Ukrainians holding the national flag take part in a celebration of the Unification Day on a bridge over the Dnieper river in Kiev, capital of Ukraine, Jan. 22, 2011. Ukraine celebrated the Unification Day on Saturday. On Jan. 22, 1919, the Fourth Universal of Ukraine's first government, Central Rada, was announced, when the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic were united into an independent state. [Xinhua/Sergei Starostenko]