Year: December 8, 2017 9:51 am

KRAMATORSK-AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine – As the shelling renewed at 3 p.m. less than an hour before dusk, women were still calmly seen carrying grocery bags, and an unmarked school bus was shuttling children home through an armed checkpoint.

KYIV – Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president turned Ukrainian opposition leader, has vowed that he will continue to resist…...

PORTLAND, Ore. – For the first time in its history, the Oregon legislature designated the fourth Saturday in November – November 25, 2017 – as Holodomor Remembrance Day in the state.

This legislation was introduced at the request of the local Ukrainian American community – another first in the history of the state. It was passed unanimously by both houses of Oregon’s legislature – the Oregon Senate and House of Representatives – and filed with the Oregon secretary of state on June 26.

In recent months, Russia has repeatedly used Belarus for provocations against Ukraine. The latest example was the arrest of Ukrainian…...

In late October, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) detained the internal affairs minister’s son, Oleksandr Avakov. Allegedly, he…...

A prominent elderly Crimean Tatar activist has died after being caught up in an incident in which Russian security officers in Crimea detained several of her associates.

Vedzhie Kashka, 82, became unwell and was taken away by ambulance in the Crimean city of Symferopol on November 23 after several fellow activists were detained by Russian officers on suspicion of extortion.

The following statement by U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert was released on December 4. Recent events – including the…...

HARRISBURG, Pa. – On November 15, the Pennsylvania Senate approved Senate Resolution 244 designating November as “Ukraine Genocide Remembrance Month.”

In the resolution, the Senate recognizes that, “85 years ago, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his totalitarian regime committed an act of genocide through the implementation of an engineered famine, confiscating land, grain and animals from the Ukrainian people, resulting in the death of up to 10 million innocent men, women and children.”

LANSING, Mich. – On November 2, a cold and rainy day, some 200 Michigan citizens of Ukrainian heritage gathered in…...

WHIPPANY, N.J. – On November 10, Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 75 of New Jersey sponsored a presentation by the well-known opinion writer Andrew Stuttaford in observance of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine. Mr. Stuttaford has frequently written on the subject of Eastern Europe, communism and the genocidal Holodomor in a wide range of publications that include The Wall Street Journal and the National Review, where he is a contributing editor.

As our readers are fully aware, this year marks the beginning of observances of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor,…...

Thirty years ago, on December 10, 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation declaring Human Rights Day. He did so…...