Sixty years ago, on September 15, 1958, the Ukrainian National Association Supreme Executive Committee – Dmytro Halychyn (supreme president), Joseph Lesawyer (supreme vice-president), Anne Herman (supreme vice-president) and Roman Slobodian (supreme treasurer) – issued a statement on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Svoboda newspaper.
Svoboda’s inaugural issue was printed on September 15, 1893, and this year marks the 125th anniversary of the newspaper – the oldest continuously published Ukrainian-language newspaper in the world.