# 2012 in Ukraine

2012 in Ukraine is a list of the main events that took place in 2012 in Ukraine. There is also a list of notable people who died in 2012. In addition, a list of memorable dates and anniversaries of 2012 has been compiled. Over time, famous Ukrainians born in 2012 will be added.

## Events

* March 30 - Ukraine and the European Union initial an association agreement providing for the creation of a free trade zone and visa facilitation;
* April 2 - The first flight on the route Kharkiv-Kyiv with a high-speed train, designed to move at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour, produced by the Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works;
* April 5 - Georgy Filipchuk, former Minister of Environmental Protection in the Second Tymoshenko government, is sentenced to three years in prison by the Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv;
* April 12 - Kyiv's Pechersk District Court sentences former Defence Minister Valery Ivashchenko to five years in prison;
* April 27 - Dnipropetrovsk explosions
* May 14 - Viktor Yanukovych signed the new Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine;
* May 18 - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation liquidated the Union of Ukrainians of Russia;
* June 8 - July 1 - Poland and Ukraine host the 2012 European Football Championship. In the final in Kyiv, Spain defeated Italy with a record score of 4: 0;
* July 31 - The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratifies the agreement on a free trade zone with the Commonwealth of Independent States countries;
* August 17 - Former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko sentenced to 2 years in prison;
* August 29 - September 9 - Paralympic Games in London, where Ukraine won fourth place;
* According to the State Statistics Service, in September, for the first time in 19 years, the population of Ukraine increased;
* September 26 - Karavan shooting;
* October 19 - Russian opposition leader Leonid Razvozzhayev is abducted and taken to Moscow near the UN Office for Refugees by Russian special services in Kyiv;
* October 28 - Ukraine holds parliamentary elections;
* November 7 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov transfers a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV confiscated from the Minister of Justice to the Ministry of Justice and orders the Ministry of Internal Affairs to register the vehicle;
* December 1 - Ukrainian Anna Ushenina became world champion in women's chess;
* December 3 - Mykola Azarov's government is dismissed;
* December 5 - Against the background of mass cancellation of flights, the largest air carrier in Ukraine "AeroSvit" filed for bankruptcy in the Commercial Court of Kyiv region;
* December 5 - In the annual Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by the international non-governmental organization Transparency International, Ukraine ranks 144th and is named the most corrupt country in Europe;
* December 15 - Trofimov Beheadings
* December 24 - Oleksandr Yaroslavsky under pressure from the city authorities sold the football club "Metalist" for $ 300 million;
* December 26 - Mykhailo Fomenko is approved as the head coach of the Ukraine national football team.

## Died

* February 1 - Stepan Sapelyak, Ukrainian poet, novelist, publicist, literary critic, human rights activist, public figure;
* February 3 - Vyacheslav Boykov, Ukrainian musician, pianist, teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine;
* February 24 - Andriy Benckendorf, Ukrainian and Russian film director;
* March 8 - Oksana Makar
* March 17 - John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian Red Army soldier, acquitted in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court of war crimes charges during World War II;
* March 20 - Atena Pashko, chemical engineer, poet and social activist
* May 23 - Borys Voznytsky, Ukrainian art critic, director of the Lviv Art Gallery, Hero of Ukraine (2005), winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1990);
* July 31 - Iryna Kalynets, Ukrainian poet;
* November 27 - Ivan Bilyk, Ukrainian writer and translator, winner of the Shevchenko Prize;
* December 18 - Anatoliy Zayayev, Honored Coach of Ukraine in football.

## Shevchenko National Prize 2012

This year the winners of the award were:
* art critic Tetyana Kara-Vasylieva - for the book "History of Ukrainian embroidery";
* artist Anatoliy Kryvolap - for a series of paintings "Ukrainian motif";
* poet Petro Midianka - for the book of poems "Luitra in the sky";
* writer Volodymyr Rutkivsky - for the historical trilogy for children "Jury";
* composer Victor Stepurko - for the musical work "Monologues of the Centuries".

## Incumbents

* President: Viktor Yanukovych
* Prime Minister: Mykola Azarov