Meaning of hromada | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality.
2. A Ukrainian community.
3. An organization acting as part of a network of secret societies of Ukrainian intelligentsia that appeared soon after the Crimean War.
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Examples

“Levels in oblasts and cities were below 10 percent of total expenditure (Table 3.6). Only Kyiv among cities managed to allocate more than 10 percent of expenditures to investment. The higher levels of investment activity were taking place in the hromada, where much of the State subsidies were concentrated.”

“Launched in April 2014, shortly after the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the outbreak of violence in eastern Ukraine, the reform of decentralization primarily aims at transferring a significant share of authority, resources, and responsibility to local self-government bodies. The effective fulfilment of this umbrella goal has inter alia encompassed the amalgamation of hromadas, aimed at strengthening their capacity, an advancement of direct democracy at the local level, and a reform of regional policies (e.g. state financing for infrastructure projects at regional level) (Decentralization 2019).”

“At the basic level, the institution of local self-government is that of united territorial communities (“hromady”), which are then combined into larger ones (hereinafter referred to as “hromady”). In 2014–2019 the formation and unification of the hromady proceeded on a voluntary basis, beginning with 2020 - according to long-term plans approved by the government.”

“165 schools are in hromady that are currently under Russian occupation, and the situation there may only become clear after these communities are liberated.”

“Therefore, today in the Zakarpatska Oblast, every 4th inhabitant of the region is an IDP [internally displaced person]; in the Lvivska Oblast every 6th inhabitant; and in the Volynska Oblast – every 14th inhabitant. This has a strong impact on the socio-economic development of the border regions at war due to the weak social security of IDPs, their financial vulnerability, the search for a place of temporary stay, and the significant burden on the social infrastructure and economy of hromadas, etc.”

“Ukrainian Student Magazine. […] c/o N.Y.C.Ukrainian student hromada.”

“Some 70 people, mostly youths and students who were joined by area adults and Ukrainian clergy, took part in the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Student Hromada sponsored action. […] Roksolana Stojko, SUSTA public relations co-director and the hromada’s president, told the Newark Star-Ledger’s reporter that the strike was “almost a birthday gift” for Moroz.”

“Established initially as the Women’s Hromada, it had county branches and local women’s hromadas numbering 148 in 1939.”

“Those who held land in several hromady (a common occurrence in the Right Bank) could choose the community in which to receive a share of land.”

“The 1863 hromada organized there by Vakhnianyn had dwindled so that by 1875 a Przemysl contributor to the newspaper Slovo wrote that regarding the national cause, Przemysl was frozen.”

“These patriotic clubs corresponded with one another; individually, the hromadas gathered for talks on Ukrainian history and literature and commemorated national heroes such as Shevchenko and Markiian Shashkevych at musical and declamatory evenings and at memorial liturgical services.”

“The aim of the hromada movement in Dnieper Ukraine was to prepare the peasantry for their national as well as economic liberation by teaching them about Ukrainian language and culture in the so-called Sunday schools and by publishing books and staging plays in Ukrainian.”

“As one of the few existing underground student associations, the hromada, in fact, became closely involved with the work of the Kharkiv coordinating committee.”

“In the late 1870s, as younger activists began to establish their own hromadas, the Kyiv organization came to be known as the Old Hromada.”

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