The former Soviet vaulter now competes for his native Ukraine.

She originally competed for her native Ukraine and began representing Russia in 2000.

She lived at a residential tennis academy in Miami, half a world away from her native Ukraine.

The return to his native Ukraine turned out to be an important part of his career and also influenced his future personal life.

She maintained active correspondence with friends and acquaintances, covering such issues as the fate of her native Ukraine, problems of culture, recently read books.

The breakup of Russia, he said, could encourage separatists in his native Ukraine.

In May 1859, Shevchenko got permission return to his native Ukraine.

Dora had been an opera singer in her native Ukraine.

It was he who had masterminded the brutal crackdown against the national separatists in his own native Ukraine.

Chumachenko visited his native Ukraine three times, in 1991, 1994 and 1995.