Month: October 19, 2018 9:58 am

Should the International Criminal Court at the Hague still be in any doubt as to Russia’s direct role in the conflict in the Donbas, it need only read the reports of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) since August of this year. Russian military trucks and other vehicles have been spotted at least five times – three in the last week – traveling by night to and from the Ukrainian-Russian border via dirt roads where there is no official border crossing. 

KYIV – Luhansk Oblast-native Olesya Baklanova, 19, was one of the four Ukrainian soldiers killed overnight on October 10-11 in…...

UNITED NATIONS – On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, a small delegation of Ukrainian-Americans attended the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Invited as guests of the government of Ukraine, these community representatives were able to sit in the gilded General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters to hear the addresses given by President Jorge Carlos Fonseca of Cabo Verde, King Mswati III of eSwatini (the new name for Swaziland) and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine. 

CHICAGO – Ukrainian Future Credit Union in Michigan merged with Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, with branches in Illinois and New Jersey, as of August 17. In addition to its home office in Chicago, Selfreliance now has three branches in Illinois, three in New Jersey and three in Michigan. 

President/CEO Bohdan Watral assured new members that they as individuals and their community as a whole will prosper as part of the Selfreliance family. 

The “first among equals,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Synod made history on October 11 when they issued an announcement regarding restoration of canonical status to the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (Patriarch Filaret) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Metropolitan Makariy) and their respective faithful flocks. 

Last year, on October 27, 2017, the U.S. State Department released a targeted list of Russian defense and intelligence companies…...

The impact of autocephaly on Ukraine is receiving widespread attention, but many Russian commentators are focusing instead on how that action will affect the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia more generally, with suggestions ranging from predictions of the final degradation of both to claims that it sets the stage for a reformation in Russia.

“We must never forget the atrocities committed against the Ukrainian people at the hands of the Soviet Union during the…...

With the annexation of the Crimea and the unexplained war in eastern Ukraine, the Russian leadership has trampled on the…...

Colonialism comes up repeatedly in cultural as well as socio-political and economic discussions. We consider it a bad thing, but…...

PART I It has sometimes been difficult for Ukraine to find international support, but a strong argument can be made…...

DALLAS – The North Texas Holodomor Committee (NTHC), in partnership with the Dallas Public Library, on September 23  opened a…...