A city of western European U. S. S. r. in the western Ukraine near the Polish border.

原苏联西部欧洲部分一城市，在乌克兰西部接近波兰边界。

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It is often said that speaking Russian or Polish in western Ukraine arouses the wrath of local "nationalists".

人们说在西乌克兰使用俄语或波兰语会引起当地民族主义者的愤怒。

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By contrast western Ukraine was ruled, as Galicia, first by Poland and then by Austria-Hungary, joining the Soviet Union only in 1945.

相比之下，乌克兰西部城市加利西亚（Galicia）最初是由波兰统治，后落入奥匈帝国帝国之手，1945年才加入苏联。

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But even in Ms.Tymoshenko's political stronghold of Western Ukraine voters have mixed feelings about her attempts to become president.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

As for Tabachnyk,Ben says petition drives are being held against him, not just in western Ukraine, but also in Kyiv and such eastern and southern cities as Kharkiv, Kherson,and even Odesa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Western Europeans are skeptical of Washington's support for fast-tracking Ukraine and Georgian membership in the NATO alliance.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

In western Ukraine, unlike the heavily Russified east of the country, Ukrainian is widely spoken.

ECONOMIST: Ukraine

This is because being unemployed in Ternopil, as in most of western Ukraine, does not mean that you don't have a job.

ECONOMIST: Emigration from Ukraine

In western Ukraine, the spectral legacy of Austro-Hungarian rule, with its stronger sense of civic participation and private ownership, can still be felt.

ECONOMIST: The land that time forgot