Month: May 24, 2019 11:26 am

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The Plast fraternity of Khmelnychenky gathered for its semiannual meeting and conference on the weekend of March 5-7 at Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y.

KYIV – Ukraine argued during a hearing at the United Nation’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany, on May 10 for the release of 24 military crewmen and three vessels that Russia impounded in shared waters six months ago. 

Activists in Ukraine marked the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison term in Russia on charges of terrorism that have been criticized by human rights groups and Western governments as politically motivated.

KYIV – President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky will get to hold the “bulava,” or mace – a Kozak symbol of authority – on May 20 when the Verkhovna Rada hosts his inauguration as post-Soviet Ukraine’s sixth president. 

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Nearly 2,000 visitors arrived during the weekend of May 4-5 to mark the annual St. Thomas Sunday pilgrimage at the Metropolia Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Despite the rain and wind, many congregated to remember their deceased loved ones with graveside memorial services. 

In an April 23 interview on Ukrainian television, Col. (ret.) Ivan Aparshyn, a military advisor to Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke on the subject of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and touched upon three crucial aspects for their future development. 

Moscow is treating Ukraine and its newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the same implacable hostility as it did during Petro Poroshenko’s presidency. The Kremlin has not taken even a brief time-out that would have allowed it to assess Mr. Zelensky’s first decisions and the staffing of his administration in the wake of the April 21 presidential election (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, April 25).

Following is the text of the May 11 statement by Ukrainian Canadian Congress CEO Ihor Michalchyshyn regarding Ontario Bill 97 and the Ukrainian Holodomor.The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) is extremely disturbed to see that the organizers of the Immortal Regiment Toronto, the group Russian Heritage of Canada (Русский Мир Канады) and the group United Communities of Canada are actively bragging on social media that they worked to remove reference to the Holodomor from Bill 97, the Ontario Legislature’s bill to proclaim Genocide Awareness, Commemoration, Prevention and Education Month, introduced by Aris Babikian (member of Provincial Parliament, for Scarborough-Agincourt).

Seen above are participants of the gala banquet celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ukrainian National Association Branch 325 – the…

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Subscribers to the print edition of Svoboda, the Ukrainian-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association, earlier this year received the 2019 Almanac of the UNA.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – On May 10, a joint meeting of the Ukrainian National Association’s By-Laws Working Group (WG) and the…

This week, we’d like to focus on a bread-and-butter issue for any newspaper: readers and subscribers. It’s quite simple: without these no newspaper can exist, much less a community newspaper like The Ukrainian Weekly that has a niche market. That’s why it’s crucial for us that our readers renew their subscriptions in a timely fashion. (It’s also crucial that readers who may peruse our pages from time to time, whether in print or online, become paid subscribers instead of, say, reading their neighbor’s or uncle’s copy of the paper.)