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The 1990 election in Ukraine was the first in the Ukrainian SSR where opposition parties were permitted to run. [3] ... the position of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR was vacant until 1947. The longest-serving Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR was Oleksandr Korniychuk. Portrait Chairman From To Mykhailo ...

Ukraine's first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion . ... In 1990, as chairman of Ukraine's supreme soviet, he became the country's most senior ...

The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада Української РСР, romanized: Verkhovna Rada Ukrainskoi RSR; Russian: Верховный Совет Украинской ССР, romanized: Verkhovny Sovet Ukrainskoy SSR) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) and the highest organ of state power of Ukraine when it was known as the ...