Polish authorities conducted mass arrests of local Ukrainian elites (usually clergy) an applied a variety of coercive measures to pressure families and individuals to relocate.

These events greatly raised the national consciousness among the Ukrainians and brought about the development of a new generation of Ukrainian cultural and political elite.

The Ukrainization policies were abruptly and bloodily reversed, most of the Ukrainian cultural and political elite was arrested and executed, and the nation was decimated with the famine called the Holodomor.

Gazprom also cut out an intermediary company with murky ownership that for years has been seen as a drain on Gazprom's profitability and possibly as a slush fund for Ukrainian elites.

The paper is widely read and highly regarded among the Ukrainian elite (regardless of political or business orientation) which largely explains its political influence.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kiev, the burial place of the Ukrainian elite.

"Our goal is to create a Ukrainian humanitarian elite for the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state."

In 1939 the region was occupied by communists, the Soviet "liberators" immediately implemented a plan to eliminate the Ukrainian intellectual elites and Church.

The election campaign confirmed that the Ukrainian political elite wants to continue the process of integration with the European Union and to maintain good neighbourly relations with Russia.

By the end of the 1930s, approximately four-fifths of the Ukrainian cultural elite had been eliminated.