Month: October 19, 2018 9:44 am

19 killed in rampage in Crimea  Russian authorities say 19 students and faculty members at a college in Crimea have…...

WASHINGTON – As the sun was setting on October 4 in the nation’s capital, a large group of Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine gathered in front of the Holodomor Memorial here for the Candle of Remembr-ance observance marking the 85th anniversary of Stalin’s genocidal starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933.

MIAMI – On October 4, South Florida Ukrainians joined the worldwide community in commemorating the victims of the Holodomor in…...

NORTH PORT, Fla. – The Ukrainian American community of southwest Florida joined Ukrainians around the world in commemorating the 85th…...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – On October 3, the local Ukrainian community came together on the Syracuse University campus to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor, the artificially created famine during which millions of people were starved to death for their refusal to comply with Soviet collectivization policies.

JENKINTOWN, Pa. – On Thursday, October 4, the Philadelphia community joined the global Ukrainian community in lighting a candle to…...

KYIV – Two suspected Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers who allegedly attempted an assassination of double Russian-British agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March also visited Ukraine and received their country’s highest state award in the latter half of 2014 as the Donbas war was heating up. 

KYIV – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople decreed on October 11 that processes continue toward creating a fully self-governed Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The move, following a three-day Holy Synod in Istanbul, further solidifies support for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church that Moscow has for centuries opposed.

In a communiqué issued on October 11, the Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod stated that it renewed the “decision already made that the Ecumenical Patriarchate proceed to the granting of autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine.”

WHIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian Americans and their neighbors in this Morris County town lighted a Candle of Remembrance on Thursday evening, October 4, to mark the 85th anniversary of the genocidal Holodomor that killed millions in Ukraine and adjacent ethnically Ukrainian territories in 1932-1933. 

An intense dispute between Hungary and Ukraine sparked by the notorious “language question” and fate of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, July 17) has now received powerful new impetus, threatening to seriously degrade diplomatic relations between the two countries (Eurointegration.com.ua, July 2). The current bilateral crisis goes beyond Budapest and Kyiv, however. It vividly highlights the problems faced by the European Union both internally and in relations with its immediate neighbors.

KYIV – In an open letter and official guidance on the correct spelling and usage of Ukrainian place names, Ukraine’s…...

Kyiv says it has sent in specialized tanks and aircraft to fight a massive fire as explosions continued at an arms depot in northern Ukraine on October 10.

More than 12,000 people were evacuated after ammunition stored at the depot near the town of Ichnia, some 180 kilometers east of Kyiv, began exploding early on October 9, sparking a huge blaze.