Month: June 22, 2018 9:57 am

KYIV – Ukrainian Canadian realtor and community activist Ruslana Wrzesnewskyj of Toronto has begun a 650-kilometer (404-mile) trek from Kyiv…...

BANFF, Alberta – More than 60 student delegates and alumni gathered for the annual national congress of the Ukrainian Canadian…...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – “Second Chance,” a documentary by Adriana Luhovy of Montreal, was premiered in Winnipeg on Sunday, May 6.…...

TORONTO – The latest exhibit at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Ontario Branch tells the story of how one woman’s…...

KYIV – A peaceful resolution to the Donbas war remained elusive following talks between Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, that was mediated by the top diplomats of France and Germany in Berlin on June 11. 

OTTAWA – On the military front, not a lot has changed since Roman Waschuk became Canada’s eighth and first fluent Ukrainian-speaking ambassador to Ukraine since the country gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. When he took up his post in October 2014, Russia had already annexed Crimea, and the conflict between Russian-backed militants and Ukrainian troops had begun.

An important but widely overlooked demographic transformation has been under way in the Ukrainian region of Crimea since it was…...

Despite wide international condemnation, on May 16 the Russian Federation completed the first phase of construction of a 10-mile bridge…...

In the last two weeks of May, Moscow quietly shifted five naval vessels from the Caspian Flotilla to the Sea…...

Russian activity in the Sea of Azov has been ramping up considerably in recent weeks. After the official opening of…...

KYIV – A last-minute change to a bill for creating a separate court to prosecute corrupt officials will temporarily bypass the judiciary body during appeals in cases that a newly formed graft-fighting investigative bureau sends to courts. 

Forming the High Anti-Corruption Court is a precondition to further unlocking a vital $17.5 assistance package from the International Monetary Fund. High-level Ukrainian officials said it is compliant with the Washington-based lender’s demands and that $2 billion in renewed funding would be available by autumn after the bill was passed on June 7.

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – A memorial service (panakhyda) at the Holy Resurrection Mausoleum Crypt of St. Andrew Memorial Church…...