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3. Ukrainian parliament has one chamber.
4. The Verkhovna Rada adopts the State Budget and controls
its execution.
5. The President of Ukraine is elected directly by the voters
for a term of five years with no more than two full terms.
6. The Verkhovna Rada elects the Chairman from its
membership.
7. No one can discharge him from his office.
8. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine resolves issues on
their correspondence to the Constitution.
9. Regular sessions of the Verkhovna Rada are commenced
each year on the first Tuesday of February and on the first Tuesday of
September.

Task 11. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the
right. Use them in the sentences of your own.
1.court a) a leader of a republic; often used as a title
2.budget b) reaching an agreement or settling a dispute by
formal discussion
3.president c) the money that is available to a government and
a
plan how it will be spent over a given period of
time
4.parliament d) a place where legal trial takes place and are
judged
5.negotiation e) the group of people who are elected to make
the laws of the country

Supplementary tasks

Task 1. Look up in the dictionary the synonyms to the following
words. to take part, sovereign, voter, negotiation, chairman, power, to
discharge, to preside over, suffrage, law draft, to perform

Task 2. Read and combine the two halves of each sentence.
1. Ukraine is a) has special status as an autonomous
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