Month: February 22, 2019 7:36 am

PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Stefan Kaczaraj  FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Gerald Tysiak SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Eugene Serba  DIRECTOR FOR CANADA Ewhen Osidacz  CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER/NATIONAL SECRETARY Yuriy Symczyk  CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/TREASURER Roma Lisovich AUDITORS George Fedorijczuk Andrij Skyba Luba Walchuk ADVISORS Olya Czerkas Nicholas Fil Gloria Horbaty Irene Jarosewich Oksana Koziak Michael Luciw Julian Pishko Bohdana Puzyk Oksana Stanko

Following is a list of the executive officers of the Ukrainian National Association elected at UNA conventions from 1894 through the convention of 2018. Readers will note changes in terminology in the names of executive offices, e.g. supreme president to president; as well as the  elimination of certain executive positions, e.g. supreme vice-presidentess, supreme organizer. The list was compiled based on convention reports, UNA histories and information published through the years in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. An asterisk (*) indicates that an officer died before completing his/her term of office.

The history of the Ukrainian National Association from 1894 to 1994 is documented in a book by Dr. Myron Kuropas, “Ukrainian Citadel: The First Hundred Years of The Ukrainian National Association,” published by The University of Toronto Press. In this special section of The Ukrainian Weekly dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the UNA, we offer excerpts from Dr. Kuropas’ manuscript, reprinted with permission from the author. (Please note that the Ukrainian National Association [UNA] was known as the Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz [RNS] for the first 20 years of its existence.) 

KYIV – The annual fund-raising dinner and silent auction in support of the Ukrainian Catholic University was held on December 15, 2018, at the International Exhibition Center in Kyiv. During the event, which was attended by more than 500 friends of UCU, 92 stipends for students and 11 for professors were announced. The charity auction raised some 600,000 hrv (nearly $22,000 U.S.). The general sum of donations collected reached a record 12.5 million hrv (about $450,000 U.S.).

In 1996, Konstantin, Irina and 5-year-old Masha Lodnia packed up their belongings and left their native Ukraine, heading to Los Angeles with the hope of a better life. Three years later, their second child, Ivan, was born.

Leaders remember Heavenly Hundred  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and European Council President Donald Tusk on February 19 honored the memory…...

The Ukrainian World Congress on February 19 issued the following release on the fifth anniversary of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and murder of the Heavenly Hundred.

The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations released the following statement on February 20.

The following statement was released in Ottawa by Alexandra Chyczij, National President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.

WASHINGTON – Ambassador Roman Popadiuk, chairman of the board of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), and Robert A. McConnell, the foundation’s…...

SOMERSET, N.J. – This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity or the Euro-Maidan. The Ukrainian History and Education Center (UHEC) is dedicating its upcoming exhibition, “Rushnyky: Ritual Cloths of the Cossack Lands of Ukraine,” to the memory of the Heavenly Hundred who perished in the winter of 2014 on the Maidan and to the thousands of young men and women who have lost their young lives in the war in eastern Ukraine. 

WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS) will sponsor a “Ukrainian Day” advocacy event on Wednesday, April 10.  This endeavor is especially critical considering that Ukraine will have undergone presidential elections on March 31 (with parliamentary elections scheduled in the autumn) while fending off Russia’s ongoing illegal occupation of Crimea and the continued war being waged in eastern Ukraine.  The year 2019 is equally as important as it marks the fifth anniversary of the culmination of the Revolution of Dignity and the heroism of the Heavenly Hundred.