Kiev City Council
Kiev City Council, also known as Kyivrada, is the city council of Kiev municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The members of city council are directly elected by Kievans and the council is chaired by the Mayor of Kiev or the City Council Secretary. The deputies are elected for five-year terms.
The council meets in a 1950s City Council building constructed in neo-classical Stalinist architectural style on Khreschatyk, the city's main street.
The most recent Kiev local election took place on 25 October 2015.History
's municipal reform created Kiev's city council in 1870.
In its 1871 first municipal elections just under 6,000 of Kiev's 70,500 inhabitants were qualified to vote.
The first post-Soviet democratic elections of the Kiev City Council took place on 4 March 1990.
The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state. 24 July was later marked as National Flag Day in Kiev. Beginning with 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag.
During the Euromaidan-protest from 1 December 2013 till 16 February 2014 Kiev's Town Hall was occupied by protesters; this forced the City Council to meet in the Solomianka Raion state administration building instead.Composition
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