UK | MCQs

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• Russia attacked Ukraine on 24 February 2022
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• On 24 February, before 5:00 a.m. Kyiv time, Putin announced a "special military operation" in eastern Ukraine and "effectively declared war on Ukraine."
• Russia retains control over 1.8% of the area around Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine
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• Reason for Russia and Ukraine War 2022:
• Throughout 2021, bilateral tensions rose due to a Russian military buildup surrounding Ukrainian territory
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• The capital of Russia is: Moscow
• The area of Russia is 17.1 million km²
• The currency of Russia is: the Russian ruble
• The population of Russia is: 144.1 million (2020) World Bank
• The continent of Russia is: Europe, Asia

Sh1-9-2023

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Liz Truss became prime minister of United Kingdom (UK) on 6 September 2022 and resigned on 20 October 2022 (45 days only).

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The Commonwealth is an organization of former UK dependencies, now sovereign states.

It retain a nominal connection to the British Monarch as a symbolic head.

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On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down minutes after taking off from Tehran, Iran, by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.

Fifty-five Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents were among the 176 people killed in this national tragedy.

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Liz Truss became prime minister of United Kingdom (UK) on 6 September 2022 and resigned on 20 October 2022 (45 days only).

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Ukraine was attacked by Russia in February 2014.

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The Brexit referendum was held on 23 June 2016, where the UK voted to leave the European Union, with 51.9% in favor of leaving.

This decision significantly impacted UK-EU relations.

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In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula, taking it from Ukraine.

The Russian occupation of Crimea is an ongoing military occupation within Ukraine by the Russian Federation, which began on 20 February 2014

On March 6 the Crimean parliament voted to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation,

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The Atlantic Ocean, a mass of salt water that covers about one-fifth of the Earth's surface and separates the continents of Europe and Africa in the east from the continents of North and South America in the west.

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• Brexit is the name given to the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union (EU). 
• It is a combination of ‘Britain’ and ‘exit’.​
• 51.89% of voters voted to leave the EU in a referendum held by the United Kingdom on its membership of the EU in June 2016.
  • The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020.
  • Up to and including 31 December 2020 a transition period was in place.

Additional Information

• The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.