Ukrainian culture?

Ukraine (Ukrainian: УКРА?НА) is located in the eastern part of Europe, and is the largest country in Europe in terms of territorial area apart from Russia. It is one of the 15 member states of the former Soviet Union. It is the second largest union **** and state after Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine became independent. Ukraine is bordered by Russia to the east, the Black Sea to the south, Belarus to the north, and Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the west. Ukraine is geographically important as a geopolitical crossroads between the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), especially Russia. Ukrainians belong to the Eastern Slavs and are closely related to Russians and Belarusians. As one of the world's most important markets, Ukraine is the world's third-largest food exporter and is known as the "breadbasket of Europe". Ukraine is an emerging free-market economy with a well-developed agriculture and industry, with agriculture accounting for 20% of GDP. Heavy industry dominates the industrial sector. Ukraine's military sphere still retains a large system of armed forces. Ukraine applies the political principle of separation of powers and is a sovereign, independent, democratic state under the rule of law with a **** and system. The President represents the supreme head of the state.

The aims of Ukraine's cultural policy are: to provide legal guarantees to literary and artistic organizations and artists, to support the development of national culture without political or administrative interference, to preserve the values and independence of culture and the arts as they manifest themselves in the course of their existence and development, to guarantee freedom of creativity, to preserve the cultural heritage, and to create the necessary conditions for the further development of the traditional cultures of all ethnic peoples. Funds are attracted from various sources in order to support the activities of cultural grass-roots units and important cultural and artistic institutions. As of the end of 2010, there were 138 State theaters, 478 museums of all levels, 20,600 libraries of all types, and 352 million books in U***. There were 1,88,000 units of state-level cultural relics.