Bankovaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Bankova Street

語源

After Ukrainian Банкова (Bankova), from вулиця Банкова (vulycja Bankova, “Bank Street”), the location of the offices of the presidential administration in Kyiv, Ukraine.

固有名詞

Bankova

1. (by synecdoche, often with the) The presidential administration of Ukraine.
   • 2017, Steven Pifer, The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.—Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 318:

     The burst of optimism in December 1999 that followed the confirmation of Viktor Yushchenko as prime minister died out in 2000, when Kuchma and the Presidential Administration at Bankova did not support Yushchenko and his reform program with the Rada. In 2001, Bankova abandoned Yushchenko comletely, letting the Rada vote him out of power.

   • 2013, Volodymyr Tsvil, Kuchmagate and Collapse of the Orange Idea: Story Told by an Eyewitness, 3rd edition, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     [p 55] There were no doubts in authenticity of Melnychenko’s recordings, which was mainly corroborated by the panic that reigned in Bankova Street after Moroz’s press conference. In the evening, I was told that Yulia Mostovaya and Slava Pihovshek had visited the presidential administration. The leading Ukrainian journalists were usual guests on Bankova Street and personally communicated with all participants of Melnychenko’s tapes.
     [p 146] When meeting Melnychenko in the Bankova corridors, Marchuk would divert his eyes elsewhere.

   • 2003 August, Yulia Kyseliova, “Ukraine: Outcomes of the Political Season Winter–Summer 2003 Can We Rest on Our Laurels?”, in Przegla̦d środkowoeuropejski/Central European Review, number 34, page 14:

     Meanwhile, having swallowed the bait, the opposition got involved in the game offered by the Bankova Street.