Month: June 15, 2018 7:48 am

NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the largest grassroots representation of Americans of Ukrainian descent, has…...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Missouri and Kansas are the latest U.S. states that have issued proclamations recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide committed against the people of Ukraine.

On May 7, Jeff Colyer, M.D., governor of Kansas, proclaimed 2018 as “Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance Year” and urged “all citizens to highly value and protect human rights, and join in the commemoration of this tragic episode in the world’s history.”

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The New York State Assembly on May 16 passed a resolution proclaiming November as a month marking the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide. 

The resolution (K01196) notes that “The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, known as Holodomor, was a man-made famine that caused the deaths of at least 5 million innocent men, women and children in Ukraine, resulting in the annihilation of an estimated 25 percent of the rural population of that country, at the time one of the most productive agricultural areas of the Soviet Union.

Today (June 14), as we write this editorial on our deadline day, the 2018 FIFA World Cup gets under way…...

Twenty-five years ago, on June 23, 1993, the U.S. State Department spokesman, Mike McCurry, praised Ukraine for intercepting a shipment…...

In April 2008 the NATO summit in Bucharest made the following declaration on Ukraine’s and Georgia’s NATO aspirations:  “NATO welcomes…...

The statement below was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of American on June 8. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of…...

On Memorial Day, I wear my dad’s veteran’s hat. Washed out sky blue, it is trimmed with yellow and stitched…...

Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly may soon be a reality. According to Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, the tomos (decree) by the Ecumenical Patriarchate…...

EDMONTON, Alberta – On May 5, the biannual National Ukrainian Teachers’ Conference was held for the first time online. This…...

WASHINGTON – Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the longest-serving Democratic and Republican women in the House of Representatives, on June 6 introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning Russian transgressions against international law and FIFA values during the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This includes Russia’s history of violent and illegal action, like the invasion of Ukraine, as well as its well-documented human rights violations and the jailing of activists and journalists. 

Massive power outage hits Crimea  A total blackout has hit Crimea after what Russian officials said was an automatic shutoff…...