Year: December 14, 2018 8:53 am

In 1920, Lviv-based poet Stepan Charnetsky published a collection, “Сумні Ідем” (Sorrowfully We Go). Sorrow? Of course. The world had just emerged from “The Great War,” which claimed millions of lives. Everyone lost family and friends. Beginning almost by accident, the war engaged half a dozen European empires, four of which were gone by the Armistice on the Western Front in November 1918. 

WASHINGTON – Heather Fielding of Purdue University will be examining the treatment of Eastern Europe in English-language literature with her students at Poltava’s Vladimir Korolenko National Pedagogical University. Joseph Kush of Duquesne University will share his experiences regarding student-centered learning methodology at Sumy State University. Brendan Hoffman, a Washington-based photo journalist who has been documenting Ukraine since the Maidan, will travel throughout Ukraine chronicling Ukrainian culture and society. Kristine Nugent of Georgetown University will be examining language education policy while with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

NEW YORK – Andy Warhol came to The Ukrainian Museum on October 6, and so did some 200 admirers.

The occasion was the opening of “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species,” the first exhibition of Warhol works ever shown at a Ukrainian American institution. Timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the exhibition features an exceptional if lesser-known series of silkscreens depicting 10 of the world’s endangered animals, which Warhol (1928-1987) created in 1983 at the behest of New York City art gallery owners Ronald and Frayda Feldman, along with a companion piece created two years later. 

President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a bill to terminate Ukraine’s friendship treaty with Russia. In a video comment posted on the presidential website, Poroshenko called the law “part of our strategy towards fully breaking with the colonial past and reorientation towards Europe.” The treaty is due to expire on March 31.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The south Florida Ukrainian community was privileged to attend a presentation and discussion of the upcoming film titled “Gareth Jones” On Thursday evening, November 29. 

TOMS RIVER, N.J. – On Sunday, December 2, nearly 200 parishioners and guests of St. Stephen Ukrainian Catholic Church attended a moving and powerful commemoration honoring the memory of the millions of victims who died in the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, the Holodomor.

WILMINGTON, De. – The faithful at St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., were honored that their former pastor,…...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, four churches in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley held commemorative liturgies for…...

A powerful right hand followed by a punishing left to the body moments later was Vasyl Lomachenko’s way of demonstrating his fight IQ was working just fine, ready to solve the challenge before him in typical “Loma” fashion. The two punches scored back-to-back knockdowns of Jose Pedraza in the 11th round on the way to a unanimous decision (119-107, 117-109 and 117-109) before a sold-out crowd of 5,312 fans on December 8. A crowd of boxing fans wearing Ukrainian shirts, proudly waving Ukrainian flags and banners, loudly chanting “Loma” and “Lo-ma-chen-ko” during the 12-round affair.

PARMA, Ohio – On Monday, January 7, 2019, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of Parma, Ohio, will sponsor its 31st annual Christmas radio program for its sick and elderly shut-in parishioners and the entire Ukrainian community. 

KYIV-BERDYANSK-MARIUPOL – The familiar sounds of reverberation from huge harbor cranes in the Azov Sea ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol are eerily absent. 

From afar and up close, the dock-aligned cranes appear suspended as if under a magical spell.

NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the largest representation of Americans of Ukrainian descent, sent urgent letters of appeal to the co-chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, the Senate Ukraine Caucus, the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requesting them to “hold congressional hearings about Russia’s blatant use of force against Ukraine.”