov Centre]] (27 June 2008)<br>[http://www.razumkov.org.ua/ukr/article.php/news.php?news_id=100 Більше половини українців не вважають День Конституції святом ''More than half do not consider Ukrainian Constitution Day holiday''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213252/http://www.razumkov.org.ua/ukr/article.php/news.php?news_id=100 |date=2013-10-04 }}, [[Razumkov Centre]] (27 June 2008)</ref> Only in [[Western Ukraine]] was the holiday among the list of most respected holidays in Ukraine.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://gazeta.ua/post/337664 Травневі свята найменше люблять на Заході України - опитування ''May holidays like least in Western Ukraine - poll''], [[Gazeta.ua]] (30 April 2010)</ref> |
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At 09:18 on this day back in 1996, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted and enacted the Constitution of Ukraine. |
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In the [[2010s]] the popularity of the holiday hovered around 5% according to research by the [[Kyiv International Institute of Sociology]] (KIIS).<ref name="KIISphiUp1383CD"/> |
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The work lasted for over a year. After all delays and scandals, including clashes between the lawmakers, on June 27, 1996, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Moroz offered to work without breaks until full adoption. |
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The [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] that started on 24 February 2022 led to a reappraisal of this and other [[public holidays in Ukraine]].<ref name="KIISphiUp1383CD">{{cite web |author=Volodymyr Paniotto|title=PRESS RELEASES AND REPORTS - ATTITUDE OF UKRAINIANS TO PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND IN PARTICULAR TO MARCH 8|url=https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1383&page=1|date=7 March 2024|access-date=8 March 2024|website=[[Kyiv International Institute of Sociology]]|lang=English|archive-date= |archive-url= |url-status=}}</ref> A March 2024 study by KIIS found that the popularity of [[Independence Day of Ukraine]] and [[Defenders Day (Ukraine)|Defenders Day]] had both almost more than doubled (from 37% to 64% and from 29% to 58%).<ref name="KIISphiUp1383CD"/> Constitution Day did not nearly reach those figures: but it did became twice as popular, from 14% in 2021 to 29% in 2023 and in (an opinion poll held in February) 2024 28% of KIIS respondents labelled the holiday "most important or favorite".<ref name="KIISphiUp1383CD"/> |
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Having spent almost 24 hours in continuous work in the session hall, Ukrainian lawmakers eventually passed the document with 315 votes in its favor. |
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The centuries of people's lawmaking predated the Constitution of Ukraine in its current form. There was the Russkaya Pravda, the legal code of Kyivan Rus, the Cossack and hetman constitutions, including the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk (one of the first constitutional documents in Europe), the Constitution of the Ukrainian State of 1918. The effective Basic Law of Ukraine has been amended several times. |
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The adoption of the Constitution in 1996 marked the beginning of the formation and development of Ukraine as a new democratic and independent state. The events of that time provided the basis of the political life of Ukraine, which exists within the government quarter today. |
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*[http://mfa.gov.ua/en/news-feeds/foreign-offices-news/24886-ukraine-celebrates-national-holiday--the-constitution-day Ukraine celebrates national holiday – the Constitution Day], small explanation of the day and the [[Constitution of Ukraine]] by the [[Ukrainian Foreign Ministry]] (28 June 2014) |
*[http://mfa.gov.ua/en/news-feeds/foreign-offices-news/24886-ukraine-celebrates-national-holiday--the-constitution-day Ukraine celebrates national holiday – the Constitution Day], small explanation of the day and the [[Constitution of Ukraine]] by the [[Ukrainian Foreign Ministry]] (28 June 2014) |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYOZEFTdovs&fbclid=IwAR09QQ5TUww4adH8EA1wYamC9WhSurdDj4_WJ0djCFnzSsLdqMTGXsREm8w Birth of the Ukrainian State and Constitution] |
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Constitution Day День Конституції | |
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Stamp of Ukraine commemorating the holiday
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Observed by | Ukraine |
Type | National |
Significance | The anniversary of the signing of the Ukrainian constitution of 1996 |
Celebrations | Speeches by politicians[1][2] |
Date | 28 June |
Next time | 28 June 2024 (2024-06-28) |
Frequency | annual |
Constitution Day (Ukrainian: День Конституції) is a Ukrainian public holiday celebrated on 28 June since 1996.[3][4]Itcommemorates the anniversary of the approval by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) of the Constitution of Ukraine on 28 June 1996.[4][5]
51 hours after taking office as President of Ukraine, after winning the 1994 Ukrainian presidential election, Leonid Kuchma created the Constitutional Commission, which led to the adoption of a constitution of Ukraine in 1996.[6] (At the time the 1978 Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was in force in Ukraine.[7]) The Constitution was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at 9:20 am on 28 June 1996 after deputies had worked all day and all night on the project, remaining in the session hall without breaks.[8] 315 people's deputies, out of a needed 300, voted for the adoption of the Basic Law.[8] Constitution Day did become a public holiday in Ukraine because its foundation was enshrined in the constitution itself (it is the only public holiday that is mentioned in the constitution).[9] Soviet Constitution day (7 October) was never observed in the Ukrainian SSR (the predecessor of modern Ukraine).[10]
In the 2000s most Ukrainians did not see Constitution Day 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).[11] Only in Western Ukraine was the holiday among the list of most respected holidays in Ukraine.[12]
In the 2010s the popularity of the holiday hovered around 5% according to research by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).[13]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022 led to a reappraisal of this and other public holidays in Ukraine.[13] A March 2024 study by KIIS found that the popularity of Independence Day of Ukraine and Defenders Day had both almost more than doubled (from 37% to 64% and from 29% to 58%).[13] Constitution Day did not nearly reach those figures: but it did became twice as popular, from 14% in 2021 to 29% in 2023 and in (an opinion poll held in February) 2024 28% of KIIS respondents labelled the holiday "most important or favorite".[13]
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