Month: March 29, 2019 8:53 am

Anyone who watches Moscow television would assume the country was in the midst of an election campaign – there are learned discussions of who will win and why, what participation is likely to be, and what role if any outside players have in determining the outcome, journalists Kseniya Kirillova observes.

Many Russians think that had Moscow not annexed Crimea and begun its military interference in Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainians and Russians could have remained fraternal peoples, says Aleksandr Tsipko. But these actions only reinforced the longstanding desire of Ukrainians to escape Moscow’s orbit and ally with those who oppose Russia.

The North Atlantic Council released the following on March 18.1. Five years ago, Russia used force against Ukraine to illegally and illegitimately annex Crimea. This violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is a serious breach of international law and a major challenge to Euro-Atlantic security. We strongly condemn this act, which we do not and will not recognize. We call on Russia to return control of Crimea to Ukraine. We reiterate our full support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders and territorial waters. Crimea is the territory of Ukraine.

Our family moved to Cleveland on Labor Day in 1954, my seventh birthday. A week later I was enrolled in a Ridna Shkola Saturday heritage class in a dismal upstairs room lighted by bare bulbs in a fading commercial building in the old Ukrainian neighborhood. It was all the immigrant community could afford, having come off the boat from DP camps four-five years before. 

“What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems,” by Serhiy Zhadan. Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. 160 pp. ISBN 978-03000-22336-1. $18.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Anna and Dmytro Shelest – the Shelest Piano Duo – attracted a full house March 17 at the historic Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria (just south of Washington) in the third concert of The Washington Group Cultural Fund’s 2018-2019 Music Series.

UWC cites disinformation threatDisinformation is one of the most serious threats to a free democratic electoral process, noted Eugene Czolij, the head of Ukraine World Congress International Observation Mission to Ukraine’s 2019 Elections (UWC Mission) and former president of the UWC. He held a press conference at Ukraine Crisis Media Center in Kyiv on March 26 to present the UWC’s interim report.

NEW YORK – Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced on February 5 that Markian B. Silecky has joined the firm’s New York Office as a shareholder in the firm’s corporate and transactional practice. His primary practice focuses on international corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and compliance.

Young Lunin a keeper in goalAn 18-year-old goalkeeper playing in the Ukrainian Premier League is usually not on too many soccer scouts’ radar as an up-and-coming top prospect. Andriy Lunin happens to be just that – a unique talent not only starting in the Europa League, but firmly cementing his place in a starting-11 on a team that is among the best when it comes to developing talent in Ukraine.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The New York Ukrainians, representing the Ukrainian American Soccer Association (YCK), won the final 5-4 against Laberia…...

NEW YORK – In April, Yale University Press will publish “What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems” by Serhiy Zhadan, one of Ukraine’s foremost poets, in English translation by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. The book has a foreword by New York poet Bob Holman. 

SOMERSET, N.J. – The Ukrainian History and Education Center (UHEC) recently opened an exhibit titled “Rushnyky: Ritual Cloths of the Cossack Lands of Ukraine”  featuring over 100 handcrafted rushnyky made between the end of the 19th and middle of the 20th centuries. The exhibit showcases rushnyky from Central Ukraine and nearby areas that were part of the Ukrainian Kozak Hetman State of the 17th and 18th centuries: the Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Sumy regions.