Pravdateam/Lexicon

This section of the Style Guide contains ready-to-use translations of some set expressions, clichés, proper nouns and adjectives.

Please note that this section is a structural element of the Style Guide and therefore is obligatory for each translator working or volunteering for the project.

If the word or phrase is included into the Lexicon, then it shall be used while translating for Ukrayinska Pravda. If you consider some spelling to be incorrect, please use the discussion page. Please do not change anything without the prior discussion.

Last Names

 * Akhmetov
 * Bezsmertny
 * Bohatyrova
 * Chernomyrdin
 * Chernovetsky
 * Chornovil
 * Gongadze
 * Holovaty
 * Hrushevsky
 * Kipiani
 * Klitschko (an exception due to his wide name recognition in the West)
 * Kolesnikov
 * Kostenko
 * Kuchma
 * Lukashenka (NOT Lukashenko)
 * Lutsenko
 * Lytvyn
 * Medvedchuk
 * Melnychenko
 * Moroz
 * Omelchenko
 * Poroshenko
 * Putin
 * Rybachuk
 * Shevchenko
 * Tarasyuk
 * Tomenko
 * Tymoshenko
 * Yanukovych
 * Yatsenyuk
 * Yekhanurov
 * Yushchenko
 * Zinchenko
 * Zvarych

First Names

 * Anatoliy
 * Andriy
 * Arseniy
 * Bohdan
 * Borys
 * Evhen
 * Heorhiy (BUT  Georgiy Gongadze, because Gongadze himself used this spelling)
 * Hryhoriy
 * Leonid
 * Kateryna
 * Maria
 * Markian
 * Mykhailo
 * Mykola
 * Oleh
 * Oleksandr
 * Olena
 * Olha
 * Pavlo
 * Petro
 * Raisa
 * Rinat
 * Roman
 * Ruslan
 * Ruslana
 * Serhiy
 * Svitlana
 * Taras
 * Vakhtang
 * Vasyl
 * Viktor
 * Vitaliy
 * Volodymyr
 * Vyacheslav
 * Yaroslav
 * Yevhen
 * Yulia
 * Yuriy

Countries and Nationalities

 * Argentina, Argentine, Argentines
 * Armenia, Armenian, Armenians
 * Austria, Austrian, Austrians
 * Australia, Australian, Australians
 * Azerbaijan, Azeri, Azeris
 * Belarus (NOT Belarussia), Belarusian, Belarusians
 * Brazil, Brazilian, Brazilians
 * China, Chinese, Chinese
 * Czech Republic, Czech, Czechs
 * England, English, English
 * Estonia, Estonian, Estonians
 * Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptians
 * Finland, Finnish, Finns
 * France, French, French
 * Georgia, Georgian, Georgians
 * Germany, German, Germans
 * Greece, Greek, Greeks
 * Ireland, Irish, Irish
 * Israel, Israeli, Israelis
 * Italy, Italian, Italians
 * Japan, Japanese, Japanese
 * Kazakhstan, Kazakh, Kazakhs
 * Korea, Korean, Koreans
 * Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyz
 * Latvia, Latvian, Latvians
 * Lithuania, Lithuanian, Lithuanians
 * Moldova, Moldovan, Moldovans
 * Norway, Norwegian, Norwegians
 * Poland, Polish, Poles
 * Portugal, Portuguese, Portuguese
 * Russia, Russian, Russians
 * Slovakia, Slovak, Slovaks
 * Slovenia, Slovene, Slovenes
 * Spain, Spanish, Spanish (Spaniards when referring to a specific group of people)
 * Sweden, Swedish, Swedes
 * Tajikistan, Tajik, Tajiks
 * Turkey, Turkish, Turks
 * Turkmenistan, Turkmen, Turkmen
 * United Kingdom, British, British
 * United States (also United States of America), American, Americans
 * Uzbekistan, Uzbek, Uzbeks

