General Country Information
Capital: Kyiv (Kiev)
Population: 45,415,596 (July 2010 est.)
Form of Government: Unitary Semi-presidential Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone - main lines: 13.177 million (2008)
Telephone - mobile: 55.695 million (2008)
Internet hosts: 706,485 (2009)
Internet users: 10.354 million (2008)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.41
World Rank 2005/2006: 90
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
Evpatorian Society for the Deaf
Email: bulavin_p@ukr.net / burevest@ukrpost.ua
Disabled Peoples' International - Ukraine - DPI National Assembly
127 - 15 GV, Shironintsev Street
2445 Kharkov, 310112
Ukraine
Email: ssvpua@mail.ru
Tel: +38-0572-165721
Ukrainian Association of the Blind
3 Pechortsky Spusk Kiev
Kiev 01023
Ukraine
Email: utos@carrier.kiev.ua
Tel: +38-44-224-1127
Fax: +38-44-246-7933
Ukrainian Society of the Deaf (USD)
74 Velyka Vasylkivska Street
Kiev 150-03150
Ukraine
Email: cputog@ukr.net
Tel: +380-44-2467633
Berginya Organization for Women with Disabilities
Email: bereginya555@yandex.ru
Tel: +380-652-44-0441
Fax: +38-0652-25-5854
Lybomyra - Women's Information and Rehabilitation Center
Observatorna Street 9 App 13
Kyiv 252053
Ukraine
Tel: +380-44-216-2906