Political Parties

 * Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU)
 * Green Party
 * Lytvyn's Bloc
 * Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc (NU-NS)
 * Our Ukraine People’s Union (NSNU) (use “the” when alone; do not use “the” when followed by “party”)
 * Party of Regions (PRU)
 * Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (PPPU)
 * People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh)
 * People's Self-Defense Party (NS)
 * Pora
 * Reforms and Order Party (PRP)
 * Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (SDPU(o))
 * Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) (can be abbreviated to Socialist Party on second reference)
 * Ukrainian People’s Party (UNP)
 * Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT)

Political Parties Outside Ukraine

 * European People's Party (EPP)

Governmental Agencies

 * Central Election Commission
 * Department in Charge of Combating the Organized Crime at the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine (UBOZ)
 * Department of the Criminal Investigations at the Office of the Prosecutor General
 * Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU)
 * Main Control and Revision Office of Ukraine
 * Ministry of Defense
 * Ministry of Finance
 * Ministry of Justice
 * National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC)
 * Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG)
 * Parliament (Verkhovna Rada should be included in parenthesis on first reference)
 * Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
 * State Committee of Statistics
 * State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU)

Courts

 * The Constitutional Court of Ukraine
 * The Supreme Court
 * The High Commercial Court of Ukraine
 * The High Administrative Court of Ukraine
 * The High Military Court of Ukraine

(All titles above shall be used only with the)


 * Appellate Court for Kyivska Oblast
 * Appellate Commercial Court for Kharkivska Oblast
 * Commercial Court for the City of Kyiv
 * Kyiv District Administrative Court
 * Pechersky District Court

Organizations
Any acting and former, international and domestic, military and pacifist organizations, as well as any other social arrangements meeting the general qualifying features of an organization shall be included here.


 * Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
 * Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
 * Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
 * United Nations (UN) Avoid: UNO
 * Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
 * World Trade Organization (WTO)
 * The Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies named after Olexander Rasumkov (UCEPS), ALSO Razumkov Centre
 * The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU)

Corporations

 * Interpipe
 * Kryvorizhstal [OJSC]
 * System Capital Management (SCM)
 * Ukrtelecom [OJSC]

News agencies

 * Interfax-Ukraine news agency
 * LigaBusinessInform news agency
 * Obkom news agency
 * Ostrov news agency
 * Ukrayinsky Novyny news agency
 * UNIAN news agency

Printed Media

 * Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper
 * Holos Ukrayiny newspaper
 * Focus magazine
 * Izvestiya v Ukraine newspaper
 * Korrespondent magazine
 * Ofitsiyniy visnyk Prezydenta bulletin
 * Uryadovy Kuryer newspaper
 * Delo newspaper

Electronic Media

 * Ukrayinska Pravda web-site
 * Korrespondent web-site
 * ForUm web-site
 * Obozrevatel web-site

TV Channels

 * 5 Kanal TV channel
 * 1+1 TV channel
 * Inter TV channel
 * Pershyi Natsionalnyi TV channel (however, use "UT-1 TV Channel" for headlines)
 * Novy TV channel (the correct version should be "Novyi" but the channel calls itself "Novy")
 * STB TV channel
 * ICTV TV channel

See the relevant section of the Proper nouns chapter for details.

Official positions

 * Prime Minister of Ukraine (use PM unless the official title is required)
 * Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (use Speaker unless the official title is required)
 * Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (use MP unless the official title is required)

Avoid: people's deputy, popular deputy although this is possible variant. We do not use deputy for народний депутат to avoid confusion with заступник. However, when citing the law we do use "people's deputy" as it is an official legalized translation.


 * Head of the Presidential Secretariat
 * Justice of the Supreme Court

Avoid: Judge of the Supreme Court

Legislation and Regulatory Documents

 * Constitution of Ukraine
 * Civil Code of Ukraine
 * Criminal Code of Ukraine

Types of the Documents

 * Law of Ukraine
 * Decree of the President. Unofficially: presidential decree
 * Resolution of the Cabinet of the Ministers. Unofficially: governmental resolution
 * Decision of the Constitutional Court

For рішення, ухвала, постанова, розпорядження in the court system see HNTC (to be drafted).

Approved brief titles

 * Law on the Cabinet of Ministers
 * Law on Elections
 * Copyright Law
 * Trademark Law
 * Procurement Law

Most common misspellings

 * Mass media (without dash)
 * receive (NOT recieve)